More than 150 Tomsk engineering students will take part in the Case-in in 2018

More than 150 Tomsk students will take part in the qualifying stages of the International Engineering Case-in Championship, which will start in Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU), organizer Elena Vorontsova told RIA Tomsk on Wednesday.

Earlier it was reported that the International Engineering Case-in Championship is a federal case championship where students of leading technical universities of the Russian Federation and the CIS solve practical problems based on real production situations. In total, in 2018, more than 4,000 students from 52 universities will take part in the Case-in at various venues in the Russian Federation.

According to Vorontsova, more than 150 people (39 teams, 3-4 people each) will gather at TPU on Thursday.

"Tomorrow, March 15, at 10.00 at the International Cultural Center TPU The grand opening of the championship will take place. Next, the teams will defend their cases before an expert commission, which for the most part consists of production workers – representatives of specialized companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes."- said the agency interlocutor.

She clarified that the first-place team will represent Tomsk in the final of the championship, which will be held on March 30-31, 2018 in Moscow.

 Earlier it was reported that The overall theme of the championship is "Arctic Development". The case-in at TPU will be held in five areas: petrochemistry, geological exploration, metallurgy, oil and gas business, and electric power industry. In 2017, TPU also hosted the qualifying stages. Then victory in all three directions – geological exploration, oil and gas business, electric power industry – the teams from TPU won.

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