45 student teams presented their solutions online at TPU

The qualifying stages of the international engineering championship "CASE-IN" were held at Tomsk Polytechnic University. 45 teams presented their solutions online in five areas of the Student League.

"Teams from TPU, TIU, KuzSTU and MEPhI defended their decisions for six minutes, and 44 experts asked from three to five questions to each team, in accordance with the rules of the championship," said the organizer of the championship at TPU, head of the Strategic Partnership Department. Elena Vorontsova.

The winners in the qualifying stages in all five areas were teams from Tomsk Polytechnic University. In the field of Geological Exploration — the Carbon team (Vlada Yeremeeva, Elena Vodina, Alexandra Churakova, ISHPR), in the Oil and Gas business — Winbound (Anatoly Andreev, Mikhail Kulakov, Vladislav Laskach, Vladislav Gaevoy, ISHPR), in Petrochemistry — Triad (Daria Afanasyeva, Ulyana Kopycheva, Marina Davydenko, ISHPR), in "Digital Atom" — "Mona Lisa's Smile" (Alina Khizhnyak, Kirill Chernyugov, Salokhiddin Rakhmonkulov, Alexey Leonov, IATSH), in "Electric Power Industry" — "Tomsk Machines" (Anna Darkhanova, Artyom Zhilenkov, Yulia Pitko, Alexey Maltsev, ISHE). They will represent TPU in the championship finals.

Tomsk Polytechnic University was supposed to become the largest CASE-IN venue this year, bringing together participants and experts in five areas of the Student League (geological exploration, oil and gas, petrochemistry, digital atom, electric power industry) and the League of Young Specialists. The qualifying stages at TPU were supposed to take place on March 18. But on March 17, in connection with the prevention of the spread of coronavirus infection, the university completely switched to distance learning, canceling planned mass events.

Together with the organizing committee of the championship, it was decided to hold online defenses. On March 18, the teams sent their final case presentations to the organizing committee. Then the dates of the digital protections were set. The Reliable Shift Foundation took over the webinars.

The participants of the qualifying stages noted the well-coordinated work and efficiency of the organizers at TPU, which helped them to adapt to the online format. At the same time, the guys had to change their approach to the presentation.

"The team members ended up in different cities, and we had to rehearse via video link. We lightened the text, tried to draw the audience's attention to the slides as often as possible, and visualize our words better. We were the last to perform, we were very worried, but then we realized that we had done everything as planned. And when we found out about the victory, we were happy, realizing that we not only coped with the case, but also managed to overcome a stressful situation," shared a member of the Triad team Ulyana Kopycheva.

A source: TPU