Engineering Professional Practice

ENGG 3280SED

Course Guide

ENGG 3280SED

Course Guide

Engineering Professional Practice

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Course Coordinator:

Bruce Tong Kwong Bun, BEng (Hons), MPhil (CUHK), PhD (CUHK), MIEEE

ENGG 3280SED is a three-credit-unit, one-term, 3000-level course. It is intended for students who wish to study for a BSc (Hons) degree in Electronics.

Aims

This course aims to:

teach students the basic understanding of professional identities, and the responsibilities of the engineering profession, as well as its impediments;
enable students to know the role of engineers in society;
equip students with an adequate sense of professional practice;
illustrate to students how to make proper professional decisions;
enable students to assess and manage risk; and
equip students with concepts and challenges related to globalised engineering

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to acquire the following skills and abilities:

Analyse professional identity and its related responsibilities.
Discuss professional practice for Hong Kong engineers.
Examine engineering issues related to engineers in society.
Evaluate engineering risk and management and their challenges.

Contents

The course consists of the following study units:

Responsibility in engineering and organisation
Professional practice
The engineer in society
Engineering responsibility in risk assessment and management, and globalised engineering

Learning support

There are five forms of tutor-student interaction to be provided in this course, including tutorials, surgeries, online discussion board, email and telephone tutoring. There will be a total of four one-hour tutorials and four one-hour surgeries throughout the course.

Tutorial and surgery sessions are used to present and explain the concepts and technologies in computer networks.

Assessment

Course assessment includes continuous assessment (50% weighting) and a final examination (50% weighting).

Continuous assessment includes two assignments (25% and 25% weighting).

Students are required to submit assignments via the Online Learning Environment (OLE).

Set book(s)

Harris, C. E., Pritchard, M. S., James, R. W., Englehardt, E. E., & Rabins, M. J. (2019). Engineering ethics: Concepts and cases (6th ed.). Cengage.