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Mental Wealth - Professional Life (Engineering Management)

Learning outcome 1: Analyse the structure of the UK project management system and possess a critical awareness of the managerial role played by the architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) industry
Learning outcome 2: Evaluate the AEC professional's role in society and the community
Learning outcome 3: Explain and critically assess procedures involved in engineering management
Learning outcome 4: Evaluate the importance and application of quality assurance and quality control procedures within the construction industry
Learning outcome 5: Analyse the main forms of civil engineering contracts and procedures and apply them to a given task.
Learning outcome 6: Critically assess the environmental impact of construction projects and the use of sustainable methods of construction
Learning outcome 7: Use various analytical methods to evaluate project programming & controls and critically evaluate how the findings may be used in the decision-making process.
Learning outcome 8: Communicate ideas, principles and facts to a wider audience in the form of a presentation.

The Mental Wealth Competencies, listed below, are a way to reflect on how you act and react to situations, and what ‘softer' skills you are developing throughout your working life in general and this assignment in particular:

• Digital Proficiency (DP)
• Emotional Intelligence Development (EID)
• Social Intelligence Development (SID)
• Physical Intelligence Development (PID)
• Cultural Intelligence Development (CID)
• Cognitive Intelligence (CI)
• Industry Connections (IC)
• Community Connections (CC)

Assessment guidelines
Produce a 3000-word (+/- 10%) (excluding the list of references) assessment report as well as a reflective log of 1200 words (+/- 10%) (excluding the list of references) which offers you the ability to demonstrate your developing knowledge and application of Mental Wealth: Professional Life as covered within weeks of your study. It also encourages you to develop your thoughts and perspectives on Mental Wealth: Professional Life theories and concepts.

Task
As in the real world, you will be dealing with ambiguous and uncertain situations and information. You will need to manage, mitigate and justify any assumptions according to your best professional understanding. You must deliver to your client a professional report that addresses their concerns and puts forward your suggested outline design / action plan with ways to implement that plan. It is important to remember that you are acting as a professional consultant and must put forward what you believe to be the most appropriate solution remembering you have a professional duty to society which may be contrary to your client's needs.

There are two parts to the assessment of this module and they are included in this one assignment as follows: (Please submit two separate documents)
1. Case Study, Technical Report -
2. Individual Mental Wealth Reflective Log

The technical issues will be covered in part (A) and your professional ability to manage
yourself will be demonstrated in the Reflective Log (B).

Assignment brief
Keep a log of all the challenges that you face and reflect upon this in your Reflective Log.

The structure of the report and reflective log
The main features of a report are described below to provide a general guide. These should be used in conjunction with the instructions or guidelines provided.

Title Page
This should briefly but explicitly describe the purpose of the report (if this is not obvious from the title of the work); remember to add your name and student number/assessment number, and which assessment it pertains to.

Summary (Abstract)
The abstract is a brief summary of your Research Proposal, and should be no longer than 200 words. It starts by describing in a few words the knowledge domain where your research takes place and the key issues of that domain that offer opportunities for the scientific innovations you intend to explore. Taking those key issues as a background, you then present briefly your research statement, your proposed research approach, the results you expect to achieve, and the anticipated implications of such results on the advancement of the knowledge domain.

Contents (Table of Contents)
The contents page should list the different chapters and/or headings together with the page numbers. Your contents page should be presented in such a way that the reader can quickly scan the list of headings and locate a particular part of the report. You may want to number chapter headings and subheadings in addition to providing page references. Whatever

Introduction
The introduction gives an overview of the research project you propose to carry out. It explains the background of the project, focusing briefly on the major issues of its knowledge domain and clarifying why these issues are worthy of attention. It then proceeds with the concise presentation of the research statement, which can take the form of a hypothesis, a research question, a project statement, or a goal statement. The research statement should capture both the essence of the project and its delimiting boundaries, and should be followed by a clarification of the extent to which you expect its outcomes to represent an advance in the knowledge domain you have described. The introduction should endeavour, from the very beginning, to catch the reader's interest and should be written in a style that can be understood easily by any reader with a general science background. It should cite all relevant references pertaining to the major issues described, and it should close with a brief description of each one of the chapters that follow. Many authors prefer to postpone writing the Introduction until the rest of the document is finished. This makes a lot of sense, since the act of writing tends to introduces many changes in the plans initially sketched by the writer, so that it is only by the time the whole document is finished that the writer gets a clear view of how to construct an introduction that is, indeed, compelling.

List of References
A key feature of academic writing, the list of references should list - in alphabetical order by author - all published sources referred to in your report. There are different styles of using references so be sure to refer to the study guide and check your departmental handbook for guidelines. You must ensure that you use the Harvard style of referencing.

Attachment:- Assessment Brief.rar