Real life processes and industrial layouts in the workplace

While in the class we merely learn about the practical environment and the working conditions of ones workplace. We can only reside on the imaginary thinking and conceiving of our mind by learning from books and lectures about the work environment unless you are given an opportunity to work in an industry to practically have experience of the working life of an engineer. By providing overlap between university-based and real-life learning, learners have the opportunity to reflect on the relationships between them and to develop rich understandings of the reciprocal relevance and application of their school based learning to the workplace.[1] Such contextualized selfreflective processes are a central element of lifelong learning and foundational to the development of effective teaching and the development of practice at an early career stage. The use of workplace contexts and real-life learning helps to ensure that such programs accommodate learners' concerns and contemporary developments, and that they meet learners' expectations of acquiring practical and up-to-date knowledge that is applicable in their workplace. Something very important to learners involved in ongoing practical programs, Countering this possible advantage is the need to ensure that such programs also provide learners with a wide range of professional and academic knowledge about conceptual, practical and policy issues that can be applied to a wide range contexts and not just those developed in or around one particular context or practicing experience.[2] It is therefore necessary to ensure that such programs are designed around a blended learning model that provides learners with workplace, professional, and academic perspectives. Based on training, it is to apply the principles of human learning to teaching employees skills, techniques, strategies, and ideas for improving their performance such as: 1. Conducting studies on organizational behavior and worker-management interactions, 2. Analyzing corporate culture and individual/group interactions 3. Developing and evaluating employee selection and appraisal techniques 4. Assessing corporate leadership and employee motivation strategies 5. Identifying causes of and resolutions to internal conflicts 6. Advising management of the potential psychological and social impact of corporate policies

As I got a chance to do internship in a construction company, I learned about the industrial structure of the company, how it works and cope with it challenges.

MHPT is a subsidiary plant of HITACHI whose mainly focus is on the construction side. The main Headoffice is in Japan, while Asian headoffice is in Singapore. Different construction engineering related firms and consultants contacts MHPT for the Bill of Material (BOM) and technical data for the Aircon, mechanical ventilation, fire protecton and Cold water plumbing for the project sites and buildings. MHPT provide them the cost bill for the whole work and also develops the blue prints of the placement of material in the building. When client agrees, the contract is signed and works on the site begins. The organizational structure is as below:

References: [1] Pathways in Real-Life Learning The road to expertise by Julia Walsh and John Cripps Clark [2] Real-Life Learning in Higher Education Embedding and modelling the effective use of ICT by Paul Nicholson and Geoff White * Chart information is given by advisor. Logreport week one.