From Editorial:
“The New Normal” Living during the pandemic
Following, the continued developments around COVID-19 outbreak, in March Universitas Diponegoro (Undip) has started to apply remote education and work from home for all of the elements until further communication. The education is switch into online mode through several application such as MS Teams, Kulon and others. The administration works are also conducted remotely. The new way of daily routine is out of our comfort zone, our “new normal”. There is no choice other than living coexist with the virus. But one fact that is true, this outbreak gives a lot of lesson to learn and introduced us the new way of living. Please stay safe and stay productive!
Editorial Team: Ambariyanto; Denny Nugroho S; Dessy Ariyanti; Diana Nur Afifah; Ahmad Ni’matullah Al-Baarri; Utami Setyowati. Office: Widya Puraya Universitas Diponegoro, Jl. Prof Soedarto SH Tembalang, Semarang, Indonesia 50275. Email: kankat@live.undip.ac.id
2020 Undip’s Academic Collaboration Program
Universitas Diponegoro (Undip) intends to expand the academic collaboration with international academics and practitioners. This program is set to improve the quality of education and learning process as well as providing an international perspective and different experience for the students. In addition this academic collaboration is aims to improve quality of publication and research network for researchers. The collaboration offered many activities such as visiting professors, visiting lecturers, joint supervision, thesis examiners, joint research, joint publications, and keynote speakers for international conferences. The collaboration form is in this link:
For more information please contact our office: kankat@live.undip.ac.id
Undip-Innovation for COVID-19 Defender Full Mask
Defender Full Mask project is an innovation initiated by Undip researchers in the pandemic COVID-19 era Wahyu Caesarendra, ST., M.Eng., Ph.D. from Mechanical Engineering who is currently undergoing Visiting Assistant Professor in Universiti Brunei Darussalam, dr. Satrio Adi Wicaksono, Sp.An., from Faculty of Medicine and Tri Ratna Darma Putra, ST. is Undip alumni who founded a company in the field of industrial machinery and laboratories equipment. As per the description video uploaded to YouTube on April 26, 2020 entitled: “Defender Full Mask Project (alternative APD in Indonesia)”, The “Caesar valve” adapter is designed to have features and working principles that adjust the design and the working principle of a full face snorkel mask is to have a 2-way air flow system. With the 2-way airway system, if we breathe, the air in the full-face snorkel mask is not easy to get foggy. The air in a full-face snorkel mask is comfortable to use. So that this mask can be used in longer period. Another advantage of the engineering side is that the “Caesar valve” adapter utilizes a 1-way valve system (similar to the working principle of the check valve) which is designed at one end of the pipe, namely at the end of the respiratory exhaust pipe (CO2). This is intended so that air that has not been filtered cannot enter the filter and can only enter from the pipeline that has a filter installed. At present the “Caesar valve” adapter has been produced on a limited scale in Semarang, Indonesia. “Caesar valve” adapters are made from Poly Lactid Acid (PLA) polymeric materials and flex. Flex is a softer type of material and PLA is a hard material. “Caesar valve” adapters are manufactured with 3D printer machines and are designed using SolidWorks software by Dr. Wahyu.
Mechanical Hands for the Society
Early this year before the massive spread of COVID-19, Faculty of Engineering through CBIOM3S in cooperation with the Social Service of Central Java Province handed mechanical hands for 27 persons with disabilities in Central Java at the Provincial Social Service Hall. Present at the event were Undip Dean of FT Undip. Prof. Agung Wibowo, Chairperson of PT. CBIOM3S Undip Dr. Rifki Ismail. In his speech, the Dean of Undip FT stated that all the innovation and technology should be end up for the beneficial of the society and this mechanical hands for person with disabilities was a one of a good example created by CBIOM3S. Chairperson of PUI PT Health Technology CBIOM3S, Rifky Ismail, hopes that the mechanical hands can helps people with disabilities in their daily activities.
Center for Biomechanics, Biomaterials, Biomechatronic and Bio-signal Processing (CBIOM3S) is a research center that focusing their research and innovation in the technology related to health such as bionic hands, mechanical hands, club foot therapy tools for babies, braces for patients with osteoarthritis in the knee joints, artificial limbs, diagnostic tools for Parkinson’s disease , Exo-glove for stroke patients, etc. The newest development is Indonesian Bionic Arm 4.0 created by CBIOM3S, with respect to all the new technology it become the robotic prosthesis leader in ASEAN countries region. This product is offered in the market with the reasonable price which able to fulfil the ASEAN markets.
Teaching Industry from laboratories to commercial products
Teaching Industry is a model for the integration of education, research and innovation that support the university to be able to equip the graduates to have an understanding on how the industrialization of a research product. The Teaching Industry in Universitas Diponegoro partner up with Center for Plasma Research (CPR) leads by Prof. Dr. Muhammad Nur, DEA and PT Dipo Technology who have successfully commercialized “Zeta Green” and “D’ozone” plasma technology-based product. Zeta Green is an air purifier that able to clean the air surrounding and remove smoke, virus, bacteria, and fungi. This product has been marketed and has been installed in several hospitals, offices, smoking rooms, hotels, and meeting rooms. Meanwhile, D’ozone is an agriculture product storage that can inhibits growth and kills microorganisms that cause decay in the fruit, vegetable, or grains.
Many activities involves in the commercialization of the research product such us making a blue print of the manufacturing process, doing the cycle of improving the product quality, standardization and certification, perform technology transfer, technology audit and licensing, conduct trial production, market research and strategy and develop new technology-based businesses. Those activities were performed by the researchers, lecturers from multidisciplined fields and students, thus the transfer knowledge and experience were shared to support the aimed learning outcomes.
The “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS)
Congratulations to Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Diponegoro to be one of 48 institution around the world to be involved in The “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS) program funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) via the DAAD program “Higher Education Excellence in Development Cooperation – exceed”. The Program includes Education: Building a global methodological network via international conferences; Experience: Gaining applicable skills in research through combined teaching-research-courses; Evaluate: Reflecting on methods via writing a PhD Thesis and developing project proposals for post-doctoral research; Exchange: Gaining applicable skills in practice through practical-empirical implementations and; Enhancement: Workshops for bridging the gap between research and professional work.
Faculty of Engineering Join Hands with PERTAMINA to Combat COVID-19
The prevention measure to cut the spread of COVID-19 is to maintain the hygiene and sanitation especially hands by clean hands often using soap or alcohol-based hand rub. However due to the massive growing COVID-19 outbreak, hand sanitizer is becoming more and more scarce in the market. People who are in the need of using public transportation and still have to do their activities outside have no access to this hygiene protocol. Thus, this project is formulated to provide hand sanitizers in the public transportation. Representative from Faculty of Engineering Prof. Widayat, Dr. Sulardjaka, Dr. Dessy A, and Dr.-Ing. Silviana join hands with PERTAMINA MOR IV region Central Java and Yogyakarta as one of the state-owned company in Indonesia who engaged in the energy sector including oil, gas and new and renewable energy to produce and distributed hand sanitizers in public transportation such as buses; taxi; stations in Semarang.
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