The Engineering CASE-IN championship brought together the best students of SamSTU

On April 19, the qualifying stage of the international engineering CASE-IN championship was held at the flagship university. The main organizer of the competition is the Reliable Shift Charitable Foundation. Samara Polytechnic University has been participating in the championship for the sixth year, this time the university Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship and Innovation was involved in the preparation of the tour.

«The first championship six years ago included 11 qualifying stages, and this year there are 111 of them.- said the Director of the Reliable Change Foundation Artem Korolev. — 50 universities from 31 regions of Russia and CIS countries participate. At first there was one direction, now there are six."

This year, the qualifying stage of the university championship included four leagues: electric power engineering, geological exploration, oil and gas business and petrochemistry. 24 teams presented their solutions to professional problems. In ten days, they had to sort out an engineering case prepared based on materials from leading industry companies and present their ideas to an expert commission, which included specialists from enterprises, scientific and educational organizations. The topic was formulated jointly with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, in connection with the instruction of the President of Russia on personnel training for the development of the Arctic.

«The format of the championship is close to the principles of university development— said the Vice - rector for Innovation of the Polytechnic University Konstantin Savelyev. — First of all, we believe that teamwork is one of the foundations of successful business. And secondly, we try to ensure that our interdisciplinary project teams solve real-world problems. Because when a person sees that his work is changing his life for the better, it spurs interest.».

According to the results of the qualifying stage in the direction of "Electric Power Industry", the Systems and Networks team won, consisting of Alexander Kazantsev, Artyom Pronichev, Elena Soldusova and Kirill Chubarov. In the field of Oil and Gas business, the first place was taken by the Num Quarat team: Alexey Brusnichkin, Sergey Gubanov, Yulia Terzeman and Irina Fedotova. In terms of geological exploration, the best turned out to be Artem Davydov, Regina Polyakova, Nikita Safonov and Nikita Makshanov — the RED STAR team. Finally, the Scientific Poke Method team won in the direction of Petrochemistry: Vladimir Yemelyanov, Andrey Kruk and Olga Repina.

At the end of May, the winning teams will take part in the final 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 at leading industry companies in Russia.