Australian Humanitarian Engineering Conference

 

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Wednesday 30th November 2011      to     Friday 2nd December 2011, 12:00am

Location: Etihad Stadium, Melbourne , VIC (View map)

Member early bird: $500The Australian Humanitarian Engineering Conference

A Joint Venture between EWB and Engineers Australia

 

Engineers Australia and Engineers Without Borders are proud to bring you imagineering - the Humanitarian Engineering Conference 2011. The three-day conference will be held at the Etihad Stadium in Melbourne and will include technical workshops, interactive sessions and networking opportunities.

Over the three days of conference, delegates will be taken from the point of understanding the issues surrounding poverty, reconciliation and the role of engineers in attending to these issues to celebrating the current and past activities the engineering sector has undertaken in the areas of disaster management, poverty alleviation and capacity building.

Below is an overview of the program, highlighting some keynotes and the themes of the conference. Delegates can expect a combination of high quality seminars, workshops and forums surrounding each streams theme, and all building towards the bigger picture of humanitarian engineering, and the humanitarian engineer.

For a full program, EWB members should still refer to the MakeItSo website - however while this site is updated, we will provide the information through this page.
EWB has been very privileged to have had such a spotlight on our mission throughout the year, and we are confident that the final event, the conference, will just mark the beginning of great things to come! 

Costs

• Member early bird: $500
• Non-member Early Bird: $620
• Member day early bird: $300
• Non member day early bird: $350
• Student: $300

There are specials available for EWB members. Your Regional or Knowledge Hub Coordinator has these details

REGISTER NOW!

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DAY ONE 

	Stream 1 Indigenous Australia & Reconciliation	Stream 2 Human Centered Design	Stream 3 Engineering Education
	Breakfast and registration open
0900	Keynote Kerry Pinkstone (Director Policy & Research, Generation One)
	Parallel sessions
1000	Parallel 1.A	Parallel 2.A	Parallel  3.A
	Engage Forum: Indigenous Pathways to Engineering Education (part 1)	Panel Discussion: People Centered Design. How the human factor is incorporated into community development	Humanitarian Engineering & Education -Jennifer DeBoer, Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Education
1100	Morning Tea
1130	Parallel 1.B	Parallel 2.B	Parallel 3.B
	Engage Forum: Indigenous Pathways to Engineering Education (part 2)	Workshop: Human Centered Design -Lucinda Hartley, CoDesign Studio	EWB University Research Showcase -Julian O'Shea, Engineers Without Borders
1230	Lunch
1300	Inspiration, Motivation, Aspiration Session
1330	Keynote Jennifer DeBoer (Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Education)
	Parallel Sessions
1430	Parallel 1.C	Parallel 2.C	Parallel 3.C
	Reconciliation Action Plans: Reflecting on the Journey	What problem are we really solving?  -Rachael West, Strategic Creativity	Workshop: Development Engineering
1530	Parallel 1.D	Parallel 2.D	Parallel 3.D
	Engineers Austraila's Reconciliation Action Plan, Reflecting on the Process and the Journey	Rehabilitation Engineering	Education from a Community Perspective  -EWB International Community Partner
1630	Afternoon Tea
1700	Keynote Todd Sampson (CEO Leo Burnett, Co-Creator Earth Hour & Gruen Transfer Panelist

Day 1 Conference Streams:

Indigenous Australia and Reconcilation:
The engineering sector is arguably one of the most well positioned sectors to assist in 'closing the gap'. This stream is dedicated to exploring opportunities for indigenous employment, education and reconcilation in the engineering sector.

Human Centred Design:
Appropriate technology requires a people approach to design. This stream presents Human Centred Design; a methodology that can be applied to ensure appropriate, people centered outcomes. 

Engineering Education:
EWB engages with universities Australia wide in undergraduate research projects, connecting students with our overseas placements. This stream presents research findings and leading thought around university engagement for humanitarian engineering.

