Engaging Students

EWB's mission resonates with aspiring young engineers. The organisation has grown rapidly to over 2600 members in just over three years and the majority of its members are university students or young engineers in the first few years of their professional careers.

The EWB Challenge aims to engage students in learning for sustainable development. EWB will support the engagement process with a range of activities:

Consultation on the incorporation of the EWB Challenge into the first year curriculum.
Delivery of presentations to students on EWB and the 2008 design brief.
Coordination of university participation and communication via the EWB Challenge website.
Promotion of EWB Challenge events, resources and appropriate technologies via the EWB Challenge e-Newsletter.
Coordination of regionally-based show case events for participating students to display their designs, meet other participating students and learn more about EWB programs.
Profiles of the finalist teams in a special EWB Challenge awards booklet for distribution at the annual conference of the Australasian Association for Engineering Education.

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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Engaging Students

Learning for Development: Participatory Approaches