Students of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University won gold, silver and bronze at the CASE-IN championship

Students of the Institute of Civil Engineering and the Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport of SPbPU won gold, silver and bronze medals in the finals of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, one of the largest competitions in the field of engineering solutions and project management.

The championship is supported by The Presidential platform "Russia is a Land of Opportunity" within the framework of the Science to Win initiative and the Decade of Science and Technology in Russia. More than a thousand participants from In the XIV season of the championship, Russia and 13 CIS and BRICS countries presented technological projects for the development of key areas of the economy.

Representatives of 70 universities from Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus met in the final of the Student League. 133 youth teams competed for prizes in the following areas: architecture, design, construction and housing, petrochemistry, biotechnology, thermal power engineering, design engineering, electric power industry, mining, mining machinery and equipment, geological exploration, metallurgy, digital automation and oil and gas business.

The champions Cups were awarded to teams from 12 universities, including Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

Two teams of students from the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University's Civil Engineering Institute won first and second places in the Architecture, Design, Construction and Housing and Communal Services category. The participants had to develop a concept for a multifunctional Comfort class residential complex in Yaroslavl. The teams created architectural and planning solutions for an apartment building, worked out constructive and engineering systems, formed project documentation and concept presentations. Special attention was paid to the convenience of layouts, the quality of the architectural environment, the rational use of space and the creation of comfortable scenarios.

The first place was won by the polyForma team consisting of Ilya Kazinsky, Vera Zorina, Nikita Anisimov, Alexander Kolosov, Polina Shirokova, Anton Smotrin and Elizabeth Kotarskaya. The mentor was Anna Korotkova, senior lecturer at the Higher School of Industrial, Civil and Road Construction at the ISI SPbPU. The second place was taken by the MonArchi team, which included Olga Zamaraeva, Karina Kambulatova, Valeria Cherentaeva, Georgy Litvin, Alexey Muromsky, Svetlana Trubitsyna and Nikita Lapshin. The mentor is Philip Shkolyar, Associate Professor at the Higher School of Economics and the Institute of Economics of St. Petersburg State University.

"This competition has become not only a serious challenge for our team, but also a valuable experience. We were glad to have the opportunity to put our theoretical knowledge into practice and see how it works in real conditions. We were helped to win the first place by the perseverance of the entire team and the support of numerous teachers who accompanied us throughout our participation. We are sincerely grateful to everyone who believed in us and helped us achieve this result," said Vera Zorina, a member of the polyForma team.

Participation in the CASE-IN requires students not only deep theoretical knowledge, but also the ability to quickly analyze real engineering cases, work in a team and offer technologically sound solutions.

"Participation in the competition was an impetus for us to develop and overcome ourselves. Both before the qualifying stage and before the final, we consulted a lot with the teachers of the St. Petersburg State University Institute of Civil Engineering - real professionals. Thank them for their help. We tried to take every little detail into account, to make a project that we could really be proud of. Sometimes it was difficult, but thanks to clear planning, initiative, and a desire to reach a new level, we were able to climb the podium," said Georgy Litvin, a member of the MonArchi team.

The Nomine Bigas team of the SPbPU Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Materials and Transport became the bronze medalist in the Digital Automation nomination. The team included 3rd and 4th year students of the Higher School of Automation and Robotics Irina Dryganova, Vladislav Kondratov, Sofya Paritskaya and Nikita Ryabkov. Dmitry Tretyakov, an associate professor at the Higher School of Economics, became a mentor.

The case was dedicated to the topic "Autonomous technologies: opportunities for the future of mining enterprises." Eight teams from universities in Russia, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan had to analyze the global practice of developing and using unmanned dump trucks, as well as the possibilities of artificial intelligence technologies for controlling unmanned quarry vehicles. The polytechnic team developed a technological solution for the implementation of unmanned mining dump trucks, proposed an architecture concept for an autonomous dispatching system based on artificial intelligence for the conditions of open-pit mining at Akbakai GOK, assessed the economic impact and potential risks of the project, and also built a roadmap.

According to the results of the defense, IMIT students took the third place.

"When we saw a post in the institute's group about holding the open qualifying stage of the XIV International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in the field of Digital Automation, after consulting with the team, we decided to participate and test our knowledge. The championship provides a good opportunity to try yourself in solving real production tasks. It so happened that as a result of the selection, we became one of the two teams that reached the finals. We decided that we shouldn't stop there, so we went to the finals in a fighting mood and won a bronze medal," said Sofia Paritskaya, the captain of the team, a 3rd—year student at the Higher School of Economics.

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