NCFU students enrolled in the System Operator program are CASE-IN finalists

The qualifying round of the VIII was held at the North Caucasus Federal University (NCFU) The International Engineering Case Solving Championship at the Student League for Electric Power Engineering "CASE-IN" is one of the projects of ANO "Russia – the Land of Opportunities". The winner of the regional stage was the team of NCFU "Atlanty Frequency", which will represent the Stavropol Territory in the final at the end of May in Moscow.

For the sixth year in a row, the system operator has been a strategic partner of the Electric Power Industry branch of the CASE-IN Student League. Based on the materials and with the participation of specialists from JSC SO UES, a case study of the Electric Power Industry area is being developed. In addition, representatives of the System Operator are members of the expert commission for the qualifying stages and finals of the championship, assess the level of training of future power engineers and select the best students to continue their studies in specialized training programs commissioned by JSC SO UES at partner universities.

As part of the unified theme of the 2020 season, "Technological Modernization," fifteen participating teams of the regional stage of the Electric Power League of the CASE-IN International Championship competed to develop solutions for the modernization of the Unified Energy System of Russia and the CIS countries. Students, undergraduates and postgraduates presented their solutions to engineering cases on modernization of power systems. The expert commission, which included NCFU teachers, representatives of the Branch of JSC SO UES UDE of the South, the branch of FGC UES PJSC "MES of the South", the State-owned Institution "Stavropol Regional Center for Energy Conservation", JSC "Energomera" evaluated the work of the participants according to four criteria: presentation of the team, answers to expert questions, technical and economic solution of the case.

The winning team included 2nd-year undergraduates studying under the specialized specialist training program for JSC SO UES, John Burlak, Nikita Meleshko, a graduate student at NCFU Alexey Starchenko (a 2019 graduate of the specialized System Operator program) and a 4th-year bachelor Viktor Mikhailenko. Alexey Starchenko will represent the Stavropol Territory in the final of the "CASE-IN" for the third time.

The second place was taken by the NCFU team, formed from among undergraduates undergoing training in a specialized System operator training program.

The International Engineering CASE-IN Championship is a federal case championship in which students of leading technical universities in Russia and neighboring countries solve engineering cases − practical tasks based on real production situations in companies of fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes. In 2020, more than 7,000 students from 57 universities will compete in six industry areas: electric power, geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, and petrochemistry.

A source: JSC "SO UES"