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The AusIMM EEF Scholarships
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Scholarships
The AusIMM Education Endowment Fund (EEF) Scholarships were
established to support the future leaders of the minerals industry through their
higher education studies. The Scholarships are currently valued at $8,000 per
year for a standard EEF scholarship, and $14,000 per year for a Sir Frank
Espie/Rio Tinto Leadership Award.
As well
as receiving financial support over two years, students receive the invaluable
benefits of mentoring and networking opportunities with a major minerals
company. That is, companies who have made major donations to the Education
Endowment Fund are allocated scholarship holders, and are encouraged to engage
the student with the industry through vacation work and other
initiatives.
Scholarships are awarded to
students based on the following criteria:
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Knowledge of the minerals
industry
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Minerals industry work experience
(vacation or part-time work)
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Demonstrated commitment to the
minerals industry after graduation
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Participation in AusIMM activities
(Student Chapters, Branch activities and conferences)
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Participation in other
minerals-related societies
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Academic results
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Demonstrated team and leadership
skills (via sporting and community activities or other
activities)
Scholarships are currently valued at $8,000 per year over two
years and are supported by a variety of leading mining companies. Companies that
have made major donations to the Education Endowment Fund (EEF) are allocated a
Scholarship Naming Right.
Sir Frank Espie / Rio Tinto Leadership
Award
The most outstanding scholarship winners
currently receive a Sir Frank Espie / Rio Tinto Leadership Award,
which will entitle them to $14,000 per year. This scholarship was generously
endowed by the Espie Family, in memory of Sir Frank Espie. Sir Frank
demonstrated outstanding leadership, dedication, and technical management to the
mining industries of Australia and Papua New Guinea, and was a distinguished
leading member of The AusIMM.
Applicants
must be Australian citizens or students with a permanent resident visa status.
Students must be entering their penultimate or final year of study in an
AusIMM-recognised undergraduate degree (including Honours) at an Australian
University.
The 2010/2011 Sir Frank Espie/Rio Tinto Leadership
Award holders are Ben Crooks and Michael Webb-Martin both studying a Bachelor of
Engineering (Mining) at Western Australian School of Mines, and James Gilmour
studying Bachelor of Engineering (Mining) at the University of
Queensland.
The 2009/2010 Sir Frank
Espie/Rio Tinto Leadership Award holders are James Tibbett and Kali
Dempster both studying Mining Engineering at the University of New South
Wales.
The 2008/2009 Sir Frank Espie/Rio Tinto Leadership
Award holders are Robert Gelson (Mining Engineering – University of New South
Wales), Desmond Koh (Mining Systems Engineering- University of Western
Australia) and Dominique Tanner (Geology- Australian National University).
Winners
View all current
scholarship holders PDF
Applications 2011 are CLOSING ON FRIDAY 17 SEPTEMBER
The AusIMM EEF Scholarships Operating Guidelines 2011
PDF 29 KB
The
AusIMM EEF Scholarships Brochure and Application Form 2011 PDF 114
KB.
Should you have any further queries, please use the
Comments/Enquiry/Feedback link on this page.
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