AmSU students performed in the final of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship

On May 30-31, the final VII took place in Moscow. The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship. The CASE-IN Championship is an international competition system for solving engineering cases among schoolchildren, students and young professionals. The purpose of the championship is to popularize engineering and technical education and attract the most promising young specialists in the fuel and energy, petrochemical and mineral resources industries. The final of the CASE-IN became a grandiose intellectual battle and the largest youth engineering competition of 2019. The event brought together 500 students from 57 technical universities in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic.

The finalists of the championship presented to the expert community of the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes their ideas on digital transformation in the following areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry and electric power industry.

The Amur State University in the field of Petrochemistry was presented by the newElement team. Valeria Pastukhova, Valentina Karpenko, Oksana German and Anna Bondarenko became the winners of the qualifying stage of the championship, which was held at AmSU on April 17. In total, 13 teams from Tomsk, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, St. Petersburg and other cities took part in the "Petrochemistry" direction.

The decisions of the participants were evaluated by an expert commission, which included Denis Valuev, SIBUR's Chief Business development expert, Oleg Zhabokrik, SIBUR's Chief Expert, Alexander Klimov, Head of the Energy Supervision Department at Transneftenergo LLC, and others. The teams' performances were evaluated according to six criteria: technology, economics, originality and novelty of the solution (innovation), presentation and performance, energy efficiency, completeness of answers to questions. 

According to the results of the final, the first place was taken by a team from Perm Polytechnic Research University, the second place was taken by a team from Samara State University, and the third place was taken by a team from Tomsk Polytechnic University. The AmSU team was awarded a diploma in the special nomination "Top 6 best Engineering Case Solutions".

Source: GTRKAMUR