UMMC Technical University students – winners of the CASE-IN Championship

Teams of UMMC Technical University students successfully competed in the finals of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship, winning prizes in two directions at once. The final of the Presidential platform project "Russia – the land of opportunities" was held in Moscow and gathered the strongest. In 2026, more than 6,000 people from Russia, as well as young people from 13 CIS and BRICS countries, took part in the championship.  208 teams met in the final.

CASE-IN is one of the largest international engineering problem solving championships, ranked in the TOP 15 world Olympiads by RAEX. Participants work on real production cases, and their solutions are evaluated by representatives of business, science, and specialized industries.

The teams of the UMMC Technical University in the fields of Mining Machinery and Equipment and Project Engineering became silver and bronze medalists.

"Children of the Dungeon" - 2nd place in the areas of "Mining machinery and equipment" and "Project Engineering". 

• Evgeny Bondarev
• Vagif Shiriev
• Damir Mukhamedyanov
• Iskander Ablaev

Motorchiki – 3rd place in the field of "Project Engineering"

• Matvey Volkomurov
• Dmitry Shukman
• Nikita Sokolov
• Nikita Rykhlov

Six Volt - 3rd place in the field of "Mining machinery and equipment"

• Oleg Muzychenko
• Dastan Tukeshev
• Dmitry Martynov
• Cyril Burbelo

"The victories of our students at the CASE-IN are already becoming a good tradition. It is not the first year in a row that university teams have won prizes at the championship of this level. For us, this confirms the quality of engineering training, and for enterprises, it is confidence in the professionalism of future specialists," said Vyacheslav Lapin, Director of the UMMC Technical University.

It should be recalled that this year the UMMC Technical University took the first place among higher educational institutions of the Sverdlovsk region and the second in the Ural Federal District in the Russian local rating of the RAEX agency — this is the highest position among all private technical universities. The rating evaluates regional universities based on indicators reflecting their educational and scientific potential, as well as their contribution to the development of industry and society.

The university trains specialists not only for the mining and metallurgical complex, but also for other industries. Graduates include engineers, system analysts, automation specialists, technologists and managers who successfully work at leading Russian enterprises. The educational process takes place in multimedia classrooms and specialized scientific laboratories equipped with modern equipment.

Students who show success in academic and scientific activities can receive a scholarship of up to 30,000 rubles.

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