The grand opening of the International Engineering Championship in the field of "Electric Power Industry" took place at NSTU

On February 21, Novosibirsk State Technical University hosted the grand opening of the International Engineering Championship in the field of Electric Power Engineering. The qualifying stage brought together more than fifty participants from twelve student teams from Novosibirsk State Technical University and Siberian State University of Water Transport.

The championship was opened by the first vice rector of NSTU G. I. Rastorguev"This is the fourth time our university has participated in the championship and last year won the right to hold the grand opening of the electric power branch of the student league "CASE-IN". The engineering practice-oriented tasks of the championship are a necessary attribute of modern education, which is very important for our university as a flagship university."

Dean of the Faculty of Energy of NSTU Sergey Sergeevich Chernov noted: «I have been following the development of the championship for many years and am proud that it has been reliably registered within the walls of the NSTU. The championship shows a consistently high level of organization, a very interesting and unpredictable subject of case tasks. Here we see a practical orientation, teamwork, communication with potential employers — everything necessary for project-based learning at our university."

Ekaterina Kurganova, Head of the Department of Scientific and Educational Complex and Innovations of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation Policy of the Novosibirsk Region, Tatyana Vereshchagina, a leading specialist in the Energy efficiency Department of Transneftenergo LLC, and Svyatoslav Poltaranin, Director of the branch of PJSC RusHydro - Novosibirsk HPP, addressed the participants with welcoming words.

Director of the branch of JSC "SO UES" of the Novosibirsk Regional Dispatching Department Dmitry Makhiborod He spoke about the demand for specialists with unique knowledge in the field of electric power industry. 

"The cooperation has been going on for more than ten years. Today, the system operator's experts will evaluate your solutions for use in our company's activities, so we are waiting for new ideas and a scientific and technical breakthrough from you!" — He said.

Dmitry Baluyev, Gleb Nesterenko and Anastasia Ivashkevich, the winners of the 2017 Electric Power Engineering Championship, performed at the grand opening ceremony.

In a solemn atmosphere, students of the engineering lyceum of NSTU Alexander Gorodilov, Alexander Shchinnikov, Alexander Aprelkov and Semyon Chufenev, who took the honorable third place in the school league of the CASE-IN championship, received diplomas and valuable prizes from the hands of the first vice-rector of NSTU.

The participating teams of the qualifying stage presented their solutions for projects to ensure reliable and uninterrupted external power supply to the Yamal LNG plant with the prospect of joining the parallel operation with the UES of Russia.

The Medusa team of Novosibirsk State Technical University became the finalist of the Electric Power Industry direction. It consisted of students of the Faculty of Energy Maxim Sinyaev, Maria Agafonova, Alexander Nikolaev and Tatiana Petrovskaya. The second and third places are also taken by the teams of the flagship university. Obstinate University, which included Evgeny Erekaykin, Elena Nesterenko, Victoria Bystykh and Alexander Zenkov, became the second. The third place went to the Babi Boom team: Valeria Maltseva, Nadezhda Shelkovnikova, Ekaterina Konishevskaya.

The finalists of the qualifying stage will represent NSTU in the final "CASE-IN" on May 30-31 in Moscow.

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