Having a lecturer with a high interest in writing, making the Faculty of Engineering (FT) Universitas Brawijaya won first place in the faculty category with the most scientific journal publications indexed by SCOPUS and the number of book contributions. In the rector’s performance report at the UB Open Anniversary (5/Jan/2020), the number of SCOPUS journals published by FT was 2.214 journals and 118 books.

Vice Dean for Academic Affairs FTUB, Ir Ishardita Pambudi Tama ST MT PhD said, there are internal and also external factors that influence this achievement.

“The FT lecturers love doing research and write. That is, their interest has greatly increased compared to previous years. In addition, S2 and S3 students are required to publish,” explained Ir. Ishardita.

He continued, FT happened to have the most laboratories in UB. When viewed for one faculty, this number is certainly extraordinary, because to be able to conduct research is inseparable from the existence of a laboratory. So the number of labs. many will also boost the amount of research and later on to publication.

Judging from external factors, according to the Industrial Engineering lecturer that in UB from the era of the rector who used to until now the policy is to provide incentives to lecturers who successfully publish their writings in the journal SCOPUS. So that it also becomes an incentive for lecturers to write even more.

The productivity of writing in FT is quite a lot, one lecturer in one year can publish 20-24 journals or if it is averaged 2 journals in one month. Ir Ishardita also said that writing is not something difficult as long as it has a serious intention to produce a work. In FT, there are also quite often workshops on how to write journals or books.

“As lecturers, our main job is teaching. There must be teaching material, from that material we can develop and then can be mixed into a book. There are also many research grants in UB, starting from funds that are managed by UB itself or through the Directorate of Higher Education funds. The research results also have the potential to be converted into a journal or book,” he explained.

The lecturer who was born 46 years ago hopes to see FT not only limited to journals or books but for other things, such as the period of student studies that need to be raised and IP graduates who still need to be encouraged again.

“We want to show that lecturing at FT does not seem difficult. We also maintain quality but we also pay attention to performance benchmarks. From what we have achieved such as the large number of journals and books we publish, we want to improve the quality of the number of SCOPUS journals and how to increase the volume of journal entries,” he concluded. (meg/mic)