The qualifying stage of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" was held at KSTU

On April 5, Karaganda State Technical University hosted the qualifying stage of the largest International Engineering CASE-IN Championship for solving fuel and energy and mineral resource cases, which is an effective tool for transferring practical knowledge, experience and new competencies to future engineering specialists.

In 4 months, the Championship will cover 52 universities from 37 regions of Russia, as well as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Tajikistan and Moldova. More than 4,000 students will compete for a ticket to the finals of the Championship, which will traditionally be held in Moscow on May 30-31, 2018.

The international Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" consists of six areas (leagues):  geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas industry, petrochemistry, electric power industry. The aim of the project is to identify and support active, talented and motivated students from leading universities in Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia who train specialists in mining and the electric power industry.

KSTU has been participating in the championship for the fifth year. This year, the regional stage of the competition at our university includes 2 areas (Leagues): Mining (7 teams) and Electric Power Industry (5 teams).

The Championship is a relevant educational project of the mining and energy sector, which is based on one of the most modern teaching techniques – the business case. The competition is a competition in which student teams need to solve an engineering case based on materials from leading industry companies in ten days and defend their original, sometimes non-standard ideas before an expert commission consisting of representatives of industry companies, scientific and educational organizations.

The ideas of the participants in the selection round were evaluated by a specially formed expert jury, which included representatives of the largest regional companies, industry experts and business case specialists, as well as university scientists.:

• in the field of Mining - ex-Senator of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Kazakhmys Corporation LLP Relations Manager Yu.A. Kubaychuk, General Director of NOVA ZINC LLP S.Y. Asan, Vice President of Shubarkolkomir JSC A.A. Safonov, Chief Project Engineer of KARAGANDAGIPROSHAKHT LLP T.T. Bondarenko, Director of SIC Geomark LLP R.R. Khodzhaev, Chief Technologist of Shubarkol Komir JSC S.D. Murtazin, Professor of the RMPI Department I.D. Arystan, acting Associate Professor of the RMPI Department N.B. Bakhtybaev and senior lecturer of the RMPI Department A.U. Kozhantov.
• in the Energy sector – Deputy Director of the Management Department of JSC Ugleservice L.A. Avdeev, Deputy General Director of LLP Karaganda Zharyk D.K. Ermagambetov, Head of the substation I.N. Davydov, Head of the technical department of JSC Kazpromavtomatika D.Yu. Meleshkin,  Dean of the Faculty of Energy, Automation and Telecommunications F.N. Bulatbayev, Head of the Department of Automation of Production Processes, Professor I.V. Breido, Head of the Department of Energy Systems, Professor G.G. Tatkeeva.

According to the results of the qualifying tournament in the field of Mining, 3 teams were determined, of which the team that took 1st place will participate in the final stage of the Championship.:

1st place – The Mining Research Group team (Abdykalikova T.A., Dzhusupov N.D., Moldashev E.M., Muratbekova N.R., undergraduates of the GDM-17-1 group);

2nd place – The Geomarkshader team (Mazur-Sotsky K.A., Suleimenov M.B., students of the GD-14-5 group, Andreev V.A., graduate student of the METGM-17-2 group, Mamatova S.);

3rd place – the Gornyak team (Aitmagambetov B.K., Anuarbek R.M., Baizbaev M.M., Sarsekeev A.K., students of the GD-15-7 group).

According to the results of the qualifying tournament in the field of "Electric Power Industry", 3 teams were determined, of which the team that took the 1st place will also participate in the final stage of the championship.: 

1st place – The ProEnergy team (Azamat Rymbekov, Daribai Yerkin, Perne Meyrzhan, Madi Yerzhan, 3rd and 2nd year students majoring in Electric Power Engineering and Radio Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications;

2nd place – The Tesla Legacy Team (Sabina Useinova, Magzhan Tazhikeev, 1st year undergraduates specializing in Electrical Engineering);

3rd place —  The Energy hope team (Bazylov Balgynbek, Suyindik Meyrzhan, Idris Zhalgas, Abdikarimova Sagynysh, 3rd year students of the specialty "Electric Power Engineering" and "Automation and Control").

At the end of May 2018, the winning teams that qualified for the championship finals will take part in the final round of the competition, which will traditionally be held in Moscow.  There they will compete for the title of the best engineering student teams and for the opportunity to complete internships and internships in leading industry companies.

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