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Takalani Netshipale 13048016 IPI Exam Assignment 1. Introduction As any task needs beforehand planning, becoming an engineer and maintaining the title needs a lot of structured planning before implementation. Registering on a professional board as an engineer entails a lot of dedication and understa...

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Takalani Netshipale 13048016 IPI Exam Assignment

1. Introduction As any task needs beforehand planning, becoming an engineer and maintaining the title needs a lot of structured planning before implementation. Registering on a professional board as an engineer entails a lot of dedication and understand of what are the expected duties and qualities. This report serves to set a plan for the future and how to implement the continuation of being a professional Civil Engineer in confidence.

2. Purpose This is a conceptual 5-year plan for Ms Takalani Netshipale (13048016) to be able to have attained the following: 1. Registration as a Professional Civil Engineer with ECSA and addressed as Prof. T Netshipale 2. To complete at least one Continued Professional Development (CPD) cycle of 5 years In order to ensure that the future candidate engineer’s goals are met and completed with maximum quality outcome and great results within the shortest time, this plan will be constantly revisited and updated

3. Directions In the course of the candidate’s final year, the project was based on geotechnical engineering involving the behaviour of clay materials in all aspects (loading the samples and actually being able to build infrastructure with the clay material). The project was successful and definitely inspired the future candidate engineer to further the studies through post-graduate modules. If the opportunity isn’t well produced, she will instead work on a construction site continuing with geotechnical work engineering.

4. Commitment The only commitments that the future engineer has are only those of completing the civil engineering degree in their 4th year. Financial commitments only include working for her bursary holder, Group Five, after graduation, for the duration that the bursary paid her studies for. There are no other limitations except to do exceptionally well during their final year and continue with the ambitious attitude.

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5. Candidate Development Phase to obtain a professional registration The future candidate engineer, as planned, will pass their final year by the end of 2016 and will graduate thereof. She aims to obtain vacation work at the Aurecon offices during her final year to gain more experience in the geotechnical sector, and if possible a job for the following year. If it does not proceed as above, she will continue working at the bursary holder’s head office or be placed one a construction site as a Junior Civil Engineer. The future student engineer aims to develop and grow in 36 months in the construction section of civil engineering in order to comply with the candidate development outcomes in ECSA (2012).

5.1.

Engineering Problem Solving

In order for the future candidate engineer to be competent and confident on the road to development of knowledge based on Engineering Problem Solving in this field (ECSA 2012), the following would need to be done: 

Outcome 1 - Define, investigate and analyse complex engineering problems;

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Outcomes 2 – Be able to design or develop solutions to complex engineering problems;

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Outcome 3 - Comprehend and apply advanced knowledge which include principles, specialist knowledge, jurisdictional and local knowledge.

In order to also attain some further exposure, she could do postgraduate studies in geotechnical engineering.

5.2.

Managing Engineering Activities (Group B)

In order to become fully responsible, the future candidate engineer should be able to execute the tasks and projects at hand at any time by following these primary steps as by the ECSA (2012): 

Outcome 4 – Managing part or all of one or more complex engineering activities

By doing a few courses and training in managing projects, she will be able to excel in these specific activities. 

Outcome 5 – Communicate clearly with others in the course of his or her engineering activities

Communicating with other people is highly essential, especially with the clients of the company or business you work for in order to maintain their trust and support.

5.3.

Impacts of Engineering Activity (Group C)

When we start working at engineers, there are specific impacts that we are supposed to be able to identify as the outcomes in these groups below (ECSA 2012):

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Outcome 6 - Recognise and address the reasonably foreseeable social, cultural and environmental effects of complex engineering activities.

Identifying the inevitable impacts of engineering should become a 6 th sense to the future candidate engineer. 

Outcome 7 - Meet all legal and regulatory requirements and protect the health and safety of persons in the course of his or her complex engineering activities.

Future Red flags: 1. The impacts of engineering could be regarded as non-aesthetic, as seen by the communities and 2. The impacts may lead to unsafe levels of pollution to the air and water if not properly disposed of and greenhouse-friendly designed. During implementation and practice of designing engineering structures, the future candidate engineer will have to takes the above statements, and the legal requirements into as well as the avoidance as far as possible of polluting and permanently affecting the lifestyles of the surrounding community. 5.4. Exercising judgement, taking responsibility and acting ethically (Group D) ECSA

(2012) states the following specific development outcomes: 

Outcome 8 - Conduct engineering activities ethically. [As in the Code of Conduct (CoC) (ECSA 2013c)]

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Outcome 9 - Exercise sound judgement in the course of complex engineering activities.

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Outcome 10 - Be responsible for making decisions on part or all of complex engineering activities.

The following below ultimately stands: 1. The future candidate engineer will have to adhere to the Code of Conduct in all of the proposed activities as Candidate Engineer. 2. Through the progression of training of the candidate future engineer, making judgements from being fully supervised until being totally independent is necessary from the candidate engineer. As her responsibility grows, becoming more responsible for the decisions she will be making during and regarding his professional activities is a necessity.

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Continuing Professional Development (Group E), with only one outcome: 

Outcome 11 - Undertake professional development activities sufficient to maintain and extend his or her competence.

To meet the requirements of CPD (ECSA 2013b), the following should occur:

Takalani Netshipale 13048016 1. As stated above in 4.1 and 4.2, attending postgraduate short courses on Geotechnical Engineering and, possibly, project management are in plan. 2. The future candidate engineer will partake fully in the SAICE and aims to attend more conferences by the SAICE. 3. Work in excess of 800 hours per year should be done by the future engineer during the candidate phase.

5.6.

Process and records

1. As expected by the company itself, Group Five, the future candidate engineer will keep records of her daily activities and will submit the standard ECSA Training and Experience Reports to her supervisors and mentors for approval for every project that she will work for/under as after each completion. 2. At the end of the three years, she will have a consultation with her mentor, Zayne Doolabh, thereafter compiling the necessary documents to apply for registration as a Professional Engineer. The mentor will proof-read all the entries to ensure a standard based report. 3. If all the requirements are met, she will be granted registration a Professional Engineer six months after the submission of the application for registration. Below, in Table 1, is one CPD cycle (5 years) that the future candidate engineer plans on fulfilling as a Registered Professional Engineer. To ensure the correct values, Table 1 is in accordance with ECSA (2013b). Table 1: Planned CPD

Categories 1 2 3 4 5

Activity Seminar and courses attendance Expected engineering work Membership Through SAICE Mentoring of candidate practitioners Enrichment activities (self-study) Total

Yearly planned credits Subtotal Y1 Y2 Y3 Y4 Y5 2 2 2 2 2 10 2 2 2 2 2 10 1 1 1 1 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 5 3 2 3 2 1 11 9 8 9 8 7 41

In Table 1, there are more than 25 hours of planned activities so that the rest of the points can be accommodated in the next CPD cycle....