On April 29, 2024 the students of the 4th year of the specialty "Automation and Control" of the School of Information Technologies and Engineering participated in the XVI Republican Student Subject Olympiad on the group of educational programs 063 - "Electrical Engineering and Automation", held in Almaty University of Energy and Communications named after Gumarbek Daukeev.

As a result, the team led by Samigulin Timur Ildusovich (Associate Professor of KBTU) took 2nd place in the team competition.

Also, the 4th year student Diana Butakova took 2nd place in the individual competition with a prize fund of 75 000 tenge.