Importance of Roles and Responsibilities in Engineering
According to me it becomes important to follow some rules by engineer’s o that the products can be delivered efficiently. The engineers needs to include proper planning, designing and organizing the products for proper outcome. The engineer needs to provide continuous support towards the developing team and needs to address the problems well so that the risks can be mitigated at earl stages. From the book Trevelyan we have found that it becomes important for every engineer to address the problems faced by other employees and resolve the problems (Trevelyan 2014).
There is a need to have a routine maintenance so that the outputs can be addressed properly. The engineer needs to address the complaints and should provide an instant service to the customers. Corrective actions are needed to be implemented and proper management support is needed for developing a project within budget. It is the responsibility of engineers to give proper guidance towards the employees. Apart from all this the engineer should be aware of the materials used so that the safety can be ensured. Proper energy conservation strategies are required for developing an effective project. In the book Trevelyan I have learnt that it becomes important to manage the financial processes need proper human resources development and training and buying of products useful for the development process.
Sustainability in engineering
Sustainable engineering is the process of designing a system that will use resources sustainably. That is the system will be created at a rate in which it will not compromise with the need of future generation for meeting their own needs (Remmers and Nagel 2015). The common focus of engineering includes water supply, energy development, industrial processing, cleaning up polluted sites, planning projects to reduce environmental impacts and many more. The engineering process can be improved by using only that much resources that are needed. The engineers will use only the required resources, this will ensure that the product used is in sufficient amount and will also save the resources for future.
This way a better sustainable solution can be achieved. For example: implementing a proper timeline with a resource chart will help the engineers to understand the requirements clearly. Once the requirement is clear the engineer can acquire the resources accordingly (Staniškis and Katili?t? 2016). According to me each and every engineer should be responsible enough so that they can understand the importance of sustainability in engineering. Sustainability in engineering will be helpful and will help to develop a better future.
Ways to deal ethical conflict
According to me it is important to have proper moral values that will help engineers to succeed in their work field. Values are referred to determine the act whether it is right or not. Every individual possess some behaviour and follows a certain value. It becomes important to follow proper moral values that will enhance the works in future. The main values that every engineer should poses are honesty and self-integrity. Under no pressure they should perform any activity that is ethically incorrect or will harm anyone. Every engineer should do justice towards other employees and towards the project. This will help the engineer to deliver a self-satisfactory project.
Sustainability in Engineering: Definition and Importance
The engineers should maintain proper relation with other employee and should resolve the ethical problems as soon as possible. Each employee should respect other employee’s property and should not touch them without their permission. According to me integrating ethical values within an individual will lead to creation of better workplace. The values are loyalty, fairness concern towards other individual, respecting everyone’s decision, trustworthy, law abiding (Kallusky et al. 2018). For example: if an engineer follow this ethical values, he will be awarded with loyal employee tag and this are very much beneficial at the time promotion. Organization will like too have engineers with proper values and knowledge of ethics.
Managing information and documentation
It becomes important to have proper communication among the team members and every member should use the latest version of document. There are several challenges faced while working with a large team and it becomes important to overcome this challenges (Austin and Pinkleton 2015). In order to manage proper sharing of information our team has implemented a centralized information system. This helps to store information properly and also prevents information loss. Apart from this the IT department has ensured that each member are using the recent document version. IT department has given the responsibility to organize each members system and install the necessary requirement.
Our team members are asked to give proper feedback on the version of document they are using. This ensures that each member are using the recent versions and are able to manage the information properly. The major challenge faced by our team while using the documents includes having a proper version control over the reports and drawings. It is important for each team member to have a proper control over the reports and the facts used or developing the reports (Comm and Mathaisel 2015). Several features are included in the new document version which will make it easier for user to access and will help in managing the information properly.
Effective communication:
Example of an effective email:
From: manager
To: Mr Smith
Subject: Appraisal of Mr Smith
Dear Smith,
This is to inform you that you are being appreciated for the hard work you did to bring our organization on top. In return to your dedication the management team and association has decided to promote you to assistant manager. This will help you to grow in your field and also will be beneficial for our organization. We are happy and privileged to have employee like you.
Thanks and Regards
Mr Richard
(Manager)
In this example, the manager has formally explained the reason behind promotion and also the post. This will help the promoted person to understand the details clearly. Thus, it is an effective way of communication and will maintain the professionalism among the employee.
For example: an email with unprofessional attitude
From: manager
To: Mr Smith
Subject: Appraisal of Mr Smith
Dear Smith,
This is to inform you that, you have been promoted to assistant manager. Hope you will work with us and will serve better with time.
Mr Richard
(Manager)
This example shows that the communication is unprofessional and also not clear. Everyone should be praised for their hard work correctly so that they get motivated. This email was unprofessional and disappointing.
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