Submission and Judging Process

Submission Process

Participating universities may nominate up to four team submissions per year for external judging (if the EWB Challenge is run in both semesters, the semester in which the course is run follows the submission deadline for that semester).

Submission deadline (Semester One): 25 July 2008
Submission deadline (Semester Two): 24 October 2008

Each submission MUST include the following:

1. Completed cover sheet (MS Word ) or (PDF)
2. One (1) bound hard copy of the report (double sided printing preferred)
3. Executive summary as part of the report (for more information, go to http://www.ewb.org.au/ewbchallenge/challenge/submission)
4. One (1) electronic copy of the report (MS Word or PDF) on a CD or DVD

Optional:
Supporting materials (MS Powerpoint presentation, software, video) on CD or DVD

Submissions (hard copy and electronic copy) should be posted to:

        Engineers Without Borders Australia
        C/- School of Engineering
        Hawken Engineering Building (50)
        University of Queensland
        ST LUCIA QLD 4067

Judging Process

Universities are requested to nominate up to four team submissions for external judging. The team reports and executive summaries will be reviewed by a multidisciplinary engineering judging panel. The panel will include representatives from:

Engineers Without Borders Australia
Resource Development International Cambodia
Thiess
BHP Billiton
Engineers Australia
The Australian Council of Engineering Deans
The Australasian Association for Engineering Education

The judging panel will decide on a short-list of six entries to be presented by the design teams during a special session at the annual EWB conference in Melbourne. Team awards will be awarded based on both the written submission and team presentations. The relative contribution will be in the order of 75% for the written submission and 25% for the team presentations.

Learning for Development: Participatory Approaches

We are not teachers or transferors of technology, but instead conveyors, catalysts and facilitators. Our role is to enable local people to do their own investigations, analysis, presentations, planning and action, to own the outcome and to teach us, sharing their knowledge. (Robert Chambers, 1995)

Engineers Without Borders Australia works with disadvantaged communities to improve their quality of life through education and the implementation of sustainable and appropriate engineering projects. To achieve its mission EWB focuses on developing the capacity of the local technical sector to ensure that innovative, appropriate and sustainable solutions to issues that impede development are locally generated and driven.

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EWB Challenge

2008 CHALLENGE