Engineers Without Borders Malaysia

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Engineers Without Borders Malaysia (EWBM)

was co-founded by three young aspiring individuals, Latifah Hamzah, Lim Sze Wei and Sanjiv Indran in 2012 – and officially registered as a Non-Profit Organisation under Malaysian Societies Act in March 2013.

Engineers Without Borders Malaysia (EWBM) is a non-profit organisation that aims to harness the expertise of students, educators, academics and professionals in Malaysia for engineering projects that benefit local, underprivileged communities with an emphasis on environmental sustainability and community empowerment.

We are affiliated with Engineers Without Borders – International, a globally recognised international federation of national Engineers Without Borders/Ingenieurs Sans Frontier (EWB-ISF) Members Associations.

Our vision is for all inhabitants in Malaysia (and the world in general) to have access to the six primary basic needs, namely: water, food, shelter, energy, education and healthcare.

Our mission is to provide feasible assistance to all communities in need, as well as to connect, inspire and educate like-minded individuals. We are a social platform to encourage Experiential Learning, Appropriate Technology and Community Empowerment.

We are proud to be a part of a global network of other EWB groups through EWB International.

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Our Pillars

Vision

To inspire future generations for the betterment of mankind by:

  • Expanding our horizons through adventure.
  • Understand & to supply six basic human needs of Water, Food, Shelter, Power, Education, and Healthcare to those who do not have it.
  • Empower ourselves to push boundaries, while restoring trust and faith in humanity.

Mission

Partner with student organisations and NGOs to provide basic needs to:

  • Underprivileged communities through the design and implementation of sustainable engineering solutions.
  • Give help to communities in need and raise awareness of social and welfare-related issues in Malaysia.
  • Promote engineering and inspire young engineers and non-engineers alike to practice social responsibility.
  • Connect like-minded people with a passion for humanitarian work within Malaysia.

Core Values

Making a lasting impact based on the following ideals and beliefs:

  • Empathy
  • Respect & value the environment
  • Committed to Sustainable Development
  • Celebrate diversity
  • Belief that we can make a difference
  • Commitment to social responsibility

Our Focus

Fields of Expertise

Rainwater Harvesting Systems
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Gravity-Fed Water Systems
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Pump-Fed Water Systems
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Micro-Hydroelectric Systems
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Solar PV Systems
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Recycling & Waste Management
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Aerial Mapping
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Community Mapping
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Knowledge Transfer
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Sustainable Development Goals

Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

Reduce inequality within and among countries

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all

Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

Our People

Engineers, Academicians, Professionals, Students, Change-Makers – You don’t have to be an Engineer to engineer our future!

Steering Team

Sanjiv

Sanjiv

President
Andrew

Andrew

Vice-President
Ch'n-Yao

Ch'n-Yao

Secretary
Shen

Shen

Treasurer
Max

Max

Assistant Secretary
Joshua

Joshua

Marketing

Jeremy

Public Relations

Jevita

Sponsorship
Yestin

Yestin

Quartermaster
Jee Onn

Jee Onn

Committee

Lisa

Committee
Jonathan

Jonathan

Committee
Heng

Heng

Committee
Diane

Diane

Committee
Sharon

Sharon

Committee

Rodric

Committee
Eloise

Eloise

Youth Ambassador

EWBM - Sarawak Branch

Jing Mian

President

Faizul

Advisor

Dennis

Committee

Amirul

Committee

Faris

Committee

Irzan

Committee

Sanjiv Indran

An avid traveller, naturalist, cinephile, bookworm, soundtrack enthusiast and life-long Star Wars Geek, Sanjiv Indran is the founding Treasurer and current President of Engineers without Borders Malaysia. During his college days in California, he acquired Associate’s Degrees in Engineering, Physics and Mathematics – minoring in Astronomy. He then pursued his Bachelor’s, Masters and Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nottingham – primarily focusing on Aerospace Structures, Heat Transfer and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Out of the classroom, he started his career as a Mechanical Engineer at an M&E Consulting Firm. He then branched out as a Data Scientist, and now serves as a Principal Consultant at a boutique Management Consulting Firm. When he finds the time, he works towards becoming a Chartered Engineer.

