Digital Design Summit
Expand your uni experience through a brand new virtual study immersive. Start your Impact Journey. Apply for the Impact IntensiveDownload FlyerFor six years, EWB’s Humanitarian Design Summits have created a transformative learning experience like no other. These study tours challenge thinking, push boundaries, and create first-hand understanding of just how important a role engineers can play in creating positive change. With these ‘on location’ tours currently on hiatus due to the pandemic, the Digital Design Summit offers an alternative, equally expansive experience, in an online environment.
- Humanitarian engineering skills and insights
- Appropriate technology best-practice
- Designing in resource constrained environments
- Working with community and clients on needs analysis and problem definition
- Evaluating solutions including maintenance, materials and cost
- Rapid prototyping and development
- Client engagement and communication
- Cross-cultural engagement, teamwork and project management.
Eligible Applicants
The EWB Digital Design Summit is open to students currently enrolled in an undergraduate technical field of study in Australia or New Zealand.
You are aware of the global challenges we face and see the opportunity you have to contribute, using your burgeoning career and work as a tool for positive impact. You want to go beyond the theory and see another side of the conversation, to see how your technical skills can make an impact on the change you want to see in the world.
Upcoming Digital Design Summits
The Impact Intensive: Vanuatu
An EWB Digital Design Summit, 18 January – 25 February 2022
Over 18 days, participants will be immersed in a real-world learning experience focused on engineering and design, learning from and working with Ni-Vanuatu communities. Students will engage in project-based initiatives and be mentored by a diverse group of professional humanitarian engineers.
The Impact Intensive Digital Design Summit is a deep-dive into engineering practice, creating the space and time to immerse in a real-world and complex learning environment. The experience aims to complement and expand the boundaries of the university experience. It also seeks to shape the next generation of socio-technical engineering leaders.
Design Summit Stories
Developing Global Citizens – EWB’s Design Summit Program 31 August, 2016 - Developing global citizens and empathic humans - EWB's Design Summit programPublic speaking can be a daunting experience, especially if you are talking about some of the worlds' greatest social and environmental challenge and you are speaking to those affected most. This is what Engineers Without Borders Australia asks of its Humanitarian Design Summit participants, young university… read more