?Meet our Inspire podcast guest - ✨Dr Sasha Vassar✨   0:05 | Acknowledgement of Country  0:18 | Introduction  0:44 | Undergraduate and Educational Experience  10:30 | Academia Experience 20:31 | EWB Program and PhD  29:30 | Accessibility in Design  40:15 | Accessibility in Gaming  53:40 | Conclusion    Dr Sasha Vassar is currently a full time lecturer in the UNSW School of Computer Science and Engineering. In addition to being an experienced computer scientist, she holds a doctorate in Education and is passionate about teaching, computer science and ..read more

?Meet our Inspire podcast guest - ✨Eleanor Earl!✨ 0:05 | Acknowledgement of Country 0:18 | Introduction 1:30 | Undergraduate Experience 10:47 | Industry Experience 17:31 | PhD and Academia Experience 25:17 | Audience Questions 32:58 | Conclusion Eleanor is a current UNSW PhD candidate studying flood resilience in the Pacific Islands - focusing on the role of nature based solutions for surface water flood management in Fiji. As senior consultant at ARUP and project leader at The Resilience Shift, she has previously worked on a diverse range of major projects, including working on one of the fir ..read more

?Meet our second Inspire podcast guest of the year - ✨Ian Cunningham!✨ Ian has worked and researched at the social-technical interface for ? 15+ years ? in the community development and engineering sectors - predominantly in the field of water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) ?. He’s interested in how program and project design can best honour and progress ? community-centric ? aspirations.   If you have any other questions for Ian, feel free to submit them here: https://forms.gle/QJcRTUCegVSkbtvz5 ..read more

? Meet EWB UNSW's first INSPIRE podcast guest of the year - ✨Dr Fiona Johnson!✨   Fiona has over 20+ years of experience in hydrology working as a consultant, for government and in academia?. Associate Professor Johnson’s areas of research and teaching focus on statistical hydrology, particularly concerning flooding and extreme events and the use of global climate models for climate change assessments of water resources systems?  She has a particular interest in solutions to climate and hydrological challenges faced by communities in the Global South and is currently undertaking rese ..read more

This episode, we spoke to Melanie De Gioia - the founder and director of Ramaley Media and nothing short of a STEM star.  Mel works on podcasts, projects and hackathons to instil the drive for STEM in everyone – kindy through to adults. Listen in as she explores future prospects of the STEM space, shares advice for aligning career with purpose and shares her own experiences to inspire you to take a seat at the STEM table.  To keep the conversation going, tune into her podcasts below:  Engineering Heroes: https://engineeringheroes.com.au/    Ramaley Media Podcasts: htt ..read more

This episode, Dr. Andrew Dansie, Senior Lecturer in Humanitarian Engineering at UNSW joined us again to discuss his past involvement on the ground with projects overseas and tell us UNSW students about UNSW's new humanitarian engineering minor ..read more

This episode we chatted with Dr. Beena Ahmed, senior lecturer at UNSW's School of Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications and founder of Say66.  A leading professional and academic at the crossroads of health and technology, Dr Beena Ahmed applies machine learning algorithms on acoustic and phonetic data to develop feedback driven speech therapy. Beena shared with us the wide range of possibilities for speech recognition algorithms. These algorithms may be used to detect early signs of dementia, track mental stress and guide relaxation.  Listen to this episode to learn more a ..read more

In our first episode for 2021, meet our incoming Projects team, hear about who they are and their goals for the year ahead ..read more

Welcome to our final episode of INSPIRE by EWB UNSW for the 2020 season, I hope you have enjoyed listening and leant something from our amazing guests. This episode we are joined by Jacky Cai a friend of our chapter, who along with Komatsu organised a volunteering trip to northern NSW to bring engineers into the classrooms of their local schools. This is an initiative we aim to run yearly, but working with Jacky on this project helped us to be involved in more volunteering trips and reach more students in 2019!  Finally, we conclude our season by discussing our learnings. Stay tuned for t ..read more

This week we were joined by Dr Scott Daniel senior lecturer in humanitarian engineering at UTS. Diving into his knowledge of public speaking, science, volunteering and just a little geography. So you are bound to learn something new! This is following our investigation into off-grid power systems, with knowledge they may come in handy when trying to reduce your power usage or even camping ..read more