Sustainable Engineering: Roles, Ethics, and Information Sharing

This essay discusses the roles and responsibilities of engineers in promoting sustainable development, emphasizing the importance of balancing environmental, economic, and sociological factors. It highlights the ethical obligations of engineers to prioritize community health and safety, using examples of ethical conflicts encountered in the workplace. The essay also examines effective communication and information-sharing methods within engineering teams, such as open meetings, emails, Google Docs, cloud computing, Google Drive, and Skype, to ensure project success. The importance of professional and unprofessional email communication is also discussed. The document concludes with a reflection on the role of sustainability in engineering and the need for ethical conduct among engineers.

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LO3: Roles and responsibilities for employing principles of sustainable
development
3a. Roles and responsibilities to work on in the team for sustainable development
The professional engineers plays a significant role in meeting the sustainability. It is their
duty to work for the health, safety, and welfare, with the minimum utilisation of the natural
resources and pay attention to the environment and resources sustainability. For providing the
solutions and options for maximising the social value and reduce the impacts on environment
are needed to be delivered by the team of engineers. The responsibility of the engineers for
maintaining sustainable environment are:
a) Air pollution:
 the release of harmful gases and mercury with the problems of regulations
according to the established time frames and targets (Rosen 2013)
 Involving with the international and national initiatives for addressing the air
issues that are trans boundary
b) Water pollution:
 Resolve the issues of quantity and quality for fisheries and agricultural sectors
 Modify, develop, and update the ambient monitoring system of water with the
implementation of the proper maintenance (Staniškis and Katiliūtė 2016)
c) Land pollution:
 Promote the prevention of pollution in effective methods
 Validate the approaches of administrative that are based on risk for highlighting
the efforts where it is most essential

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3b. Sustainable engineering
The sector of engineering is the application of the mathematical and scientific principles for
the practical purposes like the manufacture, design, the operation of processes and products,
and subsequently accounting the restrictions invoked by the environmental, economics and
the sociological factors. Sustainability can be defined as the ability of making development as
sustainable by ensuring the needs of present demands without any damaging the ability or
power of the future generations for meeting their respective needs (Eales and Clifford 2013).
Better engineering solutions can help in recognising the requirements for sustaining within
the restrictions and ensure increased fairness in access to the inadequate resources are the
crucial predicaments that are lying at the base of concepts of sustainable development and
sustainability (Klotz et al. 2014).
According to the book by (Trevelyan 2007), it can be understood that the engineers are
mostly responsible for the service and production delivery that is performed by other people.
I work as the Architecture and engineering design manager and my responsibility is to
provide the technical and strategic design advice for the development and delivery of the
projects, and ensuring the requirements of the design service of the project is the best quality
that meets all the expectations of the stakeholders.
3c. Ethics for engineers
I think the code of ethics are required to be maintained by the engineers for ensuring that all
the requirements and the expectations of the stakeholders are met. These values help in
maintaining a disciplined environment in the workplace. The code of ethics for the engineers
states that the engineers must hold paramount for the healthiness, well-being, and the benefit
of community, more than the other commitments for the employers and the patrons (Reay,
Ramshaw and Harvey 2013). The engineering societies and engineering have delivered
minimal guidance on the prioritisation of the goods of community, with exception in the

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intense cases like the whistle-blowing. In the situation where any engineer discovers any
immediate threat to safety of the community, the engineer is expected to provide notice to the
associated authorities (Iacobucci et al. 2013). In any case, this situation is not properly
handled and then run through in the related associations, it is expected from the engineers to
raise a concern or blow the whistle. I faced this kind of situation in my work where a
malpractice was being executed and I had to notify the proper authorities for implementing
actions against the wrong activity.
The ethical code helps in ensuring the proper functioning of the team in all the functions of
the projects.
LO4. Information sharing in the workplace
We have implemented these following processes for effective communications among the
team:
Open meeting: This is the most effective method of communicating with the team as this
method allows the interaction of all the employees.
Emails: This is the present day method of communication among the teams. This allows the
communication with the other team members without disturbing the work routine of the
employees (Panetto and Cecil 2013).
Google docs: This method allows the collaboration of the documents in real time. Any shared
document with any other people would have the access to all the allowed employees at all
times.
Cloud computing: This is the modern day storage device that is used for storing sensitive data
and secure the data with improved firewalls and provide the access to the authorised users of
the company (Yang et al. 2013).

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Google drive: This method is used for providing the similar functionality like the dropbox
and contain all the file that are stored in the server of the organisation.
Skype: This is the method of providing the updated information to the employees across all
the branches of the organisations. Any quick development in the company can be provided to
the employees to have updated information to work with.
These processes are implemented for ensuring the proper handling of all the information
among the team and then use this information for developing projects.
LO5: Email to team member
Professional email
To: [e-mail]
Sub: Business Introduction
Dear Mr. Cooper,
I would like to introduce our organization Mates Cleaners Limited that specializes in
the business of providing cleaning services to various office premises.
We have been specializing in this business since last ten years. Our client list includes
the reputed organizations in the city. We not only provide cleaning services, but also
plumbing service and cleaning of the sewage pipes and drains. Our clients have been satisfied
by our service and we have never received a single complaint since the inception of the
business. It would be a great honor do business with you and that will add another reputed
organization in our client list.
I would be highly grateful if you consider us for providing cleaning service to your
office premise. I am also attaching a word file stating our quotation. In case of any further
query you can mail us or call us at 03039-3933-989493

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Regards,
Nathan Lee
General Manager
Mates Cleaners
Unprofessional email
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Hi Mark
Body:
Hii Mark,
Can u please inform me when would you have some time for helping me out in a matter. It is
an urgent matter and I need your help ASAP. Your help would be really appreciated and I
would be grateful for this act of kindness.
Thanking you
Riley
Email makes an effective communication because it is quick to send and the receiver
do not even need to leave their workplace to access the information and it can be accessed
from anywhere with the availability of internet access.

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