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Announcing our 2025 EWB Challenge community partner – WaterAid Australia
Since 2009, Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB Australia) has worked alongside communities in Timor-Leste to develop sustainable solutions to the unique social, economic, and environmental challenges they face. Through long-term partnerships and human-centred...
That’s a wrap for the 2024 EWB Challenge Showcase!
Each year, the EWB Challenge Showcase brings together top university student teams from across Australia and New Zealand, EWB staff, our community partner representatives, and industry. Students present the most innovative, community-centred design ideas developed in response to the EWB Challenge Design Brief, and all event participants celebrate a year of learning, focused work, and collaboration. This year’s EWB Challenge Showcase saw students, academics, judges, and EWB staff from across Australia, New Zealand and Cambodia travel to James Cook University’s Nguma-bada campus in far north Queensland to battle it out for the top spot.
Results of the 2024 EWB Australia Board Elections and AGM
In the recent EWB Board elections, of which three roles were available, Margarita Moya and Abhishek Singh were re-elected for another term, and we welcome Stacey Daniel to the EWB Board. Margarita is an experienced Non-Executive Director and has been an Engineers...
This graduate program puts women engineers in the field and brings ‘feto’ to the front
In Timor-Leste, water is a woman’s problem. In rural and regional areas, water generally isn’t delivered into homes – women and children manually fetch water from the natural springs and carry the household’s water supply back home every morning. It’s heavy work and can take them quite far afield in an often rocky, mountainous region.
Although water is a woman’s responsibility, and the burden of poor water infrastructure becomes a woman’s problem, there aren’t many women engineers working in the water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector.
Engineering continues to be a male-dominated industry, especially in a country like Timor-Leste, where traditional gender roles are still influential in dictating what people do for work. But a new program delivered by the Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB) team in Timor-Leste seeks to change that.
Nominations now open for the EWB Australia Board
Each year, voting members are invited to nominate and elect individuals to the Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Australia Board of Directors (“The Board”). This is an important opportunity to have your say and elect individuals who can make a valuable contribution in...
Lessons from Timor-Leste: what the EWB Design Summit taught me about engineering
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...
Building on pilot success: Indigenous-led Youth Outreach program returns to Far North Queensland
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...
Falling into fulfilment: how Jack’s volunteering is engineering change in Timor-Leste
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...
A toilet that works underwater? Flood-affected sanitation in rural Cambodia
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...
Beyond the classroom: Victoria’s transformative trip to Cambodia
Since 2015, EWB’s Humanitarian Design Summits have created transformative learning experiences like no other. Designed for undergraduate engineering students, these study tours challenge thinking, push boundaries, and create first-hand understanding of just how...