Our mission: to redefine the purpose and impact of engineering practice as a critical enabler of sustainable development.

Engineers understand that their profession can play a critical role in restoring dignity for people and the regeneration of our planet. As the profession that contributes

significantly to designing the future that we will pass on to future generations, it is critical that this understanding results in meaningful, measurable action.

Outside of the engineering sector, engineering is not well understood and is rightly perceived as a male dominated industry, working in sectors that are contributing significantly to some of our biggest global challenges, socially and environmentally.

As it is not well understood, it can be inaccessible to other disciplines that need to work together with engineers to tackle some of the biggest global challenges facing our society and environment.

It is possible to engineer differently, to practice with a technical skill set and an adaptive mindset that strives to be part of multidisciplinary teams. The competencies that engineers need now to address inequality and environmental breakdown can become the personality of the sector, and can result in a perception shift so that the profession is understood as one that brings creativity and big picture thinking to our most complex challenges.

EWB is educating future engineers so they know that this is possible, and they are encouraged to join the profession for the benefit of people and the planet.We are educating current engineers so that they develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to engineer sustainably.

EWB is engineering solutions to address real world issues, alongside the people who are most impacted by these issues, and we practice, track and measure to prove our methods and feed learning back into the sector.

We work with our extended network internationally and in Australia, with industry, with governments, with the academic sector, with other for-purpose organisations and with our community of EWB chapters, alumni and volunteers to share learning, to influence, and to drive our belief that the practice of conscious engineering, is possible today, and everyday.