The EWB Challenge is delivered by Engineers Without Borders Australia in collaboration with our partner organisations across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Community-identified project briefs, supporting resources, and live stakeholder engagement opportunities present a clear pathway for students to develop future-fit professional skills and personal engineering vision that align with the ten “practice domains” in the National Competency Standard for Engineering 2025. This flexible program supports the tertiary sector in the delivery of curriculum-integrated and career-relevant applications that complement theoretical study.
Real-world projects in curriculum, from day one at university. A scoped design brief, immersive resources, and a series of EWB engagement points structured to support first year professional skills development and innovation for creative, sustainable development.
Bespoke experiences for strategic university partners including;
Challenge Amplified: Discipline specific, deep dive project design for 2nd and 3rd year students.
Research and capstone opportunities with additional stakeholder consultation, more contextual resources and EWB guidance through each stage of research and design.
The EWB Challenge is embedded into the curriculum of universities across Australia, New Zealand, the United States, China and Vietnam. The EWB Australia team closely collaborates with university academics as well as course tutors, faculty, and students, to ensure education offerings are valuable, exciting, and readily adapted to suit a variety of course structures. EWB Australia engages with universities through strategic university partnerships, university partnerships, and program delivery partnerships based on the depth and breadth of activities.
At EWB Australia we know long-term community partnerships are vital for the development of equitable, sustainable, and scalable solutions to complex development challenges. The EWB Challenge strongly integrates and aligns with EWB’s community and technology development work across Australia, Southeast Asia, and other regions.
Since the EWB Challenge was piloted with universities in 2007, EWB Australia’s engineering education programs have engaged with more that 150,000 students at all levels of a degree. Students have been presented unique opportunities to explore and develop broad professional engineering skills through engaging with authentic, real-world project briefs with the potential to lead to positive community impact.