Australis College: Engineering Management Reflective Report

This report is a reflective writing piece on the "Engineering Management for a Sustainable Future" module. The student discusses their learning experiences, particularly the implications of design and critical thinking in solving real-world environmental problems. The report focuses on two critical workshop events where the student explored the electricity industry's role in achieving future sustainability, analyzing the supply chain management and its challenges. The student conducted research through personal visits, surveys, and online sources, including academic journals and case studies. The reflection highlights the evolution of the student's perspective on energy sustainability, their future vision for the energy sector in 2050, and the importance of implementing set energy goals to achieve an energy revolution worldwide. The student emphasizes the importance of their research and its impact on their daily lifestyle and dedication to contribute to energy sustainability.

Running Head: REFLECTION ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT
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Engineering Management
Reflective Writing
(Student Details :)
12/11/2018

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Reflective Writing
I worked on the module “Engineering Management for a sustainable future”; and I learnt
implications of design thinking and critical thinking while solving real-time problems related
to the environment effectively. Hence I will reflect my experiences here which have provided
learning for the development of my future career in all way (Australis College, 2018). There
were 2 critical events happened during workshop module-I, over which I would be evaluating
and reflecting my learning with the help of my critical thinking solicitation (Australis
College, 2018).
In workshop-I, I learnt many things about electricity industry as I was required to find the
role of engineering in future sustainability through measuring and visualizing eco-system
services (Birol, 2018). For the above task during activity 2.2, I researched and analysed upon
electricity supply chain management structured and its operation for achieving sustainability
as well. Hence, I found that the critical challenges for electrical power system while obtaining
sustainable future majorly comprised 3 aspects such as environmental, economic and social
determinants. Additionally, during activity 2.2 when I was searching for the above challenges
then I researched over the topics listed below:
 Interconnection between engineering and sustainability (Dash, 2013).
 The completion of economic progress
 What we are doing wrong in our present businesses and lifestyles
 Environmental ethics for engineering and engineers (Cui & Fang, 2011).
I did this research by personal visiting as well as surveys, along with online sources like
academic journals, e-books and YouTube. In this way, primary and secondary researches
those were conducted by me during workshop module have evolved the personality as well as

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viewpoints of mine. For an example, while I visited sites of generation, transmission,
distribution and selling of electricity hence I observed that future electricity requirements of
the world is far greater than what it has been predicted by the environmentalists. Energy
concepts described in the theories, news, academic journals and energy case studies were
100% useful to understand engineering management role for building a sustainable future
(Dodds & Venebles, 2008). Thus, the activity of workshop-1evolved my thinking,
viewpoints, views and daily life-style in a way that I am now dedicated to contribute anything
at any time for obtaining energy sustainability of future world (Blewitt, 2008).
Likewise in the activity 2.1, ‘Next 50 year visioning for Energy Industry’ , I visualized and
imagined my world in the upcoming year 2050; like what I will be doing, where I will be
living as well as how the human’s life will be going from the energy and engineering
sustainability in prospect (Bass & Dalal-Clayton, 2012). Therefore, through imagining the
future energy sector in the year of 2030 and 2050 (Dash, 2013), I comprehended that our
strict determination as well as implementation of set energy missions, goals and the related
targets can easily do the engineering management of current scenario as well as of future and
it will bring the energy revolution worldwide.

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References
Australis College, 2018. The Importance of Reflective Practice. [Online] Available at:
https://www.australiscollege.edu.au/blog/community-and-counselling-study-blog/the-
importance-of-reflective-practice/.
Bass, S. & Dalal-Clayton, B., 2012. Sustainable development strategies: a resource book.
London: Routledge.
Birol, F., 2018. Energy is at the heart of the sustainable development agenda to 2030.
[Online] Available at: https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2018/march/energy-is-at-the-
heart-of-the-sustainable-development-agenda-to-2030.html [Accessed 26 October 2018].
Blewitt, J., 2008. Understanding Sustainable Development. UK: Earthscan.
Cui, Q. & Fang, D., 2011. Special Issue on Engineering Management for Sustainable
Development. Journal of management in engineering, 28(1), pp.1-1.
Dash, M.C., 2013. Concepts of Environmental Management for Sustainable Development. 1st
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Dodds, R. & Venebles, R., 2008. Engineering for sustainable development: Guiding
Principles. The Royal Academy of Engineers, p.52.