TPU awarded for the best organization of the qualifying stages of the "CASE-IN" championship

Tomsk Polytechnic University became the winner of the "Energy of Education" competition in the final of the VII The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN", one of the projects of the Russia — the Land of Opportunities platform. TPU was awarded for the best organization of the qualifying stages among the participating universities of the championship.

Every year, more than 50 leading Russian technical universities take part in the CASE-IN International engineering Championship competitions, 30 of which were included in the "100 best universities in Russia" rating for 2018. This year, TPU not only launched the marathon of the qualifying stages of the championship in 56 universities in Russia and the CIS countries, but also identified the strongest teams in the areas of "Geological Exploration", "Metallurgy", "Petrochemistry" and "Electric Power Industry". In 2017, the Tomsk Polytechnic University team was also awarded a special CASE-IN award for participating universities.

"The championship is growing every year — the number of directions, experts, participants is increasing and, accordingly, the number of universities conducting qualifying stages at their sites.

The Energy of Education competition for the best organization of the qualifying stages is an incentive for university teams to hold the event at a high level, primarily for the participants. During the five years of TPU's participation in the championship, our organizing team has been recognized in this competition more than once. This year's victory has shown that TPU holds the bar at a high level!",

— says the organizer of the "CASE-IN" at TPU Elena Vorontsova.

Let's add that this year 540 young specialists and future engineers from 60 regions of Russia, the republics of Kazakhstan and Belarus participated in the final stage of the "CASE-IN". They presented their ideas on digitalization of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes to the expert community. The solutions of the cases, united by the theme of this season "Digital Transformation", were evaluated by representatives of 25 leading companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

TPU was represented by six teams in the final. One of them, the Nelson Index, took the third place in the direction of "Petrochemistry". 13 teams competed for the victory. TPU was represented by students of the Engineering School of Natural Resources Ksenia Baklashkina, Ayur Bunaev, Ekaterina Los and Ilya Eftor. According to team captain Ksenia Baklashkina, the polytechnics have drawn up a roadmap for the digital transformation of SIBUR Tobolsk LLC in three main areas: advanced analytics, digitalization and Industry 4.0. The roadmap takes into account the robotization of typical processes and virtual product quality analyzers. As part of the solution to the case, the polytechnics calculated the economic efficiency, assessed the risks in case of implementation of the proposed solutions and developed a number of measures to improve the energy efficiency of the enterprise.

"We proposed creating a data center to predict deviations in the operation of equipment and "typical" installations, introduce 3D printing to create prototypes or individual components, and later to produce small batches of specialized spare parts, use smart equipment: bracelets, helmets, clothing with sensors to assess the physical condition of an employee, determine its packaging, QR codes on the equipment, and more",

 — He says Ksenia Baklashkina.

It should also be noted that, following the results of the championship finals, Vera Shestakova, associate professor of the Department of Electric Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering of TPU, was included in the "CASE-IN" Hall of Fame in the "Experts" nomination, and Vladislav Grechushkov, assistant of the Department of Electric Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering, and Yulia Pitko, a graduate student, were included in the "Participants" category. The team of TPU "GOTSIFRO" also entered the top 6 of the best in the field of "Electric power industry".

Source: TPU