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    Lec 1-Chap 1-Intro To Engineering

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    This document provides an overview of engineering as a profession. It discusses what it means to be an engineer, including applying scientific knowledge to benefit society. Engineering is defined as applying math and science to design structures and processes. The roles of engineers include designing, problem solving, and leading teams. To be a professional requires specialized skills and ethical conduct as defined by codes of conduct. Good leadership in engineering requires treating others with respect, accepting responsibility, and leading by example. Organizations must balance bureaucracy with allowing creativity to enable engineers to do their work freely while maintaining accountability.

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    This document provides an overview of engineering as a profession. It discusses what it means to be an engineer, including applying scientific knowledge to benefit society. Engineering is defined as applying math and science to design structures and processes. The roles of engineers include designing, problem solving, and leading teams. To be a professional requires specialized skills and ethical conduct as defined by codes of conduct. Good leadership in engineering requires treating others with respect, accepting responsibility, and leading by example. Organizations must balance bureaucracy with allowing creativity to enable engineers to do their work freely while maintaining accountability.

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    This document provides an overview of engineering as a profession. It discusses what it means to be an engineer, including applying scientific knowledge to benefit society. Engineering is defined as applying math and science to design structures and processes. The roles of engineers include designing, problem solving, and leading teams. To be a professional requires specialized skills and ethical conduct as defined by codes of conduct. Good leadership in engineering requires treating others with respect, accepting responsibility, and leading by example. Organizations must balance bureaucracy with allowing creativity to enable engineers to do their work freely while maintaining accountability.

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    Lec 1-Chap 1-Intro To Engineering

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    Introduction to engineering

    Engineering and Society (BPK 4032)


    Agenda
    1.
    1.What
    Whatitit means
    means to
    to be
    bean
    anengineer?
    engineer?

    2.
    2.What
    Whatis
    isEngineering?
    Engineering?

    3.
    3.Rules
    Rulesof
    ofconduct
    conduct

    4.
    4.Functions
    Functionsof
    of Engineers
    Engineers

    5.
    5.Profession
    Professionand
    andProfessionalism
    Professionalism

    6.
    6.Good
    GoodLeaders
    Leaders

    7.
    7.Freedom
    Freedom within
    withinFramework
    Framework
    What is your understanding
    of engineer as a profession?
    -What is the engineer duty?
    -What type of knowledge
    involved?
    -What is the difference of engineer
    compared to scientist?
    What it means to be an engineer?

    • An engineer is a person professionally engaged


    in a field of engineering
    • A vocation (profession) whose principal duty is
    to serve mankind
    • Applying knowledge to create
    • practical devices,
    • structures and
    • processes
    • In contrast: Scientist aims to seek knowledge
    What is engineering?
    -Origins of the word?
    -IEM (Institution of Engineers
    Malaysia) Definition of
    Engineering
    Engineering-origins of the word
    • Practical form of art and a profession, evolved
    from the work of builders thousands of years ago
    • Originated probably in the Middle Ages around
    1000-1200 AD(Anno Domino or Current Era)
    • There were mainly builders of civil and
    mechanical structures such as buildings,
    bridges, roads, mills and war machines
    What is Engineering?
    • Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying
    technical and scientific knowledge and utilizing natural
    laws and physical resources in order to design and
    implement materials, structures, machines, devices,
    systems, and processes that safely realize a desired
    objective and meet specified criteria
    • The profession in which a knowledge of the
    mathematical and natural sciences gained by study,
    experience, applied practices with judgement ,to
    develop ways to utilize economically the materials and
    forces of nature for the benefit of mankind
    Science and Technology Definition

    • Science:
    • Business of seeking knowledge
    • Technology
    • Intelligent organization and
    • manipulation of materials for useful purposes
    IEM (Institution of Engineers
    Malaysia) Definition of Engineering
    • Share a common heritage of knowledge, skill and art
    • Renders (give) a specialized services
    • Involves a confidential relationship between
    practitioner-client and/or employer
    • Is charged with a substantial degree of public
    obligation (duty)
    • Is bound by a distinctive Ethical Code
    • Has learned organizations or societies
    As a summary, Engineering is..
    • A profession: it has standards of conduct,
    responsibilities, is based on specialized knowledge and
    members can attain professional status in well-defined
    ways.
    • An art as well as science: experience and practice is
    required.
    • The application of professional judgement in seeking
    optimum solutions.
    • The utilization of resources: nature, forces, energy,
    material, knowledge.
    • An exercise in optimizing economic cost.
    …with rules of conduct pertaining

    • Who is permitted to practice?


