ASCE, EWB-USA Partnership: Making It Win-Win for All

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Todays Presentation

• What is EWB-USA
• The ASCE/EWB-USA relationship
• Making the ASCE/EWB-USA partnership work for all

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What is EWB-USA?

• A non-profit, humanitarian engineering
  organization that
• Attracts energetic students young
  professionals, along with seasoned PEs, for
  humanitarian projects
• Develops partnerships with local communities
• Designs and builds hands-on sustainable
  engineering projects
• Fosters teamwork, communication, and enhances
  global perspectives
• Develops operating capabilities within the
  communities through education and training
• Provides the opportunity to pursue other economic
  development activities

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What is EWB-USA?

• 12,000 members
• 250 chapters both professional and student
• 400 projects per year in 45 countries
• Predominantly Africa, Asia, Central/South
  America

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What is EWB-USA?

• Founded in 2000 by Bernard Amadei, Ph.D.,
  Dist.M.ASCE, NAE
• Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado
• Board of Directors
• National Staff

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What is EWB-USA?

• Seven EWB-USA Regions
• Support new chapter start up
• Host annual regional training workshops
• Provide training for member chapters
• Foster information exchange

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EWB-USA Vision

• Vision
• A world in which the communities we serve have
  the capacity to sustainably meet their basic
  human needs, and that our members have enriched
  global perspectives through the innovative
  professional educational opportunities that the
  EWB-USA program provides.

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EWB-USA Mission

• Mission
• Engineers Without BordersUSA supports
  community-driven development programs worldwide
  by collaborating with local partners to design
  and implement sustainable engineering projects,
  while creating transformative experiences and
  responsible leaders.

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How does EWB-USA work?

• EWB-USA receives program applications from small-
  to mid-sized communities around the world
• A review committee posts appropriate programs for
  EWB-USA local chapters to consider
• Local chapters make proposals on programs
• EWB-USA looks for best fit and awards programs
• There may be many projects within one community
  program
• Chapters work with community partners to
  establish priorities for which projects to
  collaborate on first

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How does EWB-USA work?

• Projects are reviewed for quality and
  sustainability
• Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) volunteer
  review
• National staff review
• Health safety review
• Reviews at all steps in a projects lifetime
  including
• Assessment, alternative design analysis,
  implementation, monitoring evaluation
• EWB-USA receives funds through donations,
  sponsorships, and member dues

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How Chapters Adopt Community Programs

• Chapter project team formed
• Project begins
• Chapter team contacts community, learns about
  culture and needs
• Assessment trip
• Team travels to community to gather information
• Assessment report
• Documents findings of assessment trip
• Alternatives analysis / design feasibility
• Pre-implementation
• Improve design submit design to TAC

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How Chapters Adopt Community Programs

• Implementation trip
• Travel to community to implement design
• Implementation report
• Document what was accomplished on implementation
  trip
• Continuing project application
• EWB-USA makes a 5-year commitment to community
• Initiatives and relationship building continues
  for future programs

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How to Make a Real Difference
Bbanda, Uganda
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Bbanda, Uganda

• No water distribution
• Villagers carry water long distances
• Water must then be boiled
• Children miss school to gather water and are
  exposed to water-borne illnesses
• EWB Northeastern University Chapter plans to
  provide easier access
• Boreholes, shallow wells, rain-water catchments,
  and source protection
• No longer a choice of water or school
• More time for income generating activities

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A special relationship

• EWB-USA experienced growing pains
• Excitement for EWB-USA caused extremely fast
  expansion, straining resources
• ASCE is helping EWB-USA manage its growth
  challenges
• Cash infusion
• Association management expertise
• Input through two ASCE seats on the EWB-USA Board
• Remaining big need
• Experienced engineers to mentor!

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Why the partnership?

• EWB-USA
• Energizes civil engineers and students
• Enhances the diversityof the civil
  engineeringprofession
• Develops sense of teamworkand communication
  withinengineering programs

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Why the partnership?

• EWB-USA
• Prepares civil engineers for practice in the
  global environment
• Enriches the civilengineering educationexperienc
  e
• Enhances the publicimage of civil engineering

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Making it work locally

• ASCE/EWB-USA liaisons asked to
• Be focal point of relationship between local ASCE
  and EWB-USA chapters
• Attend counterparts meetings and inform them of
  cooperation potential
• Set up joint local ASCE/EWB-USA meetings

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Making it work locally

• ASCE/EWB-USA liaisons asked to
• Invite local counterparts to make presentations
  at meetings
• Facilitate mutual member participation in EWB-USA
  projects
• Identify opportunities for resource sharing and
  collaboration
• Show the professionals and students the benefits
  of membership in both ASCE and EWB-USA

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Whats in it for ASCE?

• Networking among peers - students, professionals,
  and clients
• Volunteer opportunities for your Section / Branch
• Mentoring students and young professionals
  through participation in international
  development programs
• Taking part in small, hands-on programs that
  directly benefit users
• Strengthening ASCEs future and public image
• Synergy between ASCEs purpose and goals and
  EWB-USAs goals and activities in the areas of
• Humanitarianism, Infrastructure, Diversity,
  Mentoring, Globalization and Sustainability

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Make a personal commitment

• Become an EWB-USA member
• ASCE members receive a significant discount
• Professional Members - 100 (ASCE - 60)
• Supporting Members - 75 (ASCE - 40)
• Only Professional Members may participate on
  projects
• Contribute your technical expertise
• As project designers and reviewers
• Become a mentor
• Support up-and-coming engineers Early career
  guidance

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Find a local EWB-USA Chapter

• Visit the EWB-USA Chapters site at
  www.ewb-usa.org/chapters.php
• Or contact
• Daryl Morais (dmorais_at_asce.org)
• Narcy Ibanez (nibanez_at_asce.org)
• of the ASCE Geographic Services Department

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Questions?