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DAY TWO

	Stream 1  Corporate Social Responsibility & Engagement	Stream 2 Engineering, Risk and Disaster	Stream 3 Defining a Path
	Breakfast and registration open
0900	Keynote Sourabh Phadke (Independent WASH Educator & Appropriate Building Specialist)
	Parallel sessions
1000	Parallel 1.A	Parallel 2.A	Parallel  3.A
	CSR: Not just a sweetner -Dr. Sunny Oliver-Bennetts, Engineers Without Borders Australia	Engineers Delivering Humanitarian Outcomes in Acute Emergencies -Neil Greet, Engineers Australia	Forum: Humanitarian engineering priorities: Committment & Leadership
1100	Morning Tea
1130	Parallel 1.B	Parallel 2.B	Parallel 3.B
	Brokering Partnerships for Sustainable Development -Ian Dixon, Dixon Partnering Services	The Australian Defence Force Reserve Supporting Humanitarian Engineering Outcomes -Brigadier Peter Jeffery & Mr Dechlan Ellis, SKM	Forum: Humanitarian engineering priorities: Reconciliation
1230	Lunch
1300	Inspiration, Motivation, Aspiration Session
1330	Keynote Andrew Lamb (CEO, Engineers Without Borders U.K.)
	Parallel Sessions
1430	Parallel 1.C	Parallel 2.C	Parallel 3.C
	Immediate Action -Mark McNee  Engineers Without Borders Australia	What Role is the for Industry in Disaster Response? -Mr Joe Chapman, AECOM	Forum: Humanitarian engineering priorities: Education
1530	Parallel 1.D	Parallel 2.D	Parallel 3.D
	Part of Something Bigger -Mark McNee  Engineers Without Borders Australia	Engineering Supporting Wider Humanitarian Engineering Outcomes -Dr Elizabeth Barber, UNSW & NOETIC Solutions	Forum: Humanitarian engineering priorities: Appropriate Technology
1630	Afternoon Tea
1700	Keynote  Tim Jarvis (Senior Associate Sustainability, Arup)

Day 2 Conference Streams:

Corporate Social  Responsibility and Engagement:
Most engineering companies across Australia now have CSR programs in one form or another. This stream discusses leading thinking around CSR, case studies and advice for finding meaningful engagement opportunities.

Engineering, Risk and Disaster:
This stream explores the important role engineers play in the management of and recovery from humanitarian disasters and how leading engineering organisations have responded to disaster. It builds upon the content from the national Technical Workshop Series held throughout this year.

Defining a Path:
This stream identifies opportunities for the engineering community to engage in the priority theme areas identified at the Humanitarians Engineering Summit including, Commitment and Leadership; Appropriate Technology; Capacity Building and Education; Reconciliation.

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DAY THREE

	Stream 1 Progressing Humanitarian Engineering	Stream 2 Current Partnerships	Stream 3 Engineers Assisting in Disaster
	Breakfast and registration open
0900	Keynote Oliver Lacey-Hall, Head, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
	Parallel sessions
1000	Parallel 1.A	Parallel 2.A	Parallel  3.A
	Pro-Bono Engineering: The future of CSR -Dr. Sunny Oliver-Bennetts, Engineers Without Borders Australia	Panel: Hand outs or hand ups? Community engagement in the WASH sector	Alan McLean, CEO RedR Australia RedR Australia Humanitarian Assistance Deployments
1100	Morning Tea
1130	Parallel 1.B	Parallel 2.B	Parallel 3.B
	Pro-Bono Engineering: Stories of success and challenges -Sarah Purcell, Engineers Without Borders Australia	Panel: Improving health through appropriate technology: The story of the stove, new leg and ceramic filters -Dinesh Poudyah, NAMUNA Nepal -Isabelle Gensburger, RDIC Cambodia	Dinesh Jayasuriya, RedR Humanitarian Engineering in the Field
1230	Lunch
1300	Inspiration, Motivation, Aspiration Session
1330	Keynote Tony Marjoram (UNESCO)
	Parallel Sessions
1430	Parallel 1.C	Parallel 2.C	Parallel 3.C
	College of Biomedical Engineering: Outcomes from the Technical Workshop Series	A rights based approach to WASH  -Basta Rege, Santulan, India -Joss Brooks, Pitchandikulam Forest (India)	AusAid introduces the Australian Civilian Corp
1530	Parallel 1.D	Parallel 2.D	Parallel 3.D
	Defence involvement in responding to disasters	The standards you walk past are the standards you will accept -Mark McNee, Engineers Without Borders Australia	Centre for Engineering, Leadership and Management
1630	Afternoon Tea
1700	Keynote Panel Culture, Commitment or Cash: What are the barriers to creating positive change in the engineering sector?

Day 3 Conference Streams:

Progressing Humanitarian Engineering:
This stream explores legacy projects for the Year of Humanitarians Engineering, a pro-bono engineering model for Australia and potential future directions for the engineering sector.

Current Partnerships:
EWB works in partnership with several communities from local centres, to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and local Asian communities. This stream is dedicated to celebrating these partnerships through stories from the field.

Engineers Assisting in Disaster:
RedR Australia routinely deploys professional engineers to disaster zones via United Nations mandate. This stream is dedicated to celebrating this great service through presentations from key RedR staff and returned volunteers.

