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Step in to my world-Game changing technologies in engineering education
The rise and rise of immersive technologies like virtual reality has been described as the billion dollar niche. With affordable and accessible applications now being used for everything from gaming to promoting exotic holidays, people have the opportunity to...
Stronger from the inside – supporting locally-led engineering sectors.
“Culture and family are really important in Timor-Leste” explains Francisco Guterres Dos Reis. “One special tradition is when a family decides to build a house. All the families from the grandfather and the grandmother come to help. This is a celebration of our roots,...
S for STEM not Stereotypes – encouraging diversity in engineering
“I want to break down stereotypes for boys and girls about what an engineer looks like and what they do,” explains Jenny Mackay, a chemical engineer at Origin Energy who takes time to volunteer with the EWB School Outreach program. The EWB School Outreach...
Inclusive design for smallholders with disabilities
Cambodia is home to a large number of people with disability due to landmine injuries, age, congenital conditions, and malnutrition during the Khmer Rouge era. There is a labour shortage in rural areas due to youth moving away from farming in favour of more...
Youth enterprise opens opportunities for Timorese with disabilities
Timor-Leste has what is described as a ‘youth bulge’. Almost 60% of the population of this relatively new nation are aged under 25. With increasing numbers entering the workforce every year, currently only around 11% are employed. (DFAT 2018) This is a difficult...
3D printed shoes – engineering know-how changing children’s lives
From ordering online for direct-to-your-door delivery, to real time video chat with the other side of the world, there are multiple efficiencies in our technological world that we all take for granted every day. A fact which makes it all the more troubling that many...
Mind the gap!
New skills are opening up opportunities in emerging engineering sectors. Despite an early start on this sultry hot Sunday morning, a first floor classroom at Royal University Phnom Penh is packed with students attending a Khmer trainer led workshop on research...
Special toilets have special needs
What kind of toilet do you need when you don’t live on land? We ask that question every day, because we work with communities living on lakes, flood plains and high in remote mountains. Living in the places where standard sanitation systems don’t work. If we are to...
Inside advantage
Aleixo Santos is a naturally cheerful person keen to take the time to talk about Plan International’s work with EWB Australia’s Field Professionals, despite his hectic schedule managing the WASH program in Timor-Leste; a young nation working hard to overcome poor...
Community centered pro bono conceives a place of healing
For landscape project Sister Kate's Home Kids Aboriginal Corporation’s “Bush Block“ in Perth, a team of architects and designers working pro bono through EWB Connect used a community centered approach to conceptualise an award winning plan that embodies connection to...