The trainee specialists of the Middle Volga State University won the qualifying stage of the "CASE-IN"

On April 12, Kazan State Power Engineering University (KGEU) hosted the regional qualifying stage of the Electric Power Engineering field of the Student League of the VI International Engineering CASE-IN Championship.

The Deputy Chief Dispatcher for modes of the Branch of JSC SO UES addressed the participants of the qualifying round of the championship in Kazan with a welcoming speech RDU of Tatarstan Vladimir Shumilkin. In his address, he stressed the importance of holding the championship for both students and electric power companies.: "Students are given the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as their application in solving practical problems, and representatives of industry enterprises, in turn, can assess the potential of future power engineers and their desire to link their future careers with energy."

The performances of the teams at the championship were evaluated by an expert commission with the participation of the heads of the RDU of Tatarstan, JSC FGC UES Scientific and Technical Center, JSC Grid Company and JSC Tatenergo, as well as teachers and managers of the KGEU. Evgeny Alexandrov, Deputy Chief Dispatcher for Operational Work of the Tatarstan RDU, became the chairman of the expert commission. For the fourth year in a row, the system operator has been a strategic partner of the Electric Power Industry direction of the CASE-IN Student League. Based on the materials and with the participation of specialists from JSC SO UES, a case study of the Electric Power Industry area is being developed. In addition, representatives of the System Operator, as part of the expert commissions of the qualifying stages and the final of the championship, assess the level of training of future power engineers and select the best students to continue their studies in specialized training programs commissioned by JSC SO UES at partner universities.

13 teams took part in the qualifying stage of the championship at KGEU, which presented the solution of the engineering case "Northern Networks" on the theme of the championship "Arctic Development". The participants analyzed the current state of the FGC UES power grid complex in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, statistics of technological disruptions, and proposed organizational and technical measures to reduce power and electricity losses in the FGC UES networks in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.

The winner of the qualifying round was the Resonance team, formed from intern specialists from the personnel reserve group of the Branch of JSC SO UES of the Central Volga State University, who are studying under the specialized master's program of a System operator at KGEU in the field of Electric Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering ("Management of electric power systems"), consisting of Farit Sirazutdinov, Iskander Khasanov, Elsa Sattarova and Kristina Konstantinova.

Awarding the winners, Emil Shamsutdinov, Vice-Rector for Research at KGEU, noted the high level of training of all team members. In May 2018, the Resonance team will go to the final of the "CASE-IN" in Moscow, where they will compete for the title of champion of the Student League in the field of "Electric Power Industry".

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