Competition Rules

Participating teams must comply with the rules of the EWB Challenge. Failure to comply will result in disqualification from the program.

Teams are eligible to participate in the EWB Challenge on the provision that they:

Abide by the rules of the program
Are enrolled in a first-year university course in Australia or New Zealand
Have 4 - 6 members
Respect the privacy of all participating organisations and communities
Comply with the EWB Challenge Submission Requirements
Acknowledge that ideas and designs entered into the EWB Challenge competition become the right of EWB to use for the development of its projects at no cost

Universities are eligible to compete in the EWB Challenge based on the following provisions:

The EWB Challenge will be incorporated into first year design subjects offered by universities during Semester One and/or Two
Individual universities will decide how to integrate the competition into their curriculum. The design could typically consume around 15% of one semester's work loads for students.
Each university may enter an unlimited number of teams into the competition within the home institution.
Each university will be responsible for assessing their own teams' submissions and selecting up to four team submissions for external judging in the national awards finals.
All entrants in the national competition will be judged against a common set of criteria and guidelines. These criteria will be provided to all participating universities.
Universities will be expected to pay an entry fee of $250 per team submission for national judging. Universities may register up to four teams. These funds will help defray some of the running costs of the program.
A national multidiscipline engineering judging panel will decide upon a short-list of 6 entries to be presented during a special single session at the annual EWB National Conference.
Final judging will be decided during this session based upon both the original entry and the presentations and prizes will be awarded at the EWB National conference.

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

Competition Rules

Learning for Development: Participatory Approaches