Scholarships

Summary

VIES Scholarships

VIES members and seminar attendees have established three scholarships through their donations:

VIES Leaders Entrance Award for students entering first year in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science

https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate/vies-leadership

EIC-CSSE Vancouver Island Award for graduates of Vancouver Island high schools entering second year or higher in engineering, 2 awards annually*, first award in 1987

https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate-online/csse-eic

Bonnie and Ken Putt Award for women students entering or continuing to second or third year engineering, first awarded in 2022

https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donation/bonnie-ken-putt

Please consider these scholarships in your charitable giving. Donations in any amount are welcome, UVic will provide a tax receipt. Your contributions will help the next generation succeed at a critical time in their careers.

The awards are $2000 each, with the number of awards depending on annual donations and income from the capital. The value of the endowments are approximately $30,000, $100,000 and $70,000 respectively. All three are earning income in professionally managed endowment accounts. Your donation will help increase the endowment capital in the VIES Leaders Entrance Award to our target of $50,000, so that we can offer one $2,000 award each year.

* Income from this fund has been supplemented annually by members’ donations to ensure $4,000 is available for two awards.

History

Scholarship History

In 1986, the outgoing executives of the Vancouver Island Branch (VIB) of the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), decided to establish and incorporate a Scholarship Society. (See Attachment for Incorporation Certificate.) In the late 1980’s / early 1990’s the EIC reorganized to become a federation of member technical societies and the Life Members Organization. In 1994, since the Vancouver Island Branch of EIC was the only one still operating independently at that time, the VIB executive incorporated as a B.C. Not-for-Profit entity, with permission to use the EIC name, under the B.C. Societies Act. It was called “The Vancouver Island Branch of the Member Societies of the Engineering Institute of Canada”. Members of the group continued to have monthly luncheon meetings, with increasing involvement of LMO members and then CSSE members. In 2002, at an EIC VIB AGM, the group voted to become affiliated with the CSSE. Most of the members were senior engineers and it tied the Branch back to EIC. One of its purposes, as written in the VIB constitution (much like the CSSE’s to encourage students to pursue an engineering education) was, “to support the activities of the independently incorporated “Vancouver Island Branch of the Engineering Institute of Canada Scholarship Society,” created in 1986. The separate Scholarship Society had its own Board of Directors and independently conducted its own affairs. Since 2002, most Scholarship Society Directors were also VIB Directors and CSSE members. It subsequently became known as the CSSE/EIC VIB Scholarship Society, although its legal name was unchanged.

Over time, CSSE and EIC VIB member support from the Branch through individual personal annual charitable donations, annual Branch donations, usually $1,000, a one-time CSSE donation of $2,500 in 2002/2003 and an early bequest received from Charles Ripley (and one currently in the will of Ramsay Murray) – prominent Victoria Civil Engineers, the Scholarship Society’s funds lodged with the Victoria Foundation reached the targeted $70,000. This endowment would allow a $2,000 scholarship award each year, independent of other local annual contributions.

Recently, the Scholarship Society Board, under the ongoing leadership of Graham Morgan, FCSSE, came to the conclusion that all the Society’s Directors were becoming aged, and some infirmed, so that its affairs should be restructured to continue in perpetuity, without the need for ongoing ‘hands on’ leadership. Accordingly, the Victoria Foundation would be directed to advance annual endowment income directly to the University of Victoria (UVic), who’s Awards office would manage the selection process. Local individual and VIB donations would be used to supplement endowment funds in order to maintain two annual $2,000 student awards. Until this reorganization, award recipients could undertake their studies at any Canadian engineering faculty; however, the Society Board agreed that just utilizing UVic made more sense locally. Once Graham Morgan completed the administrative arrangements with UVic and the Victoria Foundation, the Board agreed to ‘wind-up’ the Scholarship Society. At the CSSE/EIC VIB AGM in 2017, Graham Morgan was named to administer all matters and liaison between the VIB and the Victoria Foundation and UVic for the continuation and funding of the scholarships.

By 2016, cumulative awards totaling more than $80,000 had been granted to over 70 students. For the last decade or so, the Society had been able to offer two $2,000 scholarships to undergraduates entering their second or third year in any branch of engineering for needy and accomplished students who had graduated from a Vancouver Island high school and were Canadian citizens. The Directors of the Society were responsible for selecting successful applicants. The Selection Committee looked for abilities beyond academic performance that were indicative of a well-rounded individual with future engineering leadership potential.

