2013 FIEA Scholarship awarded

Friday 17 May 2013

 
This year’s Forest Industry Engineering Association (FIEA) $2,500 FIEA Scholarship has been awarded to Ben Slui, a third year Bachelor of Forestry Science student, studying at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch.

The Scholarship is the second awarded to students as part of a five year scholarship programme set up in 2012. It also builds on recent contributions of over $50,000 made by FIEA through its Educational Fund to upgrade saw sharpening and levelling equipment at the Waiariki Institute of Technology in Rotorua.

“In addition to having excellent grades so far, Ben has had practical experience working in a sawmill in Napier and more recently, in the forestry and logistics areas with Pan Pac Forest Products undertaking a diverse range of work and projects including forest inventory, log quality control, wood harvesting and LiDAR applications for predicting forest standing volumes” says FIEA Director, Brent Apthorp.

“We’re delighted to award Ben (photo attached) this year’s FIEA Scholarship to support his studies” says Brent Apthorp. “The students applying this year for the FIEA Scholarship were outstanding, both academically and in their work experience. Like last year’s Scholarship applications, the New Zealand industry’s certainly well placed with the calibre of students currently studying at the School of Forestry”.

Share |


Copyright 2004-2026 © Innovatek Ltd. All rights reserved.