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14 December 2009
th th th
The 7 , 8 and 9 Open Campus
1. The 7th, 8th and 9th Open Cam-
The 7th Open Campus at Innovation Japan 2009, Tokyo (Sep 16-18, 2009)
pus……………………………………………1
The 8th Open Campus at Bursa Karir-ITS, Surabaya (Oct 14-15, 2009) 2. Congratulations……………………….1
The 9th Open Campus at IEE Expo 2009, Surabaya (Nov 9-13, 2009) 3. Scientific Meeting No. 25-29……2
4. Laboratory Visit……………………… 3
ITS was invited to Innovation Japan in Tokyo (September 16-18, 2009) by
Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) based on the achievement under 5. SITIA 2009………………………………3
the Project. Prof. Gamantyo (LPPM-ITS), Dr. Suhartono(International Office- 6. Visit UNDANA…………………………..3
ITS) and Dr. Affandi (ICT&Multimedia Center-ITS) promoted ITS to estab- 7. Guest Lecture………………………….4
lish international network, pursue the opportunities 8. ISODEL 2009…………………………..4
for research and academic collaboration, and pro-
mote research products to venture capitals. Be-
sides the exhibition of ITS's R&D and industrial Coming workshop/seminar/
cooperation, especially some with Japanese com- conference :
panies, Prof.Gamantyo made presentations, aiming
January 20, 2010 (tentative)
at enhancing partnerships with Japanese academic
and industrial sectors. ● e-seminar hosted by Sam Ratu-
langi University (UNSRAT)
The 8th Open Campus under PREDICT-ITS was held at Graha ITS on October Information will be updated in
14-15, 2009 as part of the 18th Bursa Karier of ITS. http://www.predict.its.ac.id/
What was new this year about our exhibition was January 22, 2010
that we demonstrated not only our achievement ● Yokogawa Seminar
through Joint Research but also ITS’s business *Information will be uploaded in
promotion, aiming to invite more participants in http://www.predict.its.ac.id/
January 26, 2010
the Business Incubation Program and the Joint ITS
● PREDICT Final Workshop at
-PT Yokogawa DCS Training. DIKTI—Jakarta
International Electrical Engineering Expo (IEE Expo) 2009 of ITS was held at *Information will be uploaded in
Balai Pemuda, Surabaya. This one-week activities aim to enhance the stu- http://www.predict.its.ac.id/
dents’ soft skills, especially in the field of information
and communication technologies. Some groups of
Joint Research of PREDICT-ITS demonstrated the research outcomes in the booth, therefore
many students, especially new students, visited the booth to get new knowledge from their
senior students. During IEE Expo, Prof. Shuichi Torii from Kumamoto University also
joined us to share information on universities, research activities, scholarships in Japan.

Two of our Joint Research leaders, Dr. Mochamad Ashari and Dr. Adi Soeprijanto has been
certified as Professor, “Guru Besar”. The inauguration ceremony was held in Graha-ITS on
December 3, 2009. Dr. Ashari delivered his presentation on his research “Aplikasi Prospek
Pengembangan Elektronika Daya untuk Sektor Energi, Industri, dan Transportasi” and Dr.
Adi presented his research on “Desain Sistem Monitoring dan Kendali Terpadu untuk Men-
goptimalkan Operasi Sistem Tenaga Listrik, Sebuah Upaya Membangun Kemandirian”.
We believe that Prof. Ashari and Prof. Adi would make great contributions to ITS in various aspects.

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PREDICT-ITS organized Scientific Meetings as follows.

At Scientific Meeting No.28, ITS and partner universities shared the outcomes of the Higher Education Training on
Developing Education Contents for Mobile Learning for Indonesia given by JICA at Saga University.
Distinguishable output of the discussion session of this meeting was the agreement by all the presenters and
audiences on the establishment of a dedicated group for e learning development. Researchers of partner universities
who are interested in developing e-learning are most welcome as the group members. Mailing List for the group will
be created soon. Contact Address: cict@its.ac.id

Scientific Meeting No.25 <Lecture by Prof.Tsuyoshi Usagawa, Kumamoto University>

(Aug 27, 2009) “A guideline for preparing the e-Learning contents”
Dept. of Electrical Engi-
neering, ITS

Scientific Meeting No.26 <Lecture by Dr.Yoshifumi Chisaki, Kumamoto University>

(Oct 8, 2009) “Acoustic Signal Enhancement and its Utilization”
Dept. of Electrical Engi- <Report on Joint Research Training for 3rd Batch I>
neering, ITS Prof. Adi Soeprijanto, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, ITS
“Integrated Monitoring and Control Analysis: A Industry University Collaboration
Research”
Dr. Indra Adji Soelistijono, EEPIS
“A New Wheeled and Legged Hybrid Mechanisms System for SAR Robot”
Mr. Totok Mujiono, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, ITS
“Robust Odor Classification On Dynamic Environment Using Short Time Fourier
Transform And Self-organized Map Neural Network”

