Subject Knowledge on Csr

SUBJECT KNOWLEDGE ON CSR

The course MEC 600  – Engineers in Society is a mandatory course taken by Mechanical engineering students in their final year of degree studies. The course covers the fundamentals of engineering ethics, sustainable development and finance in the working environment. The implementation of acts and regulations are also covered in the course. Among the requirements that has to be completed is the group assignment, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) where in real working world, is a corporation’s initiatives to asses and take responsibility for the company’s effect on the environmental and social wellbeing. This generally means that extra efforts are applied that go beyond what may be required by environmental protection groups. CSR can also involve incurring short-term costs that do not provide an immediate financial benefit to the company, but instead promote positive social and environmental change. As students of an education institution, it is important for us to understand the importance of implementing CSR in the industry. With this, students will understand that CSR often represent the policies, practices and initiatives a company commits to in order to have a positive impact on social and environmental wellbeing. With this being said, students will have the opportunity to conduct their own CSR program and experience it themselves, from planning, execution and post mortem. The implementation of the whole program will be under the full responsibility of the students. Upon discussion with the members, it was decided that conducting a community clean up would be best. For a change, we chose the UiTM library to conduct our CSR program. The original idea was to clean up the library area, as well as helping the librarians to arrange the various books that were not in the designated racks. However, upon discussion with the person in charge, it was not necessary to help to clean the library area as it is cleaned everyday by the appointed  janitors. As for arranging the books, books, it can only be done by the library staffs due to their specific and particular numberings. It was then decided that installing book racks in PTAR 2 would be best for us, especially since we are Mechanical engineering students and it would be something we are familiar to.