Organization:Engineers Without Borders
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Overview
Engineers Without Borders (EWB) started in 2002 with 8 students and 1 faculty member that shared the same vision of supplying sustainable basic human needs to underveloped communities worldwide. Since the their vision has grown to over 13,000 members across 180 campuses with 250 chapters. EWB-USA strives to create transformative experiences and responsible leaders by empowering members to find community solutions for water supply, sanitation, energy, agriculture, civil works, structures and information systems.
From gathering information, designing a thorough solution and implementing that design, members of Engineers Without Borders have impacted more than 2.5 million lives.
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Purpose
- To provide community-driven development
- To supply clean drinking water, adequate sanitation and reliable passage to local markets to communities in need of basic necessities
- To assess, design, implement, monitor and evaluate appropriate engineering solutions for these needs
- To create transformative experiences that enrich global perspectives while creating responsible leaders
Distinct Differences From Other Offerings
Through Engineers Without Borders, students will learn to:
- Manage international engineering projects
- Understand a different culture and how to respect it
- Escape from behind the desk and apply what was learned through this experience to real world problems
- Lead or follow a project and watch the design become reality
- Develop a 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
Texas A&M's EWB-TAMU chapter won the EWB-USAs "Premier Chapter" recognition for going above and beyond the mission of Engineers Without Borders. Texas A&M students visited Costa Rica multiple times to gather information about the communities needs in which they would be working. While back at Texas A&M, they spent a year assessing and designing solutions for those needs with other students and professional engineers. After that year, they went back to Costa Rica 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 simultaneously providing 100 households with access to water. Read more about there experience here. You can also check out EWB-TAMU's chapter on their webiste.
University of Maine
The University of Maine (EWB-UMaine) is also well known for their professional work. Not only do they have strong student involvement, EWB-UMaine also has many professional engineers within the state working closely with students. EWB-UMaine is working on a portable water project for the village of Dorgobom, Ghana, to make water 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, making jewelry from Ghanaian beads, provided students with the ability to get a closer look of where their time and effort was going. You can read more about EWB-UMaine's projects and reach out to the student team on their website.
Steps Required To Bring Resource to Campus
Chances are a chapter already exists on your campus. To find out, or connect with your chapter, check out chapters near you here. Otherwise, start your own chapter with a four-step application. Download the application 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 bi-annually with deadlines on January 1 and June 1 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 their contact information and pay the annual fee.
Student Chapters
There are a total of 196 student chapters throughout the nation. For website and contact information for University Innovation schools which have EWB chapters, see the table below:
University Innovation Fellow schools 2014
| School | EWB | Website | Contact Email |
| Arizona State University at the Polytechnic Campus | yes | http://studentorgs.engineering.asu.edu/ewb/ |
ASUEWB@GMAIL.COM |
| Berea College | no | ||
| Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo | yes | http://www.ewb-calpoly.org/ | EWB.CALPOLY@GMAIL.COM |
| Clark Atlanta University | no | ||
| Colorado School of Mines | yes | http://inside.mines.edu/ewb | EWBMINES@GMAIL.COM |
| Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | no | ||
| Fayetteville State University | no | ||
| Florida State University | yes | http://www.eng.fsu.edu/ewb |
EWB.FAMUFSU.PRESIDENT@GMAIL.COM |
| Future Partners(Furman University) | no | ||
| Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus | yes | http://ewb-gt.org/ |
EWB.GEORGIATECH@GMAIL.COM |
| Hampton University | no | ||
| Howard University | yes | ewb.howardu@gmail.com | |
| Jackson State University | no | ||
| James Madison University | no | ||
| Kettering University | yes | http://www.kuewb.com/ | KUEWBBSECT@GMAIL.COM |
| Michigan State University | yes | http://ewb.egr.msu.edu/ | ENGINEERSWITHOUTBORDERSMSU@GMAIL.COM |
| Michigan Technological University | yes | http://ewb.students.mtu.edu/ | cbelliot@mtu.edu |
| Morehouse College | no | ||
| Morgan State University | no | ||
| North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University | no | ||
| North Carolina State University, Raleigh | yes | http://www.ewbncsu.org/ | EWBNCSU@GMAIL.COM |
| Northern Illinois University | yes | http://www.niuewb.com/ | NIUEWB@GMAIL.COM |
| Norwich University | no | ||
| Ohio University | no | ||
| Prairie View A & M University | no | ||
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | yes | http://ewb.union.rpi.edu/ | AJANGILELLA@GMAIL.COM |
| Tennessee Technological University | yes | http://orgs.tntech.edu/ewb/index.html | TTU.EWB@GMAIL.COM |
| Texas A & M University | yes | http://ewb.tamu.edu/ | PRESIDENT.EWBTAMU@GMAIL.COM |
| Tulane University | yes | https://ewb-tulane.squarespace.com/blog/ | TULANEEWB@GMAIL.COM |
| Tuskegee University | no | ||
| University of Massachusetts, Lowell | no | ||
| Union College | yes | http://ewb.union.edu/ | ASSELINR@UNION.EDU |
| University of California, Merced | no | ||
| University of Colorado, Denver | no | ||
| University of Maryland, College Park | yes | http://www.ewb.umd.edu/ | EWB@UMD.EDU |
| University of Maryland, Eastern Shore | no | ||
| University of Massachusetts, Lowell | no | ||
| University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | no | ||
| University of Oklahoma | no | ||
| University of Oregon | no | ||
| University of Portland | yes | MCCRACKE13@UP.EDU | |
| University of the Virgin Islands | no | ||
| University of Virginia | no | ||
| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee | yes | http://www.ewb.uwm.edu/ | EWB@UWM.EDU |
| Villanova University | yes | http://www.students.villanova.edu/egrorgs/ewb | EWB@VILLANOVA.EDU |
| Virginia State University | no | ||
| Washington State University | no | ||
| Western New England University | no | ||
| Xavier University Of Louisiana | no | ||
| Yale University | yes | http://www.ewb.sites.yale.edu/ | EWBYALE@GMAIL.COM |
* If your university is not listed or there is an error on this list please make the correction. All information found on EWB website.
Contact Information
Engineers Without Borders USA
1031 33rd Street, Ste 210
Denver, Colorado 80205