Discussion of UII Industrial Engineering Curriculum Transformation

Industrial Engineering Study Program of Universitas Islam Indonesia (UII) recently held a discussion on (6/7) with various stakeholders to formulate curriculum changes. The Head of the Undergraduate Program, Ir. Muhammad Ridwan Andi Purnomo, S.T., M.Sc., Ph.D., IPM, led the discussion with the Head of the Curriculum Team, Dr. Harwati, S.T., M.T., and team members Wahyudhi Sutrisno, S.T., M.M., M.T. and Danang Setiawan, S.T., M.T.. Chairman of IKATI (Industrial Engineering Alumni Family Association) UII, Agham Satria Pristiwaji and several alumni were also present to provide input.

“We think that our graduates will be used for industry. Therefore, we need input from the industry,” said Ir. Muhammad Ridwan Andi Purnomo. 

For this reason, a meeting with alumni was held to get various inputs on how the curriculum should be designed. The curriculum team has prepared an initial draft which will then be refined based on input from industry and alumni. “Our alumni profile is not only in one sector, such as the manufacturing industry, services, government, consultants, and even entrepreneurs,” he added. The discussion brought together all these elements to provide comprehensive input. 

Curriculum Keywords

Various inputs from the discussion will then be summarized into keywords that will animate the course design in each semester. One of the potential keywords is the ability of students to convey ideas effectively. “Industrial Engineering students must be able to integrate the system as a whole and convey the integration idea well,” he said. Therefore, the future curriculum may provide more opportunities for students to convey ideas through presentations that are also assessed from the media used. 

The next potential keyword was feedback on the importance of IT skills, especially mastery of Microsoft Excel. Therefore, we are planning a new elective course, Spreadsheet Modeling. “Modeling industrial cases using Excel. How to understand cases, which parameters are decision variables, and use Excel tools,” he explained.

UII Industrial Engineering Study Program hopes to produce a curriculum that is relevant, adaptive, and provides added value to all related parties.

Salwa Nur Rahma