Impact Stories
Making change happen across Australia and Asia Pacific.
Announcing our 2024 EWB Challenge community partner – Torres Strait Island Regional Council
Each year, over 10,000 first-year university students across Australia and New Zealand participate in the EWB Challenge. Students work in teams to develop a solution to challenges identified by EWB Australia’s community-based partners. We are excited to announce that...
Announcing our 2024 EWB Challenge community partner – Torres Strait Island Regional Council
Each year, over 10,000 first-year university students across Australia and New Zealand participate in the EWB Challenge. Students work in teams to develop a solution to challenges identified by EWB Australia’s community-based partners. We are excited to announce that...
Inside the Dili Water System Emergency Repair program
The Dili Water System Emergency Repair Program (DWSERP) addressed the catastrophic flood damage to Dili’s water transmission systems wreaked by heavy rains in April 2021. The program, funded by the Australian Government via the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, commenced in June 2021 and concluded in June 2023. EWB Australia, along with its program partners, played a key role in providing technical support, concept design, advice and delivery of multidisciplinary engineering to repair and stabilise major sections of Dili’s water system. The project was a wonderful opportunity for EWB to display its ability to engage in emergency infrastructure recovery projects. With the project now complete, the project team shared some of their reflections.
Collaborating on sector-changing projects with EWB worldwide members
Engineers Without Borders Australia is part of an EWB worldwide fraternity of like-minded for-purpose organisations. Each EWB is its own entity with its own specific goals, methods and structures. As different as each organisation is, we all share a common...
The evolution of a partnership that’s delivering engineering solutions for Indigenous communities
From bathroom blitz to curriculum crowdsourcing - how EWB and CfAT have evolved a partnership to deliver successful outcomes for North Queensland Indigenous communities. Twelve years ago, six volunteers and ten Kaiadilt fellas boarded two tinnies and a rescue...
It’s just good business – partner with EWB
As part of our 2030 strategy, we are solidifying our commitment to partnering with business, for good. From the beginnings of EWB in Australia, we have attracted engineers from all disciplines and backgrounds to engage in meaningful work with communities in Australia...
Engineers Australia engaging engineering students in new partnership with EWB
EWB Australia has partnered with Engineers Australia to pilot a new approach to engaging engineering students at university. The initiative was launched at a recent event with students at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and key state leaders at the frontline...
Uni Chapters collaborate with ‘Big Design EWB’ online challenge
In a time of unprecedented social isolation, where in-person events are unviable, five NSW EWB university chapters collaborated to take their annual Inter-University Design Corner competition online, for the first time ever! "[I loved about this event...] Getting to...
Partnering for the Pacific with EWB New Zealand
Our work in Vanuatu is delivered through an ongoing peer partnership with EWB New Zealand, which commenced over ten years ago. EWB Australia and EWB NZ work together strategically - coordinating initiatives jointly as well as alongside each other - across a range of...
Rural students ideate for the STEM Design Challenge
EWB Australia teams up with organisations and industry determined to expose more girls and young women to STEM pathways and careers in the STEM Design Challenge. It’s a massive conundrum for country Australia – how to water crops in times of drought. Year six students...
#MySTEMstory
This National Science Week we've collaborated with UTS Women In Engineering and IT and the Techgirls Movement Foundation to share #MySTEMstory - the stories of women from rural regions of NSW who have forged amazing careers in STEM. In Australia, and particularly in...