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President's tour of IPENZ branches
Monday, 5 September 2005
It is essential to encourage students to take engineering not only as
a degree subject, but also as a career option if we don’t want to
suffer from a skills shortage of engineers in the future, says Roly Frost,
IPENZ’s 2005 President.
Roly Frost, will be starting his tour of branches in Invercargill
on Monday, 12 September 2005, speaking to the Southland Branch of IPENZ
and visiting local engineering projects.
Tour Dates
President’s Invercargill Presentation
Monday, 12 September 2005
Time 7.30pm
Kelvin Hotel, Invercargill
President’s Dunedin Presentation
Tuesday, 13 September 2005
Time: 7.10pm
Cargills Hotel 678 George Street, Dunedin
President’s Timaru Presentation
Wednesday, 14 September 2005
12 noon
Upstairs Meeting Room – Robert Harris Café
Cnr Church and Stafford Streets
President’s Christchurch Presentation
Wednesday, 14 September 2005
Time: 5.30 pm
University of Canterbury Engineering School E1, Christchurch
President’s Manawatu Presentation
Tuesday, 27 September 2005
Time: 6pm
Caccia Birch House, Palmerston North
President’s Wanganui Presentation
Wednesday, 28 September 2005,
Time: 5.15 pm
Opus Meeting Room, First Floor Opus House, Guyton Street
President’s New Plymouth Presentation
Thursday, 29 September 2005
Time: 7.30pm
Devon Hotel New Plymouth
Presidents West Coast Presentation
Tuesday, 25 October 2005
Time: 5.30 – 6.30 pm
Ashley Hotel, Greymouth
President’s Nelson –
Marlborough Presentation
Wednesday 26 October 2005
Time: 5.30 – 6.30 pm
Honest Lawyer Country Pub
1 Point Rd, Monaco, Nelson
President’s Wellington Presentation
Thursday 10 November 2005
Time: 6.15 pm
Hotel Intercontinental
President's message
The President's message to engineering businesses is; “For New Zealand
to improve its existing infrastructure and industry - essential in keeping
the economy buoyant - it needs new engineers coming up through the ranks.
As a profession we must encourage professional development and make mentoring
young engineers a priority.”
“Already there are headlines that large roading projects
are being hit by a lack of skilled engineers, and this will continue to
worsen without our profession encouraging engineering graduates to become
practising engineers, and then support their ongoing professional development.
Engineers have definite skills such as understanding risk, analysing data,
logic, and decision making. This is a good skill set and can set us apart
from other professions,” he said.
‘IPENZ has been working with industry to have greater investment
in engineering graduate training and development through its IPENZ Endorsed
Employer quality mark, where organizations that employ young engineers
support their initial career development. Also gaining recognition in
industry are competence standards of practicing engineers benchmarked
to international best practice, such as the Chartered Professional Engineer
(CPEng), and Members of IPENZ (MIPENZ).
For engineers the current situation is good news. The demand for engineers
exceeds supply and recent salary data shows technical salaries rising
faster than other professions, with graduates having several offers of
employment,” said Roly.
Background Notes
FROST, Roland Bert (Roly) BE (Civil), FIPENZ (Business and Civil), CPEng,
IntPE. Present Position: General Manager Network Operations, Transit New
Zealand. Previous Position: General Manager, Civil Engineering, Beca Carter
Hollings & Ferner Ltd.
Graduating with a civil engineering degree from Canterbury University
in 1972, Roly’s first employment was the Ministry of Works in Waikato.
The range and scale of projects undertaken by the Ministry through the
70s and 80s enabled Roly to gain a variety of experience in the civil,
structural and geotechnical fields.
In 1997 Roly moved on to Beca, opening their Hamilton office before relocating
to Auckland where he held a senior position as Beca’s general manager
civil engineering. Roly continued to lead major infrastructure projects
for Beca until earlier this year when he joined Transit.
In his new role Roly has responsibility for the operations of the total
state highway network including engineering standards, managing network
demands, and maintenance.
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