Disciplines..

Disciplines in the work place refer to different roles in the workplace, such disciplines include "Architects, Project Managers, engineers such as structural, hydraulic, electrical, Municipal, Mechanical/Electrical, Chemical and civil engineers, there are cad operators, landscape architects, interior architects, thermal analysis operator and sustainability, cost estimator, bricklayers and builders, plumbers surveyors"[1].
In my opinion, all these disciplines work together in collaboration in the project, everyone has a certain specialization and strengths that when combined together while working as a team, produce a design.
Along with these disciplines there are "Finance consultants which deal with Public finance, Financial analysis, Auditing, Risk management, Asset management and Accounting, with that comes the legal disciple and they are used for Constitutional law, Common law, Land reform/restitution, Litigation, International law and Contracts".[2]
According to the website 'The language of Science' the definition for 'discipline' means "a branch of knowledge" [3], and 'disciplinary' means "relating to a specific field of academic study". [4]

How do Disciplines make use of collaboration in the workplace? In my opinion, each professional Discipline contributes with their knowledge of their selected line of work as they can all put in ideas together and therefore create a prosperous creation that functions as desired. How do we learn from this and collaborate in our project? When are all placed in group each team member takes a discipline according to their strengths and knowledge and put in their contribution in the project all collaborating together as we would in a real circumstance if we were to be in an office working with other disciplines. It educates us and prepares us for the work place when we receive real plans.

In our Architectural Collaboration class we are working together in our group , each working on separate parts of the project and all together we are producing a project, We have a leader who is like the project managers who updates us with information and distributes work to each person in the group, we also have a reminder which by using synchronized messaging and unsynchronized messaging and the like, it lets us know how we are progressing and reminding us of our deadlines which is important to meet deadlines in a real situation at work, we also have group members experienced in different fields such as programmer, 3D operator and even cad operator as well as other roles that each person has chosen to take responsibility for, every group member is accountable for adding their ideas as well as the production of the work. All together we are all Disciplines Collaborating in the production of our Assignment just like we would in the work force.









Reference
[1] Google search on Disciplines in the workplace, www.acpsec.org/registry/ReferenceSheet.doc (searched on 7 April 08)

[2] Google search on Disciplines in the workplace, www.acpsec.org/registry/ReferenceSheet.doc (searched on 7 April 08)

[3] Google Search on Disciplines in the work place,
Language of Science, Dictionary and Research Guide,
http://www.123exp-science.com/t/01554599967/ (searched on the 8 April 08)

[4] Google Search on Disciplines in the work place,
Language of Science, Dictionary and Research Guide,
http://www.123exp-science.com/t/01554599967/ (searched on the 8 April 08)