Reflection 1 ENEG20001: Engineer Roles, Sustainability, and Info Mgmt

This report is a reflection on the roles and responsibilities of an engineer, sustainability in engineering, and information management. The author discusses the engineer's involvement in projects, emphasizing the importance of understanding project objectives, adhering to timelines and budgets, and utilizing technical skills. The report also explores the concept of sustainability in engineering, highlighting its principles and applications in designing sustainable solutions. Furthermore, it addresses the significance of effective information and documentation management within engineering projects, including strategies for sharing information, version control, and communication among team members. The author supports their points with references to relevant literature and real-world examples.

Australian Engineering Practice
Unit code: ENEG20001
Term 2, 2017
Student Name: KURUCHETI SAIPHANICHARAN
CHAKRAVARTHI
Student ID: 12052681
Week of submission: 6
Date of submission: 25/8/2017
School of Engineering and Technology
Central Queensland University

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Reflection:
Discussion on engineer’s roles and responsibilities
I had discussed my roles and responsibilities into the project as an engineer. Mir and
Pinnington (2014) stated that an engineer is involved into profession work to relate science to
best possible translation of resources of nature in order to provide benefits to the team members.
In the project, my role is an engineer. My main responsibilities are to first understand the
purpose as well as objectives of this project work. I had worked according to the project
timescales and in scheduled cost. I had produced the project deliverables to being agreed with
project specifications. I had developed of new technological solutions to overcome with the
project issues. Therefore, I had to lead the project work with use of my technical knowledge and
skills.
During the engineering design process, my responsibility is to define the project related
problems, conduct research and analyze the solutions (Dolce & Di Bucci 2014). I had applied
techniques of engineering analysis to test, produce and maintain the project work. When a
project failed, I had determined the causes of failure and test the project output to continue with
its quality. I had involved into responsibility to develop the project results for useful purposes. I
had contributed towards successful interaction and towards constructive motivation (Verzuh
2015). As for example, I had developed the objectives of the project by review of the project
proposal and plan. I had identified my engineering responsibilities by identification of project
phases with review of the bids from the contractors.

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My roles and responsibilities as an engineer are related with the concepts into Trevelyan
textbook. In this book, it is analyzed that an engineer is acted as a leader into the project with
technical role with no management responsibilities. As a leader, it is required to understand
project requirements and then the engineer can inspire others to work into it.
The engineer can demonstrate its capability for leadership in various extracurricular roles
like help to manage activities into the society (Tripathi & Goyal 2014).The engineer
demonstrated its capability for leadership through part time work recorded. As related to the
textbook and my own responsibilities, I worked as a supervisor with use of engineering
capabilities to work out the leadership skills. Engineer can coordinate with own work and then
collaborate efficiently with another people.
Sustainability into engineering
I had discussed the sustainability into engineering. Leach (2014) demonstrated that
sustainable engineering is based on the principles which support sustainable development. The
sustainable engineer can design, implement and produce sustainable solutions to the technical
problems. In my point of view, the principles of sustainable engineering are taking into account
of decision making for research as well as industrial projects. They are also concerned into
decision making observes the funding of technological research.
Verzuh (2015) argued that sustainability engineering achieves of the goals such as
reduction of waste, materials management, pollution prevention and also enhancement of
product. As for example, I had determined that engineering includes of frequent ways to advance
processes and products to compose them more resourceful from an environmental as well as

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sustainable point of view. Each of the approaches is based on view probable impacts into space
as well as time.
Sustainability can lead to better engineering solutions as leading towards the engineering
processes to make decisions. It is a process to design the system such that energy as well as
resources is sustainable (Kerzner 2013).Each of the engineering disciplines is engaged into
sustainable design. Various types of initiates are taken such as analysis of life cycle, prevention
of pollution, design of the environment as well as designing for recycling. Nicholas and Steyn
(2017) mentioned that natural resources are the industrial endeavors which are contributing to
the social as well as economical well beings.
Within the engineering process, incorporation of sustainability into the products,
processes and also technical systems means to integrate of environmental and social factors
within design evaluation. Based on concepts of sustainability engineering, it provides
engineering solutions as introduction of core concepts of strategic sustainable development,
structured planning and also decision making model for submission into real world problems
(Nicholas & Steyn 2017). It provides a system oriented sustainability framework to the engineers
so that they can improve environment as well as social factors. The scale and difficulty of the
issues are connected to achieve sustainable society, humanity and necessitates of people of
deviating the engineers.
Manage information and documentation
When more members are assigned into a project work, then the project can achieve of
great success. Apart from the project success, the engineer is also facing of challenges such as
ensuring of version control of reports as well as drawings (Burke 2013). I had used of various

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processes in place to share of information and ensured that each and everyone should work into
recent document version. The team members require interacting with each other into the project
group.
As for example, I had conducted face-to-face communication which is the best
information sharing process for me. I had instructed the team members to share their email id as
well as phone number with each of the team members so that recent information should be
shared with each other. I had set up a message board and I had scheduled a meeting on weekly
basis. The weekly meetings are updating everyone on the project progress and use of recent
document version (Schwalbe 2015).
Videoconferencing is also an information distribution process to get project related
information about the project team. Information sharing flowchart is used by the project manager
and engineer to recent update and progress of the work (Nicholas & Steyn 2017). The free flow
of information is related to movement of information and data among the members of the
project. Most of the information sharing and also knowledge management distinguishes the
information, knowledge as well as data. I had also used of information sharing model when
planned changes are occurred in the organization to facilitate and resist based on dynamics of
social structure. It spans of the internal boundaries of the organization.
The data are frequently kept into personal so that it is not shared among any other
unauthorized person. Any project related information are kept into privacy and with strict
authorization, therefore I had used of such information sharing processes such that no other
person can able to access it. Therefore, I had kept all the project related documents with
password authorization.

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References
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Dolce, M. & Di Bucci, D 2014. Risk management: roles and responsibilities in the decision-
making process. Geoethics: ethical challenges and case studies in earth science. Section IV:
Communication with the public, officials and the media.
Kerzner, H 2013. Project management: a systems approach to planning, scheduling, and
controlling. John Wiley & Sons.
Leach, L.P 2014. Critical chain project management. Artech House.
Mir, F.A. & Pinnington, A.H 2014. Exploring the value of project management: linking project
management performance and project success. International journal of project
management, 32(2), pp.202-217.
Nicholas, J.M. & Steyn, H 2017. Project management for engineering, business and technology.
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Schwalbe, K 2015. Information technology project management. Cengage Learning.
Tripathi, V. & Goyal, A.K 2014. Agile Requirement Engineer: Roles and
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Verzuh, E. 2015. The fast forward MBA in project management. John Wiley & Sons.