Unit 35 Professional Engineering Management - Pearson Higher Nationals in Engineering

Assignment: Engineering Business Risk Report

Learning Outcome 1: Evaluate the risk evaluation theories and practices associated with the management of projects for the production of current and developing technology.

Learning Outcome 2: Produce an engineering services delivery plan that meets the requirements of a sector-specific organisation.

Learning Outcome 3: Develop effective leadership, individual and group communication skills.

Learning Outcome 4: Develop personal commitment to professional standards and obligations to society, the engineering profession and the environment.

Assignment Brief

You are to propose a topic of interest, under the theme of ‘Safety'. This topic must then be researched, and you shall produce four staged reports that feature various aspects of the Engineering Management process for your topic. These four aspects are Engineering Business Risk, Engineering Services Delivery, Engineering Management Tools, and Engineering Profession Obligations. Each separate report should be discussed in the context of the topic proposed and the current theme of Safety. You are encouragedto reflect on your personal commitment to professional engineering standards in conjunction with their obligations to society and the environment.

You will in conjunction with your tutor, choose your own project focus for the development of the Engineering Management process based on the theme provided. The focus area must be related to your specialist pathway of study (Electrical Engineering). This will enable you to construct a coherent Engineering Management process to meet the needs of your chosen area. Basic conceptual design considerations would be expected to be communicated in one of more of the reports such as general arrangement sketches and single line diagrams.

Delivery should include the development of:
- Strategic planning and the techniques adopted to effectively manage teams
- Total Quality Management (TQM), logistics and supply chain management
- Engineering social and ethical responsibility
- Decision making and risk management tactics
- Technical report writing, investigative field study, and appropriate presentation skills.

P1 Evaluate the risk evaluation theories and practices associated with the management of engineering projects
P2 Assess elements and issues that impact the successful management of engineering activities.
M1 Critically evaluate the main elements and issues that impact the successful management of engineering activities.
D1 Specify and analyse the challenges encountered when meeting the requirements forsuccessfully managingengineering activities and make justified recommendations toovercome these challenges.

Read this information before starting to define your proposed area of focus and refer to it as you complete the work for this unit.
- Develop a methodical proposal (see below for an example of a proposal brief). As you will need to include an engineering service/s delivery plan as an integral part of your submission, you should be simultaneously considering the impact on stakeholders and what performance measures you envisage employing.
- Select a topic of personal interest in your chosen specialism. The topic chosen should allow a sufficient and suitable degree of research through the existence of adequate background information. You will need to ensure it relates to the theme Safety
- A good proposal should meet the following criteria:
o Covers an area with sufficient source material.
o Extends a current line of learning that will lend itself to further rigorous scrutiny. There should be sufficient breadth to allow you to demonstrate the knowledge and skills you have learned within the unit, but it should not be unwieldy so that you are unlikely to be able to see it through to completion.
- Agree both your proposal and the format that your engineering service/s delivery plan will take with your tutor before beginning the main body of your research.
- Conduct your underpinning background research as outlined in the proposal agreed with your tutor.
- Communicate your findings and proposals in a manner appropriate to your audience. You will also be expected to justify any appropriate recommendations that you make.
- You must complete a coherent engineering service/s delivery plan in order to complete your work for this unit.
- You will need to reflect on your own performance at the end of the unit with the inclusion of self-evaluation by means of reflective practice (see following section)
On the following pages, there is an example of a proposal brief.

Proposal Brief

• Define your chosen specialist topic area of investigation. This can be stated as a problem, objectives or simply as a question. Choose your topic area with great care, remember that you'll need to construct a resilient engineering service/s delivery plan to fully illustrate how the project will be delivered.

• Provide a written outline of your proposal for agreement with your tutor before you engage in the main body of the work.
• Describe your methodology. You will need to demonstrate an understanding of the pitfalls and limitations of the methods chosen and ethical issues that a professional engineer faced with similar problems may encounter.
• Your engineering service/s delivery plan is an integral part of how you're going to tackle the problem. A well-defined service delivery plan helps to explain how the project is to be delivered. Below are several aspects you will need to consider when constructing your service delivery plan:
1. A detailed task breakdown
2. Challenges: both planned and unforeseen
3. Assessment and feasibility studies (links to risk evaluation)
4. Responsibility for completion
5. External & internal pressures: costs, impact on other services/ users
6. Impact on stakeholders if not undertaken
7. Performance measures
8. Project team management strategies and considerations
9. Start date/time of individual task and project
10. Finish date/ time of individual task and project

• Consider the impact of effectively managing the people involved both directly and indirectly with the project. How would you ensure the team remain focused in achieving the desired goal(s)?

• Consider how you will communicate the outcomes to the identified audience. As well as documenting your findings in a professional engineering report, you will need to bear in mind the essential key points required to deliver an effective presentation.

Attachment:- Engineering Business Risk Report.rar