NI IrSTU became the winner of the Energy of Education Award.

The Technical University in Irkutsk was awarded for the best organization of the qualifying stage of the mining case solving championship.

Irkutsk, June 9, IrkutskMedia. NI IrSTU became one of the laureates of the Energy of Education Award, established by NP Global Energy and NP Youth Forum of Mining Leaders. According to Alexey Shevchenko, Associate Professor of the Department of Mining Machinery and Electromechanical Systems at IrSTU, Irkutsk Polytechnic University was awarded for the best organization of the qualifying stage of the mining case solving championship. Diplomas of Global Energy were also awarded to Siberian State Industrial University (Novokuznetsk), Karaganda State Technical University (Karaganda, Kazastan), Ural State Mining University (Yekaterinburg) and Northeastern State University (Magadan). This is reported by RIA IrkutskMedia with reference to the press service of NI IrGTU.

"The number of cities participating in the forum has almost doubled this year, from 11 to 20. The task of determining the winners has become even more difficult. This year, five universities have won the award. When making our choice, we proceeded from criteria such as the degree of involvement of university management at different stages, the number of teams, and the level of organization of the event," said Igor Lobovsky, President of the Global Energy Non–profit Partnership.

Alexey Shevchenko explains that this year IrSTU joined the number of universities that acted as venues for the regional stages of the Second All-Russian Case-solving Championship in the field of mining. He claims that the mining business case is a new direction that has been tested for the first time in Russia by the Youth Forum of Mining Leaders. Currently, case solving is the main format of key youth projects in the mining sector.

"This unique competition is based on one of the most modern teaching techniques, the case method, which uses descriptions of real-world economic, social, and business situations. The solution of the case involves the development and search for optimal sound technical measures to eliminate a specific technological problem in the mining industry. These are real situations that future specialists may encounter in production. This year's championship was the first for IrSTU. This experience turned out to be successful, and we managed to recruit more than 30 students. At the same time, we decided not to limit ourselves to the participation of guys from mining specialties specialized for the championship and involved future economists. An integrated approach seemed to us the most advantageous," says Alexey Shevchenko.

In the future, it is planned to work more closely on even minor organizational issues. The university needs the championship as an original educational project. He must gain a foothold in the IrGTU. An agreement was signed with the Youth Forum of Mining Leaders to make the championship a tradition.

It should be recalled that the mountain case championship was held in the Angara region in March. The participants of the intellectual competition were seven student teams from the Institute of Subsoil Use, as well as the Institute of Economics, Management and Law of IrSTU. The teams received a task on the development of mining production, related to the search for techniques to optimize the work and ensure the sustainable operation of the mining enterprise. For two weeks, the university's student teams ("Archon", "Reducer", "Miner", "Mechanic", "Granite", "Mark 4", "Sherl") solved engineering problems of a real enterprise based on a specific production and financial situation, using theoretical knowledge, professional experience, technical and economic calculations and logic. The winner of the qualifying round and the finalist of the All-Russian Championship, which took place on May 30 in Moscow, was the Gornyak team (Sergey Bedenko, Ivan Vasiliev, Alexander Astafyev and Elizaveta Kozlova).

According to the statistics of the championship, this year the event was attended by about 900 participants and 400 experts from 16 cities of Russia and three cities of Kazakhstan.

Following an intense struggle, the team of the Mining Institute of NUST MISIS (Moscow) won the final stage. All finalists received valuable prizes and gifts, as well as internship offers from partner companies of the championship that are interested in attracting talented and promising young people.: JSC SUEK, EVRAZ, JSC Yuzhkuzbassugol, LLC Russdragmet, JSC Apatit, JSC MHC Eurochem, JSC Vysokiy, IMC Montan Group
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