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| − | Engineers Without Borders started in 2002 with 8 students and 1 faculty member with the shared vision of supplying sustainable basic human needs to underdeveloped communities worldwide. Since then, there vision has grown to over 13,000 members in 180 campuses with 250 chapters. EWB-USA strives to create transformative experiences and responsible leaders by empowering members to find community solutions in water supply, sanitation, energy, agriculture, civil works, structures and information systems. From gathering information, designing a thorough solution, and implementing that design, EWB members have impacted more than 2.5 million lives. | + | <br/>Engineers Without Borders started in 2002 with 8 students and 1 faculty member with the shared vision of supplying sustainable basic human needs to underdeveloped communities worldwide. Since then, there vision has grown to over 13,000 members in 180 campuses with 250 chapters. EWB-USA strives to create transformative experiences and responsible leaders by empowering members to find community solutions in water supply, sanitation, energy, agriculture, civil works, structures and information systems. From gathering information, designing a thorough solution, and implementing that design, EWB members have impacted more than 2.5 million lives. |
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Overview
Engineers Without Borders started in 2002 with 8 students and 1 faculty member with the shared vision of supplying sustainable basic human needs to underdeveloped communities worldwide. Since then, there vision has grown to over 13,000 members in 180 campuses with 250 chapters. EWB-USA strives to create transformative experiences and responsible leaders by empowering members to find community solutions in water supply, sanitation, energy, agriculture, civil works, structures and information systems. From gathering information, designing a thorough solution, and implementing that design, EWB members have impacted more than 2.5 million lives.
Purpose
- Community-Driven development
- Supply clean drinking water, adequate sanitation, and reliable passage to local markets and more to communities in need of sustainable basic human needs
- Assess, design, implement, monitor, and evaluate appropriate engineering solutions for these needs
- Create transformative experiences that enrich global perspectives while creating responsible leaders
Distinct Differences From Other Offerings
- Students learn to manage international engineering projects
- Understand another culture and how to respect it
- Escape from behind the desk and apply what you have learned to real world problems
- Lead or follow a project and watch the design become reality
- 5 year commitment where members must continue their work through incoming students
- Manage an organization - finances, fundraising, and relationships with faculty and donors
Impact Achieved For Students and Campus
With over 180 Universities involved in EWB-USA, the impact students have made is far reaching.
Texas A&M's EWB-TAMU chapter won the EWB-USAs "Premier Chapter" recognition for going above and beyond the mission of EWB. A&M students visited Costa Rica multiple times to gather information about a communities needs. While back at A&M they spent a year assessing and designing solutions for those needs with other students and professional engineers, then went back to implement and fulfill their design solutions. When construction was finsihed they had built a computer education center for children, and made the communities water supply drinkable while providing 100 households with access to water. Read more about there experience here. You can also check out EWB-TAMU's chapter on their website.
University of Maine EWB-UMaine is well known for their professional work. Not only do they have a strong student involvement, but also have many professional engineers within the state of Maine working closely with students involved in their chapter. They are working on a portable water project for the village of Dorgobom, Ghana to make it more accessible and safer to drink. EWB-UMaine has been quite creative in funding this project. They hold many raffles, bi-annual yard sales, bowling events, and even a beer and wine tasting. Perhaps their most innovative fundraiser is making jewelry from Ghanaian beads so that students are able to get a closer picture of where their time and effort is going. You can read more about their projects and get in contact with them on their website.
Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus
Chances are there is already a chapter at your campus. If you want to get connected then check out chapters near you here.
Otherwise, you can start your own chapter through a 4 step application. Download the application at the bottom of the page from here.
Step 1)
- Recruit passionate members from various backgrounds
- Commit to a 5 year partnership
- Recruit a qualified professional lead mentor (generally a professor)
Step 2)
Complete a new program application. Applications are reviewed biannually with deadlines on January 1st and June 1st of each year.
Step 3)
Upon approval, a Chapter Agreement will be sent to your chapter. For your chapter to become official, you must sign and return the agreement to EWB-USA.
Step 4)
Provide EWB-USA with your chapter's officers and contact information and pay the annual fee.
Contact Information
The best way to contact EWB-USA is through their website here.
