Engineers Without Borders - USA (EWB-USA) is a non-profit humanitarian organization established to partner with developing communities worldwide in order to improve their quality of life. This partnership involves the implementation of sustainable engineering projects, while involving and training internationally responsible engineers and engineering students.

Since its establishment in February 2005, our University of Arizona chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB-UA) has grabbed the attention of students, faculty, and local engineering professionals from throughout the Tucson area. EWB-UA's membership is made up of engineering students from the UA College of Engineering including all the engineering departments on campus, such as chemical, civil, mining, mechanical, engineering management and electrical engineering.

EWB-UA has several activities. A cornerstone is the monthly meetings of all members where speakers from NGOs, industry, or engineering firms discussing topics ranging from sustainable development to project management. The organization is also initiating a board of directors program, which is centered on a semi-annual meeting of invited industry and community leaders who help guide the organization in terms of goal setting, organizational design, and fund raising. However, the primary focus of EWB is to undertake sustainable development projects with partner communities. The primary source of projects is through the EWB USA parent organization.

EWB USA coordinates with partner communities to formulate project descriptions whereupon EWB chapters (students) develop bids for those projects, and if awarded, undertake the engineering and execution of the project (with some technical support from professional members). Other projects can be initiated between the chapters and partner communities directly and can chose to either enter into the EWB-USA network, or simply undertake the project under the auspices of the chapter.

EWB-USA's outward vision is a world where ALL people have access to the knowledge and resources with which to meet their basic human needs and promote sustainable development in such areas as water supply and sanitation, food production and processing, housing and construction, energy, transportation and communication, income generation, and employment creation.

EWB-USA promotes a new way of thinking for the engineering profession and provides unique opportunites for engineers to work in partnership with a wide range of stakeholders such as communities, social scientists, public health officials, economists, businesses, and international development organizations.