CQUni ENEG20001: Reflective Essay on Australian Engineering Practice

This is a reflective essay exploring the author's understanding and evolving perspective on engineering practice. It covers various aspects such as the role of engineers, expert knowledge, sustainability, ethical considerations, teamwork, and time management. The essay addresses questions related to the author's initial perceptions, changes in viewpoint after research, the qualities of an expert engineer, knowledge development strategies, key behaviors in teamwork, research methodologies, collaboration experiences, time management skills, the time value of money, and the integration of sustainability and ethics in engineering. The author also reflects on experiences in project management and leadership, highlighting both strengths and areas for improvement. This assignment is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide range of study resources for students.

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Reflective Essay
Essay
5/28/2018
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Question1
Before I do the detailed research on the engineer and their roles, I think that the engineers are
the person who design, implement, build, test new machines and devices, systems which will
be helpful in making the life’s easy for the other individuals. The engineers are responsible
for defining the problems conducting and analysing the research, finding the solution and
making decision for the same. I think the engineer works in a variety of fields to analyse,
develop, and evaluate large scale, difficult system. This can be done to have the improved
and maintained system or creating the brand new projects (Ughanwa and Baker, 2018).
Question2
Yes; my view has been changed a little about the role of engineers and their performance of
work. After having a detailed review on the engineers are not only the people who analyse
and summarise the things while taking the decision. But the scope of engineers is more than
that. The engineers are responsible for all the work done by them whether it is planning the
new technique, implementing it, taking the decisions and after that taking the feedback. If the
project does not goes in accordance to that expected then taking the corrective action for
making it right. In Australia, the engineer’s areas do the new task in the field of agriculture
industry.
Question3
Expert can be defined as the person who is very knowledgeable about or skilful in a particular
area. In my view the engineer can be an expert. It can be expert in the mechanical, or
software’s or other lines of engineering. In engineering, it will take four years to complete the
course. The expert can become engineer by taking the degree with skills and knowledge. The

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study of the engineering is both the experience and learning as well. The expert gains the
theoretical knowledge from the books and when applied in the real life with his innovation
and skills in it, he gains experience from it (Lee and Smith, 2018).
Question4
Reading and understanding the whole, I have understand that the role and duties performed
by the engineers. I developed the new knowledge of how the engineers design perform and
implement their work. The engineer can be an expert while taking the knowledge from its
academics and apply that knowledge on the practical life while using its skills and innovative
techniques. To activate my knowledge base, I like to learn things from others to increase my
knowledge. Everything cannot be learned by us, some topics can only be understood by the
explanation given by others. I develop those skills by reading and learning more (Irwin,
2016).
Question5
Key behaviour in my opinion is listening. In listening, the people get the understanding what
other people wants to tell. While listening to some person, half of the problem of person is
solved. I am trying to be a good listener. As good listener has its own quality. A listener can
make it existence feel in front of everyone by nodding the head, showing the facial
expression as if he can understand each and everything. From this the other people feel that
the person is very understandable and have many capabilities to do and understand the new
things from others (Bryant and Goswami, 2016).
Question6
When I am carrying out any research, I would first like to read all the contents related to the

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research, then start organise the information in the systematic manner. After managing the
information, the writing part of the research is started. I would kept a record in notes form
which I have made at the time of research the topic and its contents, keep the information in
the soft file while managing all the links from which I have done the research. I write those
things in advance in my own words so that at the time of writing it will become simple for me
to understand and write the things.
Question 7
Collaboration is a term used for action of working together to produce something. I think
coordinating and cooperating with other is quiet easy task for me as I have remain the captain
in the cricket team of my college and my team members are happy with my leadership. I
think I still work on my technical skills in my job profile. The collaboration in the team is
very important as integrity in the team leads to have win-win situation. I think the work of
communicating, coordinating and building relationships with people is easy for me. The
frustrating part is when the people put the limitations on me of not doing some work (Binder,
2016).
Question8
As a manager, the time should be managed so that the each task should be given equal time.
Time management should be done accordingly to the work requirement. Managing time can
be properly done when the things are prioritize, breaking down the task in smaller parts. The
best management of time I can done in the field of giving appropriate time to each subjects so
that I can score good in all rather than focusing on the one subject. The worst time
management incident I faced was not to be on the time at the time of my exams in school

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days (Kozel, 2016).
Question9
Time value of money can be defined as the concept in which money available at present is
more than the worth money available at future date due to the potential of money to earn
more in the future. The concept of time value of money is taken into consideration as money
can earn interest; it is the core principle of finance. Payback period is the period which gives
the time estimation that in how much time the money invested will be return to the investor.
Similarly in the case of the engineering education, time taken to complete the studies and
amount of fee invested will be the initial investment. The time in which student completes his
education and start earning the amount which was invested will be the payback period
(Sarkar, Sana and Chaudhuri, 2011).
Question 10
Sustainability in engineering is the process of designing or operating the system in such a
way that they use the energy and resources in the sustainable manner. The application of
ethics norms will lead to better engineering solution for the future. The ethics should be
included in all the profession of engineering as well so that the follow of moral duties should
be there (Bender, Wagg and van, 2016). Ethics can be defined as the basic moral principles
that govern the person’s behaviour or nature in doing the work. This field examines and set
the obligation by the engineers to society, to their clients and to the profession also.

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