The future engineers of the Southern Urals are in the finals of the Championship!

On April 27, 2015, Magnitogorsk State Technical University named after G.I. Nosov hosted the qualifying stages of the mining and electric power engineering leagues of the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship.

Opening the competition, first Vice-rector - Mikhail Chukin , Vice-rector for Research and Innovation at MSTU He wished Magnitogorsk students to demonstrate competent and innovative case solutions. "The championship is primarily about improving the skills of future specialists, improving the quality of our graduates, which we value very much." noted by M.Chukin.

Each qualifying stage enjoys the attention of regional authorities. The competitions in the Southern Urals were held with the support of the Magnitogorsk City Administration. On behalf of the Magnitogorsk leadership, I welcomed the participants and organizers of the Championship Deputy Mayor Vadim Chuprin, who drew attention to the value of the Championship to enhance the prestige of engineering education: "The championship will serve as a tool for popularizing engineering education and will give a new impetus to youth creativity in solving engineering problems."

Championship  - a platform for managers and specialists of fuel and energy companies to communicate with future engineers.  This is the opportunity for the Championship to attract partners - the leading enterprises of the Russian fuel and energy complex, which have delegated their representatives to Magnitogorsk.

Evgeny Tkach, Leading specialist in the Sector of professional training of personnel of JSC Kovdorsky GOK, JSC MHC EuroChem, emphasized the company's long-standing cooperation with the organizers of the Championship and recalled that the case method is used to monitor target students: the company hosts its own case-solving championship.
E. Tkach also spoke about the company's youth policy and the opportunities that await future specialists at JSC MHC EuroChem.   Continuing the colleague's speech, Vyacheslav Nifantov, Specialist of the Project Office for the implementation of strategic development projects of Kovdorsky GOK JSC, noted the role of the Championship in the evaluation and selection of young specialists in the company's personnel reserve.

Dmitry Nakhtigal, Chief Geologist at EVRAZ Kachkanarsky GOK He welcomed the participants of the qualifying stage on behalf of the partner of the Championship, EVRAZ, and wished good luck and success to all participants.

MSTU has been participating in the Championship for the second year, so university students have experience solving mining cases. 7 teams took part in the mining league competitions, which presented solutions to the case. "Choosing the most efficient variant of the mining and transportation complex and increasing its efficiency".

The ideas of the participants were evaluated by experts: representatives of UralGeoProekt LLC, Yuzhuralzoloto Group of Companies, Uchalinsky GOK, Pavlik Air Defense System, EVRAZ Kachkanarsky GOK, Kovdorsky GOK JSC, scientists of the MSTU Research Institute for Integrated Development of Georesources, and MSTU teachers.

To determine the winners of the stage, the experts had to listen twice to 3 teams that scored the same number of points after the first defense.    As a result, the winners were recognized The Lapis Lazuli team: Dilmurod Aybashev (captain), a master's student of the Department of Mining Machinery and Transport and Technological Complexes at the Institute of Mining and Transport of Moscow State Technical University, and 4th-year students of the same department, Evgeny Akhremenko, Anastasia Sharonova, and Anna Fedorina.

It should be noted that in each university, most of the students show a stable interest in modern educational methods and are active in mastering engineering specialties. For example, Anastasia Sharonova and Anna Fedorina, members of the Lazurit team, not only participated in the Championship for the second year in a row, but also won the Case Contest Forum in 2014, which led to a well-deserved victory in the current competitions.

Participants of the Electric Power Industry League stage defended the solutions of the case "Development and selection of the optimal scheme for the distribution of electric power to a thermal power plant during its reconstructionThe jury was attended by experts from Magnitogorsk Electric Grids, a branch of IDGC of the Urals - Chelyabenergo, and teachers from Moscow State Technical University.

I reached the final of the Championship The Energetic Undergraduates team The undergraduates of the Institute of Energy and Automated Systems of Moscow State Technical University are Artyom Nasibullin (team captain), Stepan Anisimov, Natalia Kurilova, and Alina Yuldasheva.

As part of the qualifying stage, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Reliable Shift Foundation and Magnitogorsk State Technical University named after G.I. Nosov. The Memorandum provides for cooperation between the university and the Foundation in the field of youth and personnel policy, aimed at professional orientation, the formation of an active professional and civic position among the youth of the fuel and energy sector of the Russian Federation.  

The winners of the stage will have to defend the honor of the university in the final of the Championship, which will be held in Moscow on May 28-29, 2015.

The general partners of the Championship are: JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System", JSC "Siberian Coal Energy Company", Micromine company, JSC "MHC "EuroChem", JSC "Siberian Generating Company", EVRAZ company and JSC "Raspadskaya Coal Company", RUSDRAGMET Management Company, LLC "Dassault System Geovia RUS". 

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