28 Apr, 2021 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY, Local Chapters, NSW Chapter
Picture yourself as a kid, watching your parents clean the house. If you’re like most people, you couldn’t think of anything more uninspiring. If you’re like Wenqian Gan, this is exactly what inspires a career. Growing up, Wenqian would watch her parents do chores...
28 Apr, 2021 | Blog, ENGINEERING STORY
Patrick carries around five second-hand phones. On the weekends, he straps them onto the dashboard of his car and takes them for a drive through Sydney’s streets. Patrick’s not a covert criminal running some kind of dodgy operation. He’s conducting important work on a...
28 Apr, 2021 | Blog, JOURNEY STORY
When most children get tired of their toys, they’re usually thrown away or donated to the local charity shop. As a young kid growing up in Adelaide, Stephanie May’s mum encouraged her to give away her toys to other children, to bring them some joy. Stephanie was also...
28 Apr, 2021 | Blog, ENGINEERING STORY
In Vanuatu, the world’s most disaster-prone country, there is not yet an approved approach or plan to guide a sanitation and hygiene response after an emergency. The confluence of Cyclone Harold and a global pandemic in March 2020 saw the significant impact on Vanuatu...
28 Apr, 2021 | Blog, ENGINEERING STORY
Building on initiatives underway in Vanuatu that are exploring solutions to disposable nappy waste – the single largest contributing item to waste in Vanuatu’s capital – EWB is now working on a project to assess solutions to this challenge in 15 countries...
26 Apr, 2021 | Blog, News
In October 2020, EWB’s Board Of Directors demonstrated the organisation’s increased commitment to diversity and gender equality, by announcing a specific commitment to board quotas. Currently, five of the eleven board members are women, however, over the next...
18 Apr, 2021 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY
Protecting spring water is critical to ensure the safe – and sustainable – supply of water in many rural communities of Timor-Leste. Timor-Leste is a beautiful but mountainous country, terrain which makes accessing water through borehole wells impractical....
11 Apr, 2021 | Blog, INFLUENCE STORY
On World Engineering for Sustainable Development Day (4th March 2021) UNESCO released their second Engineering for Sustainable Development report. Both the report and the day acknowledge the critical role engineers can and must play if we’re to achieve the United...
