Week 4 Blog - EWB Project

On Thursday the 20th in our Sustainable Engineering Practices lecture, Lizzie Webb from Engineers Without Borders spoke to us about our upcoming EWB Project. We are forming groups and in our groups, we choose a problem in Cambodia (the Kandal Province in particular) and then engineer a solution to that problem and then give a presentation and hand up an accompanying report. This is all due by the end of the first semester.
My group has chosen to tackle the problem of water quality in the Kandal province by engineering a water filtering solution to clean the water of harmful impurities among other things.
We're just getting started for now, will create another blog soon with more details.

Week 2 Blog - Introduction

Welcome to my Wiki.

My name is Robert White, I'm an 18 year old First Year Civil Engineering student at UniSA.

My favourite hobbies include cars (big fan of Ferrari, Alfa Romeo etc), videogames (Gran Turismo and shootemup games are my pick), computers (Mac user!) and socialising with friends (I'll always make time for this). I also quite enjoy mucking around in Photoshop and other graphic design style programs,

Prior to commencing at UniSA, I went through Reception to Year 7 at Athelstone Primary School, and then completed Years 8 to 12 at St. Ignatius College.

In Year 12 I did Chemistry, Physics, Design, English Communications and Philosophy, Design being my favourite subject. I very nearly went on to do Design at Uni (and may still do so!) but in the end I decided to give Engineering a go as it looked like an exciting, fast moving industry with plenty of job opportunities available.

This year I'm quite looking forwards to diving into Engineering @ UniSA and seeing what it is all about and hopefully get a taste of what it might be like to work in the industry.