The Impact of the EWB Design Summit on the Professional Social Responsibility Attitudes of Participants

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in Melbourne. He has worked in 10 countries on 5 continents, and as a consultant and facilitator with UNESCO, Australian Volunteers International, Engineers without Borders, Scope Global, World Vision, and the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. He also has a regular radio segment as "Dr Scott", answering listeners' questions about science. Dr. Nick John Brown, Engineers Without Borders AustraliaNick Brown leads the research interests and activities of Engineers Without Borders Australia. Nick is responsible for the development and delivery of an innovative education and research program that creates, builds and disseminates new knowledge in Humanitarian Engineering. This program engages academics and students from Australia's leading universities to develop innovative solutions to humanitarian problems faced by communities both within Australia and overseas. These projects cover a range of topics, including designing prosthetic hands for less than $5, researching low cost building materials in Cambodia and developing ways to provide cooking fuel and stoves to refugees all around the world.

Humanitarian engineering education fieldwork and the risk of doing more harm than good

“…As shown by Jessup, Sumner, and Barker (2005), Coyle, Jamieson, and Oaks (2006), and Selingo (2006), service-learning is popular with women. Daniel and Brown (2018) showed that a long-running service-learning program run by EWB (Australia) has non-quota enforced percentage of approximately 45% women out of more than 1000 students. Interestingly, Bauer et al (2007) shows a greater awareness to community service from female students compared with male students.…”

“…Service-learning may therefore help attract and retain female engineering students at universities, it may improve the educational experience of those female students, and society may gain more benefit from female students undertaking service-learning programs compared with male students. Beyond gender diversity, Desmond, Stahl, and Graham (2011), show a link between service-learning and diversity education in a broader context.…”