Reflective Essay: Engineering Innovation and Ethics

Running Head: ENGINEERING ETHICS
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Reflective Essay
Engineering Innovation and Ethics
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5/9/2019

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Contents
Reflective Essay: Engineering Innovation and Ethics...............................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Reflection...................................................................................................................................2
Description: what I have learned in this research..................................................................2
Interpret: an interpretation of my own insights......................................................................3
Evaluate: an evaluation of what I have learned in this module..............................................4
Plan: acquired learning’s application to future practice.........................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................5

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Reflective Essay: Engineering Innovation and Ethics
Introduction
This reflective essay is going to demonstrate my capability to reflect on being truly
effective engineer while negotiating agreements amid mining and oil gas companies and
traditional owners for the success of the engineering projects. For doing so, I am selecting an
interesting topic related to Australian communities’ engagement. Here, I am going to reflect
upon ‘investigating the history of the treatment of Aboriginal Australians over the past
centuries’. Additionally, my evolved views on how Australian community’s history may
impact an ethical practice of engineering (EPOE) will be covered in this paper. In this
context, an explanation over how the Indigenous Australians’ history over the last century
will influence my communication effectiveness while engaging with Aboriginal
representatives as well as Australian communities as an engineer (Hickson, 2011).
Reflection
In order to have a systematic reflective approach while narrating my own views from
an engineering perspective, I will be using an illustrative framework known as DIEP
(Describe, Interpret, Evaluate, and Plan) in this paper (RMIT University, 2019). When I
studied this framework to utilise for this reflective writing I found DIEP as an effective
strategy for assisting me as well as others during academic reflection writing. In this context,
four key steps of the DIEP framework are greatly helpful in order to describe one’s own
insights on a novel understanding or concept. Therefore, DIEP framework has largely
assisted me to describe, evaluate, interpret as well as plan for my future learning and practice
(RMIT University, 2019).
Description: what I have learned in this research
In this context, a vital thing which I have realised while learning the module is that
community consultation and engagement is vital for each engineering project while culturally
diverse communities are involved. Besides, my observations while learning about the
Aboriginal Australians suggest that engagement process with Indigenous Australians can be
more complicated in many situations. Likewise, in Australia peoples come from diverse
cultural, social, as well as linguistic backgrounds hence an engineering project