Engineering Management and Professional Practice for Mechanical Engineers

Learning Outcomes

• Washington Accord (V4) Summary of Graduate Attributes attained in this course:
   WA3 – Design/Development of Solutions
   WA4 – Investigation
   WA5 – Tool Usage
   WA6 – The Engineer and the World
   WA7 – Ethics
   WA8 – Individual and Collaborative Teamwork
   WA9 – Communication
   WA10 – Project Management and Finance
   WA11 – Lifelong Learning
  
  
• Course topics with Learning Outcomes (and Washington Accord (WA) and UC Graduate Attributes) identified.
  
  1. Professional engineering career and Ethics in complex professional decisions
          1.1. Understanding complexity in engineering problems. Analysing core discipline competencies. Professional engineering membership (EngNZ). Lifelong learning (WA9, WA10, WA12) (EIE1, EIE5, GA2)
          1.2. The EngNZ Code of Ethical Conduct: Understand the code, the decision-making process (‘engineering judgement’) and evaluate ethical scenarios (WA8) (CE3, GA1, GA2)
  2. Engineering risk and safety, Environmental engineering and Engineering and society
          2.1. Understanding how and why health and safety is an ethical and legal obligation. Apply analysis tools (FTA, bowtie) to predict and diagnose complex engineering failures. Understand types of risk (WA4, WA6) (GA2)
          2.2. Describe environmental considerations, including the ethics of stewardship, the NZ legal perspective, and the consent process. Understand life cycle assessment (LCA) (WA4, WA6, WA7, WA10) (BCC5)
          2.3. Understand the of the Treaty of Waitangi contextually. Appreciate cultural worldviews. Evaluate: implications of Māori values for decision-making, cultural impact, and communication (WA6, WA7, WA10) (BCC4)
  3. Systems engineering and project management, Engineering law and Engineering innovation
          3.1. Apply project management methods to create project plans, develop a work breakdown structure (WBS). Describe systems processes: analysis, verification and validation (WA3, WA5, WA11) (EIE1)
          3.2. Understand the principles of law involving contracts & procurement, product liability, health and safety, consent process, intellectual property (IP) (WA6) (WA11, GA2)
          3.3. Identify types of IP and legal protection methods. Apply the VIRO framework to product and service differentiation.  Describe routes to market, principles of marketing and apply to new product development (WA3, WA4) (EIE5)
  4. Organisational management for engineers and Engineering Psychology – Managing People
          4.1. Comprehend financial budgets and statements. Calculate cash flow implications for a project. Undertake SWOT and PESTLE analysis for an engineering situation (WA9, WA10, WA11) (EIE2)
          4.2. Identify personality traits and infer implications for team interactions. Analyse teams using the circumplex model of Nestsiarovich & Pons and Tuckman’s model (WA9, WA10) (EIE2)

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

	Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
	Employable, innovative and enterprising Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
	Biculturally competent and confident Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.
	Engaged with the community Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.
	Globally aware Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

Restrictions

For further information see Mechanical Engineering .