Polytechnics became winners and prize-winners of the final of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN"

The final of the VI International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" ended yesterday in Moscow. More than 500 future engineers from 50 regions of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan competed for the victory. Teams of young specialists from fuel and energy and mineral resources companies also took part in the championship.

Tomsk Polytechnic University was represented in the finals by five teams: Philosophical Stone (Petrochemistry), Geoznaiki (geological exploration), LET'S GO (metallurgy), 50 Shades of Oil (oil and gas business) and Smart (electric power industry).

The participants had to propose engineering solutions to the problems of Arctic development in six areas: "geological exploration", "mining", "metallurgy", "oil and gas business", "petrochemistry" and "electric power industry". It is specified that the teams received their assignments 10 days before the final. Their work was evaluated by representatives of partner companies of the championship: JSC "SO UES", OOO "Transneftenergo", PJSC NK Rosneft, PJSC SIBUR Holding and others.

As a result, the team of TPU "Philosophical Stone" consisting of students of the Engineering School of Natural Resources of TPU Alexander Krutey, Ilya Eftor, Daria Afanasyeva and Ksenia Baklashkina won in the direction of "petrochemistry".

Nine teams competed for the first place in this field. In addition, the polytechnics were awarded a special prize for the most energy efficient solution.

In the final, they had to develop a concept for the sustainable development of SIBUR, which was a strategic partner of the company, allowing for high growth in production volumes while simultaneously addressing environmental and social challenges. The participants also had to pay attention to the technological development of the company's production processes, introduce new energy-saving and environmentally oriented technological schemes of production processes, while ensuring high dynamics of the company's economic performance.

In addition, in the field of electric power engineering, the second place was won by the TPU Smart team consisting of students from the School of Energy Engineering Mikhail Kondrashov, Daria Krivonogova, Karen Margaryan and Dmitry Sleptsov. 35 teams competed for the victory and prizes in the league.

Their case was to study the prospects for the development of the electric grid of the Federal Grid Company in the Yamalo-Nenets support zone of the Russian Arctic. It was necessary to draw conclusions about the possibility of increasing the capacity of the electric grid, optimize the volume of electric grid construction and ensure the reliability of the electric grid in the region until 2025.

Photo: the teams of TPU "Philosophical Stone" and "Smart" together with the organizer of the qualifying stages at TPU Elena Vorontsova

It should be noted that more than a hundred teams took part in the final. The cases of the directions were related to the effective development of the Shamritsky gold and silver deposit located in Chukotka, the analysis of mining and geological conditions, parameters and technology of development of the Zyryansk coal mine, analysis in the field of development and production of grades of ultra-cold-resistant rolled metal, necessary for the active development of the Arctic, and so on.

The winners of the "CASE-IN" final received the champions Cup and the title of the best student engineering team of 2018, and also won the honorary right for their university to open the championship competitions next season. In addition, the best students will be able to complete an internship or get a job at leading companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resources complex.

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The CASE-IN International Engineering Championship is a federal case championship in which students from leading technical universities in Russia and neighboring countries solve engineering cases: practical tasks based on real production situations in companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes. The main organizer of the championship is the Reliable Shift Foundation.

The championship is being held for the sixth time, Tomsk Polytechnic University has traditionally been one of the venues for the qualifying stages of the "CASE-IN".

In 2018, Tomsk Polytechnic University held qualifying stages in five areas of the student league "CASE-IN". Among other things, petrochemistry became a new field this year — it was at Tomsk Polytechnic University that competitions were launched for other participating universities in this field. The best result in petrochemistry the TPU "Philosopher's Stone" team showed it. 39 teams of engineering students from TPU competed to reach the finals. The main theme of the championship was the development of the Arctic.

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