12 May, 2025 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY
When Meg Cummins first set foot in Phnom Penh, Cambodia as an Environmental Engineering Mentor with Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB), she was driven by a desire to create lasting change. Now, as she prepares to return to her role at Aurecon after a 12-month...
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...
9 Apr, 2024 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY
Feature image: Sadia Abdullah and her team at the Vanuatu Department of Water Resources during her year abroad as an EWB Australian Volunteers Program Field Professional. When Sadia Abdullah arrived in Vanuatu, the first thing she noticed was the heat and the...
26 Apr, 2023 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY, Meet our Futur-neers
Caption: EWB ACT Chapter Member, Eve Visser, gliding with the Richmond Gliding Club. As a high school student, Eve Visser was told by a career advisor that she shouldn’t consider university. However, Eve was determined not to let this dissuade her. She took it as...
7 Mar, 2023 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY, Meet our Futur-neers
Pictured: Erin running a Youth Outreach workshop with primary school students in the Torres Strait Growing up on a boat in the Torres Strait until she was 14, water was an integral part of Erin Hughes’ childhood. Today, it’s the focus of her work as an engineer. After...
30 Jan, 2023 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY, Meet our Futur-neers
Pictured: Arup-EWB Partnership Coordinator, Hannah Jury, is reaching for new heights in her role as a façade engineer. It’s not all calculations and writing reports when you’re an engineer. Sometimes you’re abseiling from some of the tallest buildings in Melbourne’s...
