Engineers Without Borders Australia in North Melbourne, Victoria | Non-profit organisation

Engineers Without Borders Australia

Locality: North Melbourne, Victoria

Phone: +61 3 8582 1866

Address: 522 Victoria Street 3051 North Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.ewb.org.au/

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25.01.2022 For those who missed our fully booked webinar as part of International Women in Engineering Day, you can now watch it online! With a wide range of differing perspectives from our guests, the session was a rich exploration of how women in engineering are critical in helping to #ShapeTheWorld. Take a look and share your thoughts with us below!... #INWED20 See more

24.01.2022 Due to COVID-19, access to remote Indigenous communities in Australia has been restricted, resulting in EWB's withdrawal from face-to-face 'Engineering On Country' program activities. But that doesn’t mean our work has stopped. This United Nations International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples (Aug 9), we spoke with our volunteer National Mobilisation Facilitator, Danielle Kirby, who has been coordinating a new remote volunteer program that supports projects for Indigenous communities. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

24.01.2022 Now more than ever, our local partners in the Asia Pacific play a critical role to engage and mobilise their local communities. They work with us to maintain our connection with the communities we serve, to develop and test technology, and collect crucial monitoring and evaluation information. #COVID19 has demanded we adapt and adjust. ... Here's how we've done that, working alongside EWB Australia in Cambodia Engineers Without Borders Australia in Timor-Leste and Feto Enginhera. #engineering

23.01.2022 2020 has been epic. For many, it's been hard to find motivation and to access inspiration and hope. For our final event of the year, we want to uplift, to inspire, to be... limitlessness. We are curating a conversation where our starting point, begins 17 years ago, with the building of a movement of 'humanitarian engineers'. Yet, we acknowledge, that despite this ever growing, and influential pipeline of 'humanitarian engineers,' who are equipped with activated social and t...echnical skills, we work within a system that perpetuates the disadvantage and inequity that we are trying to solve. So how do we create change quickly, sustainably and at scale? Join our panelists as they discuss, from each of their unique perspectives, the evolving potential of future-fit technical professionals. #futurefitengineers #HumanitarianEngineering #engineersaustralia #engineering #STEM #stemeducation #education #educate #engineeringeducation

22.01.2022 Mechanical engineering graduate and current PhD student Wenqian Gan volunteers with our Engineers Without Borders NSW Chapter, and is one of the many students across Australia who volunteer each year with EWB. Engineers Australia spoke with Wenqian as well as Ian Warren from Partner Housing Australasia, and Professor Robert Care AM and Kieren Davis from RedR Australia, about their shared passion for humanitarian engineering. . #worldhumanitarianday #engineering #humanitarianengineering

21.01.2022 "You're shy, you sometimes hold yourself back a bit. But I also know that you are stubborn, determined, and you are fiercely independent, and these things are going to serve you so, so well!" Dr Mary McMillan has some words of encouragement for her younger self. Now a Biomedical scientist and a Senior Lecturer @UniNewEngland School of Science and Technology, she's a country NSW girl who's paved an amazing career in STEM.... #MySTEMstory is part of @nationalscience week and shares the stories of women from rural regions of NSW who have forged amazing careers in STEM. Join us and share your STEM story this week! A collaboration between @ewbaustralia @UTSFEIT and @techgirlsaresuperheroes

20.01.2022 Sharing a collective need to connect and take action, a group of EWB staff sought to discuss intersectional issues, experiences and observations in relation to women, children, and other vulnerable members of our community as a result of COVID-19. Here is what they've explored. #womeninengineering #covid19 #vulnerablecommunities

17.01.2022 http:// WORLD TOILET DAY | NOV 19 // Diarrhoeal disease remains the second biggest cause of death in children under the age of 5 worldwide. And it's preventable. When communities live in more challenging environments - such as hard rock, or hard clay and soil areas - it makes creating appropriate sanitation solutions so much harder.... A just-released research piece - developed in collaboration with Engineering for Change, has looked at different tech solutions to tackle this issue, focused on #Cambodia. Today, #WorldToiletDay, is an important day to reflect on these issues and how engineers can contribute to solving them. With some 4.2 billion people still living without access to safely managed sanitation, it's a global challenge we need to continue to address. #SCE #SanitationInChallengeEnvironments #WASH #engineeringresearch #engineering #waterengineering #techforall #techforgood

17.01.2022 "Coding can change the world and girls HAVE to be involved in that! It is scary when you first start out - but you do belong here." Renee Noble shares some words of encouragement for her younger self. Now a Software Engineer at @groklearning, she's a Coffs Harbour local that paved an impressive career in STEM. #MySTEMstory is part of National Science Week and shares the stories of women from rural regions of NSW who have forged amazing careers in STEM. Join us and share your ...STEM story this week! A collaboration between Engineers Without Borders Australia, UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT and Tech girls are superheroes. Inspiring Australia - National Networks.

