"CASE-IN" is a big battle of student minds

Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" – an international competition system for solving engineering cases among students, schoolchildren and young professionals. The purpose of the championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists to the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes. This year, ALROSA is the General Partner of the competition.

The company is participating in this championship for the first time, but nevertheless, it can gain a foothold as a CASE-IN partner for a long time. This can be judged by the level of the event, the relevance of the introduction of new innovative solutions for industry in the era of digitalization, as well as the education of a generation of professional production workers.

Students will compete in six industry areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, and electric power industry. The championship is not only an opportunity for students to learn how to work with real industrial cases, but also for employers to find promising young specialists. All the winners and prize-winners of the Mining field were invited to practice at ALROSA.

Alexey Kulminsky, Deputy Chief Engineer of Yakutniproalmaz, was an expert at the next stage of the CASE-IN festival.

Before the hearing, Kulminsky said that an unconventional approach would be more welcome in the works, where it is necessary to show how a person thinks about what and how to prove it. In his opinion, the leadership qualities that a student can show are important now. After the "CASE-IN", he shared his impressions:

All the participants had one task, which was assigned by the company. The topic of the Mining case was the development of the Solur-Vostochnaya placer diamond deposit in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The case was developed based on materials and with the participation of ALROSA. I can't remember all the winners now, I went to the cities – the winners of the championship in each region are different. Autopsy and the development of a placer deposit, it was necessary to develop the technology of opening, the technology of chipping, to justify the technology, to come up with energy-saving technologies.

I assess the level of work satisfactorily. There are interesting works that are quite well-reasoned. There are 15-20% of the works that are really worth watching and listening to. As for interesting solutions, we haven't heard anything that we haven't thought about or proposed before. But these were students, starting from the second year, and there were quite interesting solutions for their perception and understanding. I even wonder how they could come up with such decisions at such a young age. For example, there was a group that proposed three mining options, depending on the capacity of the ore body – separately for Vostochny, separately for Solur, with options depending on the capacity. They offered interesting ventilation options, which, in principle, cannot be found in textbooks. There were many proposals for various types of ore transportation, various options for using equipment.

The event is generally useful, primarily for students. They need it, and they need to develop in an applied direction. For a more complete cooperation, we would like to always keep track of the winners, invite them to practice later, and hire them.

A source: IA Yakutia24/Yakutia24