The Call for Proposals is now open!
We are looking for volunteers, professionals, students, alumni, partners, and others across the engineering and international development sectors to share their knowledge, experiences, and ideas. Whether you have lessons from an EWB-USA project, technical expertise to share, an engaging topic for discussion, or perspectives on where the engineering profession is headed, we want to hear from you.
Session proposals due by October 31 | Poster proposals due by February 5
Conference Tracks
Proposals should align with one of seven conference tracks:
- 25 Years of Impact: Lessons & Legacy: Celebrating EWB-USA’s history while sharing lessons and experiences that can inform the future.
- Technical Excellence & Innovation: Engineering solutions, emerging technologies, tools, technical lessons, and innovation in practice.
- Community-Driven Development & Partnership: Community engagement, equitable partnerships, participatory approaches, and locally led development.
- Growing Programs & Scaling Impact: Building stronger programs, expanding successful approaches, measuring impact, and increasing reach.
- Sustainability, Resilience & Climate Adaptation: Sustainable infrastructure, climate resilience, adaptation, and solutions designed for long-term impact.
- Developing the Next Generation of Engineers: Mentorship, leadership development, education, student-to-professional transitions, and preparing engineers for the future.
- The Evolving Engineering Profession: Broader engineering and industry topics, including emerging technology, leadership, workforce trends, ethics, and the changing role of engineers.
Ways to Present
Choose the format that best fits your topic. The review committee may recommend a different format upon acceptance.
Sessions, discussions, panels, and workshops are 60 minutes and will run concurrently with other conference programming.
Posters will be featured during the Poster Exhibition, entered into the poster contest, and remain on display Friday and Saturday.
- Concurrent Session: Present research, concepts, practices, lessons learned, or case studies.
- Facilitated Topic Discussion: Lead an informal, interactive conversation where attendees can share perspectives and ideas.
- Panel Discussion: Bring together multiple perspectives for a facilitated conversation. Maximum of 3 panelists and 1 facilitator.
- Demonstration, Training and/or Workshop: Teach a technology, tool, software, or skill through an interactive session, ideally with hands-on components.
- Poster Presentation: Showcase a specific project, case study, or chapter initiative.
