Student Achievement
International Symposium of Transportation: The 20th FSTPT and The 1ST ISTSDC Joint Symposium 2017

The symposium organized competition between undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students. There were 316 papers in the field of transportation from all universities in Indonesia. UGM students became the winner in the transportation race.

For Doctoral Student category:
1st place: Tri Sefrus from UGM
2nd place: Don Gaspar Noesaku Da Costa from Civil Engineering UGM
3rd place: from UNHAS, Makassar

For Graduate Student category:
1st and 2nd place: from ITB Bandung
3rd place: Catherine Wahyu Ning Widyastuti from Civil Engineering UGM

For Undergraduate Student category:
1st place: UNHAS Makassar
2nd place: Audinda Virsa Levinia from Civil Engineering UGM
3rd place: UNTAR, Jakarta

For the Best Paper in English: UNHAS, Makassar
The Best Poster Presentation: UAJY, Yogyakarta

On November 8, 2017, Delegates from the Construction Research Institute of Malaysia (CREAM) visited the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, welcomed by the Secretary of the Department, Ali Awaludin, S.T., M.Eng., Ph.D. Dr. Ir. Zuhairi Abd. Hamid, as the leader of the Group, led the discussion about research on “Flood and Landslide Hazard Assessment for Critical Infrastructure for Specific Areas in Malaysia” and “Development of Sustainable Vulnerability Index for Critical Infrastructure for Specified Areas in Malaysia”. The event was also attended by Academic Staffs of the Department in the related fields.

On November 7, 2017, Delegation from National Central University (NCU) Taiwan visited Universitas Gadjah Mada as part of their tour in Indonesia. The delegation was first visited the Office of International Affairs UGM. Furthermore, the group that consisted of 17 people was divided into several groups, according to their expertise / research interests and visited the relevant Faculty / Department, as one of them went to the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering UGM.

The visit to the Department is led by Dr. Hsieh-Lung Hsu, Vice President for International Affairs, along with the other Academic Staffs, Dr. Ching-Ju Monica Chin and Dr. Han-Hsiang Wang, welcomed by Head of Department, Prof. Ir. Joko Sujono, M. Eng., Ph.D. In this occasion, Delegates from NCU expressed their interest in research collaboration, particularly in the areas of construction management, transportation, and natural disasters. NCU also opens the opportunity to establish cooperation for the student exchange or double degree.

Enterpreneurship General Lecture Series Part 2 by Ir. Moh Edi Isdwiarto, held on November 4th 2017 in 3rd floor Civil and Environmental Engineering Department FT UGM. Ir Moh Edi Isdwiarto, MBA is one of the alumni of Civil Engineering UGM year of 1981. He delivered a lecture about “Transformation of Corporate Culture from Multinational to BUMN”

Enterpreneurship General Lecture Series Part 1by Ir. Wijayanto Samirin, MPP held on October 28th 2017 in 3rd floor Civil and Environmental Engineering Department FT UGM. Ir. Wijayanto Samirin is one of the alumni of Civil Engineering UGM year of 1990. He delivered a lecture about “Dynamic Changing Management Inside Work and Social Environment”

Saturday, October 28th 2017 has held a final judgement for 5 groups finalist of Design of Precast Building KMTS FT UGM Competition. The board of jury are :

1. Dr. Ing. Ir. Andreas Triwiyono (Chairman)
2. Dr. Ing. Ir. Djoko Sulistyo (Member)
3. Ir. Ikaputra M.Eng., Ph.D. (Member)
4. Ir. Moch. Cholis Prihanto (Member)

Also being invited some of KATSGAMA (Keluarga Alumni Teknik Sipil Gadjah Mada) member.

Final result of this competition are as follows :
1st Place – Group 4
Members : Jabar Raikhan Khusna, Rizki Prana Antariksa, Genta Alim Adinegoro, Farras Irvanda, Fitha Aulia
With prize amount of Rp. 25.000.000,-

2nd – Group 1
Members : Rage Rino, Fadhil Rizky, Dilla Ari, Ismawarti, Rusgiyanto
With prize amount of Rp. 15.000.000,-

3rd Place – Group 7
Members : Estetika Chinta, Muhammad Muyassar
With prize amount of Rp. 10.000.000,-

Dynamic Load Bridge Competition is one of the various events series at ITS Civil Expo 2017 held by the Civil Engineering Student Association of Institut Teknologi Sepuluh, Surabaya. The theme was “Lightweight Bridge that is solid, environmental-friendly, with Indonesian archipelagic vision”, and the maximum bridge loading is 100 kg. This year, Team of Cita Sandya VIII Universitas Gadjah Mada had the opportunity to get to the Final after passed the stage of paper examination. This team consists of Agustinus Sri Pandu (DTSL 2015), Rahmat Gusdian (DTSL 2015), and Yendri Maryesi N (DTSL 2016).

Final session of Dynamic Load Bridge Competition was held on 27 – 30 September 2017 at the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh, Surabaya. The competition starts on 27 September 2017 with Technical Meeting followed by all contestants who were qualified for the final stage of the competition. On September 28, 2017 was a session for presentation of bridge planning, and continued with bridge making session on September 29, 2017. The bridge loading test session was created on 30 September 2017. There were eight teams in the final round, i.e. Universitas Gadjah Mada, Politeknik Negri Jakarta, Universitas Diponegoro, Universitas Indonesia, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, Universitas Negeri Malang, Universitas Lambung Mangkurat, and Universitas Kristen Krida Wacana

On September 28, 2017, a presentation session was held. Team from Universitas Gadjah Mada University got the 10 minutes presentation session and 20 minute of question and answer session. On 30 September 2017 evening, the awarding and closing ceremony were held with the announcement of the winner. On this occasion, Team of Cita Sandya VIII successfully became the first Winner and winner of “the Most Implemented Construction” category.

[09:24, 10/11/2017] Sinta Tsipil: I was selected to be one of 1000 Talents representatives of 129 countries which was selected from 10,000 registrants worldwide, to join the 1st UNLEASH Lab Innovation (http://unleash.org) in Denmark, from 13-21 August 2017, held by more than 200 Execution Partners from several international organizations, multinationals and academics, such as UNDP, UNFPA, World Economic Forum, Vestas, Microsoft, etc.
UNLEASH is an incubator forum which gathers Talents from around the world to discuss, collaborate, and innovate solutions for the Sustainable Development Goals. There were 7 themes: Education & ICT, Energy, Food, Health, Sustainable Consumption & Production, Urban Sustainability, and Water. The participants should provide process of making innovation solutions, which consisted of 5 phases: Problem Framing, Ideation, Prototyping & Sketching, Testing & Refining, and Implementing.
Being one of the 10 youngest talents, (age between 20-35 years old) is not easy. This event give a lot of knowledge and experience, also there were many new things to learn.

Niesa Hanum M
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Teknik Sipil