FEFU students will perform in the finals of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship

Student League Qualifying Stage The International Engineering Case-In Championship conducted at the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU). 20 teams took part in the competition. The strongest received the right to compete in the finals, which will be held in Moscow on May 30-31, and thus compete for the right to complete internships in leading domestic companies.

The main theme of the championship in 2019 was "Digital transformation". The participants solved practical tasks based on real production situations in companies of fuel and energy and machine-building complexes (fuel and energy complex and MSK). Each case was devoted to the actual problems of the existing enterprise.

The work was carried out in four directions: geological exploration, mining and oil and gas business, electric power industry. It was necessary to solve this or that issue using innovative or digital technologies. It took only 10 days to create and design the project. On March 28, they presented the results of their activities to the judging panel.

According to the results of the qualifying stage, four leaders were determined in FEFU. The first in the field of "Geological exploration" were the "Mining explorers" — the team included future geologists: Vitaly Rybnikov, Vladislav Marchenko, Nikita Kaznacheyev, Timur Orujov. Dmitry Saurov, Alexander Litvinets, Savely Efimovich and Evgeny Khlyst distinguished themselves in Mining — they made up the Horizon 756 team. The 2x2 team was ahead of its rivals in the field of Oil and Gas business. She was presented by Alexey Balabukha, Victoria Sukhovilova, Roman Inshakov, Ekaterina Kozmina. Nikita Vybory, Olga Varfolomeeva, and Veronika Arshinskaya from the Resonance team turned out to be the best in the Electric Power Industry.

In 2019, the Case-In championship is being implemented on the federal platform "Russia — the Land of Opportunities", created on behalf of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Participation in the event allows students to gain unique knowledge about the work of industry companies and demonstrate their skills and competencies. University partners, in turn, can select young and promising personnel among students for further work at their enterprises.

"Remembering the competitions that were held for us, as future engineers, about 50 years ago, I envy today's students — they have much more opportunities. The guys are in a very favorable situation. The President of the country instructed the largest corporations to create engineering centers on the Russian Island. These will be serious complexes, and our graduates will work there. I wish that participation in the championship would be another step in their professional development, and that the winners would be able to represent the Far East at the championship in Moscow," said Alexander Becker, Director of the FEFU School of Engineering.

The Case-In is Russia's only federal case championship for fuel and energy and mineral resources complexes. This year, the event was organized for the seventh time, it gathered more than 7 thousand participants, 1,200 experts, 36 partners, 57 universities, 34 regions and 110 qualifying stages. The purpose of the student League is to identify and support the most promising students in the fields of mining, electric power, exploration, metallurgy, oil and gas, and petrochemistry, as well as to assist them in gaining practical knowledge, experience, and new competencies, popularize engineering and technical education, and attract young professionals to the fuel and energy and mineral resources sectors.

Source: FEFU