What does Engineers Without Borders Canada do?
We develop leaders by investing in people. We spark innovative businesses and support entrepreneurs by investing in startup ventures. We create policy and institutional changes that influence corporate and government practices to improve global living conditions and access to basic needs by advocating for change.
What Do Engineers Without Borders do?
Engineers Without Borders USA builds a better world through engineering projects that empower communities to meet their basic human needs. Our highly skilled volunteers work with communities to find appropriate solutions for their infrastructure needs.
How did Engineers Without Borders start?
Early beginnings. From a scribble on a napkin in a coffee shop, to the blueprint for systemic change around the world. In the year 2000, George Roter and Parker Mitchell dreamt of an organization to harness the untapped potential of innovative and impassioned engineers.
Who can be called an engineer?
Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the limitations imposed by practicality, regulation, safety and cost.
Why do we need Engineers Without Borders Canada?
Engineers Without Borders Canada wants to see a world where the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals have been completed, ensuring a safer world and equal access to opportunities for everyone. Find out more, sign our campaign, and help build a public mandate to hold our government accountable for their promises!
Who are the founders of Engineers Without Borders?
Engineers Without Borders Canada ( French: Ingénieurs sans frontières Canada ), abbreviated EWB or ISF, is a non-governmental organization devoted to international development. Founded in 2000 by George Roter and Parker Mitchell, engineering graduates from the University of Waterloo,…
When to register for Engineers Without Borders 2019?
Registration will be open in December 2019 through an electronic invitation process and spaces are limited. Engineers Without Borders (EWB) is an organization committed to creating a safe, inclusive and encouraging environment both on and offline (non-physical spaces).
Where does the EWB take place in Canada?
It will be taking place at Victoria University, the oldest college at the University of Toronto from February 18-19, 2020. EWB will bring together a broad spectrum of stakeholders from the social innovation ecosystem to share ideas, connect, collaborate and learn.
