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Meet our Futur-neers: Erin Hughes

Meet our Futur-neers: Erin Hughes

Growing up on a boat in the Torres Strait until she was 14, water was an integral part of Erin Hughes’ childhood. Today, it’s the focus of her work as an engineer. After completing a Chemical Engineering degree at the University of Queensland, Erin is now a Surface Water Engineer at Hydrology and Risk Consulting in Victoria. She works in flood engineering and hydrology, working with emergency services to manage flood risks and providing technical input to dam operators across Australia.

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Meet our Futur-neers: Hannah Jury

Meet our Futur-neers: Hannah Jury

It’s not all calculations and writing reports when you’re an engineer. Sometimes you’re abseiling from some of the tallest buildings in Melbourne’s CBD. Or at least that’s what a ‘day in the office’ can look like for façade engineer, Hannah Jury. 

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Volunteering for ‘real-world work experience’

Volunteering for ‘real-world work experience’

Volunteers are so important to EWB’s work. They dedicate time and effort to ensure the inclusion of those often left behind, drive climate action and advance the Sustainable Development Goals. We have volunteers whom support our work in Australia, and volunteers that work with our teams in-country. Kit Kann is one of them.

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Meeting on Yirrganydji Country for the EWB Challenge Showcase

Meeting on Yirrganydji Country for the EWB Challenge Showcase

Hosted by event sponsors TNQ Drought Hub and The Cairns Institute at James Cook University’s Nguma-bada campus, the 15th EWB Challenge Showcase heralded the return to in-person showcases since the start of the pandemic. Students, academics, judges, and EWB staff from around Australia were eager to travel to Yirrganydji Country in far north Queensland, which was the site of the project brief for this year’s EWB Challenge.

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Meet EWB volunteer, Harshana!

Meet EWB volunteer, Harshana!

Harshana, Civil and Water Engineer Volunteering with the EWB Australia in Vanuatu team Harshana is part of EWB's volunteer crew in Vanuatu, and is just one of the hundreds of volunteers across the EWB volunteer network! Volunteers dedicate time and effort to ensure...

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Futur-neered: a Youth Outreach milestone

Futur-neered: a Youth Outreach milestone

Caption: Youth Outreach volunteers convene at the Futur-neers Forum in Melbourne (April 2022). A year of targeted investment in EWB’s volunteer-driven Youth Outreach program placed a strong focus on impact evaluation and shaping the “next era” of outreach at EWB. The...

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Meet our Futur-neers: Emily Chung

Meet our Futur-neers: Emily Chung

Feature image: Emily renovating women’s crisis accommodation with Habitat for Humanity as a volunteer in 2018.  “I’m quite motivated by doing things other people don’t. Being one of the only female students in my engineering classes didn’t bother me. I proved that I...

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Meet our Futur-neers: Elise McCaul

Meet our Futur-neers: Elise McCaul

Image: UNSW Chapter Co-President, Elise McCaul, presenting a session about her experience delivering Youth Outreach at the 2022 Futur-neers Forum.  As Elise kicked off her first year studying a Bachelor of Civil Engineering at The University of New South Wales, it...

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The challenge that blew his mind: Tim Kuiper

The challenge that blew his mind: Tim Kuiper

As a newly-minted undergrad, Tim Kuiper took a seat in his first class of mechanical engineering at Deakin University. Little did he know, it was a unit that was about to blow his mind. It was 2007. Lizzie Brown, EWB’s Education Officer at the time (who later became...

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