Engineering Practice Report: Roles, Sustainability, and Communication

This report delves into the multifaceted aspects of Australian engineering practice, examining the roles and responsibilities of engineers, particularly in relation to sustainable development. It explores how engineers contribute to a sustainable future by balancing present needs with those of future generations. The report analyzes the importance of ethical considerations, communication, and information management within engineering teams, as well as provides examples of effective and unprofessional communication. It discusses the application of engineering principles and the necessity of making informed decisions when faced with ethical conflicts. The report also highlights the significance of teamwork and the use of various communication methods to ensure effective collaboration and project success. Furthermore, the report provides insights into how sustainability can lead to better engineering solutions, emphasizing the need for engineers to consider ecological, technical, social, and economic systems.

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3. Discuss engineers' roles, responsibilities and the need to employ principles of sustainable
development.
The process of enduring of the biological system that is productive and remain diverse is
often defined as the Sustainability. But in 21st century the definition of Sustainability has gone
too far, now it focuses on the need of development of the sustainable model requirement for the
well maintenance of earth and for the human race to survive. It is a balanced act that “values the
needs of the present without compromising the well-being of future generation” as stated by the
United nation in 1987.
Figure 1: Three dimensions of Sustainable development
‘Engineering is referred as the professional art of applying science to the optimum
conversion of the resources of nature to benefit man. The words engineer and ingenious are
derived for the Latin root “ingenerate” meaning “to create”.’ As stated by a popular individual.

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Engineering is associated by a large body of special knowledge. Preparation for this
professional practice includes substantial amount of training to gain the knowledge of this
applications. The art where necessary judgment is required for the adaptation of the science and
to practice on purpose, there requires imagination to conceive an original solution to any kind of
logical problems and should have the ability to predict performance and performance along with
effective cost of new devices.
The role of the experimenter or scientist is to analyze and identify the problems, while the
engineer has the role to solve the problem accordingly. The scientists provides products and new
variety of items in the store, provides systematized knowledge of the real world, while the
engineers brings the knowledge to solve the practical problems. This field of the study has basic
principles based on the chemistry, physics and mathematics; the extension in the material science
and fluid mechanics, thermodynamics transfers and rates the system analytics, computer
programming, processes, electronics and robotics.
a) You have now been working on your team project for many weeks. Reflect on the roles
and responsibilities you have taken on in your team and how that relates to what you have read
in the Trevelyan textbook.
Engineer’s role and responsibilities: To make engineer’s vision broad at first they are
made technically strong to think logically. Where engineering study and codes make sure that the
integrity and safety of the development are helping them to develop and give the society a
sustainable solution to any problems regarding the environment. The primary role of the engineer
is to analyze and identify the problems and then seek out the best solution that lead to the best
development of the environment and society that may include the need and consumption of the

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resources from the environment. There should be a balance between the resources used and the
development of the society such that there are enough for the development for the future
generation. Excessive use of the resource may lead to scarcity in further use. Engineers are not
allowed to select the problems but when problem rises they have the permission and ability to
solve them and thus satisfy the requirements conflicting. There are two kinds of resources to be
employed- energy and material. Due to the limitation of the resources there is a great concern
amongst the engineers upon the conceptual development of new resources and the effective use
and utilization of the existing resources. The engineering activities are for the welfare of man by
furnishing food, comfort and shelter. And these are done by marinating and developing the work,
transportation and communication mush safer and reliable.
Scope of the guide:
 Sustainable development and engineering are closely related and linked, form
many aspects of sustainability depends directly and the significance are
appropriate, so timely actions of engineers are always required.
 In a journal of The University of Engineering, The Royal Academy of Engineering
2000- It has been explained that Engineering design plays a vital part for the
extension of the engineer process such that for the analyzing, synthesizing and
evaluating and executing.
 The input of sustainable development solution should always be provided in the
partnership. The issues concerned are described as the engineering input starts to
participate in the framing of the problems.

