ARE YOU A COMPLETE ENGINEER YET?? - APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN

If not, you still have the oppurtunity to transform into one. EWB Glasgow, is conducting a Scottish Conference titled "Skills for Developing a Complete Engineer", in University of Glasgow, which will give the oppurtunity to learn, how to apply engineering in real life. *For application please visit www.ewb-uk.org/node/2438

*- First Preference will be given to students from Scottish Universities

Band Night!!

Fund raiser band night in Nottingham, Bar None! (http://www.barkingmadagain.com/)

Lots of cool bands, will be a good night.

Doors 7:30pm

Tickets - £3 Advanced/£3.50 Door

Join the EWB-Durham Committee for an Indian at The Spice Lounge and The Comedy Club at the Gala. Anyone is welcome...

Email durham@ewb-uk.org for more details

• Gain practical development and relief engineering skills.
• Meet and talk to professional engineers involved in the development field.
• Bring together students from a variety of backgrounds who share a common genuine interest in development and relief work.
• Inspire students to pursue charity and voluntary engineering opportunities.

 If you are interested in attending this course or have any queries please contact Raymond Burrows.

Hydropolitics: Water Shortage and Conflict

This workshop is a mixture of talks and a practical activity.

Events include:

Guest speakers from the Well Resource Centre Network
    Brian Reed      - Gravity Water Schemes in Malawi
    Rebecca Reed  - Total Sanitation Campaign in Bangladesh

Various debates, including the role of the Engineer in development work, humanitarian aid and disaster relief

And a group design activity

Please email durham@ewb-uk.org if you are planning on attending

EWB Cardiff Residential Training Weekend

Friday 8th Decemeber - Sunday 10th December

Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynlleth, Mid Wales

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For more information about the Centre for Alternative Technology (C.A.T.) click here 

A weekend of workshops, seminars, talks and socials giving an introduction to alternative technology, it's uses in the UK and the relevance of alternative technology to developing communities.

The cost of the weekend is £35 including food, transport and accomodation. 

For further information email cardiff@ewb-uk.org

Ward off the dark winter nights, by dancing in tartan!

Everyone is most welcome to EWB Glasgow's Christmas Ceilidh.  We have a live ceilidh band, lots of engineers (and non-engineers!) letting off steam, we have raffle prizes, and if you come along you will have a great time.  See the attached poster for details. 

For 5 years the Comedy Research Project has been testing the hypothesis that science can be funny. Audiences exposed to their shows have consistently laughed up to 63% more than control audiences locked into adjacent rooms, suggesting that Dr. Helen Pilcher and Timandra Harkness are more than just placebo comedians.

Now they plan to bring the same rigorous research methodologies to engineering. Facts will be deformed by the forces of twisted humour, and the audience’s tolerance for puns will be measured with the most up-to-date equipment. We have no plans to test the audience to destruction, but rapid joke prototyping software will be used on any hecklers

 For further details of this fundraising event for Oxford, please see http://www.oxfordplayhouse.com/ticketsoxford/index.asp?Promoter=308

EWB Bath & Bristol joint fundraising event for Wateraid

Date: Saturday 18th November 2006

Meet: 1.20pm Temple Meads Station

For the upcoming World Toilet Day, EWB Bath is hosting a fundraising event for Wateraid. There will be a speaker with food and drinks, followed by a pub crawl! The pub crawl will be themed "bathroom" - so get out your showercaps, towels and rubber duckies! The event will carry-on until round about 10pm (or whenever you feel like leaving).

It should be great fun - so please drop me an email Derek Sheen if you want to come.

Robert Cottrell, Hugo Baker and Hayley Sharp will present The Havana Water Project - The Trip to Cuba.

Earlier this summer 4 students from Bristol University secured funding to go out to Havana, Cuba to meet with their counter parts at CUJAE, the Polytechnic of Havana.

The Havana Water project team at Bristol has been working closely with a group of students and young Professors at CUJAE over the past year looking at Havana’s inefficient and under funded water network. The aim of the trip was to improve communication with the teams partners in Havana, collect valuable information including maps of the system, build better relationships with local water boards and view the proposed area that a solution will be implemented in.

Two team members will talk about their experiences in Havana, what the project is about and the what future developments there will be in the next year.The project is also going to be entered into this years prestigious Mondialogo Engineering Award with the hope of winning the top prize of 20,000 Euros.

We are looking for keen engineering students to get involved in the project this year.If you are interested in the project or just want to know a little more then please come along to the talk send us an email.

The project would like to thank the following people and organisations for their kind support:

Professor Eric Thomas - Vice Chancellor, Mr Derek Pretty - Registrar and the Alumni Foundation

Professor Ian Cluckie, Mrs Marghi Peacock, Staff and students at CUJAE

and

Mr Carlos Fernandez - Aballi