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Dili Institute of Technology Career Day
With so much construction occurring within Timor-Leste many foreign engineers are currently working with Timor-Leste. With the growing demand for skilled people, education within Timor- Leste is also developing. Dili Institute of Technology (DIT) currently has...
Working Together: WorleyParsons Support for EWB’s Timor-Leste Program
EWB-Australia's Timor-Leste program seeks to improve local access to education, clean water, shelter, and job opportunities. These focus areas are vital for reducing poverty, improving livelihoods and increasing economic growth in Timor-Leste. Yet in tackling these...
Engineering for Humanity: What Does It Mean to Be a Humanitarian Engineer?
These are all fair enough as far as sweeping generalisations go; after all, engineering has a natural resonance with the physical world problem solving, and making things better. Why, then, do our thoughts rarely snap to another image alongside all those: the engineer...
Appropriate Technology- Designing Affordable Handcycles
The new design aims to cost approximately / of the current cheapest handcycles available in Australia, while retaining all of their features and more. This would be of great benefit to Australian cyclists, and has potential for worldwide impact, as cheap alternatives...
Shipton’s Update: Three Years on – the Impact of a Ranger Base
EWB and BYB also worked alongside the Centre of Appropriate Technology and Aurecon to complete the construction of a ranger base, including an office and ablutions block, at Shipton's Flat in Far North Queensland. Today, the site is a place for community healing,...
ENGAGE Summit
The following key themes will be explored:· Partnerships: review different partnership models including those within thecommunity, corporate and education sectors· Appropriate Technology: case study based exploration on the development...
Engineers Volunteer to Create a Better World – National Volunteer Week 2014
Volunteers are at the heart of everything that EWB does. EWB has approximately volunteers who are involvedin everything from technical projects overseas and with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, to running fundraising events and supporting local...
Closing the Gap in Engineering
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represent . per cent[] of the overall population, however, across Australia in there were only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people enrolled in engineering degrees, less than . per cent of overall enrolments[].And...
Solving the world’s toilet shortage
VIDEO: Solving the world&#;s toilet shortageBy Dani Barrington, Monash UniversityThis video is a co-production between SBS World News and The Conversation.See also:Solving the toilet shortage needs a bottom-up approachDani Barrington is employed by Monash University...
From the Field: New Water Resource Infrastructure in Nepal
In July , Siobhan commenced a month volunteer placement to work with NEWAH to design and supervise the construction of a new water resource infrastructure. NEWAH is working in villages in Nepal that have been facing worsening water shortages over the past years,...