Case-in Championship Round in MPEI

On 15 March 2017, one of preliminary rounds of the Electric power league of the V Case-in International Engineering Championship was held at the National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute".

Case-in International Engineers’ Championship is the largest practical contest in Russia and the CIS countries in engineering cases solving among students and graduate students. The aim of the championship is identification and promotion of the best mining, power, geology, metallurgy and oil and gas students and facilitation in their training, new competences and experience acquisition, promotion of engineering education and attraction of young specialists to the energy and mineral sectors. The championship consists of 5 independent leagues including Power industry league. Each league of the championship consists of preliminary rounds, which are organized in the universities and the final stage held in Moscow. The teams’ solutions are evaluated by a board of representatives of the federal and regional government bodies, industry experts and case specialists.

Alexander Novak, the Minster of Energy of the Russian Federation speaks about the importance of the championship: “Over the five years of its history, the championship has become an authority and a venue that unites all parties, interested in development of the engineering potential of Russia: the state, the corporate sector, higher educational institutions, industry related communities and advanced youth”.

Among co-organizers of the league are the Russian National Committee of the International Council on Large Electric Systems (RNC CIGRE).

For the contestants in the power industry league thee cases were designed using materials of the system operator of the Unified energy system of the Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System and RuHydro Group.

In this tour, seven teams from three universities competed: 4 teams from the National Research University MPEI, 2 — from the Tver State Technical University and a team from the National University of Science and Technology “MISiS”.

Vladimir Ustinov, SC D1 RNC CIGRE coordinator, took part in the work of the expert board of the Power league among RNC CIGRE representatives.

Thank you Letter from the Ministry of Energy of Russian Federation

We would like to thank the organizers for the high professional level of the Case-in International Engineering Championship organization!

Preliminary round of the power industry league during the V Case-in International engineering championship in MPEI National Research University