SCHOLARSHIPS IN ENGINEERING

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27463, 24 September 1954, Page 14

SCHOLARSHIPS IN ENGINEERING

Establishment By Three Firms

DONATIONS PROMISED BY OTHER COMPANIES

Three scholarships for engineering research in the University of New Zealand have been made available by three New Zealand firms. Two of the scholarships will be tenable at Canterbury University College and the other at Canterbury College, the University qf Otago, or Auckland University College. Other firms have promised donations towards a scholarship fund. This information was given to a meeting of the Canterbury University College Engineering Society by its chairman (Mr D. R. Teplitzky). The firms which have given scholarships, tenable next year, are Todd Motors, Ltd., New Zealand Industrial Gases, Ltd., and Skellerup Industries, Ltd.

Mr Teplitzky said that these organisations had received very enthusiastically a proposal that engineering research scholarships should be established for study in the university. It was hoped that other larger and important industrial organisations would also contribute to engineering development by making more scholarships available.

After up to five years’ intensive study, many engineering students found difficulty in making financial arrangements to complete an honours degree by a further year’s study, or for three years’ study for a doctorate of philosophy, said Mr Teplitzky. As a result, much fundamental research, which would be of great value to New Zealand’s development, was left undone. Details of Scholarships The Todd Motors Scholarship, valued at £3OO a year, is for research in mechanical engineering at the Canterbury College School of Engineering. It will be tenable for one year, and will be administered by the Canterbury College Council. The Skellerup Industries Scholarship, which will also be under the control of the Canterbury College Council, will be for research in any of the four branches of engineering at Canterbury College. Valued at £2OO a year, it can be held by any engineering graduate in the British Commonwealth.

The scholarship given by New Zealand Industrial Gases, Ltd., is to be administered by the University of New Zealand. Its purpose is to facilitate honours studies in engineering at Canterbury College, Auckland University College, or the Otago School of Mines. It is valued at £2OO a year. Mr Teplitzky said four other New Zealand companies had promised donations towards a scholarship fund. They were the International Harvester Company of New Zealand, Ltd., British Pavements (Canterbury), Ltd., Allum Electrical Company, and the Canterbury (New Zealand) Seed Company, Ltd. The society hoped that these generous donations would be used for bursaries to enable two engineering students to undertake research for a higher degree next year. “With the very fine facilities available in the engineering schools in this country, and the high status of the staffs of these colleges, it is very encouraging to find these industries play-

ing their part in the progress of the profession by encouraging young men to advance their knpwleage of engineering in this practical and extremely generous fashion,” he said.