Mikhail Grigoriev: CASE-IN is growing and developing

Following the results of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship, one of its organizers, Mikhail Ivanovich Grigoriev, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Mechanization, Automation and Energy of Mining and Exploration, shared his impressions. 

- What are your impressions of the championship "CASE-IN»? 
- I have been involved in the championship for the fifth year and it turned out that before my eyes this championship has developed from a small event to a large all-Russian one. Last year, 47 universities participated, and now there are 111, and the championship is growing. This suggests that: firstly, it is popular, and secondly, it benefits both employers and students. 

The main idea of this championship is to solve personnel issues. The directors of the enterprises, the chief engineers sitting on the jury, know everything better than we do.  They watch how the student reacts to an unexpected question, how he answers, how he holds himself, how they work in a team. This is an objective recruitment process, solving personnel issues in a playful way. 

 I personally have established good friendly relations with Artem Sergeevich Korolev, the ideologist of the championship.  Together with him, the head of the Department of the Ministry of Energy, who oversees this entire project, came to our University. They are happy that the money is being spent usefully and the popularity of this championship is growing. 

- We can say that the championship «CASE-IN» is it in line with the state policy on the selection of talented personnel, for example, the "Leaders of Russia" competition? 
- Yes, it fits perfectly into the concept of the state. And then, they accurately monitor the government's policy on the development of the riches of the North. Many cases are focused on this topic.  The riches of the North need to be explored, and now the guys are thinking that it might be worth going there. 
We had such a conversation at the section between the chairman of the jury and one of the captains of our team. 
The chairman of the jury asks: "Would you go to work in the North?" 
And the guy is an adult, after the army, he answers: "I would have gone if the salary was appropriate, about 100 thousand rubles." 
And the chairman says: "We plan to pay 200 thousand." 

- What personal and professional qualities do engineers need to succeed in their future profession? 
- In my opinion, an important character trait is initiative or even some adventurism. It is necessary to cultivate activity from childhood so that a person strives to stand out from the general mass for the better, sets a goal and achieves it. Professional qualities: the ability to work in a team, the ability to work with information. 

- How do you assess the case study method in the training of future engineers? 
- The case study method is quite effective. Firstly, it is a form of play, and it allows us to look at our profession from the point of view of a supervisor.  That is, the student tries on the role of a leader and looks at the problem on a different scale.  Secondly, he solves all the tasks in a complex. And, thirdly, conditions are created for risk and non-standard solutions that may be unexpected, and some of them may even become revolutionary. 
 Of course, students always exchange information with each other. We wanted to do a little training before the competition, but the experienced teachers convinced us otherwise and the rehearsal was postponed. After all, one of the meanings of the championship is to be impromptu, to feel individuality. 

- What would you wish our university in the year of its 100th anniversary? 
- I would like to wish the Geological Exploration University to celebrate its 200th anniversary! The main thing is that we have managed to preserve the unique scientific schools. And the participants and winners of such competitions as the international engineering championship "CASE-IN" will have to develop, enrich and complement these scientific schools, create new scientific directions. 

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