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b) How do you understand sustainability in engineering? Discuss one way in which
sustainability can lead to a 'better' engineering solution? How did you define ‘better’?
Engineering refines the products and try to make them sustainable. The Sustainable
development is the way to move human activities to such a pattern that can be utilized.
Sustainable engineering gains the environmental engineering concepts to some better
place by concentrating over the links and interaction between ecological, technical, social and
economical systems and hence by avoiding the shifting problems in each area. The concept of
life cycle thinking, industrial ecology and sustainable systems engineering are important
elements in the work practice and education of the sustainability in engineering.
The engineers are tends to search for the effective and historic solutions for the
protection of the environment and the crucial lives presenting a support system and at the same
time meet the needs of the rapidly growing human population. This is how the word ‘better’ can
be defined.
c) Your values are important in determining how you might respond if you found yourself
in a situation of ethical conflict. Try to identify at least two values that you believe have an
impact on how you live and work.
If there is situation of ethical conflict, it is important to determine the reaction or response
of someone in that situation defines the word ‘value’. Identifying the most important values that
are believed to have impact on someone are: live and work.

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Honesty, respect, integrity and dignity are some of the characteristics of the person in a
professional field. The impact of these values are in such a way that adapting these values may
make one’s social life better and stronger that results in good living and working environment.
4. Manage information and documentation.
a) Having many members of a team work on a project together means that you can
achieve a great deal more than if you were working by yourself. However, it also creates some
challenges. One challenge is ensuring version control of reports and drawings. What processes
has your team put in place to share information and ensure that everyone works on the most
recent version of a document?
Communication is a very effective medium of communicating information. In today’s
date there are numerous ways that are available for communication. Some of the modern means
of communication are cell phone texting, calls and emails or via social networking sites of
internet.
To cope up with the challenges of communication people make groups on a social site
and are using this sources to communicate. The workflow of the DMS encapsulates business
rules and metadata. Every day new and variety of information re added in the groups and is sent
via emails or texts messages regarding updates. These messages are sent to all group members.
The group members have chosen social media sites as the medium for communication
since this sites are used by everyone daily basis. This helps in keeping updates every minute.
This idea has gained success in keeping the communication simple and effective and hence the
communication problems are solved in an easy manner. The Document management system is

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focused primarily on the storage and retrieval of self-contained electronic data resources in the
document form.
5. Communicate effectively across a range of context
a) It is important as a professional that you learn to communicate appropriately with a
range of stakeholders and mediums. Email is one medium that is commonly used in current
practice. Give an example of an email you have sent to either your team or facilitator that
demonstrates your ability to communicate effectively and professionally. What do you think
makes this an effective communication? Give an example of an email that you think is
unprofessional – it does not need to be a genuine email, you can write a mock email.
There is a sharp difference in professional and non-professional communication.
Professional communication specializes in writing and taking care of the rule of the writing. This
makes the audience understand the author’s vividly without any ambiguity.
Example: here is an email showing professional communication.
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: XYZ Project and Communication Guideline
Dear XYZ Project Team Member,
Welcome to XYZ Project. I look forward to work with each of you. The project will be
starting soon and I have selected all of you because you people have potential to bring out the

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creative solution and implementing the principal of engineering to give your idea a physical
existence. I’m expecting all of you to yield maximum output of your expertise. I will be heading
up this project.
I need to set some ground rules for project communication using this thread:
1. Only communicate with project members.
2. Focus on one thought per email.
3. If the email isn’t about the project don’t include it in this thread.
4. If you have a question, review the entire thread to make sure someone hasn’t already
answered it.
Let me know if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Anonymous
XYZ Project Team Lead
An example of non-professional
Same as letter head.
Subject Get things done on time!!!
Member 1!!!
What is wrong with you? You don’t seem to have gotten anything done If it kept going
on like that I will exclude you from the project and then you will find yourself in trouble. 

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