Moscow has hosted the finals of the 12th CASE-IN International Engineering Championship. The event brought together 700 school and university students as well as young specialists, who presented 162 innovative solutions on lean production for key industries in Russia and CIS.
Throughout the 12th season, 7,260 school and university students solved engineering cases and performed assignments on the main theme of the season, Lean Production.
700 participants of 162 teams from Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan made it to the finals. For three days, the finalists were presenting their solutions to the expert community, participated in educational events, exchanged experience, and were offered recommendations by experts.
Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak noted that the championship helps attract talented young people into engineering and technical professions, and motivate and inspire young ambitious specialists.
“All sectors of the economy have to work together, increase labour productivity and efficiently use their capacities so as to fulfil the tasks set by President Vladimir Putin. These are the goals that young engineers are facing,” Alexander Novak said. “By uniting the interests of the state, employers and educational organisations, the CASE-IN Championship promotes the state policy of personnel support and the goals of the new national project, Personnel. Young people present their ideas and solutions to top managers of the leading industries at the championship, the experience opening up new opportunities for their development and realisation of their skills and abilities,” he emphasised.
The winners of the 12th CASE-IN season are 45 youth teams from Russia and CIS countries.
The Student League, which is the most inclusive, named champions in ten industry categories: architecture, design, construction, and housing and utilities; geological exploration; mining; mining machinery and equipment; metallurgy; oil and gas; petrochemicals; project engineering; thermal power engineering; electric power engineering.
The School League competitions identified the strongest in the engineering and technical creativity and case solving categories.
Children representing 19 schools from 13 regions of the country became champions and prize-winners in engineering and technical creativity. The best works included a working model of the Boguchansk Hydroelectric Power Plant in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a scale model of a liquefied gas production plant in the Arctic, a project for underground gas storage, a wireless sensor for monitoring the operational parameters of an electric motor, a device for analysing ambient air at fuel and energy companies, and other projects.
The participants of the Case Solution track created solutions for the effective development of Russian industries. The champions and prize winners included school students from Magnitogorsk, Yaroslavl and Kemerovo.
In the finals of the CIS Young Professionals League, the strongest teams were from Russia and Belarus which developed measures to improve the efficiency of priority asset management of fuel and energy facilities in their countries.
Participants of the Russian Young Professionals League developed solutions related to the specifics of competitive production systems of the 21st century. The strongest teams represented three companies: Gazpromneft Neft – Bituminous Materials, Gazprom Neft – Zapolyarye, and System Operator of the Unified Energy System.
The champions and prize-winners of the 12th CASE-IN season received well-deserved prizes. The Student League winners will be able to enrol in master’s and postgraduate programmes at 30 partner universities on preferential terms, and to have paid internships in leading companies with opportunities for further employment.
Additional USE points will be credited to the school student winners who enter bachelor’s degree programmes in one of 108 universities that are partners of the championship.
The reward for current young specialists is career and professional growth as well as inclusion in the companies’ management talent pool.
The project is being implemented with a Presidential grant for the development of civil society, as part of the federal project Social Lifts for Everyone of the Education national project, and with the support from the Russia – Land of Opportunity autonomous non-profit organisation.
