"An engaged technical community with the vision of changing the world through engineering education, innovation and practical action."
Welcome to Engineers for a Sustainable World
ESW is an action-oriented organization focused on networking students and professionals in technical modes for advancing our society's approach to sustainability. ESW mobilizes engineers through education, collaboration and practical action. With over 20 chapters at universities across the United States, as well as a network of over 4000 individuals interested in sustainability, ESW is involved in everything from sustainability promotion and development activities on university campuses to projects across the world.
Recent News
[Jan. 28, 2010] Webinar Series Launched
As part of ESW's ongoing commitment to sustainability education, we are pleased to launch our "Sustainability Webinar Series" - a set of lectures on various topics streamed right to your computer. Over 25 participants and chapters joined us from across the country (and one participant from Greece!) for our inaugural webinar. We would like to thank Dr. Alan Eastman of GreenFire Energy for a fantastic presentation and Q&A session on geothermal energy using CO2 as a working fluid. If you would like to speak at or participate in a future sustainability webinar, please contact us.
[Jan. 12, 2010] ESW National Conference
Purdue University will host the 2010-2011 ESW National Conference from Oct. 7-10, 2010. Serving as conference co-chairs are: Dan Hirleman, Professor and William E. and Florence E. Perry Head, School of Mechanical Engineering; Eckhard Groll, Professor and Director of Professional Practice; and Tim Kendrick, Chapter President, ESW-Purdue.
[Nov. 1, 2009] Member Forum Launched
ESW launches the Member Forum. We hope our member community will use the Forum to pose questions, share ideas, engage in debate, challenge each others thinking and, most of all, teach and learn from one another about sustainability. Visit Forum
[Oct. 25, 2009] ESW-Stanford Wins Two Mondialogo Engineering Awards
The Stanford University chapter of ESW wins gold and silver for two international projects! Read more about theirs winning projects here.
[Sept. 30, 2009] National Team Members Announced
We are pleased to announce five new members on the ESW National Team. Four are former chapter presidents who supported ESW over the summer and will be helping to run operations at the national level. We believe it is highly beneficial to have an organization whose primary membership is students run in part by student leaders. The five new members are: Robert Best, Alexander Dale, Christopher Llop, Kalpana Pathak and Vicky Tian -- read about them and their duties on the National Team page!
We also wish to publicly recognize the efforts of incoming and outgoing chapter presidents Ben Runkle (ESW-UB), Heather Bischel (ESW-Stanford), Dan Snitzer (ESW-UBuffalo), Akta Patel (ESW-Cornell) and Chris Thai (ESW-U Pitt) for their help and support during our summer restructuring. Expect to see additional updates on our organizational structure in the coming months.
