IGEU qualifying stage: a reliable shift for the electric power industry!

On May 12, 2015, the Ivanovo State Power Engineering University named after V.I. Lenin hosted the qualifying stage of the Electric Power Industry League of the All-Russian Fuel and Energy Case Solving Championship.  The IGEU competitions completed the electric power industry league and at the same time became the final in the almost three-month marathon of the Championship; the final awaits the participants on May 28-29, 2015 in Moscow.

Opening the qualifying stage, Vladimir Tyutikov, Vice-Rector for Scientific Work at IGEU noted: "I am very glad that our students will present their decisions to a serious jury today. The case is of a very serious level, it took only ten days to solve, and I am sure that you will show the best of what you were taught at the university. This is a good experience to gain, because in your professional life you will have to defend your decisions."

As part of the qualifying stage, as a sign of readiness to develop partnership between the university and the organizers of the Championship, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Reliable Shift Foundation and the Ivanovo State Power Engineering University named after V.I. Lenin. 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 IGEU competitions were held with the support of the Department of Education of the Ivanovo Region. Vladimir Lazarev, Deputy Head of the Department of Education of the Ivanovo Region Addressing the participants, he emphasized the importance of the case study method in vocational education: "The Department of Education of the Ivanovo Region supports all advanced forms of education aimed at improving the quality of the educational process. The case study method is based on real-world tasks and has proven high efficiency, and it is also very important that participants use teamwork and brainstorming.  The championship provides an independent assessment of the quality of education; the assessment that experts from energy companies will give to the ideas of the participants today is worth a lot. In the electric power industry, as in other sectors of the economy, a reliable shift is needed and important. Good luck with this project!"

Arkady Makarov, Head of the Department of Research Work for Students and Talented Youth, Associate Professor of the Department of Theoretical Foundations of Electrical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at IGEU He noted the value of teamwork in the process of solving the case: "The championship reflects the trends in modern production: working on a serious problem in a teamwork format with a common result. Solving a case is a real project that the team is doing, and this is one of the opportunities to try yourself. I wish you a worthy representation of our university in the finals of the Championship."

The championship is supported by Russia's leading fuel and energy companies. The general partner of the Championship and the partner of the IGEU stage was the System Operator of the Unified Energy System, which, among other things, provided materials for the league's case on the electric power industry. The participants of the IGEU stage were welcomed Mikhail Kozyrev, Director of the Representative Office of JSC SO UES in the Ivanovo region, who praised the Championship as a new format for evaluating the quality of engineering training:  "The case study method is a modern technique for selecting and training engineering personnel, it is actively used in JSC SO UES. The system operator is a partner of the IGEU stage, we use the Championship as an additional opportunity to evaluate the quality of students' training, including those who undergo specialized training with the participation of our company. The task proposed in your case does not have a universal solution, it is a wide field of activity for you to offer your original solutions and techniques. I wish you to show your best side!"

One of the organizers of the Championship is Non-profit Partnership "Russian National Committee of the International Council for Large High Voltage Electrical Systems" (NP RNC CIGRE). Evgeny Marshalov, Secretary of the RNC CIGRE Youth Section, greeted the participants on his behalf: "The Championship is a great opportunity for students to show their knowledge not only in the form of classical exams or tests, but also to solve the real problems that the energy industry is currently facing. The participants who will best cope with these tasks will gain invaluable practical experience and will be included in the personnel reserve of the electric power industry."

Future power engineers presented solutions to the engineering case "Development and selection of an optimal scheme for the distribution of electric power to a thermal power plant during its reconstructionThe students' ideas were evaluated by a jury consisting of experts from the Representative Office of JSC SO UES in the Ivanovo Region, the Ivenergo branch of IDGC of Centre and Volga Region, and university teachers.

 IGEU will be represented by the winners of the stage in the Championship finals.  The Olympus team The 5th year students of the IGEU Faculty of Electric Power Engineering are Ivan Zamyslov (team captain, Department of Automatic Control of Electric Power Systems), Vladimir Kirillov (Department of Automatic Control of Electric Power Systems), Sergey Kononov (Department of Electric Systems), Alexey Lobov (Department of Automatic Control of Electric Power Systems).

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".

Stage Partner: JSC "System Operator of the Unified Energy System". 

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