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Recommendation/Plan for the internship

Internship Duration: 11th May, 2015 to 31st July, 2016 Intern Name and student number: Tim Meng Kin, Chong / Chong Meng Kin #999704208Post-secondary school: University of TorontoFaculty/ Discipline: Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering / Civil EngineeringYear of study: Completed 3rd year; P.E.Y. In-progress.

Disclaimer:

PrefaceThe University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering undergraduate program, which is under the regulatory body of Professional Engineers Ontario, is accredited by Engineers Canada (Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board). Under the Washington Accord, which is signed by Engineers Canada, from 1965 onwards Canadian professional engineering bachelor academic degrees from the University of Toronto are transferable between the bodies responsible for accreditation in its signatory regions and countries including both Hong Kong (The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers HKIE) and Canada (Engineers Canada).Being a participant in the Facultys Professional Experience Year (PEY) program at the Laboratory of Civil Engineering Macau, and for the successful completion of the program, I am required to complete three reports over the coming months and have them signed by my supervisor. The three reports, among which are as follows: Item 1 - PEY Midterm Evaluation (Required by the University of Toronto) See Appendix AItem 2 - PEY final internship Report (Required by the University of Toronto) See Appendix BItem 3 - Pre-graduation Experience Record (Required by both the University of Toronto and the Professional Engineers Ontario) See Appendix C Item 4 30 minutes Individual Presentation in front of a panel of professors and all 2015-2016 PEY participants.The one month that I have spent here at LECM has been valuable but experimental; colleagues have shown much welcoming but also curiosities. This is an individual proposal that could possibly clear up some curiosities and provide ideas to LECM regarding this internship; moreover it could probably direct and guide myself through this internship smoothly with much knowledge gained and the successful completion of the PEY program.

Suggestions are based on the following items: *Suggestions are made based on LECM Departmental basis and some of the group involves more than one department**Since item 2 and Item 3 are correlated, suggestions and ideas thereafter will be based on Item 3 on Preface page, reference to Item 3 please refer to Appendix C**Suggestions and ideas thereafter will be categorized in the five-quality based criteria refer to Appendix C* *According to item 3, an acceptable engineering experience exposes the person, to a greater or lesser extent, to five quality based criteria, references to the specifications of the Groups please refer to Appendix C:Group A. Application of TheoryGroup B. Practical ExperienceGroup C Management of EngineeringGroup D Communication Skills; and Group E Social Implications of Engineering Amongst which, the person must demonstrate substantial exposure to Group A and at least a reasonable exposure to the rest of the groups. Substantial exposures to specifications in each Group are necessary**All information thereafter are suggestions only and are subject to approvals and permissions from LECM concerned personals, and thus they are subject to alterations*

Group E - Social Implications of Engineering The center of Training and Documentation1. Allowing appropriate access to the technical library, esp. reference books, technical reports and analytical reports etc.2. Allowing the intern participate in LECM held technical and scientific information presentations through Seminars, Conferences, Congresses and Publications should such occasion ariseGroup D - Communication Skills Any appropriate departments or any department that is willing to take on an intern and allow him/her to start implementing the following from the simplest report to the relatively more complex one. Acceptable communications experience should give you an opportunity to participate in the followings:1. Allowing the intern to prepare or participate in written work, including daily correspondence, design briefs (meetings) and occasionally major reports. For example, some general inspection work report, daily report are considered minor reports, major reports are analytical and technical reports such as lab report and monthly report.2. Allowing the intern to prepare or participate in oral reports or presentations to co-workers, supervisors, senior management, and if possible clients and regulatory authorities3. Making presentations to the general public should such occasion arise

Group C - Management of Engineering Any appropriate departments or any department that is willing to take on an intern and allow him/her to start implementing the following from the simplest to the relatively more complex. I would believe CA - coordination and technical support fall into this category and some of the materials herein might be confidential, sensitive and complex. If I could not work on any of the materials, I would like to participate in or review some of the documents over, namely documents regarding project follow up 1. Light Rail Transit Macau 2.Macau Airport. In hopes that these documents would educate me in the following elements and in the completion of this section of the report. Management of engineering projects include supervising staff, managing projects, being exposed generally to an engineering business environment, and managing technology from a societal perspective. Acceptable engineering management experience involves:[1]1. Planning From identifying requirements, developing concepts, evaluating alternative methods and assessing required resources to planning for the social result of social actions. 2. Scheduling from establishing interactions and constraints, developing activity or task schedules, allocating resources and assessing the impact of delays to determining and assessing the impact of delays to determining and assessing projects interactions with other projects and the marketplace For example, a Bored Piles Construction record. 3. Budgeting from developing conceptual and detailed budgets identifying labor, materials and overhead to assessing risk of cost escalation and reviewing budgets in light of change. [1]

