CVEN9742 Professional Civil Engineering
Workshop 3 – 28Feb24
• Sustainability issues in Project work discussed
The discussion raised in the Lecture and now the Workshop how is
sustainability maintained in engineering project work?
If you recall it was discussed that it needs to be at all stages of the
project:
a. Design (selecting the best materials that meet the criteria),
b. Construction (selecting the best construction processes that
also minimises waste),
c. Operations/ maintenance issues (has the cost of operations
and maintenance been well considered in the initial design
process?),
d. What happens at end-of-project-life? (Is there an
environmentally friendly demolition process specified of how
the structure is to be demolished/ salvaged?)
You might want to write about any of these aspects of work that is of
interest to you, or, your experience in any of these matters if you have
dealt with sustainability matters in: Design or, Construction or,
Operations / Maintenance, or project Salvage at end-of-life.
You should also be writing up in your Reflective Journal about the
importance of the understanding of the Client’s Needs in forming a
project, and how these factors impact on the elements within
Oberlander’s schematic representing:
Scope-Schedule-Budget and the quality of work produced.
• Readings
None issued this week.
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• Individual Assignment – Dot-point Brief
Ensure that you meet the Dot-point brief submission time so as to avoid
late submission penalty deductions.
What you have compiled in preparing your Dot-point Brief is the sort of
information you should be trying to understand about an organisation
you might be seeking employment with in the future. Whether you are
seeking employment here in Australia, or elsewhere overseas, the
headings that you have prepared your work too are mostly applicable in
preparing for your interview.
• Further discussion on the Belbin Analysis Honey and
Mumford Questionnaire outlined in Workshop 2
Ensure that you have completed your work on these Questionnaires to
gain the maximum learning and understanding from these exercises in
the discussion given in the Week 3 Workshop.
• Preparation for Class Test 1
There will be an update given in the Week 3 Workshop on the number of
questions that will be in Class Test 1.
• Preparing your Resume
This will be discussed in the Workshop. For those seeking a job at the
end of the Term/ Year you need to commence this sooner rather than
later as you will need to allow plenty of time to reflect on your writings. A
hastily prepared Resume will generally have mistakes within it, and you
need to remember that your written communication skills are on display
in submitting your Covering Letter and Resume. Those mistakes will cost
you dearly in not being selected for an Interview.
• Reflective Journal
Look at the exemplar files that have been uploaded onto the Moodle as
part of the Week 3 materials as to the ways you might prepare your
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Journal. You should by now have completed journal entris for Week1
and Week 2. If not yet done you need to prioritise your effort on this task.
I will reiterate that you will find that you are limited in the amount of
information you are able include each week with the three-page limit, so
additional marks will be awarded in how you deal with all the parts of the
marking criteria.
Look carefully at the headings you will use to help you write for each
week:
1. FRONT PAGE (This allows the student to individually ‘title’ their work)
2. Executive Summary (1 page maximum and is written after all chapters are finalised)
3. Table of Contents
4. Weekly Journal entries (3 pages maximum per week) that addresses the following:
a. What did I learn in the Lecture and Workshop/ out of class about the weekly topic?
b. Why are those experiences/ knowledges important to my future as an engineer/
manager?
c. How will I use those new experiences/ knowledges right now as a professional student
and/ or employee?
d. What else do I need to do to enable me to confidently use this experience/ knowledge?
e. What did I do well this week and what else do I need to do to improve next week?
f. Progress of your team report and presentation preparation
5. Supplements (optional) in dealing with other things of value to you but not included in the
course materials
6. References (student to decide set-out either as part of each chapter or as a separate
section)
