The IRNTU student team is the bronze medalist of the CASE-IN

"Polytechnic students" successfully performed in the final of the VII The International CASE-IN Championship for Young Engineers. Student team W:/O/K / took the third place. Irkutsk Polytech was awarded the cup and the Energy of Education award for the best organization and conduct of the qualifying stage.

The final event took place May 30-31 in Moscow. The large-scale event was supported by the foundation Reliable Shift, a non-profit partnership "Youth Forum of Mining Leaders" and companies "AstraLogics". The qualifying stages were held in 57 leading technical universities in Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The 2019 tournament united more than five thousand novice specialists, whose work was evaluated by experts over 300 industry companies. IRNTU was represented by five student teams - W:/O/K /, "Impulse", "New Energy", "3+1=5" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind".

This year, the competition was dedicated to the priority topic of the global economy. - "Digital transformation". Young engineers solved engineering cases in seven nominations. They competed in the following directions "Mining", "Geological exploration", "Electric power industry", "Oil and gas business", "Petrochemistry", "Digital Atom" and "Metallurgy". All finalists were able to participate in master classes, lectures and a closed Career Day where they communicated directly with future employers, received answers to questions about employment conditions in the largest companies in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes of the country.

The command W:/O/K/, which became a bronze medalist, was led by a third-year cyberneticist at the Institute of High Technologies Roman Verkhoturov. The student is actively engaged in research work, demonstrates his developments at competitions and receives a high expert assessment. Roman participated in the CASE-IN championship with the Polytechnic team Sergey Usoltsov, Yulia Butina and By Alexander Ulyanov We were moving in a new direction The Digital Atom.

"At the selection in Irkutsk, our task was to create a chatbot that performs the internal corporate functions of Rosatom. Having worked productively, we easily won the qualifying stage and began preparing for the finals in Moscow. 10 days before the launch, we received a task, which was supplemented with a request to create a reporting module so that specialists could monitor the work of the bot," explained the team captain.

The solution of the case involved not only writing a program, but also explaining the relevance of the idea, taking into account various aspects. The students gained new knowledge and put it into practice.

"During the preparation, we have become a close-knit team, a real family. Sergey was engaged in design and analytics, Alexander and Julia were working on the prototype, and I helped them and coordinated the work.

We completed the presentation on the plane and sent it by e-mail in the last minutes allotted by the regulations. Our development will reduce the time spent on data collection and visualization, and increase productivity.

We were the first to draw lots, and unfortunately we didn't have time to check the equipment. Interference prevented us from demonstrating the prototype in full. As a result, the team became the bronze medalist. We intend to participate in the championship again next year and take first place," Roman shared his impressions.

The student believes that the engineering championship provides tremendous experience and useful contacts with representatives of large companies who are interested in promising young specialists.

Other IRNTU teams also represented the university at a high level, entering the top 6 of the prestigious competition. In particular, the national team "New Energy" took the fifth place out of 33 teams. As told by a first-year undergraduate student Olga Kaimonova The main task of the case was the introduction of an automated monitoring and diagnostic system (ASMD) for power transformer equipment and power transmission lines in the company "Backbone Electric Networks of the East" (MES of the East).

"Our team has developed a work schedule for the implementation of ASMD, which includes staff training, installation and commissioning of monitoring and diagnostic systems, as well as setting up real-time interaction. The installation and commissioning periods were selected taking into account the weather conditions. The facility is scheduled to be commissioned in 2025," said the graduate student. - In addition, the team reviewed the organizational structure of the MES of the East, which includes such functional units as operational dispatch control, operation, maintenance and repair for continuous improvement of the ASMD algorithm. In the near future, this structure will serve as the basis for the transition to a matrix management system, which provides for one level of network operation instead of the three existing ones."

Scientific Director of the diamond mining company ALROSA Alexander Tolstov I suggested it to a third-year student of IRNIT, a future geologist, a member of the Impulse team To Alexander Kalishinto complete an internship at one of the company's fields.

"On a closed Career Day, I met employees of the world's leading companies. I was interviewed by representatives of the HR services of Tatneft, Rosgeologiya, Sibur Holding and many others.

Thanks to the competition, I was not only able to get valuable expert advice on research activities, but also chose a promising place for future production practice," Alexander Kalishin commented on the results of his participation in the CASE-IN championship for young engineers.

It should be noted that the director of the Institute of Subsoil Use went to Moscow with the students.Alexey Shevchenko, Professor Konstantin Suslov and an associate professor Larisa Auzina. Staff and teachers became supervisors of CASE-IN teams and sections. For example, Alexey Shevchenko Since 2013, he has been a permanent member of the organizing committee of the international engineering competition, and has conducted more than 30 case defenses. He has the status of an honorary representative of the "Hall of Fame" in the category "Organizers" in 2018. This year, the Director of the Institute of Subsoil Use supervised the Metallurgy direction.

Konstantin Suslov He acted as an expert of the league of the energy company "T Plus", which was held as part of a case competition. The professor noted that the students adequately coped with the fierce competition. He emphasized the high qualifications of the jury, which included representatives of leading companies.

Source: IRNTU