ENEG20001 Australian Engineering Practice Term 1, 2019 Individual Reflective Paper 2 [10 marks] LO3. Discuss engineers' roles, responsibilities and the need to employ principles of sustainable...

ENEG20001 AUSTRALIAN ENGINEERING PRACTICE
INDIVIDUAL REFLECTIVE PAPER
Table of Contents
LO3. Roles and Responsibilities of Engineers, along with Need to Implement Principles of Sustainable Development    3
Environmental factors    4
Social factors    4
Economic Factors    4
LO4. Managing Information and Documentation    4
Transparency    5
Consistent commutation    5
Collaborative approach    5
Trust towards team members    5
Preventing team burnouts    6
LO5. Effective Communication    6
Effective communication    6
Non-Effective communication    7
References    9
LO3. Roles and Responsibilities of Engineers, along with Need to Implement Principles of Sustainable Development
Sustainable development refers to the economic and efficient use of resources with the aim to sustain the resources for the future generation. The concept of sustainable development came into existence with the uncontrolled increase in population. Due to increase in population, demand for resources increased simultaneously and along it that emerged their misuse. This concept applies specifically to the exhaustible or the non-renewable resources such as petroleum and coal. Since, the increased population cannot be decreased and every individual requires adequate resources to survive, a holistic approach towards the use of available resources is now being applied and this is termed as sustainable development.
Engineering is the branch of science that deals with the construction, operation and management of technology and innovation. Engineers are professionals that are responsible for designing professional solutions for social issues and therefore play a major role in the construction of modern society. Field of engineering is highly dynamic and ever changing, which further depends upon the demand, challenges and necessities that the upcoming time period has to offer. However, due to lack of resources and increasing population engineering process had been adversely effected. Since, every individual requires resources but at an affordable and sustainable cost therefore, these situation has presented numerous challenges in front of engineers. This is due to the fact that they are required to provide innovation though at a very nominal damage to the environment.
In order to fulfil all these conditions, innovative engineering known as sustainable engineering has emerged as a revolutionary solution. Sustainable engineering, as mentioned by Wong (2016), is a new and sustainable approach towards designing and operating systems so that they not only provide efficient work but also do not compromise with the natural environment. There are several principles and concepts, on which acts as the framework for this field. These principles are modified engineering principles in accordance to the sustainable needs. As supported by Mainali et al. (2016) there has been enough attempts form the academic as well as professional institutions in order to formulate sustainable engineering principles and after numerous efforts and modifications several principles have emerged. All of these falls into the triangle with values related to environment, social and economic values as the major corner stone.
Environmental factors – These are in accordance with the concept that every new innovation or design should not cause any harm to the existing biodiversity and also should stay within the ecosystem’s carrying capacity. Further, no matter how useful the innovation or design is it should be a posed threat to other already existing life forms and also should not generate any bi products or wastes that the nature cannot handle or are non-disposable.
Social factors- These principles are based upon the concept that instead of providing harmful technology to the society, individuals and communities should be provided with the opportunities to increase their abilities so that they can work efficiently with the existing technology. Further, there is a need to keep aside the needs and wants of individuals instead the designs and technology should be based upon the principle of targeting needs of larger number of individuals. The best example of this comes from France in terms of ‘ombrière SUDI’, which is a sustainable urban design, and innovation, SUDI is an autonomous and mobile station that performs dual...