Forging Pathways For Women
In Timor-Leste, three in ten people lack access to clean water – essential services and infrastructure are still developing. A relatively low-skilled engineering sector compounds these challenges, and women face specific barriers accessing education and...
Partnering for Impact
“EWB Australia’s skill set and knowledge, and their capacity building of local engineers is excellent, definitely a more sustainable approach. We had an EWB Field Professional as part of the entire process… tt was excellent! It was how we got the whole design...
Linking technology to my principles of social justice.
Rameen Hayat Malik reflects on a life changing experience, as part of the first ever EWB Australia Design Summit Study Tour to Samoa In July 2017. “For me, there was always a motivation to do something meaningful. I just didn’t quite understand what that looked like...
Bringing Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander perspectives into STEM
Chelsea Hayward, supported by the 2017 MECCA M-Power scholarship, travelled to the Torres Strait Islands with a group of volunteers to pilot some new School Outreach resources. “Streaks of yellow and orange fill the sky as the sun sinks below the ocean horizon –...
How do we stop turning our environment into an open sewer?
Stephanie Hamel, WASH Program Manager in Vanuatu with EWB Australia and EWB New Zealand, shares her reflections on sanitation and the global environmental crisis. “For the past three years, I have worked as a Water Sensitive Urban Design/Drainage Officer in an...
Not all toilets are created equal – pioneering sanitation for challenging environments
Millions of people live in flood prone, mountainous and remote areas – challenging environments where the average toilet system won’t work. Without access to sanitation, people still practice open defecation leaving them vulnerable to disease and pollution. EWB...
Real world ready? Engineering Research shaping the skills of a new generation
Sam Johnson, overlooking the glittering South Pacific Ocean, is reflecting on how he came to be in Tonga working for the World Bank as a transport consultant, having only just graduated a year earlier from University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Civil Engineering....
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...