General Meeting/Lecture/Project Focus

Thursday, Jan. 29th, 5:30pm, 151 Everitt Lab

Engineers Without Borders works with communities in developing countries to address basic quality of life needs through engineering projects. EWB also works with the Champaign-Urbana community to educate people of all ages about socially responsible and environmentally sustainable engineering. Come hear about all our projects, events, and how to get involved. There will be pizza and beverages served at the end of the meeting. Don't miss our exciting meeting to start off this semester!

The EWB Visioning Workshop will be held this Saturday, October 18th, from 1- 3:30 pm in 141 Loomis. Everyone is welcome, so please come!

Are you completely happy with EWB?
Are you fully satisfied with the organization of the board?  The progress of your project?  The progress of your committee?

NO!?

Would you like to have more efficient meetings?  Would you like to have more involved members that get work done? 
Would you like to have a way to continuously monitor your project or committee to ensure that it is meeting the goals it set out to accomplish?
Do you wish you had a better, more open relationship with your partner community abroad?  Or even a more active partner community?

YES! (click below to read more!)

Together we can accomplish all of these goals, with the help of participatory practices.  Participatory practices are methods that are used by NGOs as large as the CDC and as small as EWB to achieve more efficient communication, teamwork, consensus building, accomplishment of team goals, and monitoring to ensure that goals set are achieved.  The Enugu team has been learning how to use these methods for the benefit of our partner community, our project team, and hopefully all of EWB.  So let's come together to achieve all of these goals so you can shape the future of EWB into something satisfying for you and everyone involved!

Now, of course with anything good, it takes effort, patience, and practice, but we are confident that we can become more efficient at working together as an organization.  In order to do this, Maren Somers & Cheryl Weyant of the Enugu Project will be leading us in an "EWB Visioning Workshop" which everyone is invited to: the board, the committee members, the project leaders, and especially YOU, project and committee members!

The goal of the workshop is to:
1) Explain a method for working more efficiently as an organization
2) Begin using the method together to define our vision for the future
3) Have fun and get to know each other better

EWB-UIUC is a group of passionate and motivated individuals with great ideas and who an inspiration to the people around them.  If we develop and maintain a concerted effort in improving ourselves as a part of the process of improving the outcomes of the projects, we can really make the changes in the world we wish to see!  As individuals we can go far, but as a group we can go farther.

The meeting most surely will be rewarding for the participants and the organization, so...please come and participate!!!

The EWB Visioning Workshop will be held this Saturday, October 18th, from 1- 3:30 pm in 141 Loomis. Everyone is welcome, so please come!

Location: 151 Loomis Laboratory
When: Thursday, August 28, 2008, 7 PM

See an overview of EWB's projects and committees, ranging from UIUC's home biodiesel generation project to a new project in Ghana. Committees will also present and could use help from all majors, not just engineering. Pizza will be served.

Thursday, April 24th 7:30pm: Carolyn Treadway presents: Awakening from our Trance: Reversing Global Climate Change”

This event takes place at the CHANNING-MURRAY FOUNDATION

The world's leading climate scientists agree that our global climate is changing, and that humans are greatly accelerating the natural rate of these changes. To prevent changes which would irreversibly wreak havoc upon our environment, our country needs to decrease its greenhouse gas emissions at least 80% by 2050. Can we do this? Yes we can! But how? What can individuals, groups, institutions, businesses, and governments do? This presentation will address such questions. Al Gore's climate slides will be used to show indications of "global warming" worldwide. Predictions for climate changes in Illinois will be emphasized, as well as ways the Heartland could contribute to reversing the climate crisis. Following the slideshow, group discussion about issues and solutions will be facilitated. Carolyn Treadway was trained by Al Gore and his team of top climate scientists and environmental educators to be one of his "1000 Messengers" to take the climate crisis message across the land at the grassroots level.