Future engineers of Siberia and the Urals will present cases on digitalization of electric power and oil refining in Tyumen

Students from Tyumen, Tomsk, Omsk, Yekaterinburg, Tobolsk and Surgut at the CASE-IN championship on March 6 at TIU will present ideas of digital transformation for companies of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes in the areas of "Oil and gas business", "Petrochemistry" and "Electric power industry".

The "CASE-IN" includes 108 qualifying stages and the final. More than 5,000 students participate in the student league. The qualifying stages are held in 56 universities in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.

Student teams compete in six industry areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, and electric power. The cases of all directions are united by the theme "Digital Transformation", which is one of the priority topics for the Russian and global economies.

130 students from 34 teams representing TIU, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Omsk State Technical University, Ural State Mining University, Tobolsk Industrial Institute of TIU and Surgut State University participate in the qualifying stage at Tyumen Industrial University.

The participants will present solutions to practical problems in the following areas: "Oil and gas business" (13 teams), "Petrochemistry" (12 teams), "Electric power industry" (9 teams). The participants had only 10 days to decide. The best teams will take part in the final of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in Moscow on May 30-31 this year.

For the second year in a row, the TIU Idling Circuit team has been participating in the Electric Power Industry. Last year, at the finals in Moscow, the guys won the third place.

The opening of the championship and case defense will be held in the seventh building of TIU (Melnikaite, 70, assembly hall), beginning at 10:00. The chief Federal inspector for the Tyumen Region of the Presidential envoy's office in the Ural Federal District is expected to attend the opening. Dmitry Kuzmenko, a representative of SIBUR Ivan Kiselyov, acting rector of TIU Veronika Yefremova, a representative of Tatneft Natalia Schmidt, the press service of the flagship university reported.

Source: NewsProm.Ru