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To deal with this problem, as a professional engineer, they should follow the code of
ethics that applied in the work environment. Professional engineers are advised to act
fairly and loyally to all tenders and stakeholders that involved in their respective
professional activity marketing. Remember that community is the main customer.
Engineers have to put aside their personal wants such as making extra profits by
irresponsibly hiring incompetent vendors. This is because, it can cause risks to the
community later.
C) In terms of environmental and sustainability engineering designs, an
engineer is expected to be able to analyze situations and problems and propose
rational engineering solutions or recommendations. Discuss why environmental
and sustainability aspects is important.
(10 marks)
-Smartphone
Today we have smartphone which is very smart in all ways. From the smartphone
they can access internet and social media, video conferencing tools, and mobile apps
that can communicate with anyone around the world with no limitation easily. It was
not possible in the past. The benefit of communication change is that it’s fast, easy
and quickest method to communicate. In past, a letter takes 10 days to reach the
destination such as money order, greeting cards, personal letter and thousands of
others communication sources are not fast enough. But technologies nowadays work
as magical changed that now you can send an email faster in within less than one
minute also you can transfer the money from your mobile phone. Besides that, if you
are busy, this smartphone’s app able to help you to shop online as well can save your
time. This is technology and it’s non-stop.
-Grab Car
Instead of chasing down a taxi, bus and any other public transports or hopelessly
praying for one to miraculously pass by their location , ‘Grab’ app are now able to
hail a car from any location and have a car ready within minutes. Nowadays, ‘Grab ‘
had changed and make our life more easier and today ‘Grab’ is one of the leading
transportation services in the world. It also safe for both driver and passengers since
‘Grab’ app is a verified license by the government and ‘Grab’ has developed a rating
system to help assure this trust and reliability between drivers and passengers. ‘Grab’
app is a problem solver for passengers who in saving their money as the service
provides at reasonable price compared to taxi fare. Moreover, we can booked at any
time and everywhere just using our smartphone. ‘Grab’ car tends to come on time
which we do not need to wait for a long time for them to arrived at the destination.
- Wi-Fi
Besides that, wifi also had made a major change in our way of life. With wifi and
internet all information just at our fingertips. Wifi has made things quicker and easier,
which is our society craves. Wifi is convenient to use as it is wireless which is easy to
access and users can use it from nearly any convenient location. Users can also access
internet even outside their normal environment. Moreover, expanding wifi network is
easy as it does not require additional cost of installing. A wifi cone ction can serve
more people at one time. Users can connect to a wirelesss network with their desired
network. This means that will benefits to students that can be more productive as they
can do their work and research from any convenient location.
b) Explain how project-based engineering courses in university (i.e. Engineering Final
Year Project and Capstone Design Project) can encourage engineering students to think
creatively in solving complex engineering problem. (10 marks)
-From the project-based engineering course, engineering students can learned on how to
solve complex problem by themselves.
They tend to be independent and gain new information and knowledge by testing and
finding solution for the complex problem without seeking from any advisor for help.
Thus, this will train themselves without any help first and enhance student to thinking
creatively and out of the box.
In every project there will be a date line for submission. Students need to manage
their time and plan well and find a solution for the problem in a mean time, this
means critical thinking is need when to solve the problem, they need to think
creatively in a short time in order to catch up the date line.
Hence, this will develop discipline and passion in themselves.
- Besides that, through the project that the students do, they need to make a baseline
project management plan.
This plan help to track all progress of the project in a track. This project planning
process will force them to have to think about each of the important components
creatively that make up the project plan and achieve the project goal.
Having a baseline for each project allows them to monitor current project
performance and also to improve the accuracy of future estimates.
- On top of that, as a leader in the project, the student should be able thinking in various
way. Critical thinking and thinking creatively enables leaders at every level to
understand the impact of their decisions made on the project results.
Creative leaders thinking in a different creativity idea skills, they encourage
innovative thought amongst others in the team by providing practical insight to solve
the problem and task which ensure greater productivity.
- Through completing the project, students had a lecture with their lecturer or advisor on
creativity in the idea generation stage on their design project.
Creativity lecture about the importance of creativity in engineering project will help
the student be able to apply their creativity thinking process to their project.
Therefore, the students would use the skills learned in lecture class to develop creative
design alternative in their project in solving complex engineering problem. As part of
this, student came up with many innovative and able to think creative idea in solving
engineering problem.
C) Discuss THREE(3) main aspects that are important to be considered in designing
and planning for an engineering projects, product or services. (13 marks)
In planning for an engineering projects, there are some aspects that are important
need to be considered in designing the project.
- Schedule and cost are one of the important aspects need to be considered.
Scheduling is the first step of working on a project. Every process involved must be
listed initially. The engineers need to know and estimate the time to accomplish the
task so that they can plan and manage their time well and properly and can complete
the project in a given time. A project plan should be created includes schedule and
baseline. Baseline for elements such as schedule and cost are established for a project
in order to let the project manager track in progress and identify problems. Cost
budget of the project also should be consider as the engineers should strive to do great
work with that budget. The cost of the project should be within the range of allocated
budget. Budgeting is a crucial part in determining the success of a project. Wrong
projection of budget often leads to deserted project.
