Professional Year in Engineering Work Placement Report Analysis

This report details a student's professional year work placement in mechanical engineering, focusing on event management and practical experience. The student, Dhruv Dharmendrakumar Patel, completed the placement at MNP Electrical Pty LTD, designing and implementing preventive maintenance and lubrication programs for machinery and equipment. The report includes summaries of various events attended, both technical and non-technical. Technical events covered topics like AWRA-L modeling for water resource management and fire safety verification methods. Non-technical events focused on resume building, interview techniques, and leveraging LinkedIn for job searching. The student's responsibilities included analyzing management reports, identifying maintenance issues, and making recommendations for corrective actions. The report also mentions the KYHO Workshop, which provided insights into job market suitability and resume optimization. Overall, the report highlights the practical application of engineering principles and the development of professional skills during the work placement.

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Technical event 1:
The event was mainly focused on AWRA-L model and website; detailing outputs and use. The
way Bureau of Meteorology uses AWRA-L to approximate antecedent soil moisture conditions
during operational flood warning for housing case. It was also discussing about the AWRA-L
modeling system corresponds to the availability of the input data and Australian water
availability project grids of daily rainfall, minimum and maximum air temperature and solar
radiation. This system also contains other components such as benchmarking and visualization.
The visualization allows the plotting of maps for any specific region by bounding box or a pixel
and the benchmarking consists of the model outputs against in-situ and remotely sensed soil
moisture. In a nutshell, thus system can be run in three primary modes which are interactive
simulation, plotting and benchmarking. The event helped in better understanding of the national
streamflow dataset along with satellite derived soil moisture and evapotranspiration estimates. In
the present condition of extreme dryness and shortage of water, this model is like a boon on the
Australian climate and sustainability
Non- Technical event 1:
It is one of the most exclusive opportunities to hear and learn about the enhanced charter
application process. The aspirants have the option to switch from the current e-chartered process
to an enhanced one which would help them to the right kind of career exposure and
development. The event is backed by a question and answer session where the audience gets the
opportunity to directly contact and communicate with the industry experts. The event offers the

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aspirants with varied international conferences and seminars and attending conferences provides
opportunities to develop technical expertise, learn about industry trends, connect with thought
leaders, build your professional network and maintain your CPD.
Technical event 2:
The event was hosted by the NSW chapter of the Society of Fire Safety. The event was on the
verification method for Brushfire protection and Brushfire planning and design. The presenter
discussed about the performance requirements, verification methods and deemed-to-satisfy
provisions for construction in brushfire prone areas. They also mentioned about Brushfire
Planning & Design (BPAD) Accreditation Scheme. Overall, the event was very informative.
This event has been immensely helpful in understanding the Risk Management and
Emergency management strategies during such critical condition. With the changing climatic
condition and degrading natural environment these accidents have become very common and
therefore require strategic intervention. The event was aimed and catering to a large group of
audience including: Architects, Designers, Mechanical Engineers, Fire Safety Engineers, Fire
Protection Consultants, Building Regulation Consultants, Fire & Arson Investigators, Private
Certifiers and Regulatory Authorities along with Councils and Fire Brigade Personnel. The event
helped the aspirants get guidance and gain knowledge from NSW Chair Edmund Ang along with
other eminent speakers.

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Non-Technical event 2:
The Event was on how to make your perfect resume; they gave some tips about
interviews and gave some techniques to prepare ourselves for job interview. The also gave tips
on how to make the linkedln look smart and finally knowledge on how to increase your network.
In the event he mentioned that in order to make linkedln profile look smart always concentrate
on the details while preparing your profile. A headline and summary are key and is one of the
most important portions of Linkedln Profile. Include volunteer experience, avoid using vague or
generic buzzwords in your profile and regularly write post on your profile to turn up in a
research. To make perfect resume they gave us the perfect format, always start with a heading
statement and how to chose the resume objective statement. In a nutshell, the event gave me very
useful knowledge that can help me to find the job.
KYHO Workshop - Land that Job! Is a very interesting event which helps to
provide smart tips to achieve one’s dream job. This event has been immensely helpful to
help us understand which are the core areas that one needs to focus to become suitable for
the industry and the existing job market. The workshop helped the aspirants gain
expertise is varied way of making one’s resume attractive to the recruiters and most
importantly highlighting on the facts what makes recruiter reject resumes. The most
interesting feature of this workshop was a sound training on how the social media
platforms can be a big decision maker as well as a game change for an aspirants seeking
job. The workshop also partnered with varied recruiting firms and big industries who are
currently hiring to understand what actually the want of the current job market is
especially for the engineers.

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