16.01.2022 We want to see greater workplace equality in our industry and in all industries . We want people who are gender and sexually diverse to feel comfortable bringing their whole selves into the office or on site, each and every day. Join us as at the launch of InterEngineer - a network of LGBTQIA+ engineering professionals and allies from metro, regional & remote Australia - for a discussion on the ingredients of healthy workplace cultures. https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/.../interengineer-launc #ewbaustralia #engineersaustralia #stemlgbt #diversityandinclusion #lgbtqia #lgbtqiastem

15.01.2022 As an island country comprising 83 islands (65 of them inhabited), Vanuatu has many small, far-reaching remote communities. EWB Australia has been working alongside Vanuatu's Ministry of Health on COVID-19 hygiene education to swiftly reach the most vulnerable groups in two remote Provinces. Find out what's in progress. Supported by @dfat #AustralianAid. ... #covid19 #vulnerablecommunities #vanuatu

15.01.2022 This year, World Humanitarian Day - 19 August - comes as the world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic over recent months. Aid workers are overcoming unprecedented access hurdles to assist people in humanitarian crises in 54 countries, as well as in a further nine countries which have been catapulted into humanitarian need by the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, #WorldHumanitarianDay celebrates #RealLifeHeroes - we pay special tribute to those who have committed their lives... to helping others in the most extreme circumstances throughout the world. Those who are treating and preventing COVID-19, providing food to vulnerable people in need, providing safe spaces for women and girls in lockdown; delivering babies; fighting locusts and running refugee camps, all amid #COVID19. Those who show us all what humanity is.

13.01.2022 Join George at 2:30pm discussing how we develop skills in emerging engineers to navigate ethical issues inherent in the relationship between engineering, people and planet. The World Engineering Day for Sustainable Development was proclaimed by UNESCO at its 40th General Conference in 2019. It is celebrated worldwide on 4th March of each year since 2020.... #worldengineeringday #humanitarianegineering #SDGs

13.01.2022 At the World Engineering Conference #WEC2019 held in Melbourne last year, Engineers Australia announced the formation of a Humanitarian Engineering Community of Practice (HECoP), and this Thursday heralds the start of that community conversation. Join our CEO, Eleanor Loudon, and the CEO of RedR Australia, Kirsten Sayers for a webinar which will explore "Delivering Humanitarian Engineering in a COVID-19 World". The turbulent, often chaotic context arising from a global pand...emic makes the challenge even greater. The strength of fundamental principles is tested, lessons are learnt and strategic priorities clarified. Hear from speakers on how they've addressed these issue from the perspective of their particular organisations. Register below. #humanitarianengineering #covid19 #engineeringwebinar

13.01.2022 Akhi is trialling the ATEC biodigester - soon to be available to communities in Bangladesh! Since launching as a social enterprise, - ATEC Biodigesters (of which EWB Australia is a shareholder) has reached over 1,500 households across rural Cambodia with its biodigester technology. It is now set to expand its reach and impact to other countries. #biodigester #bangladesh #ewbaustralia #cleanenergy #cleancooking

13.01.2022 EWB is thrilled to be collaborating with talented National NAIDOC 2020 artist Ty Waigana and 'Saltwater People' to create a bespoke piece of art that will be used to represent and support our work with Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander communities. Waigana is a proud Noongar and Saibai (Torres Strait) Islander, and a Perth-based artist and designer. He has previously been named as one of WA’s best new and emerging Indigenous artists. Waigana won the prestigious National NAI...DOC Poster Competition with his entry 'Shape of Land'. According to the 23-year-old, his winning entry depicts the Rainbow Serpent coming out of the Dreamtime to create this country and how we are strongly connected to it. Says Waigana on the artwork: The Rainbow Serpent is represented by the snake and it forms the shape of Australia, which symbolises how it created our lands. The colour from the Rainbow Serpent is reflected on to the figure to display our connection to the Rainbow Serpent, thus our connection to country. The overlapping colours on the outside is the Dreamtime. The figure inside the shape of Australia is a representation of Indigenous Australians showing that this country - since the dawn of time - always was, and always will be Aboriginal land." You can download your own copy of this beautiful piece here: https://www.naidoc.org.au/resources/get-your-poster We look forward to sharing further news on this exciting collaboration! #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #Indigenous #Aboriginal #TorresStrait #FirstNations #EngineeringOnCountry #NAIDOC

08.01.2022 No plans this Tuesday night? Join our Engineers Without Borders (Victoria Region) Chapter for an online workshop exploring best practice work in the humanitarian-development sector, covering topics such as human-centered design, asset-based community development, cross-cultural understanding, and more. Bookings essential - details below.