- Safety and liability concerns are often interrelated with construction health and
safety issues. Safety review meeting shall be conducted after an engineering review of
the design. With safety ensured, the workers know work place safety is being taken
care of professionally, they will feel safe and better abut their jobs and become more
productive in work. Safety engineers consider what undesirable events can occur
under what conditions, and project the related accident risk should be considered in
the early stages as otherwise, in the event that an accident does happen Indeed, it is
the safety engineer’s job to make sure an existing, completed design is safe. In
conclusion, safety is, undeniably, one of the more important disciplines in engineering
and, if not implemented, may lead to disaster and loss of lives
- Next is customer expectation of the project. Besides that, its important to know
and understand of the design’s project so that the designs help meet the actual end of
the project goal. Customers' expectations and perceived service quality are the
functions of customer satisfaction. The project must be in customer demand and
expectation so that will be no lost of money. Accordingly, customer satisfaction is an
important factor in the development of the project. It is natural that engineers in the
construction industry should be concerned about customer satisfaction because of its
expected influence on future projects. The significance of customer satisfaction, and
its use for evaluating the quality from the customer’s perspective. The customers’
expectations play an important role in the evaluation of project performance.
Customer satisfaction of the engineer’s project can be defined as how well the
engineers work, and the quality on projects can be regarded as the fulfilment of
expectations.
-Environmental and sustainability. Engineers need to refine their design project to
minimize the use of materials especially the non-renewable sources. This is because
in order to maintain our economics resources in pursuing healthy and productive life.
Just like how engineers supply safety factors in the design to compensate for the
uncertainties about the strength of the structure, they could also apply safety factors to
compensate for uncertainties about the environmental consequences of the projects.
-Social factor also need to be considered. Cultural norms and expectation, population
demographic and also population’s general attitude towards certain issues regarding
health, environment and safety. Example, if an additional landing strip for an airport
is to be build, the local population who will be affected by the construction have to
take into account. Because in order to built it, the people living there will have to
relocate and people living close to the airfield will have to expect increased noise
from the airplanes.
Question 3
a) Discuss how engineering students can plan for their success in engineering
career.
( 10 marks)
-One of the best way is to gain internship experience in an engineering company.
An internship will provide you with the privileged opportunity to observe and work
with engineers in their natural work which are in the office, laboratory or out on the
field.
Through internship, it could give you a vision of what your future look like as a
practicing engineer and of course internship helps open doors for future job offers.
An internship experience could also underscore for you the knowledge and skills that
you really need to learn as an engineering student.
-Besides that, students need to be active participate in any class or workshop that relate
to engineering skills that provide the university.
This will help you to gain new knowledge and apply the knowledge that you gain in
university, in addition you will get experienced for your future.
Thus, this will enhance engineering technical skills and hand skills to carry out job.
-Besides that, the importance of lifelong learning is that it keeps your mind sharp
and improve self-intellectual by working in industry.
Sometimes what we learned in university is not practiced regularly enough.
Then after years working, they used doing things in certain way and works
struggle to solve problem with facing challenges.
Moreover, when we keep learning and learning some new, it can retain mental
abilities.
-Our education does not stop the moment you complete your engineering degree.
Therefore, start making plans down the road. Every engineer as their own goals to
achieve after graduation in order to be a professional and well-respected engineers.
Hence lifelong learning is importance in supporting engineers to achieve their own
career goals.
c) The society and community’s perception on engineering profession are found to
be moderately low compared to other professional professions. Discuss this
statement by considering the factors that leads to this issue and suggest some
possible initiative/ways to be taken. (12 marks)
-Many of those people are being stereotype.
Awareness and understanding of engineers and engineering tended to be narrowly
defined and they primarily related to construction and mechanics into the role of
building or fixing things rather than design, innovation or creativity compared to
other professions.
There is less exposure about engineering professions nowadays. People with the
highest awareness of engineering tended to perceive the profession as a more creative
and high profession compared to others.
-Poor levels of understanding of the engineering profession and its skill leads them to
thinking that engineer’s profession is low compared to other profession.
They also do not acknowledge the achievements properly of those engineer’s
profession within in the industry, not only on the fields.
They do not know there are various types of engineering which mean all of them
have different scope area of work. Engineers do not only contribute the problem that
they solved but they are also raise on engineers in society.
Initiative/ways to be taken
-Public awareness campaigns should be help at any open school or university. Long term
public awareness campaign is needed to raise the profile of engineering profession in the eyes
of general public. The campaign should include exhibition of engineering accomplishment
and the role as engineers like the other profession. Thus through this campaign, they can
improve their knowledge about engineering profession.
- There is also things that universities can do to change the perception of stereotype on
engineers. To start with it, we can invite the any school out there like joining some
activities regarding about engineer’s day to our laboratories to let them experience some of
the exciting hands-on experiments for a taste of engineering. With the existent and growing
shortage of engineering skills, this should present an attractive career option for many young
people.
- Besides that, engineers also should mix and develop engagement with society. Engineers
should be more inclusive about their work. Though engineers work is quite busy, they should
fine time to get involver with the society by offering specialities to the people. By doing this,
indirectly they are ambassador of engineering community.