NEFU's industrial partners highly appreciated the potential of students at the CASE-IN Championship

More than 80 students of the Northeastern Federal University became participants of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. Working in teams, they defended cases in three areas: "Mining", "Oil and gas business" and "Electric power engineering". The case developers were the leading industrial companies of the region: ALROSA, ROSSETI, Polymetal.  

Representatives of the Polymetal mining company have been acting as experts of the championship since 2018. This year, the company presented a case study on the testing of the Udachnaya tube on the topic: "Elimination of the problems of rock deposits in ore deposits and the search for reserves to increase production efficiency" for the Mining direction. Stanislav Shestakov, a graduate of the Geological exploration Faculty of YSU, Deputy Technical Director of the Yakutsk branch of Polymetal, noted that innovations are born from current production tasks: they allow optimizing the development of subsurface resources and make this process safer and more productive.  

"For us, participating in the CASE-IN is important for a number of reasons. Firstly, in our opinion, such cases lose their meaning without direct connection with production. The main goal of the championship is to create a common, unified space for the educational system and the real sector of the economy, as well as to popularize engineering specialties. Against the background of a shortage of personnel in the industry, this is an urgent task," the expert commented.   

According to him, in a short period of protection, future miners receive a lively analysis of their ideas from existing practitioners, thus, future specialists get the opportunity to experience the profession from the inside, compare sometimes erroneous ideas and expectations with the current demands of the industry, and, eventually, build their own, realistic promotion plan.  

"It's not just students and the university that benefit from this format. The championship has benefits for manufacturers. We get the opportunity to take a closer look at talented students, whom we regard as potential additions. The level of training, of course, varies – from the first year to graduation. But in general, all the teams performed well," added Stanislav Shestakov.  

The performances of the Oil and Gas Business teams were evaluated by an expert commission headed by the chairman, an expert from the Personnel Training and Development Department YATEK By Nicholas Timofeev. "This year's theme of the championship was technologies of the future. Five teams presented their solutions: it is noticeable that the guys took the matter seriously, tried to find answers to the questions that were put before the production. They proposed various ideas for generating electricity at the fields, for example, how to make a data processing center at the field, while making a profit and saving. I hope that the knowledge and competencies gained during the qualifying round will be useful in the educational and scientific activities of students, it should not be wasted," he said.  

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