4. Supervision including leadership and professional conduct, organizing human resources, motivating teams and managing technology 5. Project Control requiring understanding of the elements of a while, in order to coordinate phases of project work, monitor expenditures and schedules and take corrective action; 6. Risk assessment - Relating to operating equipment and system performance, technological risk, product performance, and social and environmental impacts. Group B - Practical Experience Aside from being a quality and regulatory institution, LECM is a civil engineering laboratory with lots of equipments, it is a good place to learn about the numerous tests that exist in the industry of civil engineering. The numerous tests that LECM are conducting will definitely fulfill Group B and Group A requirement. Any appropriate departments that are willing to take on an intern and allow him/her to start implementing the following from the simplest test to the relatively more complex test. Practical experiences provide applicants with an appreciation of the fundamental roles of function, time, cost, reliability, reparability, safety and environmental impact in their work. Practical experience should provide opportunities to experience, understand and acquire knowledge of such element as:1. The function of components as part of a larger system, including for example, the merits of reliability, the role of computer software, or the relationship of the end product to the equipment and to the equipment control systems;

2. The limitations of practical engineering and related human systems in achieving desired goals, including, for example, limitations of production methods, manufacturing tolerances, operating and maintenance philosophies, human factors. 3. The significance of time in the engineering process, including the difficulties of work flow, scheduling, equipment wear out, corrosion rates and replacement scheduling.4. The importance of the codes, standards, regulations and laws that govern applicable engineering activities. Definitely achievableGroup A - Application of Theory As mentioned heretofore, the numerous tests that LECM are conducting will fulfill Group A and Group B. Intern will be responsible for reading the instruction manual of each piece of equipment s (so that the intern would not be bothering the actual work of the staff) and hopefully the instruction manual could be lent to the intern Intern will be responsible for reading all the standards and codes required and implemented by each test and hopefully these reading materials could be lent to the intern Intern will hopefully have opportunities in using the equipment, collecting sample and data, and completing a lab report (and hopefully the lab report will be overseen by an engineering technician)

Although the intern will be responsible for independent learning of the equipment and the standard, minimal supervision from seniors might be needed Since each department or center performs categorized tests. The intern will learn best by placing him/her in one department or one center at a certain period of time and then he or she could be transferred to another department or center to learn another set of categorized tests. I will be referring to Lista de preos de Ensaios Relatrio No: 6110 for the departments in which the students will be participating. The students will be participating in this order of the following centers/departments, the following order is based on the interns academic knowledge and background:1. NEM Construction Material testing 2. NIEE Center of Buildings and Structures Inspection3. NSP Center of Soil and Pavement 4. NII Center of Inspection of Leakage 5. NFP Center of Foundations and Prospecting.6. NMT Center of Metrology Table 1. Order of centers/departments

According to the specification of Group A from item 3, the intern must include meaningful participation in at least one aspect of these applications of theory: 1. Analysis: including scope and operating conditions, performance assessment, safety and environmental issues, technology assessment, economic assessment, reliability analysis;

2. Design and synthesis, including functionality or product specification, component selection, integration of components and subsystems into larger systems, reliability and maintenance factors, environmental and societal implications of the product or process, quality improvements. 3. Testing methods, including devising testing methodology and techniques, verifying functional specifications, new product or technology commissioning and assessment4. Implementation methods, including applying technology, engineering cost studies, optimization techniques, process flow and time studies, implementing quality control and assurance, cost/benefit analysis, safety and environmental issues and recommendations, maintenance and replacement evaluation.

Summary Sheet 1. Allowing access to the numerous civil engineering equipments and tests at LECM as listed in Lista de preos de Ensaios Relatrio No: 6110. The intern will be responsible for reading the equipment manual, codes and standards. (GROUP A) 2. Allowing appropriate access to the technical library. (GROUP E) 3. Allowing appropriate participation at LECM held technical and scientific information presentations through seminars, conferences, congresses, and public (GROUP E)4. Allowing the intern to prepare or participate in written work/oral reports, including daily correspondence, design briefs (meetings) and occasionally major reports. (GROUP D)5. Allowing participation in or review some of the documents over, namely documents regarding project follow up 1. Light Rail Transit Macau 2.Macau Airport. In hopes that these documents would educate me in the elements prescribed in Group C Management of Engineering. Namely, planning, scheduling, budgeting, supervision, project control and risk assessment. (GROUP C) 6. Intern will hopefully have opportunities in using the equipment, collecting sample and data, and completing a lab report. (GROUP A, GROUP B, GROUP C and GROUP E)7. The students will be participating in the prescribed order of the prescribed centers/departments (refer to table 1) (GROUP A,B)

APPENDIX AAPPENDIX BAPPENDIX C

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