He co-founded EWBM in the hopes of inspiring and empowering the next generation to help build a sustainable future for us all. Volunteering and Giving Back to the Community are his core tenets – hence he also somehow finds time to concurrently serve as the President of the Star Wars Malaysia Fan Club (self-explanatory) and Commanding Officer of the Rebel Legion Malaysia Base (an international Star Wars costuming charity organization). He believes that all anyone really needs to know can be learned from watching Star Trek.

Andrew Fernandes

An engineer (surprise!) who as a kid loved watching Bill Nye on TV and building Lego sets. This spurred a lifelong curiosity with the world (physics especially), which lead to a Mechanical Engineering degree from the University of Nottingham and a recreational scuba diving licence. He can currently be found watching Bill Nye on Netflix and building Lego sets. Also an avid car nerd, who much prefers three pedals over two. Willing to stay up at ungodly hours to watch Formula 1 or football. Sometimes spends too much time reading obscure Wikipedia articles. Has used EWB as a good excuse to buy expensive hiking shoes.

Tan Ch'n-Yao

Tan Ch’n-Yao is a mechanical engineering graduate currently working as a Manager for Truckquip Sdn Bhd. The job scope includes the design and manufacturing of buses both for local and international markets among other things. He has been with the company, which is a subsidiary of Tan Chong Motor Holdings Berhad, since 2012. In what remains of his free time, Tan also dabbles in some hobbies such as volunteering with EWB as well as the Star Wars Malaysia Fan Club, and writing extremely boring, humble profiles of himself way past their due dates. Oh, and he likes to collect Lego. Everything to him is Awesome.

Shen Quang Loo

I help property owners turn underperforming buildings into profitable, well-run hospitality assets — and I make sure the numbers behind every stay actually add up.

As Systems & Finance lead at Salaam Suites Sdn Bhd, I work where revenue management, finance and operations meet. Our group manages 120+ units and a 50-room city hotel across Malaysia, running Muslim-friendly, halal-certified stays that consistently earn great Agoda scores, Booking.com “Top Performing Partner” status and Airbnb Superhost ratings.

My background is unusual for hospitality: a mechanical engineer (University of Nottingham) turned Certified Hotel Revenue Manager (CHRM). That mix means I treat a hotel like a system — diagnosing where yield leaks, then closing the gap with dynamic pricing, OTA optimisation and clean, transparent reporting that investors can actually trust.
The problems I solve:

  • Properties earning far below their real potential
  • Messy finances and “shoebox” bookkeeping at audit time
  • Manual operations that don’t scale
    Our team uses Lumin, our in-house finance and operations platform, and an AI-augmented workflow that lets a small team run five properties without dropping service standards.

Our team uses Lumin, our in-house finance and operations platform, and an AI-augmented workflow that lets a small team run five properties without dropping service standards.

Max Koo

Joshua Hee

I’m Joshua Hee, a final-year Environmental Science student at the University of Nottingham Malaysia. I’m the Marketing Lead at EWBM, and I handle social media communications and publicity for the organisation. My interests lie in sustainability, environmental conservation, and understanding how humans and nature can coexist as one. With my involvement in EWBM, I hope to leverage my experience to give back to the local communities and empower the underserved groups, through simple sustainable engineering solutions.

Yestin Lim

Chan Jee Onn

A Biomedical Engineering graduate from UM with a strong passion for engineering, Chan Jee Onn is driven by the belief that engineering can be a powerful tool for creating meaningful change. He enjoys applying his technical knowledge, problem-solving skills, and interdisciplinary experience to real-world challenges, with a focus on developing practical and innovative solutions. Beyond engineering, his involvement in sports, event planning, and community initiatives has strengthened his resilience, adaptability, and ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds.

Jee Onn joined Engineers Without Borders because he believes that engineering is not simply about designing solutions, but also about understanding the people, communities, and needs behind them. He hopes to contribute his engineering skills, learn from others, and collaborate on projects that create sustainable and positive impact.

Lisa

Jonathan Lim

Jonathan is a photojournalist from Penang whose work largely revolves around stories of in-between moments and everyday life. Nature, food, culture and travel often intersect in his subtle yet intimate portraits of people, time and space.

