Discuss the importance of Documentation in professional engineering
Discuss the Importance of Documentation in Professional Engineering
Jiahao QIAN （A1622061）
Introduction
Documentation is documents with information, provided on paper or other material for people to read to transit certain information from one person to another. Such as tenders, instruction books, on-line helps.
Discussion
Every people access documentation commonly in life, teaching, studying, marketing, requiring. As for professional engineers, documentations are also used in every part of solving a problem.
First when engineers come in to a problem there will be a description about the problem. At that time, engineers will come up with a requirement to demonstrate what this problem is asking so they can share the problem with others and get help. Later there will be an idea about how to solve it. Engineers will then draw blueprints or write down some articals which can transform a confusing idea to a clear graph or statement for others to understand the idea and work together to solve it. After engineers built a device, there will be an instruction book to explain how it works and the particular problem it is designed for, makes easier for other to understand, use and fix it. Some may also have a warning book to state the danger in the device or during the using of the device, and help people who comes to fix the device to avoid injure. Some of the problems may be very commonly present in daily life or very basic for certain people, there will be books that contain useful solutions and knowledge for other people. These documentation can be used in teaching and helping others. Engineers do some times travel through other technical fields that they are not expert in, that is a good time to seek for documentation created by other for help, to learn new knowledge and solve the problem they face. During the steps, there will be experiments. Engineers will record the time, procedure and results down, that’s also a kind of documentation. The records will clearly
Jiahao QIAN （A1622061）
Introduction
Documentation is documents with information, provided on paper or other material for people to read to transit certain information from one person to another. Such as tenders, instruction books, on-line helps.
Discussion
Every people access documentation commonly in life, teaching, studying, marketing, requiring. As for professional engineers, documentations are also used in every part of solving a problem.
First when engineers come in to a problem there will be a description about the problem. At that time, engineers will come up with a requirement to demonstrate what this problem is asking so they can share the problem with others and get help. Later there will be an idea about how to solve it. Engineers will then draw blueprints or write down some articals which can transform a confusing idea to a clear graph or statement for others to understand the idea and work together to solve it. After engineers built a device, there will be an instruction book to explain how it works and the particular problem it is designed for, makes easier for other to understand, use and fix it. Some may also have a warning book to state the danger in the device or during the using of the device, and help people who comes to fix the device to avoid injure. Some of the problems may be very commonly present in daily life or very basic for certain people, there will be books that contain useful solutions and knowledge for other people. These documentation can be used in teaching and helping others. Engineers do some times travel through other technical fields that they are not expert in, that is a good time to seek for documentation created by other for help, to learn new knowledge and solve the problem they face. During the steps, there will be experiments. Engineers will record the time, procedure and results down, that’s also a kind of documentation. The records will clearly