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Keynote Speakers

Todd Sampson

CEO Leo Burnett, Co-Creator Earth Hour

CEO of Leo Burnett, Sydney, Todd is the co-creator of the Earth Hour initiative. Last year his agency was named Agency of the Year five times in different publications. Away from work, he enjoys mountain climbing and has completed an unguided ascent to the top of Mount Everest.
His current clients at Leo Burnett Sydney include Assistance Dogs, Amstel, Caltex, Canon, Colgate Palmolive, Colonial First State, Diageo, ebay, Energy Australia, GIO, Heineken, Nestle, NRMA, Procter & Gamble (Herbal Essence & Max Factor), Rabobank, Samsung and WWF.

Kerry Pinkstone

Generation One, Director Policy & Research

Kerry was born in Blacktown, NSW and grew up in Western Sydney before moving with her family to Tweed Heads to attend High School. Kerry attendedGriffith University (Gold Coast) where she completed a Bachelor of Business and a Bachelor of Exercise Science.

Kerry has extensive experience in the area of social policy, having been an Adviser to Ministers, Shadow Ministers and the Leader of the Opposition in the areas of families, community services, Indigenous Affairs, disability and carers, sport, women, youth, philanthropy and corporate social responsibility.
Kerry has also worked with several leading event management companies on events including the Noosa and Mooloolabah Triathlons, the Mother's Day Classic Fun Run, motor sports races, and Weetbix Kids Try-athlon series.Kerry is currently working towards completing her Masters in Public Policy. Kerry's passion for ending the disparity:

"Education was the set of keys that I had to work hard for. I never questioned the reward - I knew that those keys were the future to unlocking the doors of opportunity. Every year of study and experience was another set of keys that would allow me to continue to unlock doors for the rest of my adult life.The reason I joined GenerationOne was to make sure others had the opportunity to gain their own set of keys - to open their own doors of opportunity, and walk through them confidently into a better life. One of their choosing."

Kerry will be presenting Generation One’s latest policy “Skills and Training for a Career” which is being presented to the Australian government on the 14^th of November 2011.

Jennifer DeBoer

Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Education

Jennifer DeBoer is currently undertaking the International Education Policy doctoral program in the Leadership and Policy Studies department at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College of Education. Her research interests include the use of technology as a tool for education in resource-deficient areas and the structuring of engineering training programs for development. Her current work addresses the association between home and school resources and achievement.

She completed her undergraduate degrees in mechanical engineering and foreign languages at the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology. While there, her work included engineering camps for students in China and Trinidad and Tobago, a study of adjustable acoustics in performance halls, and the design of a solar-powered well pump for implementation in Lesotho.

After completing her bachelors’ degrees, she spent two years working in international education. She conducted research on computers and self-directed education in New Delhi with the Hole-in- the-Wall project, which puts computer terminals in under-served areas across India. She completed an assignment at the Fordham Foundation, a prominent domestic education policy think tank in Washington, D.C. and worked with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs. Prior to beginning Vanderbilt's graduate program, she conducted research on the development of the current formal engineering diploma programs in Tunisia.

She has been a member of the Student Platform for Engineering Education Development (SPEED) since 2007 and was recently re-elected as a member of the executive committee of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES).

Sourabh Phadke

Independent WASH Educator & Appropriate Building Specialist

Sourabh works in the areas of ecology, education and shelter in India. His work has not only passed on skills to many in the mechanics of alternative building design, WASH education, ecology and concepts of sustainability - but challenged many in the nexus between community development and design. He is part architect, part philosopher, part educator, but totally committed to the people and land of India.

Andrew Lamb

CEO, Engineers Without Borders U.K.

Andrew’s first taste of engineering in international development was at a talk run by a fledging student club in Cambridge called Engineers Without Borders.He was a second year undergraduate in 2002, and very soon got involved in fundraising. After graduating, Andrew worked with the University of Cambridge Office for Community Affairs and co-founded the Humanitarian Centre in his spare time. He worked for more than three years with disaster relief organisation RedR, including working at their office in Nairobi. He is the technical editor of the UNESCO Engineering Report and a Visiting Lecturer for the Engineering and Technology Board. Andrew became Chief Executive of EWB-UK in December 2008 after winning a World of Difference grant from the Vodafone Foundation.

Tim Jarvis

Senior Associate Sustainability, Arup

Posted 6 Months ago by Mark McNee

That looks pretty awesome YoHE team!!!

Also, for Local Partnerships crews, EWB regional and chapter exec you should come to this:
http://www.ewb.org.au/announcements/1162/10934

Rock on!

Marko 

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