Engineers for a Sustainable World
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| Founded |
Founded 2001 Incorporated 2013 |
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| Type | NGO |
| Focus | Sustainability, environmental protection, education |
| Location | |
| Method | Student-led technical projects |
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Members
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2000 |
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Key people
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Dr. Alexander Dale, Executive Director |
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Employees
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1 |
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Volunteers
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15 |
| Slogan | Design, Educate, Build |
| Mission | ESW mobilizes students and professionals through education, technical projects and collaborative action to impact local and global sustainability challenges. |
| Website | eswusa |
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Formerly called
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Engineers Without Frontiers - USA |
Founded 2001
Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) is a not-for-profit network headquartered in Washington DC. ESW is an umbrella organization with chapters established at 50 colleges and universities and professional chapters in three cities, all located primarily in the United States. ESW chapters work on technical engineering projects that have a focus on sustainability and environmental issues. Projects can be located either on-campus, in the local community, or internationally. Chapters are made up of students, and are semi-autonomous.
ESW was known as Engineers Without Frontiers USA (EWF-USA) through 2004. ESW was established in 2001 in Ithaca, New York at Cornell University. ESW was based at Cornell from 2001 through August 30, 2007, when it moved its headquarters to the San Francisco Bay Area. In July 2011, ESW moved its headquarters to Merced, California at the University of California, Merced. In July 2013, the organization became an independent legal entity with its headquarters currently in Washington DC.
ESW is managed by a distributed National Team that consists largely of volunteers. They include the Executive Director, Projects & Education Director, Chapter Relations Director, Branding & Technology Director, Communications Director, and Development Director, along with affiliated departments. Volunteers include current chapter members as well as graduated professionals. Since incorporation, the National Team is overseen by a Board of Directors.
ESW also has a Board of Directors with additional members from academia and corporations.
On its official website, ESW defines its vision as the following:
A world of environmental, social, and economic prosperity created and sustained by local and global collective action
ESW defines its mission as:
To forge innovative, lasting solutions to local and global sustainability challenges.
We:
ESW defines its goals as follows:
In support of the mission, ESW's primary goals are to:
While earning an engineering master's degree at Cornell University, Regina Clewlow began developing the vision for Engineers Without Frontiers USA (EWF-USA) in early 2001. Working with her friend and mentor, Krishna Athreya, Regina began to develop the framework for EWF-USA’s national organization. As a part of an MBA course at Cornell, she developed the business plan for EWF-USA and secured a partnership with a non-profit incubator based at Cornell called the Center for Transformative Action. EWF-USA was then officially established, with Regina Clewlow as its founding executive director.
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