Polytechnics at the "Russian Energy Week"

Polytechnics took an active part in the events of the International Forum "Russian Energy Week". So, the acting rector Tomsk Polytechnic University Petr Chubik was one of the key experts during the events of the Youth Day of the forum, and the polytechnic team won the second place of the competition. MediaTek Special League of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship.

The International Forum "Russian Energy Week" was held for the third time. The largest industry event gathered a record number of participants — more than 10,000 people from more than 80 countries around the world.

So, at the invitation of the Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak Acting Rector of TPU Peter Chubik He spoke during an event dedicated to the presentation of the Youth Forecast of Global Energy Development. During his speech, Peter Chubik focused on another important energy resource that was not taken into account in the forecast — gas hydrates, and also spoke about the scientific research expedition currently operating in the seas of the Eastern Arctic, which includes 15 Tomsk polytechnics. The acting rector also invited the participants of the presentation to Tomsk Polytechnic University.

In addition, Petr Chubik became one of the speakers of the interdepartmental meeting on the popularization of the fuel and energy complex, energy conservation and engineering education among young people.

He spoke about the results of TPU's active participation in the "CASE-IN", changes in the Admission Rules for 2020 for the winners and prize-winners of the championship initiated by Tomsk Polytechnic University, and also suggested using the cases of the host universities in future championships.

Peter Chubik cited as an example the unique scientific installation of TPU for coal gasification with the need to develop technologies for using the resulting synthesis gas for the production of thermal and electrical energy, as well as various products of gas chemistry.

In addition, the acting Rector of Tomsk Polytechnic University became the guest of honor at the meeting of participants of the Youth Day of the Dialogue on Equal Terms Forum with Minister of Energy Alexander Novak and Minister of Science and Higher Education Mikhail Kotyukov.

It should be added that for the first time, the forum hosted competitions of the MediaTek Special League "CASE-IN", organized by the Reliable Shift Foundation and TPU. Their participants were teams from universities in Moscow, Nizhnevartovsk and Tomsk. They needed to develop a communication strategy to promote innovation in the country's fuel and energy sector. The case was created based on materials and with the participation of a specialist from PJSC ROSSETI. The competition expert was the Vice Rector for External Relations of TPU Lilia Kiryanova.

Tomsk Polytechnic University was represented by three teams at the Special League competitions. One of them, Slysh and Company (Daria Slysh, Alexander Kornev, Ivan Matveev, Ramadan Ualdanov), took the second place in the results.

It should be noted that six youth teams also presented their vision of global energy development within the framework of the forum. The participants worked on 12 different topics, including the development of clean coal technologies, hydrogen energy, electric transport, gasification, and so on. According to the results of the expert evaluation of the work, three winning teams in each direction were identified.

Thus, in the "Students" category, the Baikal Energy team was recognized as the best with the theme "Development, Survivability and Safety of Electric Power Systems", which included a graduate student from the TPU School of Energy Engineering Maria Sadokhina.

It should also be noted that on the eve of the Russian Energy Week forum, Peter Chubik, Acting Rector of TPU, took part in a joint meeting of the Scientific and Educational Interuniversity Council of Gazprom PJSC, of which Tomsk Polytechnic University is a member, and the Council for Professional Qualifications in the Oil and Gas Industry. The meeting was held as part of the IX St. Petersburg International Gas Forum (SPIGF) at the ExpoForum site (St. Petersburg). Sergey Khomyakov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, became the Chairman of the meeting.

During the meeting, Peter Chubik spoke about the training of future engineers at TPU. The event was also attended by rectors of Gazprom's other flagship universities, Anastasia Bondarenko, State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, Oleg Aksyutin, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board and Head of Gazprom's Department, Ivan Matlashov, Adviser to Gazprom Neft CEO, and Deputy Director and Head of the Personnel Development Department of Rosneft Tamara Solovykh, Director of the Personnel Management Department of Transneft, Elena Shchurova, Head of the Organizational Development and Career Management Department of LUKOIL, Yuri Pichtovnikov.

Source:TPU