30 Aug, 2023 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY
Caption: Indigenous-led Youth Outreach program volunteer facilitator and Indigenous Engineers Group Chair, Grant Maher, showing a participant how to fly a drone during a workshop in Coen, Far North Queensland. A new place-based Outreach program – designed...
30 Mar, 2023 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been practising engineering and sustainably managing Country for over 70,000 years. But in the engineering sector, the number of Indigenous engineers employed in Australia remains low. How can we attract this critical...
29 Nov, 2022 | Blog, ENGINEERING STORY
Access to safe and reliable water is a basic human right, and essential for health and quality of life. Yet not all remote First Nations communities can access it. The Engineers Without Borders Australia Engineering on Country (EoC) Water Program aims to ensure First...
29 Aug, 2022 | Blog, EDUCATION STORY, UNI PARTNER STORY
The academic team at Griffith University has been working to authentically embed Indigenous perspectives into their engineering and design curriculum. This begins in a student’s first year at Griffith University with the EWB Challenge program, which introduces...
22 Sep, 2020 | Blog, ENGINEERING STORY
From bathroom blitz to curriculum crowdsourcing – how EWB and CfAT have evolved a partnership to deliver successful outcomes for North Queensland Indigenous communities. Twelve years ago, six volunteers and ten Kaiadilt fellas boarded two tinnies and a...