    • What are an engineer’s obligations to his/her
    client or employer and his/her colleagues?
    • What further obligations does an engineer owe
    to society?
    • By what standards shall an engineer be
    compensated (rewarded)?
    • How and by whom shall an engineer’s
    professional conduct be judged?
    What is the role
    of engineers?
    Functions of Engineers
    • Engineers act as a leader to technicians,
    craftsmen and workers
    • Engineers should be
    • familiar with the skills of his/her subordinates, and in
    addition to that,
    • innovate,
    • design,
    • make decisions,
    • and foresee,
    • identify,
    • assess, and
    • solve problems
    … in the following areas:
    Design
    R&D

    In various fields
    Construction
    of engineering
    Engineering skills
    use in the
    Management following areas
    Sales

    Production
    Operation
    Public Perception
    Parents
    Parents Public
    Public

    •High esteem •Poor

    •Good job opportunities communications

    •Well paid •‘Square’/ Rigid

    •Responsible positions •Male


    •Socially inept
    (hard to adapt)
    etc
    Objectives of Engineering
    and Society Subject?
    Objectives of Engineering and
    Society Subject
    Learn
    social
    Understand Analyse Propose
    side of problems solution
    engineering importance

    Include Understand In reality Propose


    issues like: equal Engineers rational
    •national Importance are expected solutions or
    development of social to analyse recommendations
    •Environment knowledge situations
    •Social to technical and problems
    •Professionalism knowledge
    What is the different
    between profession and
    professionalism?
    Profession
    • Involve the application of specialised knowledge
    of a subject, field, or science to fee-paying
    clientele
    • Claim authority on specific professional
    knowledge and skill
    • Possess criteria for membership privilege,
    obligation and rights
    Characteristics of Profession
    • Having a specialized knowledge and skill
    • Have undergone a recognized educational process
    successfully
    • Having acquired a standard of specialized
    qualification based on a specific discipline of
    education and proven competence
    • Action guided by a standard of conduct based upon
    ethical code
    • Status recognition
    • Involved actively in an organization devoted to
    common advancement
    Professionalism
    • Professional status, methods, character, or
    standards.
    • Refer to members common way of thinking and
    living
    • Sense of moral and vocational (profession)
    satisfaction
    • Professional attitudes and motivation based on
    community recognition and level of reward
    …Professionalism
    • A self imposed standards of excellence in its
    performance
    • Sharing advances in professional knowledge by
    rendering gratuitous services to society
    • Professional activity carrying high level
    responsibility
    • Motivation for service
    …Professionalism
    • Engineers practise as members of teams, led and
    managed by senior engineers.
    • Senior engineers -tended and managed large
    resources of man, materials and finance
    • Junior engineers -involved in detailed technical
    practice
    • Technical direction came from -middle level engineers
    • Generally in the client-practitioner characteristic, the
    individual role is taken over by the engineering
    management
    What is the criteria
    of good leader?
    Good Leaders
    • Tend to treat people as colleagues, companies or
    partners
    • To gain respect, relying upon authority of knowledge
    and personality
    • Require considerable inner confidence to lead the
    people on their journey and to show them the way
    forward
    • Able to motivate, making people understand the
    importance by stressing on the significance of the job
    • A good listener
    • Ask question to create a climate of participation
    • Trust the team
    …Good Leaders
    • Accept responsibility
    • Courteous, positive outlook and cool under pressure
    • Full of humility but has no doubt of his own power or
    hesitation in speaking his opinion
    • Understand what he can do or say depending on the
    situation and condition
    • Be right in the business but not just for himself
    • Spot any crisis before it happens
    • Lead by example
    Engineer as Leader
    • Willingness to practise the qualities of good
    leader
    • Acquire intense professional will and display
    workmanlike diligence
    • Committed to produce sustained results with
    continuous improvement
    • Took full responsibility
    Engineers who are potential leaders

    Self-reflection Conscious
    Personal
    A significance development
    life experience
    Being a mentor

    A loving parent
    A great teacher
    What are possible challenges
    when working in an
    organization?
    Bureaucracy and Hierarchy
    • Endure culture of discipline and avoid hierarchy
    and bureaucracy
    • Bureaucracy compensate incompetence and
    lack of discipline
    • Problem is minimized if the right people is
    chosen in the right place
    …Bureaucracy and Hierarchy
    • Bureaucracy
    • inhibit (hold back) creativity,
    • innovative people leave,
    • organization will suffer
    • A culture of discipline together with
    entrepreneurship driving spirit would achieve
    superior performance and sustained results
    Suggestion for organization
    structure and mechanism?
    Freedom within
    a Framework
    • Invent mechanism that drive culture change and
    enhancement
    • Enabling manager to be responsible for the
    return on investment
    • No cover-up on ineffective management
    • Uses rigour (strictness) and discipline to enable
    creativity and entreprenourship
    • Given the freedom to determine the best path to
    achieve objectives
    …Freedom within a Framework
    • Discipline by itself would not produce great
    result
    • Tremendous discipline can produce disaster
    • Ideally, require self-disciplined people who are
    also engaged in thorough thinking
    • Disciplined action within the framework of a
    consistent system around the area they can be
    best
    …Freedom within a Framework
    • Discipline people do not need a hierarchy
    • Disciplined thought do not need bureaucracy
    • Disciplined action requires no excessive controls
    • Great performance achieved through the
    combination of culture of discipline with cultural
    entrepreneurship

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