The winners of the "CASE-IN" championship were students studying under the programs of the System Operator

Undergraduate and graduate students of several technical universities who are studying in specialized training programs of JSC SO UES, and young specialists of the branch of JSC SO UES ODU of the South took part in the finale of the VII season The International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN" in Moscow.

Students enrolled in specialized training programs at partner universities of JSC SO UES reached the final of the championship as part of their teams: Ivanovo State Power Engineering University named after V.I. Lenin, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Samara State Technical University, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Platov South Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI), North Caucasus Federal University, Kazan State Energy University, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University.

The engineering cases that the participants solved were united by a common theme relevant to the Russian and global energy sector – "Digital Transformation".

In accordance with the case "Combining the UES of Siberia and the UES of the East for parallel operation", future power engineers, guided by the Scheme and Program for the development of the Unified Energy System of Russia for the period up to 2025, explored the possibility of parallel operation of two combined energy systems. The experts evaluated the decisions of the participants, who calculated the possible economic effect and prepared the main provisions of the feasibility study (feasibility study) of combining the ECO of Siberia and ECO of the East for parallel operation.

According to the decision of the expert commission of the Electric Power Industry direction, the winner of the championship was the Systems and Networks team representing Samara State Technical University: team captain Artem Pronichev and Elena Soldusova are graduates of the energy classes of the School – University – Enterprise training system, as well as Artem Saveliev and Kirill Chubarov. All undergraduate students who are part of the team are enrolled in the specialized training program of JSC SO UES.

The silver medals were won by the Excitation Winding team representing Ivanovo State Power Engineering University named after V.I. Lenin: team captain Alexander Sidorov, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Ksenia Molchagina, graduates of the specialized training program of JSC SO UES and Nikita Korotkov.

The winners and prize-winners of the Electric Power Industry direction were awarded certificates by the System Operator for participation in the Interregional Summer Educational Forum "Energy of Youth", which is held jointly with the Reliable Shift Foundation. The forum will be held in August 2019 in Kislovodsk.

The special prize of JSC SO UES was awarded to the NI TPU team, consisting of students of the specialized training program for System operator Karen Margaryan, Artem Petrov, Ruslan Baderko and Maria Sadokhina. The team reached the finals, but failed to win any prizes.

The team of the Branch of JSC SO UES took part in the final of the League of Young Specialists ODE to the South: Olga Lgova (team captain), Anton Zubov, Alexander Goncharov, Yaroslav Tretyachenko. The young specialists designed the digital integration of large–scale energy and infrastructure projects in the Far East into a macro-regional system in the Asia-Pacific region.

The awards to the CASE-IN-2019 winners were presented by Anatoly Yanovsky, Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, and Anton Serikov, Head of Partner Relations at ANO Russia – Land of Opportunities, finalist of the Leaders of Russia competition. The honored guests congratulated the finalists, noting that the level of participants in the championship is growing every year, and this inspires optimism, because they will have to develop the fuel and energy complex, which is the basis of the country's economy, in the future.

Svetlana Mikhailova, Director of Personnel Management at JSC SO UES, took part in the awarding ceremony for the winners and prize-winners of the championship. She presented the company's awards to the most interesting teams, in the opinion of the System Operator's experts, and noted the qualitative growth of participants in the Electric Power Industry, which SO UES JSC founded in 2015.

"We are pleased that our students are actively participating in all the leagues of the championship: schoolchildren of the energy groups of the School – University – Enterprise system, bachelors and undergraduates studying in specialized training programs commissioned by JSC SO UES, and youth teams of our branches. We are closely monitoring the success of all the participants in the championship, and the best of them continue to study under our programs or have already started working in branches of JSC SO UES throughout Russia," S. Mikhailova noted.

As part of the Finals, a Career Day was held, during which representatives of JSC SO UES met with the finalist students of the championship, told them about the company and events held within the framework of the youth policy of the System Operator, interaction with partner universities, the procedure for admission to the master's degree program for specialized programs, and answered questions about internships and possible employment in the company's branches.

JSC SO UES has been a strategic partner of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship for the fifth year in a row. Based on the materials and with the participation of the company's specialists, the qualifying and final cases of the Electric Power Industry direction are being developed; the championship stages are held in all partner universities of JSC SO UES, representatives of the System Operator act as experts for both the qualifying stages of the championship and the final of the competition.

Source: SO UES