Engineering Practice Portfolio Assessment

The Portfolio is your opportunity to demonstrate what you have learnt in this course.

It is not sufficient to simply say that you have learnt something, you must demonstrate what you have learnt by providing evidence.

Creating a Portfolio emulates the process of applying for a job. When you apply for a job, you need to demonstrate how you have met the Selection Criteria. You need to provide examples of times in the past when you have done things that show that you have the capabilities the job requires. Then, during the interview, you will be asked to talk more about the events you described in your application.

For the Portfolio, you must respond to the learning outcomes, giving examples of how you have met each of them. After you have submitted the Portfolio, you will participate in an individual viva voce. The Viva Voce is an opportunity to discuss any anomalies in your evidence to ensure that your portfolio is fairly graded.

Requirements - Your Portfolio should be collated into a single pdf with the following sections:

• Cover page with your name and student number, course code and name, assignment title and date
• Executive summary
• Table of contents
• Grade nomination
• Individual reflective writing tasks
• Workbook
• Team project charter and project plan
• Self and peer assessment results
• Team project report and slides from presentation

Workbook - Engineers must keep records of their work for many reasons. Mainly, these records are handy points of reference for future projects so you do not need to continuously relearn complex processes, software, calculations, standards, etc. However, good quality records (accurate, comprehensive, relevant and intuitive) are important for justifying your decisions to project stakeholders. Good records are essential when asked to explain your decisions many years after the project was completed. It is for these reasons that in this course you will be made to complete a Workbook as part of your Portfolio. 

Your Workbook can be typed, handwritten (then scanned) or a combination of both but must be neat, chronological and legible. The workbook contains all your work for the team project. It should contain separate entries with headings and the date, such as: 'April 20 - Project Risk Assessment'. These entries will show when you worked on each element of the project and how your ideas and capabilities have developed through the course. You should not go back and edit old entries as this may prohibit demonstrating skills development. The Workbook cannot be completed retrospectively and must include at least two entries each week while working on the team project. Entries should demonstrate a variety of technical skills like researching, brainstorming, creating mind maps, flowcharts, methodologies, schedules, obtaining experimental data, undertaking data analysis, producing results, figures, charts, conclusions, calculations, drawings or any other work done for your team project. It is good practice to add entries to your Workbook first and then send a copy to your teammates to ensure you retain the original work.

Reflective Writing Task 1 -

1. Explain the historical impact of engineering on society.

2. Explain engineering professionalism and ethics in the Australian context.

3. Discuss engineers' roles, responsibilities and the need to employ principles of sustainable development.

4. Manage documentation and information (emphasizing on referencing) and Explain effective communication across a range of contexts.

5. Lead or participate collaboratively in team.

6. Demonstrate critical self-review, self-management and lifelong learning.

Reflective Writing Task 2

1. Discuss engineer's roles, responsibilities, and the need to employ principles of sustainable development.

Step 1: In order to develop or construct engineers require natural resources, and the system demands transportation of the natural resources in the closed-loop systems, resulting in less wastage and more enhanced use of the natural resources.

Step 2: The other step implies an understanding of how renewable resources and nonrenewable natural resources should be used, which would result in the extent of supply of natural resources.

Step 3: Recycling natural resources and avoiding products that cannot be recycled is very important when it comes to the line of engineering inventions (K. Lee, S. Han, H. Park, 2015).

2. Explain effective communication across a range of contexts.

Textbook - The making of an expert engineer by James P. Trevelyan. ISBN: 978-1-138-02692-6.

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Attachment:- Assignment Files.rar