International Engineering Championship "CASE-IN": online at the National Research University "MEI"

It is not the first year that the qualifying stages of the International Engineering CASE-IN Championship have been held in March and April - competitions for solving engineering cases for schoolchildren, students and young specialists in the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes.

But 2020 was the first year when most of the qualifying stages of the championship had to be held online on the Webinar platform. 

NRU "MEI" is the site of the Student League of the Championship for solving three cases from leading Russian companies of the fuel and energy complex at once:

• Electric power industry — the case of FGC UES PJSC;
• Electric power industry — the case of PJSC RusHydro;
• The digital atom is a case study of the Rosatom State Corporation.

On April 9, 2020, despite the regime of strict self-isolation, the qualifying stage of the championship at the National Research University "MEI" took place!

More than 40 teams from various regions and universities of Russia took part in solving difficult cases. Unfortunately, not all of them were able to cope with the task and come out to defend their project.

Nevertheless, most of the teams have found the opportunity to interact remotely with each other. The students were able to mobilize all their accumulated knowledge, correctly distribute the tasks of the case among the participants, and most importantly, they were not afraid to present their projects in an online format for evaluation by experts. Online case defenses in a new mode for everyone were held at a high level and more like a dialogue on equal terms.

Congratulations to our winners, who won prizes and qualified for the finals!!!

Electric power industry — the case of FGC UES PJSC:

1st place — the BANYA team

2nd place — the KPR team

3rd place — KUKU team

Electric power industry — the case of PJSC RusHydro:

1st place — team 9.81

2nd place — Avangard team

3rd place — the team POWER

The Digital Atom — the case of the Rosatom State Corporation:

1st place — UnicornDev

2nd place — DSB

3rd place — Neon lights

The management of NRU MEI and employees of leading fuel and energy companies are confident that solving practical cases is an invaluable addition to academic education, allowing students to navigate the real world, evaluate their knowledge and consciously develop their potential.

Many participants in the 2020 championship are freshmen. They have yet to start studying their core disciplines, but now, thanks to their participation in the CASE-IN, they can confidently say that they will cope with the difficult task of finding themselves in our incredibly fast—changing world.​​

A source: NRU "MEI"