Len Bettess Memorial Scholarship

Updated: 1 day ago
Location: Melbourne, VICTORIA
Deadline: 30 Apr 2024

SMEC Australia is a multidisciplinary engineering/non engineering company focused on opportunities that connects, moves and powers our communities  which is driven by our purpose and values to achieve state of the art applications to suit our clients needs.

SMEC provides expertise in civil engineering design services and are active in the following fields:

  • Urban development
  • Roads and Highways
  • Maritime
  • Rails
  • Structural
  • Geotechnical
  • Electrical

At SMEC within the Urban Engineering team we are proud to provide the Len Bettess Memorial Scholarship in honour of a wonderful former colleague and Swinburne Alumnus.  Len had a positive and energetic nature, and his passion for engineering led to an enviable engineering career, which included both international and local work. Len sadly passed away in 2018, but his legacy and passion for engineering within the urban development sector will be recognised through this scholarship.

The Urban Engineering team deliver fully integrated advisory services, creating, planning, delivering and managing urbanised development of land for the community to enjoy.   In the Urban team you will get  the opportunity to experience the engineering aspects  of creating urban communities in delivering road, drainage, water and sewer design and coordinating electrical, communications and landscaping requirements to shape municipalities and provide places where you will be proud to call your home. 

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This scholarship is looking for passionate engineers wanting to make a change and deliver outstanding solutions within the Urban development field.

If successful you will be provided $5,000 (in two tranches) and a paid summer placement at SMEC providing valuable real world experience.


Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) majoring in Civil Engineering offered by Swinburne University of Technology.

All scholarships offered by Swinburne are governed by a set of conditions. Please visit our Scholarship Conditions page for further information.

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