SSTU students reached the finals of the international engineering CASE-IN championship

Today, Saratov State Technical University named after Gagarin, the flagship university of the region, hosted the qualifying stage of the Student League of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" on the topic "Arctic Development". Solutions in the field of "Electric Power Industry" were presented by students of SSTU, SSAU and the Syzran branch of Samara State Technical University.

Artem Korolev The founder of the championship noted the high level of organization of competitions at the Saratov Polytechnic University, and also called the development of so-called soft skills an important criterion for the success of future specialists.

As a sign that Gagarin University will now permanently be an accredited venue for the qualifying stages of the championship, representatives of the university and the organizer exchanged memoranda.

"SSTU was chosen as the site of the international championship for a reason: we have the Institute of Energy and Transport Systems, which has more than two thousand students", - the Vice-rector for Scientific Work of SSTU noted in his welcoming speech Igor Ostroumov.

Such events do not go unnoticed by representatives of companies that are looking for future personnel here.. So, the participants began to defend the cases under the guidance of the director of the Saratov branch of PJSC T Plus Alexandra Shudegova.

During the qualifying stage, 11 teams presented solutions to engineering cases, which were evaluated by experts from leading specialized enterprises in the region: the Saratov branch of PJSC T Plus, PJSC IDGC of Volga, PJSC FGC UES, JSC Oblkommunenergo.

According to the decision of the jury, the Lumos SGTU team became the winner. Andrey Korobets, Natalia Krasnova and Gleb Zemlyanov. They proposed using the heat that is released into the atmosphere by power plants for heating and generating electricity.

Gagarin University students will represent the Saratov Region in the final of the "CASE-IN" on May 30-31 in Moscow.

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The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource industries. The championship aims to attract the intellectual potential of young people of engineering specialties to solve urgent practical problems facing the Fuel and energy Complex and the Moscow Industrial Complex of Russia. In this regard, in 2018, all areas of the Championship are united by the common theme "Arctic Development".

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