This scholarship allows the winner to spend a week of work experience with Atlas Copco in Australia, followed by two weeks with Atlas Copco in Sweden. It is open to all student members of the AusIMM who are in their penultimate or final year of a recognised minerals-related course. For the one week with Atlas Copco in Australia the winner of the scholarship will get a feel for Atlas Copco's mining equipment and will also experience firsthand Atlas Copco's alliances with the Australian mining industry.

The first week in Sweden is spent at the production facilities in Orebro, with Atlas Copco's R&D marketing teams. After this total product overview, the winner will spend the second week visiting Swedish mine sites.

The scholarship is open to AusIMM Student members studying at Australian, New Zealand and Papua New Guinean universities in the final two years of their Bachelor's Degree in technical courses of relevance to the minerals industry.

Current Winner

The 2010 winner of the Atlas Copco Scholarship is Nathan Campbell.  Nathan is currently studying a Bachelor of Engineering in Mining at Curtin University of Technology in Kalgoorlie (WASM).

Past Winners

• 2009: Michael Webb-Martin (Mining Engineering and Finance), Curtin University (WASM). Here is Michael’s paper from the 2010 New Leader’s Conference. PDF.
   
  
• 2008: Kiri Bunker (Mining Engineering), University of New South Wales. Here is Kiri’s paper from the 2009 New Leader’s Conference. PDF.
  
  
• 2007: Megan Clasberg (Mining Engineering), University of New South Wales. Here is Megan’s paper from the 2008 New Leaders’ Conference, PDF
  
  
• 2006: Jack MacDiarmid (Mining Engineering), University of Queensland. Here is Jack’s paper from the 2007 New Leaders’ Conference, PDF.
  

Application

• For details of Scholarship please click here

Applications for 2010 are NOW CLOSED.

For further information please contact:

Senior Coordinator, Education & Careers
Phone: 03 9662 3166
Fax: 03 9662 3662
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