08.01.2022 This is a challenging time. COVID-19 has forced all of us to reset expectations. With circumstances so difficult for so many Australians, we knew our June Appeal could struggle. We coached ourselves to put on a brave face. We understood. But we knew we had to be ready for the worst. But then the EWB community said No. They said We will not sit idly by. We will not settle for the world we have. We can and will create a better one.... Yesterday was the last day of EWB's June Appeal. Just over a month ago we set an optimistic goal of $25,000, half of what supporters had generously donated in 2019 for the communities EWB work with. With a week to the end of June you had already given that much, and then some. We thought about it and then dared to raise the goal to $45,000, still less than last year and a level of support we didn't think was going to be possible - but the communities we work with need all the support they can get, so, even though that goal was a pipe dream, even though we had no expectation that people were in a position to provide that kind of support, we let you now how great it would be to strive for that higher goal. We wouldn't reach it, of course. In the last days of June YOU SHOWED US WE WERE WRONG. The appeal ended at midnight last night. As of midnight, 30 June 2020, you donated $60,888. You have given EWB the ability to work on sanitation and hygiene solutions with COVID-vulnerable communities in Timor Leste, in Vanuatu, in Cambodia, to work on safe birthing tech in Myanmar, to continue to develop motorised mobility solutions for people living with a disability in rural Cambodia, to do all this and more in the coming year. Despite the length of this post, the truth is there are no words. Well, no, there are two words that need to be said: Thank you.

07.01.2022 "We're told that it is a disadvantage to live remotely. You are strong because of this, not in spite of this, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. It allows us to think differently and tackle problems in ways that others don't see." Brenna Nichols hails from Duramana, about 30kms out of Bathurst. She's studying Civil and Environmental Engineering at UTS: University of Technology Sydney and is doing some amazing things! #MySTEMstory is part of National Science Week and... shares the stories of women from rural regions of NSW who have forged amazing careers in STEM. Join us and share your STEM story this week! A collaboration between Engineers Without Borders, UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT and Tech girls are superheroes. Inspiring Australia - National Networks

05.01.2022 Our friends at Engineers Without Borders UK are going to make you laugh! Take a look at ‘Engineering Showoff’, featuring 6 incredible UK engineers. Donate what you can as they engineer a few laughs - you may learn a thing or two!

04.01.2022 We're delighted to announce a new alliance between Engineers Without Borders Australia and the FREO2 Foundation, aiming to reach thousands more children in developing countries who are on the periphery of the health system. With the current COVID-19 pandemic impacting vulnerable communities in the region and around the globe, we all understand, now more than ever, how critical a reliable oxygen supply in health centres is. #oxygen #stopPneumonia #techforall #tech4all #covid19

04.01.2022 Should Victoria’s roadmap out of #Covid19 lockdown have been designed by civil engineers?!

03.01.2022 In this time of COVID-19, EWB Board Member Peter McArdle knows intimately how difficult it can be to convey an effective public health and wellbeing messaging. This is not his first pandemic - having worked in the Ebola Treatment Centres in Sierra Leone in 2015, and in Yemen in 2017 when a single country suffered 1 million cases of Cholera. In this piece, Peter reflects how how we might flatten the curve, and make the next one flatter.... #covid10 #humanitariandevelopmentnexus

03.01.2022 Excited to invite our network to this International Women's Day discussion about human-centred leadership and why the way that we work, and the work that we do, attracts and produces trail-blazing femmengineers. Join our standout all female panel chatting with EWB CEO Eleanor Loudon on Tuesday 9th March at 1pm. We welcome: Eva Cheng: Deputy Director of Women in Engineering and Information Technology, and Senior Lecturer in the School of Electrical and Data Engineering... Alison Stoakley: EWB Head of Education and Co-author "Engineering Re-Defined" Stephanie Hamel: EWB Vanuatu Country Manager Chelsea Hayward: EWB’s National School Outreach Coordinator and Water Engineer at Jacobs

03.01.2022 It’s a massive conundrum for country Australia how to water crops in times of drought. Students in NSW wrapped their brains around this - and other challenges that affect their community - as part of our recent two-day STEM Design Challenge collaboration with Women in Engineering and IT @ UTS (WiEIT) and Tech girls are superheroes. The initiative was an incredible (and critical) opportunity for rural students to explore the kinds of opportunities a career in STEM presents,... and the impact that their ideas can have in their own community. Part of National Science Week 2020.

02.01.2022 Currently, many Indigenous communities are only able to access reliable energy on Country through the use of petrol and diesel generators which can be costly to run and maintain or through fixed renewable energy systems that are prohibitively expensive. This year, EWB teamed up with Centre for Appropriate Technology (CfAT) and CfAT Enterprise Workshop to develop a portable renewable energy system. The portable renewable energy system project aims to increase access to en...ergy for Indigenous communities where they need it, when they want it. Read more about this project here: https://www.ewb.org.au/increasing-access-to-energy-on-coun/ #engineeringoncountry #alwayswasalwayswillbe #NAIDOC #NAIDOC2020 #techdevelopment #techdev

01.01.2022 Thousands of students in universities across Australia and New Zealand have just kicked off a new semester and are tackling this years' EWB Challenge, focused on exploring solutions to challenges in remote Indigenous communities in Australia, in partnership with the Centre for Appropriate Technology. Ben is one of the EWB Challenge tutors at Swinburne University of Technology. He completed his challenge a couple of years back, and, well... it was a challenge in more ways than... one! Here's what he learnt. #engineering #sustainabledevelopment