Moscow hosted the final of the XII season of the CASE-IN International Engineering Championship supported by the Presidential Platform "Russia - the Country of Opportunities". 700 young specialists presented 162 innovative solutions for the implementation of lean production principles in key areas of the industrial complex of Russia and CIS countries. The team from the Graduate School of Technology and Energy of Ƶ won silver in the "Thermal Power Engineering" direction.


The team of the University of Industrial Technologies and Design included heat power engineering students Andrei Antufiev, Anna Kholopova, Igor Pluschenkov and Sofya Tyukhteeva. They developed an optimal variant of heat supply to consumers from four interconnected sources. When developing the assignment, the main emphasis should be placed on the safety and reliability of the proposed heat supply scheme, in which it is necessary to close two outdated sources of heat supply, and the existing loads of consumers to distribute among other sources, taking into account the future heat consumption and the existing reserve heat capacity. The teams also had to perform a feasibility study of the proposed solutions and confirm that they would pay off in the medium term.
- Our team proposed a solution consisting of several main steps. Firstly, we reorganized the heat supply system by redistributing consumers and increasing the diameter of some pipelines. Secondly, we increased the capacity of the remaining sources by installing additional generating equipment. Thirdly, we implemented a digital heat supply system, allowing us to apply lean production principles, which made it possible to secure the existing network. This complex allowed us to fully fulfill all the conditions of the case and present a worthy solution, says Andrei Antufiev, a student of the Graduate School of Technology and Energy of Ƶ.
700 participants in 162 teams from Russia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan made it to the finals.
During the three days of the finals, students presented to experts solutions for the implementation of lean principles in the industrial complex of Russia and CIS countries, participated in educational events, met with leading employers of the fuel and energy complex, exchanged experience and communicated with recognized professionals.
Alexander Novak, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, noted that the championship helps attract talented young people to engineering and technical professions, motivate and inspire young ambitious professionals.
"In order to fulfill the tasks of President Vladimir Putin, it is necessary for all sectors of the economy to work together, increase labor productivity and efficient use of facilities. These are the tasks that young engineers face," Alexander Novak noted, "CASE-IN Championship, uniting the interests of the state, employers and educational organizations, promotes the state policy of personnel support and the goals of the new national project "Personnel". At the championship young people present their ideas and solutions to the leaders of the leading industries, and this experience opens new opportunities for their development, realization of their skills and abilities".
The champions and prize winners of the XII CASE-IN season received well-deserved prizes. The triumphants of the Student League will be able to enroll in master's and post-graduate programs of 30 partner universities on preferential terms, to undergo paid internships in leading companies with the possibility of subsequent employment.








