The winning team (from left to right – Polina Orlova, Anna Yarullina, Kirill Ivanov, Nikolay Pridatchenko) and Nikita Gorovoy

From 23 to 28 February, SPbGASU held the qualifying round of the 10th Industry Championship of Professional Skills Atomskills-2025 in the Engineering Design competency, from the Rosatom State Corporation.

The championship was held as part of the federal innovation platform "Innovative methodology for the formation of digital professional competencies of students and specialists in the construction industry" implemented at SPbGASU. The organizer was the Educational Center for Digital Competence of our university.

The objective of the "Engineering Design" competency is to demonstrate the participants' abilities in developing and analyzing design and working documentation for facilities of any complexity based on initial data, within the technical assignment and current regulatory documentation, using information modeling technologies.

The championship participants were third- and fourth-year students of various fields of study. Five teams of four people took part in the championship, each of whom developed their own section. The teams included the following specialists:

• SPOIM – a specialist responsible for sections interaction and modeling using information modeling technology;
• builder – a specialist responsible for the architectural and construction section of the project;
• technologist – a specialist responsible for the engineering sections of the project;
• electrician – a specialist responsible for the electrical section of the project.

The jury of the qualifying round at our university included teachers and employees of SPbGASU: chief expert, category 2 specialist of the Educational Center for Digital Competence Nikita Gorovoy, expert-mentor, Associate Professor at the Department of Heat and Gas Supply and Ventilation Kirill Sukhanov, expert-mentor, Associate Professor at the Department of Heat and Gas Supply and Ventilation Mikhail Fedorov, expert-mentor, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Architectural and Engineering Constructions Alena Vedernikova, expert-mentor, Assistant at the Department of Metal and Timber Constructions Viktor Tsyganovkin, expert-mentor, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Structural Physics, Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering Rostislav Baruzdin and expert-mentor, category 2 specialist of the Educational Center for Digital Competence Yury Zgoda.

The qualifying round gave the first place to the team consisting of Nikolay Pridatchenko (fourth-year student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering), Anna Yarullina (fourth-year student of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Municipal Services), Kirill Ivanov (fourth-year student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering) and Polina Orlova (fourth-year student of the Faculty of Environmental Engineering and Municipal Services).

The second place went to the team consisting of Anna Smirnova (fourth-year student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering), Anton Klyuev (third-year student of the FEE&MS), Diana Balon (third-year student of the FEE&MS), and Kirill Tishunin (third-year student of the  FEE&MS).

In third place was the team of Zlata Zolotykh (fourth-year student of the Faculty of Civil Engineering), Ilya Zakharov (third-year student of the FEE&MS), Mikhail Tsvetkov (fourth-year student of the FEE&MS) and Nikita Lyamshev (second-year student of the FEE&MS).

The winners of the qualifying round will go to the 10th Industry Championship of Professional Skills of the Rosatom State Corporation Atomskills-2025, which will be held from 30 March to 5 April in Ekaterinburg.