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Subscriber only UNIVERSITY students are getting hands-on experience at Rio Tinto s Yarwun alumina refinery as part of their engineering degree. Central Queensland University student Bethany Collins has been joined by the University of Queensland s Chien-Yi Wang, Kai Yee Soo and Nishtha Vyas from the Queensland University of Technology. The four engineers of the future are working in separate areas of the refinery. Ms Collins, who is studying civil engineering, is working with the refinery s business development team Rio Tinto Yarwun general manager Mark Gilmore said the two-months of on-the-job experience would be invaluable for the university students. For these engineering students, spending time in a workplace like Yarwun complements their academic studies because they can put what they learn into practice, he said.