Engineering Management for a Sustainable Future: Reflection Paper

This reflective writing assignment explores a student's experience in the "Engineering Management for a Sustainable Future" module at Australis College. The student reflects on two critical events from workshop 1, focusing on the electricity industry and its challenges in achieving sustainability. The assignment highlights the application of design thinking and critical thinking to real-time problems. Through research involving primary and secondary methods, including personal visits, surveys, YouTube, journals, and books, the student examines economic, environmental, and social aspects of the electricity supply chain. The reflection includes a personal transformation of views and lifestyle, alongside a vision of the future energy industry in 2030 and 2050. The student emphasizes the importance of setting and implementing energy goals for a global energy revolution. The document references sources such as Australis College, the IEA, and publications by Blewitt, Cui & Fang, Dash, and Dodds & Venebles.

Running Head: REFLECTION 0
Engineering Management
Reflective Writing
(Student Details :)
12/9/2018

Reflection 1
Reflective Writing
While working on the module “Engineering Management for a sustainable future”, I learnt
how to apply design thinking in order to solve critical real-time problems effectively at any
time. Hence I would like to reflect my experiences which provided life-long learning for my
future career (Australis College, 2018). There are two critical events occurred during
workshop I, on which I would like to reflect and evaluate my learning through practice with
the help of critical thinking application (Australis College, 2018).
During workshop 1, I focused and learn about electricity industry as I was supposed to
identify the role of sustainability in engineering (Birol, 2018). For that I researched upon how
the electricity supply chain is structured as well as operates and the sustainability mind-set as
well. I found the challenges for electricity industry for obtaining sustainable future were
including basically three major aspects including economic, environmental and social (Dodds
& Venebles, 2008). During activity one, while I was finding these challenges then I
researched into the above three areas through personal visiting and surveys, as well as
secondary methods like YouTube and journals and books. the primary as well as secondary
research conducted by me evolved my personality and viewpoints as when I visited energy
supply chain include generation, transmission, distribution and retailing of electricity then I
realized that what I was reading about future electricity needs and fulfilment in theory, news,
journals and case studies was 100% true and in fact the reality was more worse than that (Cui
& Fang, 2011). Therefore, this activity-1 of workshop-1changed my views, viewpoints as
well as daily living style in order to contribute something for energy sustainability in future
(Blewitt, 2008).
Likewise, at one instance, I imagined myself in the year 2050; where I will be living, what I
will be doing, and how my life will be going from the perspective of engineering

Reflection 2
sustainability in future (Bass & Dalal-Clayton, 2012). Hence, on the basis of the info I
collected during activity-1 and the transformation presently happening inside the energy
industry, I prepared my future energy structure including demands and supply (Dash, 2013).
While I imagined that how the future energy industry will be looking like in the year 2030
and 2050, I realized that if we all can decide and implement some strictly needed energy
goals, missions and their associated targets then our engineering management of today as
well as of future can bring an energy revolution all over the world.
References
Australis College, 2018. The Importance of Reflective Practice. [Online] Available at:
https://www.australiscollege.edu.au/blog/community-and-counselling-study-blog/the-
importance-of-reflective-practice/.
Bass, S. & Dalal-Clayton, B., 2012. Sustainable development strategies: a resource book.
London: Routledge.
Birol, F., 2018. Energy is at the heart of the sustainable development agenda to 2030.
[Online] Available at: https://www.iea.org/newsroom/news/2018/march/energy-is-at-the-
heart-of-the-sustainable-development-agenda-to-2030.html [Accessed 26 October 2018].
Blewitt, J., 2008. Understanding Sustainable Development. UK: Earthscan.
Cui, Q. & Fang, D., 2011. Special Issue on Engineering Management for Sustainable
Development. Journal of management in engineering, 28(1), pp.1-1.
Dash, M.C., 2013. Concepts of Environmental Management for Sustainable Development. 1st
ed. U.K.: Module Handbook.
Dodds, R. & Venebles, R., 2008. Engineering for sustainable development: Guiding
Principles. The Royal Academy of Engineers, p.52.