Interns of the System Operator are the winners of the "CASE-IN" qualifying stage at TPU

On March 25, 2020, the regional qualifying stages of the international engineering championship "CASE-IN" were held at the National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University. The championship is being held online for the first time. Solutions in five areas of the Student League ("Geological Exploration", "Oil and Gas business", "Petrochemistry", "Digital Atom", "Electric Power Industry") were presented by 45 teams from 4 universities of the country.

The winners in the qualifying stages in all five areas were teams from Tomsk Polytechnic University.

In the Electric Power Industry, the Tomsk Machines team took 1st place: Yulia Pitko (captain), Anna Darkhanova, Artyom Zhilenkov, Alexey Maltsev. All participants are undergraduates of the Engineering School of Energy, studying at TPU under the specialized program of JSC SO UES. They will represent NI TPU in the championship finals.

The second place was taken by the TPU "KOMOD" team, also consisting of undergraduates of the System Operator.

The international engineering Championship "CASE-IN" is one of the projects of the presidential platform "Russia — the land of opportunities". The CASE-IN qualifying stages are held at 56 universities in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan. Student teams compete in seven industry areas: geological exploration, mining, metallurgy, oil and gas, petrochemistry, digital atom, electric power industry. Their task is to offer solutions to specific engineering problems.

The current season of the international championship is the eighth in a row. Its theme is "Technological modernization". The finals of all leagues of the VIII season of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship will be held in Moscow in the second half of 2020.

A source: SO UES