UNAIR NEWS聽– “Our Dean” is a new theme as a part of聽UNAIR NEWS聽special coverage聽.聽It will explore various information about the perfomance and the strategic steps of 14 deans in 东京热.聽This time,聽UNAIR NEWS聽has interviewed Prof.聽Win Darmanto, drs., M.Si., Ph.D., as Dean of the Faculty of Science and Technologist (FST), UNAIR.
Met in his office on Monday, January 8, the dean who is known better as Prof.聽Win said that being a dean was not his dream.聽He focused only in the field of research.
“It flowed like water,” he said.聽“The encouragement and support from the surrounding actually made me elected dean until 2020,” he added.
Regarding the mandate of being the dean, Prof.聽Win has a myriad of strategies, primarily in developing a conducive research climate.聽The Department of Biology lecturer has committed that at the beginning of his term, he intended to bring his faculty leading in research and collaboration with foreign institutions.
“We keep trying to create vibrant research climate in FST UNAIR,” said Prof.聽Win passionately.
Furthermore, Prof.聽Win also stated that FST challenge for research is in the laboratory.聽At FST UNAIR, educational laboratories for practicum are available, while research laboratories are still in the development process.
“We always strive for adequate research support.聽All have started well and on progress, “he explained.
The determination to develop research support facilities is considered very important because, for Prof.聽Win, if the laboratory facilities are available, indirectly the entire academic community FST UNAIR can advance to boost quality and research quantity in the future.
Achieving Target
Being part of UNAIR, FST UNAIR also takes part in supporting UNAIR towards Top 500 World, one of them is with the achievement on research.聽For that, Prof.聽Win showed various results of research that has been done.聽In 2016 and 2017, the targets for scopus-indexed journals can be achieved even exceeded.
“We have achieved almost 3 times the target of the journal in 2017. And by 2018 we can target 450 Scopus indexed journal,” he added.
Not only in the field of research, other achievements by FST UNAIR is the ASIIN (Accreditation of Agency for Engineering, Informatics / Computer Science, the Natural Sciences and Mathematics) accreditation for four of its programs.聽Although the result of accreditation by the accredited institution based in Germany has not yet released, Prof.聽Win is proud that FST UNAIR can continue to improve and advance to international level.
Furthermore, asked about his view for students nowadays, Prof.聽Win said that there is a decrease in productivity by students.聽This is suspected to be the impact of social media.
“The time is used more to use mobile phones than to learn.聽Sometimes I think what if we learn through the mobile phones, “he explained.
In the end of the interview, Prof.聽Win hoped that in the future the drive to improve productivity from FST UNAIR is even higher, in the areas of research, teaching, and collaboration.
“This nation needs both applied and basic technology as the foundation of the nation.聽The developed nation is a nation with more聽engineers聽and聽scientists聽with excellent quality, “he said.聽“But all the work must be from sincerity,” said the Dean who manages 11 programs.
Author: Hilmi Putra Pradana
Editor: Nuri Hermawan
