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

"The development of the Arctic" was the theme of the new season of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", the qualifying stage of which was held at SKGMI. The event, which is unique in its kind, is the only case championship in Russia and the CIS countries for future specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

Over the years, the team competition has significantly expanded its format – from a small project to a federal event included in the plan of the Government of the Russian Federation. In 2018, the championship was held for the sixth time and brought together more than 50 universities from 30 regions of Russia and 10 universities from the CIS countries. It is noteworthy that not only students can take part in it – it is divided into four leagues: the school league (for students in grades 9-11), the league of working specialties (for students of secondary specialized educational institutions up to 20 years old), the student league (for students, undergraduates and postgraduates of higher educational institutions up to 25 years old) and the league young specialists (for young specialists of fuel and energy complex and MSC companies under 35 years of age). There are 111 qualifying stages in total in the fields of electric power industry, metallurgy, mining, geological exploration and oil and gas business.

One of the differences between this competition and similar competitions is that the engineering cases that the teams have to solve are devoted to real production problems and are developed based on materials from industry enterprises. For example, at the 2017 championship, participants in the Mining field had to analyze the mining and geological conditions and mining parameters of the Kicheyskoye deposit and propose a production technology that ensures planned volumes of ore extraction and processing, as well as high reliability, safety and environmental friendliness. Such tasks, which require a creative approach using knowledge gained not only during lectures at the university, allow the organizers to achieve the main goal of the project: to identify and support the most promising young representatives of the fuel and energy complex and MSC, promote their acquisition of practical knowledge, experience and new competencies, popularize engineering and technical education and form a talent pool. Moreover, the championship is supported annually by industry companies that are interested in the best students for employment at their enterprises.

SKGMI is its regular participant. This year, a delegation of the South's Main Electric Networks headed by Roman Drapievsky, Director of Corporate Services, as well as Olga Zubok, a representative of the Reliable Shift Foundation and head of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship, came to North Ossetia for the university's qualifying stage. Alan Alikov, Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, also took part in the competition.

For students of an engineering and technical university, CASE-IN is an opportunity to hone their work skills, information skills, and teamwork experience. Indeed, according to the expert commission, the guys from SKGMI showed a high level of theoretical knowledge, organization, and demonstrated the ability to work with real technical projects. For two years in a row, in 2016 and in 2017, SKGMI took second place in the Energy of Education competition of the Electric Power Industry League, held within the framework of this project. Rector of the university Yuri Dmitrak, wishing good luck to the participants, expressed confidence that the students would adequately represent the institute in Moscow this year.

The youth showed the greatest interest in the Electric Power Industry league: 13 teams competed for the right to defend the honor of SKGMI at the federal stage of the championship. The victory was won "Eaters of losses": Zarubek Chibiev, Uruzmag Kibizov, Igor Kotov and Vladislav Bitiev.

"We solved the Northern Networks case using a common integrated approach, creative and well-coordinated work of each team member. A wide range of knowledge was covered, because the solution of a case is not unidirectional, and a very in–depth analysis has to be applied to protect it.", – noted guys. Together with them, the Bagger (Mining) and BOOM (Geological Exploration) teams will go to unleash their scientific and technical potential. The final of the championship will be held on May 30-31 in Moscow.

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