Question

The following general attributes describe personal attributes that contribute to effective teamwork:

- Expecting quality

- Keeping the team on track

- Contributing to the team's work

- Interacting with teammates

For each of the listed attributes, describe a specific example from a Mechanical Engineering internship for each case that shows how a poor practice would have a negative impact on the final project outcome.

Answer 1

Lets take an example of a power plant

Expecting quality- Consider welding team. If one welder doesnt provide required quality weld, after starting of boiler it may lead to boiler tube leakage which requires shutting down the boiler for 2-3 days and is a huge loss to company

Keeping team on track- Suppose a boiler is shut down due to boiler tube leakage. Then maintenece department parallaly conducts some more repairs in the unit which were not possible in running unit. Now if maintanence team losses its focus on main problem that is tube leakage and priortises these other problems to a greater extent the lightup of boiler might get delayed.

Contributing to teams work- One problem occured in our plant which everyone was trying to solve since morning but were not able to. But then our GM came and solved it by visiting at the site which was not his job to do so but he contributed to our work which resulted in early problem solution.

Interacting with teammates- We had this AGM in our plant who came to our unit every morning and took report of every problem whether it was small or big and taught us about everything related to that problem and helped us to solve it