The qualifying stage of the CASE-IN championship was held in Chita

The qualifying stage was held in Chita The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" among the students of the Mining faculty of Zabaykalsky State University. Representatives of JSC Kharanorsky Mine and LLC Chitaugol of the Siberian Coal Energy Company took part in the event as experts. 

This year, the topic of the case was the development of a placer deposit using digital technologies. The task is to analyze mining and geological conditions and select the most effective mining method.

7 teams received a diamond deposit at their disposal. In 10 days, the participants had to determine how their company would extract raw materials, what equipment to use, and how quickly the break-even point would be reached.

— One of the pitfalls is working with permafrost. Sophisticated technology. The deposit is non–standard. It was necessary to come up with a unique solution, unlike the others. After all, there are very few analogues of such cases," Anatoly Kireev, fifth—year student and captain of the Green Machine team, shared his impressions.

The solutions of the cases were evaluated according to various criteria: energy efficiency, economics, technology, originality and novelty of the solution, as well as presentation and presentation. The students had only 6 minutes to defend the project and additional time to answer the experts' questions. Among them are representatives of ZabGU, the Chita branch of the RANEPA and enterprises operating in the mining industry. Among them are the management of JSC Kharanorsky Section and LLC Chitaugol (part of SUEK).

— At such events, you can see the potential of future personnel and create a reserve of them. In addition, it is an opportunity to evaluate the quality of education in this educational institution. And I note that the training of the guys is growing. The level of knowledge is high. I would like to mention "C4" among the teams. They have an original case solution. They proposed hydro-mechanical mining and relied on technological efficiency. At a time when most of them were doing the classics assignment," said Petr Gabidulin, Deputy General Director for Production at Kharanorsky Section JSC.

An unconventional approach to project preparation secured the third place for the C4 team (Maria Dutova, Tatiana Pavluk, Nina Nosyreva, Eduard Kolmagorov) at the end of the "CASE-IN" qualifying stage. In second place is GamBit (Nikita Makarov, Vadim Polyakov, Anton Naumov, Grigory Konovalov). And the first place was taken by the members of the Green Machine team (Anatoly Kireev, Nikita Kachin, Vladimir Gavrilov, Anastasia Plotnikova). They will go to represent their native university at the "CASE-IN" finals, which will be held in Moscow.

Special prizes from JSC "Kharanorsky Section" and LLC "Chitaugol" were awarded to the teams "C4" and "Green Machine".

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource industries.

The championship is held in 57 universities in Russia and the CIS countries. During the qualifying stages in February – May 2019, more than 7,000 future and young engineers of the fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes are solving engineering cases on the unified theme of the championship "Digital Transformation" - one of the priority topics for the Russian and global economies.

Source: NIA Chita