Prof. Dr. Heri Hermansyah, S.T., M.Eng was elected Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia (FTUI) for the 2022 – 2026 period. The dean election was held on Monday (8/11/2021) morning virtually and broadcast live via the UI TV Youtube channel. Heri proposed the vision of “Building a Superior FTUI Entrepreneur with High Impact through Productivity-based Multidisciplinary Collaboration to Create a Superior and Globally Competitive FTUI”.
To realize this vision, he put forward several strategic goals to be achieved during his leadership period, namely the realization of education that can adapt to industry 4.0 and is globally competitive, as well as the realization of the development of multidisciplinary research collaboration involving business, industry, government, alumni, community, and also the media. This goal is implemented into three strategies, namely strengthening engineering entrepreneurship (empowering), increasing the quality of innovative research and community service that has a high impact (impactful), and modernizing quality engineering education with high impact (modernization). “The strategy is then translated into 11 priority flagship programs that will contribute to UI in the form of reputation, income, and service capacity development as a world-class institution. FTUI with these eleven programs will totally support UI to realize its vision as an Entrepreneurial University and support the success of the government’s program Merdeka Learning Merdeka Campus (MBKM),” he said.
The eleven programs include cooperation and collaboration package programs in terms of research development, entrepreneurship development programs for students, development of virtual education facilities that can accommodate the needs of engineering students, existence of engineering community network databases, development of multidisciplinary engineering organizations, and incentive programs. research development grants.
One of the superior programs that he will carry out during his tenure is the establishment of a Reverse Engineering Center which focuses on the production of FTUI research products. Later, every research result produced by FTUI will go through a reverse engineering process, namely analysis activities to design a new product that is similar to competitors’ products that are already on the market by looking for the product’s weaknesses and modifying it so that the resulting new product can overcome the weaknesses. the. According to him, by implementing a modification method like this, the research downstream process will be efficient in terms of funding and time.
The Reverse Engineering Center will also function to register FTUI’s research at the Directorate General of Intellectual Property Rights and help connect UI research with various parties that have potential for collaboration such as ventures, alumni networks, and external university parties. Later, the products produced can also be used to develop student entrepreneurship potential in producing products that can penetrate the market widely. This assessment process was carried out by UI leaders, Prof. Ari Kuncoro, S.E., M.A., Ph.D (Rector), Prof. Dr. err. nat. Abdul Haris (Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs), Vita Silvira, S.E., Ak., MBA., CA. (Vice Chancellor for Finance and Logistics), drg. Nurtami, Ph.D., Sp,OF(K) (Deputy Chancellor for Research and Innovation), Prof. Dr. Ir. Dedi Priadi, DEA (Deputy Chancellor for Human Resources and Assets), and dr. Agustin Kusumayati, M.Sc., Ph.D (University Secretary).
Prof. Dr. Heri Hermansyah, S.T., M.Eng is a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia. Prof. Heri had served as UI Director of Research and Community Service in the 2016-2018 period. Prof. Heri had served as UI Director of Research and Community Service in the 2016-2018 period. He has also served as Cooperation, Student Affairs, Alumni and Venture Manager, and was Head of the Bioprocess Technology Study Program at FTUI. He obtained his Ph.D and Master degrees from the Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Japan. Dr. Hermansyah has won several awards for his extraordinary contribution to science, such as the IDB Prize in Science Technology on behalf of the Directorate of Research and Community Development at UI, and the Satya Rompin star from the President of the Republic of Indonesia.
