Celebrating World Engineering Day!
On 4 March celebrate the engineers designing and delivering solutions alongside our community partners.
This World Engineering Day you can help deliver projects that bring clean water, sustainable infrastructure, and opportunity to those in need.
Our First Nations commitment
EWB's human-centred engineering movement aims to ensure that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are not left behind.
Harnessing the potential of engineering to create an equitable reality for the planet and its people
Through partnership and collaboration, we’ve focused on developing skills, knowledge and appropriate engineering solutions for almost two decades.
Education Programs
Redefining engineering pathways through real-world education and research programs, from Primary to PhD.
Training Programs
Developing a future-fit workforce for a sustainable society through immersive learning experiences.
Community Projects
Facilitating meaningful, sustainable change in-community through local partnerships.
Technology Development
Technology development anchored by our unique human-centred engineering ethos.
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Stories from the Field
See how our communities are creating lasting change together.
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...
A message from EWB CEO, Eleanor Loudon
As Eleanor wraps up six years as EWB Chief Executive Officer this month, she shares some reflections about her experience leading the organisation over the years: An Indigenous elder on an island in Kratie, Cambodia, once took me aside and asked directly, what can...
The latest from EWB Australia — Partnerships, governance and strategic direction
EWB Board Update
EWB’s recent board elections and AGM have seen some changes to EWB’s board. In the EWB board elections held on 20 November 2023, of which two roles were available, Dan Lambert was re-elected for another term, and we welcomed Sheena Valenti to the EWB Board. Dan...
EWB Australia supports an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament
Over 60,000 years of engineering in Australia Engineers Without Borders Australia (EWB Australia) recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as the first engineers and scientists of this nation and engineering a better world starts with YES to the Voice....
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