Scientific Meeting No.27 <Report on Innovation Japan 2009>

(Oct 20, 2009) Prof. Gamantyo Hendrantoro, Secretary of LPPM, ITS
LPPM, ITS “Promoting ITS in an International Expo”
Dr. Achmad Affandi Head of ICT&Multimedia Center, ITS
“Innovation Japan”
Ms. Kyoko Nakano, Deputy team leader, JICA PREDICT-ITS
“Industry-University Link -Innovation Japan 2009-”

Scientific Meeting No.28 <Report on JICA Training on Developing Education Contents for Mobile Learning at
(Dec 1, 2009) Saga University, Japan I>
ITS-Net, ITS Ms. Vita Listyaningrum, ITS
“Report on JICA Training on Mobile Learning Saga University “
Mr. Heri Wijayanto, UNRAM
“Report on Saga Training”

Scientific Meeting No.29 <Report on Joint Research Training for 3rd Batch II and JICA Training on Developing
(Dec 3, 2009) Education Contents for Mobile Learning at Saga University, Japan II>
ITS-Net, ITS Mr. Dwi Prasetyo, UNDANA
“Higher Education Training Developing Education Contents for Mobile Learning for
Indonesia”
Mr. Bekti Cahyo Hidayanto, ITS
“E Learning Development Implementation of Unidirectional Synchronization System
Between ITS And KU with LMS Moodle”
Ms.Umi Laili Yuhana, ITS
“Short Training Report, Course: Content Management”
Mr. Radityo Prasetianto, ITS
“Report On Joint Research Training Batch 3 –Medical Bioengineering Laboratory
Kumamoto University”
Mr. Handoko Hamsjah, UNCEN
“Final Report, Higher Education Training on Developing Education Contents for Mo-
bile Learning for Indonesia”

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Dr.Achmad Affandi, one of the leaders of the 3rd batch
joint research group introduced his Laboratory.
In order to provide learners with qualified education,
lecturers should be highly motivated to realize it in the
given environment (especially in the eastern part of In-
donesia), such as limited infrastructures and facilities,
capacities of human resources and availability of good
course contents and materials. They should be aware
that the full utilization of e-learning may decrease the
cost for building and maintaining learning objects, i.e.
materials for learning, while protecting personal infor-
mation should be seriously considered when using a
Learning Management System (LMS).
A single LMS cannot provide sufficient accessibility,
under a limited network bandwidth, if many learners
access to this LMS. One of the solutions for such a case
should be setting a master LMS server at ITS and multi-
ple local LMS servers at different institutions, to which
e-learning users are connected under a broadband local
network. However, such a configuration could pose
problems of synchronization, due to the multiple opera-
tions of LMS servers. Hence, dynamic and automatic
synchronization of the learning object among multiple
LMS should be the issues for the synchronization of the
learning objects, which means the technology develop-
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ment for the implementation of distributed LMS consist-
ing of a master and its client LMSs. In this regard, two
approaches of synchronization have been generally pro-
posed, namely bi-directional and uni-directional syn-
chronization. Bi-directional synchronization approach is
applied to all master LMS data (tables). Synchronization
is done among the master and client LMSs, affecting all
data. On the other hand, uni-directional synchronization
concerns only learning objects of the client LMSs under
a master LMS; where learners’ information, including
the discussion and other interactive activities among
learners and teachers, is not synchronized with other
LMSs to enable separate operation by each educational
institute.
Our research mainly concerns the development and per-
formance analysis of uni-directional synchronization of
distributed LMS. During the one year joint research,
some issues have been explored concerning synchroniza-
tion, e.g. improving performance of synchronization
through Internet, developing synchronization application
for portal system etc. This
joint research will be further
implemented by Dr.Affandi’s
group and an ITS scholar who
is doing research on this topic
and pursing a Ph.D. degree at
Usagawa Laboratory.

On the occasion of SITIA (Seminar on Intelligent Technology and Its Application)

2009, at Garden Palace Hotel, Prof. Adi Soeprijanto, a leader of the 3rd batch joint re-
search group had made a presentation on Lab-based Education, titled, “Lab-based Edu-
cation -A Future Hope for The Nation-”. He explained why it is important not only for
ITS, but also for the bright future of Indonesia. The obstacles to implement Lab-based
Education to master course, such as a lack of budget and facilities were also mentioned,
however, he emphasized that the key of success of Lab-based Education is how to moti-
vate the students to work in the lab everyday after their classes and attend weekly lab meeting, and he has kept trying
to involve the students in the research to realize it. One of the interesting activities in his lab is the regular presenta-
tion in English with any kind of topics by students, it aims to improve their English and presentation skills, and make
the productive research environment and through the discussions in lab.
Big applause happened during his enthusiastic presentation from participants. “Guidelines for introducing Lab-based
Education ver.3 -Preparation, Implementation and Monitoring-” will be issued in January 2010. It contains the ex-
perience on Lab-based Education of lab leaders of the 1st, the 2nd and the 3rd batch joint research group.

