9 Dec, 2024 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY
This year’s EWB Challenge Showcase was delivered in collaboration with the 2024 World Engineering Education Forum hosted by the University of Technology Sydney. Finalist teams from 14 universities across Australia and New Zealand joined us at the Sydney Masonic Centre...
28 Oct, 2024 | Blog, ENGINEERING STORY
Featured image: ‘Feto to the Front’ graduates with the representatives of the US Embassy in Timor-Leste and EWB staff and volunteers in the Timor-Leste office in Dili. In Timor-Leste, water is a woman’s problem. In rural and regional areas, water generally isn’t...
5 Sep, 2024 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY
Jessica is based in Sydney, in her second year studying Biomedical Engineering at the University of Technology Sydney. With an interest in human-centered design and an eagerness to learn more about Timorese culture and history, Jessica joined our Humanitarian Design...
27 Aug, 2024 | Blog, ENGINEERING STORY
After a successful pilot last year, Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB)’s Indigenous-led Youth Outreach program has returned to Lama Lama Country in Far North Queensland, with the goal of sparking a curiosity in engineering among First Nations students. The...
20 Aug, 2024 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY
Jack Bygott hasn’t always been passionate about engineering; he was just always good at maths. Like most kids who were good at maths or science, he “fell into” studying engineering at university. “I was having second thoughts about studying engineering but then I...
22 Jul, 2024 | Blog, ENGINEERING STORY
We’re living in the golden age of toilet design. It sounds like a weird thing to say but the idea of an inside toilet that immediately flushes waste away through a series of underground pipes is the kind of thing that would blow the minds of people living just 100...