JSC SO UES became a strategic partner of the International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN"

On February 26, the grand opening of the VII season of the Student League and the League of Young Professionals took place at the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (NI TPU). The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN". As part of the qualifying stages of the VII season of the championship, more than seven thousand future specialists and young engineers of the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes will offer solutions to engineering cases on the unified theme of the championship "Digital Transformation". The final of the CASE-IN–2019 International Engineering Championship will be held in Moscow on May 30-31.

The qualifying stages of the championship are held at all partner universities of JSC SO UES: Ivanovo State Power Engineering University named after V.I. Lenin, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Samara State Technical University, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI) named after M.I. Platov, North Caucasus Federal University, Kazan State Energy University, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. The qualifying stages in the electric power industry will also be held at other universities that conduct training in specialized specialties: at 28 universities in Russia, technical universities in Belarus, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan.

Teams of undergraduates undergoing specialized training programs commissioned by JSC SO UES, as well as teams of young specialists of the company, are taking part in the fight for a ticket to the finals. Every year they confirm the high level of professional training: early specialization and practical experience allow participants representing the System Operator to consistently take prizes in the field of "Electric Power Industry" both in the qualifying stages and in the final "CASE-IN".

The qualifying stages have already been held in TPU, UrFU and NCFU. At TPU, the first place and a ticket to the finals were won by a team of undergraduates from the GOTSIFRO System Operator: Karen Margaryan (team captain), Ruslan Baderko, Artyom Petrov, Maria Sadokhina. The FORA team, which includes Albina Gavrilova, a graduate student of JSC SO UES, won at UrFU. At NCFU, undergraduates of the System Operator as part of their teams took 2nd and 3rd places in the qualifying stage.

In the League of Young Professionals, the ODE of the South team, representing Branch of JSC "SO UES" ODE to the South Olga Lgova (team captain), Anton Zubov, Alexander Goncharov, Yaroslav Tretyachenko. Under the terms of the League, the teams that take three prizes receive a ticket to the championship finals.

JSC SO UES has been a strategic partner of CASE-IN for the fifth year in a row: the qualifying and final cases of the Electric Power Industry direction are developed based on materials and with the participation of the company's specialists. This year, the System Operator has developed a case study for the qualifying stage in the electric power industry, dedicated to the development of the Transition Monitoring System (TMS) of the Unified Energy System of Russia.

This year, more than 150 undergraduates who are studying in specialized training programs commissioned by JSC SO UES will take part in the Student League.

The championship is integrated into the strategic system of work with youth "School – University – Enterprise", which JSC SO UES has been implementing since 2007 in partnership with the Reliable Shift Foundation. Representatives of the System Operator act as experts for all qualifying stages and the final of the championship. The company's specialists evaluate the level of training of future power engineers and select the best undergraduate students to continue their studies in specialized master's degree programs commissioned by JSC SO UES and for further employment in branches of SO UES.

In the League of Young Specialists, representatives of the System Operator from UDE South, UDE North-West, UDE Center, Yakutsk RDU and other branches of the company will compete for tickets to the finals. In accordance with the task of the case, young specialists will have to design the digital integration of large–scale energy and infrastructure projects in the Far East into a macro-regional system in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Engineering CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among students, schoolchildren and young professionals. The purpose of the intellectual competition is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists to the fuel and energy complex and the Moscow Industrial Complex of Russia.

A source: SO UES