NLMK has become a partner of the international engineering championship "CASE-IN"

Students from 10 universities in Russia and the CIS countries solved a problem on the topic of "Digital transformation".

NLMK has become the general partner of the CASE-IN 2019 International Engineering Championship in the Metallurgy Student League.  

The CASE-IN Championship is the largest engineering case solving competition in Russia and the CIS. There are five leagues in it, including the student league. During the qualifying stage, participants solve an engineering case on the relevant topic of a particular enterprise.  

This year, employees of NLMK's Directorate for Data Analysis and Modeling offered students from ten universities in Russia and the CIS countries an urgent production task on the topic of "Digital Transformation".  On February 16, the participants of the qualifying stages received case studies and began to solve them. On February 27, presentations of case solutions were held at Lipetsk State Technical University (LGTU, Lipetsk) and Ural Federal University (UrFU, Yekaterinburg).  

Experts from Novolipetsk Combine and NLMK-Ural became the experts of the championship in LGTU and UrFU. The winners of the qualifying stages will go to the finals in Moscow.  

This is the third time NLMK has been a partner of the Student League of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship in Metallurgy, and last year the company became the general partner of the MISIS CASE CUP championship based on MISIS.   

The purpose of the student league is to popularize engineering and technical education and identify promising students in various fields, including metallurgy. More than 5,000 students from 56 universities in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will take part in the CASE-IN 2019 championship. In 2017, the LGTU team became the champions of the league, last year it was UrFU, the press service of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Combine reports.

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