Professional Engineering Management

Assignment - Developing Skills & Commitment

Learning Outcome 1: Develop effective leadership, individual and group communication skills.

Learning Outcome 2: Develop personal commitment to professional standards and obligations to society, the engineering profession, and the environment.

Assignment Brief

Case Scenario
As part of your engineering role in Quark & Jones Ltd, you have been put forward as a candidate for promotion to a project engineering position. You have successfully submitted your engineering services delivery plan to your manager, as part of a process to assess your credentials for the promotion.

The next stage is for you to carry out the project and produce a report on the findings, showing how you have used effective leadership and communications skills, as well as developing your own commitment to professional standards and obligations. Remember that the company mission is very important in this stage which highlights the engineering department's aim to transform business processes by utilising new and emerging digital technologies Your project must also show that you have investigated the core theme of Sustainability and that this has been addressed and implemented within your project.

Your manager has therefore presented you with a specification, which states what is to be included within your project report, details of which are as follows:

Produce a written project report that details the project's findings, milestones completed, and change management required. You must also address the core theme of Sustainability and explain the importance of leadership styles with examples of how you have adopted good leadership and communication skills throughout your project. Also, you will show how you have had to effectively persuade and negotiate, giving a detailed description of the steps you took or would take in the future, to manage meetings successfully.

Present a recorded presentation (PowerPoint or similar) giving an overview of the project and its findings.

Provide a separate explanation and discussion on the theory that you have used, and which underpins the successful delivery of this presentation. Are there other steps you could have taken to make it more effective? You should also aim to prove your competency in leadership theory, give a professional evaluation of different leadership styles and communication skills, providing different examples. Consider how you have, or would in future, ensure that your team remains focussed in achieving the desired goal(s), coaching, and mentoring any poorly performing or disillusioned factions.

Demonstrate how you have considered your own social responsibility as an engineer throughout the project, what sort of professional commitment have you demonstrated and how will you take this forward? Consider the reasons for keeping abreast of new developments and discoveries within engineering, how would you advocate the importance of this to others?

Show how you can participate in continuing professional development, taking forward any lessons that you have learned in this project. You should endeavour to display your knowledge of professional engineering ethical standards and behavioural patterns here.

Complete a self-evaluation form (available within the suite of U35 documents within Moodle). When completing this form, you will provide a separate statement which specifically addresses Sustainability in relation to your completed assignment/project.

Note: 1800 Words + 10 PPT Slides in 400 Words