The qualifying stage of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" 2019 will be held in Togliatti with the support of SIBUR.

Samara State Technical University will host the CASE-IN Student League on March 27, and on March 29. — Tolyatti State University

On the basis of universities in the region, students and young specialists will compete in solving engineering cases in the oil and gas industry, electric power industry and petrochemistry.

The CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young professionals. The purpose of the championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists in the fuel and energy, petrochemical and mineral resources industries. The theme of the upcoming season will be "Digital Transformation". As before, SIBUR will act as a strategic partner of the Petrochemistry business.

"Of course, the whole world is moving towards digitalization, new technologies are being developed and actively implemented, including in the fuel and energy complex- said the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak.- There are many examples in various industries – oil, gas, and electric power are becoming more intelligent and digital. We expect that digitalization will optimize costs and management processes, and introduce artificial intelligence that will make decisions.".

The "CASE-IN" includes 108 qualifying stages and the final, which will traditionally be held in Moscow on May 30-31, 2019. More than 5,000 students will participate in the CASE-IN Student League. The qualifying stages will be held at 56 universities in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan. Student teams will compete in six industry areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, and electric power.

More than 500 representatives of 30 leading Russian companies, including SIBUR employees, will participate in the CASE-IN League of young professionals.

"We are developing production and business processes using digital technologies., — noted Olga Ulesova, Director of Talent Management at SIBUR.- We are testing various technical innovations and introducing the most useful ones — augmented and virtual reality, industrial Internet of Things sensors, and technical vision. Solving such problems requires a new generation of engineers who possess not only a serious technical knowledge base, but also practical skills in solving engineering problems using the technologies of today and tomorrow. CASE-IN is an excellent platform that unites talented students and leading employers to find new innovative solutions for industry in the era of digitalization.".

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