24 teams in one qualifying stage! A grand battle of wits in KuzSTU!

April 3, 2015 in Kuzbass State Technical University named after T.F. Gorbachev The qualifying stages of the mining and electric power engineering leagues of the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship were held.

KuzSTU students have already participated in solving mining cases, and in 2014 the university team won the bronze medal at the Championship.

Vladimir Kovalev, Rector Kuzbass State Technical University named after T.F. Gorbachev Opening the event, he welcomed the participants and organizers on behalf of the university. V. Kovalev emphasized the leading role of KuzSTU in training personnel for the mining industry of Kuzbass and Russia and wished the participants a decent fight at the Championship.

Each qualifying stage of the Championship is held with the support of regional authorities. The stages in KuzSTU were held with the participation of the Kemerovo Region Administration represented by representatives of  Department of Coal Industry and Energy of the Kemerovo region.

Head of the Coal Industry Department of the Department of Coal Industry and Energy of the Kemerovo Region Administration Anatoly Mikhailov I thanked the organizers of the Championship for the work done.: "Kuzbass is the main coal mining region in the country. The coal industry is developing very rapidly, machinery and technology are being improved, and knowledge is needed an order of magnitude higher today than it was 1-2 generations ago. Therefore, the issue of training personnel for the coal industry is very acute, and in this we have great hope for Kuzbass State Technical University named after T.F. Gorbachev. I am sure that today we will see a very interesting rivalry, in which the strongest will win. But there won't be any losers today either, because the main thing in the Case Championship is problem solving, teamwork and professional growth."

The championship is of particular interest to fuel and energy sector employers, who can directly assess the quality of future specialists' training and select students for internships, internships, and, in the future, for inclusion in the company's personnel reserve and employment. 

On behalf of the stage partners, companies IMC Montan and DMT, I addressed the participants Director of IMC Montan Sergey Nikishichev: "The cases that you will solve today, we solve in the course of our work. We have been supporting the Championship since its very beginning. Just imagine: all over the country, students of mining institutes create teams, compete and want to prove themselves as specialists. Students who participate in the Championship are building a foundation for their future. I would like to thank the organizers for creating a format that helps promote talented and active young people, and I believe that in 10-15 years we will see the names of these guys in leading professional magazines.".

The students were also admonished Dmitry Orlov, Head of the Underground Mining Department of JSC SUEK - Kuzbass: "I wish you to take your tasks seriously and creatively at the same time, show worthy engineering solutions and protect your ideas with high quality."

Anton Genin, Head of the Electrical Modes Service at the Joint Dispatching Management of Siberian Power Systems Branch of JSC SO UES He congratulated the university on joining the Electric Power Industry League and wished the participants a worthy struggle and a well-deserved victory, and Dmitry Pshenichnikov, Deputy Investment Director of the Kuzbass Branch of Siberian Generating Company LLC He emphasized the practical orientation of the Championship:  "The case on the electric power industry is absolutely applied, and I wish the participants to present balanced, reasonable, competent technical solutions today."

The qualifying stage at KuzSTU became a truly grandiose competition of minds:  The Mining Institute fielded 13 teams for the Championship, and the Institute of Energy fielded 11 teams. Due to the large number of participants, the competition in each league was held in two rounds: the semi-final round and the final stage. The decisions of the students in each league were evaluated by two expert juries.

Students are miners defended ideas for solving the case "Choosing the most efficient option for mining and transportation complex and improving its efficiency". The decisions of the participants were evaluated by expert commissions consisting of representatives of the Kemerovo Region Administration, the Mining Institute of KuzSTU and mining enterprises of the region (JSC "Chernihiv", IMC Montan, JSC "SUEK-Kuzbass", LLC "Vostochnaya Mining Company", JSC "Raspadskaya Coal Company", JSC "HC SDS-Ugol" and JSC "VISTA Andrey Devyatukhin, a graduate of KuzSTU and a prize-winner of the Championship finals, also acted as an expert. 2014 Currently, he is a young specialist at JSC Chernihiv.

As a result of a serious struggle, the final of the Mining League Championship was The Business Union team Mining Institute of KuzSTU, becoming the winners of the qualifying stage:

• Roman Asanov (team captain, Department of Mining Machinery and Complexes, 3rd year)
• Nikita Demutsky (Department of Open-pit Mining, 4th year)
• Ivan Kozhevnikov (Department of Open-pit Mining, 3rd year)
• Yana Bedareva (Department of Underground Mining, 4th year).

All the winning teams were awarded with gifts from the Championship partners. The team of the Mining Institute also received an invitation from JSC SUEK Kuzbass to the youth scientific and practical forum Mining School 2015, which will be held in Primorsky Krai in July 2015. More than 200 young specialists from SUEK, as well as other leading mining companies in Russia, will take part in the event.

 Students of the Department of Energy the solutions of the case were presented "Development and selection of an optimal scheme for the distribution of electric power to a thermal power plant during its reconstruction". The experts of the qualifying stage were representatives of the leading companies of the Kuzbass electric power industry: the Kuzbass branch of Siberian Generating Company LLC, the Branch of SO UES Joint Dispatch Management of Siberian Energy Systems, the Branch of IDGC of Siberia - Kuzbassenergo – RES, and teachers of the Institute of Energy of KuzSTU. 

The winner of the qualifying stage in KuzSTU was The Titans of Energy team (4th year students of the Department of Power Supply of Mining and Industrial Enterprises of the Institute of Energy of KuzSTU): 

• Artem Mitrofanov (team captain)
• Ivan Gluschenkov
• Victoria Moiseeva
• Semenov Alexey

 The participants of the Electric Power Industry League received memorable gifts from Siberian Generating Company LLC, and the winners of the qualifying stage were also awarded a cash prize.

The general partners of the Championship are: JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System", JSC "Siberian Coal Energy Company", Micromine company, JSC "MHC "EuroChem", LLC "Siberian Generating Company", EVRAZ company and JSC "Raspadskaya Coal Company", RUSDRAGMET Management Company and LLC "Dassault System Geovia RUS".

The partners of the stage in KuzSTU are: the Administration of the Kemerovo Region, JSC Siberian Coal Energy Company, LLC Siberian Generating Company, EVRAZ Company, LLC IBM Montan, DMT company, JSC Raspadskaya Coal Company, JSC HC SDS-Ugol, JSC VISTA Group.

More photos (Mining League Stage)

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