Engineering Practice Report

This report discusses the critical roles of engineers in business sectors, focusing on sustainable practices, effective communication, and information management. It highlights the importance of teamwork, ethical considerations, and the challenges faced in documentation processes. The report emphasizes the need for engineers to adopt sustainable practices to enhance productivity while minimizing environmental impact.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Responsibilities and role of the engineers and the principle of sustainable development...............3
Information and documentation management.................................................................................5
Effective communication.................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
Good engineering practice in an organization ensures that the product quality of such
organization is well as expected by the customers (Monteiro, Leite and Rocha 2017). The main
responsibility of the engineers is to provide assurance of the development of the products within
an organization. Australian business market includes a large number of engineers to carry out
their business operation. The engineers in the business sectors get proper training to improve
their Existing skill (Locatelli, Mancini and Romano 2016). However, every industry needs a
group of technical experts to carry out their operation. Hence, this assignment deals with the role
of engineers in managing the information and documentation in the business.
Responsibilities and role of the engineers and the principle of sustainable development
Incorporation of new equipment is very common in each business sectors that need to be
maintained by skilled engineers. One of the major roles of the engineers is to ensure that the
equipment is working properly (Bok and Coe 2017). As an engineer of my team project business
development is my prime duty. However, it is important to me to analyze the effectiveness of the
equipment besides this analysis of the current market to identify the opportunities is vital for me.
Regarding me, it is important to give support to my marketing team in order to develop strategies
for promotion of the product. Preparation of business proposal, sales tools, and presentation
regarding the development of business are the major areas of my responsibilities while working
in a team. Apart from this budgeting, resourcing and competition analysis are my other
responsibilities. However, making effective communication with my team members and
coordination are necessary for me during the collaborative work. Therefore, solving any
problems and generating ideas make me hard worker in my team.

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According to the Trevelyan textbook, an engineer needs more knowledge to carry out the
business operation. This book highlights on the ability of the engineers to create, draw and finish
the objects (Trevelyan 2014). However, my responsibilities as an engineer enable me to develop
the objects through sharing ideas within the team. Then I draw my objects by developing proper
designing. Moreover, I finished my objects through the collaborative work within the team.
Sustainability in the engineering refers to the process to design an operating system in the
business that never affects the environment (Furda et al. 2017). However, due to rapid use of
technology in the manufacturing process, the environment often affected. Hence, it is crucial for
the engineers to use new technology that can improve the productivity by maintaining the
sustainability of the environment. As an engineer, it is my prime duty to use resources and
energy sustainably during business design. In the recent years, the designing engineers are able
to design the building and manufacturing process in the production that reduces the energy
consumption and the reduction of natural resources (Murphy and Gardoni 2017). According to
my viewpoints, such sustainable practice in the engineering will lead them to gain profitability in
their business and to reduce the operation cost in business.
According to me the sustainable practice in the engineering enables them to maintain the
environmental norms that are important for any business. However, in the traditional process in
engineering practice destroys the natural resources that are vital for global population (Brunhaver
et al. 2017). Hence, the new practice in the engineering enables them to protect the natural
resources that will fulfill the needs of the future generation and it also improves the traditional
business practice of engineering by cutting the production cost.

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Providing empathy and respect to the people are my prime values in my work. However,
being empathetic and respectful during the work people should be able to come over the ethical
conflicts (Storer 2017). As an Engineer, I often face ethical conflict as people in the community
have the wrong concept that engineering profession has affected the environment and the people
adversely. Hence, my empathetic nature enables me to understand the feelings of such people
and showing respect I am able to come over such issues by changing their wrong concept. My
empathetic nature enables me to cooperate with my co-workers during the teamwork that
establishes a good relationship with them and maximizes the performance of the team.
Therefore, showing respect to the co-workers enables me to develop a good relationship with
them and it also allows me to get respect from others in my professional career.
Information and documentation management
Challenges occur during the version control of report and drawing in the engineering
profession as many members are involved in this work and the small error in version control
needs re-doing the work that is more time-consuming (Mihelcic et al. 2017). According to the
popular view, faulty version control often delivers the wrong file to the client that makes huge
work for the team members and affects the reputation of an engineer in their professional career.
Regarding me, the application of electric cooperative in my team for sharing information is
helpful for us. However, if changes regarding the drawing are needed then information can be
shared through such cooperative process quickly. As for example, our team member makes the
print out of drawing then mark up the drawing and develops a short note of changes and mails it
to the cooperative. Therefore, the designer makes the changes in the original document through
this automated system. Hence, this process ensures proper information sharing and collaborative
work of my team member in the recent version of a document.

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Effective communication
Communication is the crucial part of teamwork as based on this a team can improve their
performance (Wells and Whiteford 2017). However, in the recent year e-mail is a good medium
of communication within a team as it is a quick process and gives clear message to the
individuals (Matos et al. 2017). According to me, sending of professional e-mail regarding any
working information is an effective way that allows an individual to deliver message
professionally. I believe that it is difficult to give detailed information in the verbal
communication and verbal communication is not appropriate for the professional
communication. However, in the current practice of the engineering profession e-mail has been
used commonly for the communication as technology is invaded every aspect of the business.
Therefore, individual can make communication with many others at the same time by using e-
mail. Thus, it can be said that e-mail is an important way of effective communication as this
process enables the team members to communicate with professional ways and it stores the
evidence of each communication in the business that is necessary for professional sector.

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Figure 1: Sample of Formal e-mail
(Source: Google images)

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Figure 2: Sample of unprofessional e-mail
(Source: Google image)
Conclusion
This current study reveals the different roles of the engineers in the business sectors.
However, within a team, it is important for the engineer to make effective communication with
the team members and to solve issues by taking proper action. However, it has been found that
version control brings challenges for the engineers during their group work as the error occurs in
the documentation process. Hence, by using an electric cooperative automated system such
challenge regarding the version control can be resolved. On the other hand, adoption of the
sustainable practice of the engineering profession is beneficial for them to reduce operation cost
and to develop a better engineering solution. Apart from this, it can be said that the empathetic
nature of an individual improves them personally and professionally as an engineer.

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References
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