He wears the hat of chief storyteller at an award-winning garden, creates content for people and businesses close to his heart, nurtures a community arts initiative, occasionally shoot photo essays and also dives into long-term photo projects: most recently documenting life in the circus and the journey of EWBM in bringing electricity to rural Sarawak.

Over the weekends, he run a little cyclist and family-friendly jungle cafe that overlooks the Straits of Malacca. Otherwise you’ll catch him cycling the island, dreaming up the next great Malaysian adventure.

Heng Cheng Liank

Heng Cheng Liank is a consultant and transformation professional whose career has spanned engineering, technology, business operations and organizational consulting. He has been part of Engineers Without Borders Malaysia for many years, including serving as Vice President and later as a strategic advisor on the Steering Committee.

With an engineering foundation and a strong interest in how people, organizations and systems work together, Heng believes that meaningful change comes from combining practical problem-solving with collaboration and a clear understanding of the communities we serve.

Diane Christine Albeper

Diane is a Senior EHS Executive for a real estate developer in Singapore. Although she has yet to pursue a conventional engineering career, she finds ways to apply her skills and knowledge during her consulting stint in a Big 4 Firm and before that with in the Environment, Health and Safety Department of an MNC. She is constantly looking for ways to create efficiencies in her everyday life through research and analysis. This includes conducting a thorough analysis on how to effectively drink wine with her cat.

Sharon Ding

A professionally licensed pill-pusher with an MBA, Sharon has spent years wrangling the wild frontiers of regulatory and quality compliance across the Asia-Pacific medical jungle – working tirelessly to make sure things are legal, safe, and don’t accidentally turn patients into luminous sewer turtle based superheroes among others.

When she isn’t busy translating dense bureaucratese into human English or making compliance sound like an extreme sport, she channels her formidable powers into Engineers Without Borders Malaysia.

At EWBM, she trades corporate paperwork for sustainable, real-world community impact, proving conclusively that you don’t need an engineering degree to contribute and save the world—plus having someone around who actually knows how quality management systems work is probably a massive relief for everyone else involved.

Rodric Chan

Rodric is a starring social media, content creator turned photographer and runs his media company; Days Studio. Majoring in productions for events, advertisement, and video productions.

Creating visionary short films on YouTube channel, he gained publicity with collaborations with other content creators and influencers to co-collaborate in productions.

In 2023, Rodric stewarded his team of 8 production crew members and 6 amazing talents to winning Canon’s Short Film Festival with his entry; “THE FESTIVAL”

In 2026, Rodric expanded his services to further venture into the education line, in tandem to service his branding by creating an event hub that is able to host 80 pax seating.

Rodric is also a drone instructor at two private schools, enabling him to hone his skills in mentoring young minds of ages 9 – 17.

Outside of work, Rodric does intermittent voluntarism work for the Star Wars Malaysia Fan Club, Engineers Without Borders Malaysia and its supporting partners, and KenaCon, a society for board game and miniature games in Malaysia. Rodric finds leisure in taking upon his motto of live “To Live A Little”, which means to have a balanced work-life schedule.

The key to his happiness isn’t in materialism, it’s in empowerment.

In other words, owning a Bentley isn’t fun, knowing and helping someone who has a Bentley is fun. That’s the affordable way to access one anyways…

Forging communities with like-minded interest for work / non-work related is what drives his true north.

Eloise

Meet our youngest humanitarian in training, a seasoned veteran of year 1 kindy who is currently balancing a grueling schedule of snack breaks, nap advocacy, and saving the planet.

When she isn’t busy negotiating the terms of her bedtime or conducting rigorous quality-control tests on various brands of colour pencils, she serves as a youth member of Engineers Without Borders Malaysia.

Juggling the delicate tightrope between aggressive growth spurts and systemic global reform, she approaches every humanitarian challenge with the fierce determination of someone who just realized the playground slide is hot. While her current engineering contributions are largely focused on kinetic energy generation (mostly achieved by running through the house at maximum velocity), she is fully committed to making the world a better place, one tiny, dirt-covered footprint at a time.