The effect of these awards on the recipients was cited to be beyond money, as recipients frequently acknowledged being deeply affected by recognition from their seniors. The quotation below from the letter of thanks following the award presentation received from Daniel Fortin, our first indigenous applicant, and a 2009 CSSE EIC Scholarship award winner, speaks volumes to the positive impact this Engineering student scholarship has.

“…I want to use the natural resources around us to help research and develop sustainable energy sources as an electrical engineer…the financial help this will give me…will make it possible for me to reach my educational and career goals. I am so grateful…”

K.W.Putt, FEIC

June 2017″

Criteria and Donation Instructions

Scholarship Criteria

Vancouver Island Engineering Society Scholarships in Engineering

One or more awards of at least $2,000 each are given to undergraduate students, entering their second or third academic year in any accredited undergraduate engineering program (registered in 2A or higher) who:

a) are Canadian citizens or permanent residents
b) have graduated from a high school on Vancouver Island
c) have completed the previous year with at least a 6.0 or equivalent grade point average.

Preference will be given to students in the following order:

a) demonstrated financial need
b) demonstrated participation in campus activities or volunteer and community service

VIES Leaders Entrance Award

One or more awards, of at least $2,000 each, if allowed by the available endowment funding, are given to undergraduate students entering the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, who have graduated from a Canadian high school and who have demonstrated academic merit (weighted at 75% of the adjudication) and extra-curricular accomplishments (weighted at 25% of the adjudication) in, for example, one or more of the following areas: engineering or software design, fine arts, athletics, leadership or entrepreneurship.

Bonnie and Ken Putt Scholarship

One or more awards, of at least $2,000 each, are given to transferring undergraduate women students entering second or third year or continuing undergraduate women students in an Engineering degree program in the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science. Students must have demonstrated leadership in an educational or community setting. Preference will be given to students who are the first-generation in their immediate family to attend post-secondary. Immediate family is defined as parents or grandparents.

Donation instructions

Should you wish to make a donation for the 2022 tax year, please use one of the following two options:

Donate by credit card online by Dec. 31 using our secure server at the links provided.

Mail a cheque, postmarked no later than Dec. 31, to

Development Office
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700 STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2

(in cheque memo section put the name of the endowment “Vancouver Island Engineering Society Leaders’ Entrance Award Endowment” or the “Bonnie and Ken Put Award Endowment”)

For assistance making your donation, please call the Development office at 250-853-3165 and leave a message, or you may email donorcare@uvic.ca. We will be checking these messages daily and will respond to your call or email as soon as possible.

Donating securities with a capital gain is a tax efficient way to make a donation. Here is a fillable form describing how to donate securities:

Date (today’s date): Dear (broker’s name):

Re: Transfer of Securities to the University of Victoria

Please accept this letter as your instruction to transfer (number of shares) shares of (name of shares)

Transfer to:

University of Victoria
c/o RBC Dominion Securities 730 View St, Suite 500
St. Andrew’s Square II Victoria, BC V8W 3Y7 Attn: Jarad Andrews

from my account to the University of Victoria.

Account Number: 851 26302 14 CUID: DOMA
DTC: 5002
Euroclear: 90065

Dealer: 9190 / REP code: V3O

The contact person at RBC Dominion is Jarad Andrews. He can be reached by phone at (250) 356-4845, by fax at (250) 356-4880 or, by email at jarad.andrews@rbc.com. Please contact him with the following information, before initiating the transaction, so that he can arrange to receive the shares and complete the transaction:

Your Broker ID with CDS (CUID no.) 2. No of Shares
3. Name of security
4. Cusip No.
Settlement Date
Please designate this gift to (i.e. what student award or project you would like to support):

For your information, the University of Victoria’s Charitable Registration Number is: BN 108162470 RR0001

Sincerely,

Donor’s Signature:

Donor’s Name:

Please send cc:

Gregory Kuhn, Development Officer, Legacy Giving, UVIC Phone (250) 721-6001 / Email: legacydev@uvic.ca

Chelsey Rossner, Wealth Associate, RBC chelsey.rossner@rbc.com

Valuation of your gift: The amount of your charitable tax receipt will reflect the closing price of the shares on the day they are received by Uvic’s broker. If the price of the shares fluctuates widely during the day they are received, the receipt will reflect the average price of the security that day.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at your convenience.

Gregory Kuhn, CD, MA, CFRE (he/him)
Development Officer, Legacy Giving, University of Victoria | PO Box 1700 STN CSC | Victoria BC V8W 2Y2 | T: 250-721-6001 | uvic.ca/legacygiving

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