Dr.Wirawan, Head of Inter-university Link Unit of ICT&Multimedia Center, and Prof. Tsuyoshi Usagawa, JICA Team
Leader, visited Nusa Cendana University (UNDANA), Kupang, on December 2-3, 2009. One of the purposes of their visit
was to discuss UNDANA’s future development plan and possible cooperation with ITS, thus they had a meeting with Rec-
tor of UNDANA, paying special attentions to the enhanced utilization of INHERENT and necessary training programs for
UNDANA to achieve it.
The other purpose of the visit for Prof. Usagawa was to deliver a lecture on “How to start e-Learning” for the lecturers of
Faculty of Engineering, Agriculture, Medicine and PUSKOM staff, who are much interested in it but have no practical
idea how to kick it off. The lecture and discussions helped UNDANA to update their knowledge of e-learning in terms of
its actual implementation by lecturers under the current conditions.
They also observed labs at the campus and discussed the possible updating of education and research with lecturers in the
fields of electrical & civil engineering, agriculture, and etc. including those form the polytechnic. This is very important
for ITS & UNDANA to develop concrete plans of cooperation that meet the perspectives presented during the series of
discussions and to work together, dealing with any things in the way.
ITS has a plan of another visit to UNDANA on January 19, 2010 to follow it up and push their cooperation plan forward.
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The lecture by Surabaya Develop-

Mr.Toshiaki Yama- ment Center that em-
moto, CEO of Icore phasizes software test-
Inc., Japan, on ing.
“Entrepreneurship in Mr.Don Rozano, an
ICT industries” was alumnus of Dept. of
given at Dept. of Electrical Engineering of ITS, also gave a lecture.
Informatics Engineering on Dec 9, 2009, targeting students First, he talked about how he has started his busi-
and researchers who are motivated to launch his/her own ness, then, he gave several suggestions to those who
business based on the R&D so far done by themselves. want to take serious actions to start his/her own
Mr. Yamamoto, after his retirement from Hitachi Electronics business. About 60 participants from various depart-
Co., Ltd., established Icore Inc. in 2002, and started offshore ments of ITS enjoyed and
development in 2006 in cooperation with EEPIS/ITS. He highly benefited from these
explained his experiences, mainly to share with participants lectures and discussions.
the understanding on how an entrepreneur should be, espe-
cially in the field of software engineering, and on his policy
of offshore development. This year, Icore inaugurated the

Internatinal Symposium Open, Distance and e-Learning (ISODEL) 2009 (http://

isodel.depdiknas.go.id/) was organized by Center for Information and
Communication Technology for Education, Ministry of National Education,
Indonesia.
This symposium has several objectives in regard to the enhancement of information
and communication technologies for open, distance and e-learning in Indonesia,
including to acquirea and share advanced ideas, thoughts and concepts, information
on best practices and the recent innovation in Indonesia and other countries.
Delegates who joined this event came from many countries and institutions for open, distance and e-learning,
including SEAMEO (Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization), AAOU (Association of Asian Open
University), UNDP, World Bank, etc... Many Indonesian researchers and education officers also partipated in this
academic meeting.
As the representative of PREDICT ITS, Prof. Tsuyoshi Usagawa delivered a keynote speech in the 1st plenary
session on “Campus wide ICT environment for education in digital era - Trials of Kumamoto University over a
decade.” Papers by the PREDICT-ITS members were also presented in the parallel sessions, including
“Unidirectional Synchronization Application for Inter LMS based on Moodle” by Dr. Achmad Affandi et al., and
“Enhancing LMS to course design and implementation” by Dr. Linawati (Udayana University) et al.. The emerging
ICT for education, international experiences in open, distance and e-learning, and ICT based learning and continuous
professional development for teachers are the major topic of the discussions.

Technical cooperation by JICA for 4 years (2006.4-2010.3) with ITS as the resource university for universities in EPI and industries, Kuma-
moto university as JICA team, Japanese universities as partners for joint research.
Objectives of PREDICT-ITS
ITS strengthens research capabilities in order to provide industries, other universities and government institutes in the eastern part of Indo-
nesia with human resources having state-of-the art technologies and skills in the field of ICT.
Expected Outputs of PREDICT-ITS
ITS strengthens research activities and has international level research capabilities.
ITS transforms engineering education from classroom-based to laboratory-based.
Academic linkage between ITS and universities in the eastern part of Indonesia are established.
Joint activities between ITS, industries and government institutes are strengthened.

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