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Tyree Transformers announces scholarships for engineering students

Tyree Transformers are proud to announce the introduction of an ongoing scholarship program in the memory of our founder Sir William Tyree.

The Sir William Tyree Scholarships for Engineering have been established to provide financial assistance to electrical & mechanical engineering undergraduate students for the duration of their four or five-year study program at university. The two scholarships are each valued at $15,000 per year to support high performing regional and rural students who may otherwise be unable to attend university without financial assistance.

In addition to financial assistance scholarship holders will be provided with work experience within the Tyree Group of companies where they will benefit from seeing engineering theory placed into practice in the design & manufacture of electrical equipment.

The first round of scholarships are open for applications from the 1st of July 2018 and closing on the 30th of November 2018 for study at the University of Wollongong and are targeted to support students applying to study mechanical and electrical engineering from 2019 onward. Discussions are in progress with universities in other states to widen the scholarship program to other Australian universities and regions.

In announcing the scholarships Keian Barnard Managing Director of the Tyree Group stated; “These scholarships are being established in memory of Sir William who gifted so much to engineering education in Australia and he has left the Tyree Group in a position to continue his legacy through ongoing the distribution of the profits we make from the Tyree Group businesses to charitable activities. It is also very pleasing that we are able to focus the scholarships to support students from regional and rural areas of Australia, giving back to the communities where a lot of our Tyree Transformer products are sold.”

For further details on the scholarships and to apply please visit the UoW website at https://scholarships.uow.edu.au/scholarships/search?scholarship=1521