A portal that enables more than 10,000 students each year to build professional engineering competencies and contribute to social impact
“The most powerful effect on students is that it allows them to connect engineering theory to how engineering can be used to help people and communities. Instead of focusing on abstract theories and concepts, they see how their knowledge can have an impact on people.”
Jeremy Smith
Academic and Research Engineer, Australian National University
WHO
Engineers Without Borders (EWB) Australia is a leading for-purpose organisation mobilising engineers and influencing the sector to act with social purpose for the global good. With over 15 years experience, EWB seek to demonstrate best practice in community development, stakeholder engagement, and the design of sustainable, equitable, appropriate solutions to complex challenges.
NEED
A technically secure and user-friendly platform. Students and staff from universities across Australia need to be able to log-in, add or interact with challenge materials.
SOLUTION
The EWB Challenge website acts as the platform that enables all users to interact with the EWB Challenge Series which consists of:
WordPress content and project pages which connects to EWB content repository
A Member site for users