{"id":7554,"key":"Engineers_Without_Borders_UK","title":"Engineers Without Borders UK","latest":{"id":1206873,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T21:01:57Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"'''Engineers Without Borders (EWB) UK''' (or '''EWB-UK''') is operated primarily by UK-based university students.\n\nEWB-UK does not undertake its own projects, but supports those of other organizations. It maintains links with other [[Engineers Without Borders]] organizations, from other countries.<ref>EWB-UK Website [http://web.archive.org/web/20071022050641/http://www.ewb-uk.org/node/8]</ref>\n\n== Mission & Aims ==\n\nEWB-UK's mission is to \"Facilitate Human Development through [[Engineering]].\"<ref>EWB-UK Website [http://web.archive.org/web/20071022050500/http://www.ewb-uk.org/node/339]</ref>\n\nIts aims are to:\n\n* educate, and raise the awareness about issues in human development;\n* promote research on and contribute towards engineering solutions for human development;\n* provide an competent and knowledgeable professional development workers, and;\n* become a mark of excellence for those intending to participate in development work.\n\n== Approach ==\n\nTo achieve its mission and its aims, EWB-UK:\n\n* trains and educates students and recent graduates\n* uses student volunteers and academics to undertake research;\n* relies on the effort of professional volunteers\n* provides suitable students and recent graduates on placements to help developing communities with their engineering needs, and;\n* raises funding from ethical sources.\n\n== Connection with Appropedia ==\n\nThe current CEO of Engineers Without Borders UK is [[Andrew Lamb]], who is also a director of the [[Appropedia Foundation]].\n\n== Notes ==\n\n<references />\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [[Wikipedia:Engineers Without Borders UK]]\n* [http://www.ewb-uk.org/ Official site]\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n}}\n\n[[Category:Engineers Without Borders]]\n[[Category:UK organizations]]\n[[Category:Appropriate technology organizations]]"}