Development Of Engineering Education At Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia

Abstract

Engineering application and technology must be implemented to achieve modern and productive agriculture, In 1964. College of Agricultural Mechanization and Product Processing was established at Bogor Agricultutral University, consisting of two departments, one of which is the Department of Agricultural Mechanization, Later it was upgraded into Department of Agricultural Engineering, consisting of sub-departments: (1) Power and Farm Machinery, (2) Soil and Water Engineering, (3) Farm Structure and Environment, (4) Energy and Electrification, (5) Ergonomics and Instrumentation, and (6) Product Processing Engineering, The Department of Agricultural Engineering serves agricultural engineering courses for (1) Diploma Programs, (2) Bachelor Programs and (3) Graduate Programs, Student for Diploma Program and Bachelor Program are graduates from Senior High Schools, but some of them from Technical and Agricultural Vocational Schools. Student for Graduate Program mainly graduates from universities all over Indonesia, there are also graduates from universities in the developing countries such as Africa and Cambodia, as well as from developed countries such as Netherlands and Japan. There are 65 staffs available for teaching agricultural engineering courses in the Diploma, Bachelor and Graduate Programs. The facilities include classrooms, laboratories, workshop, and experimental field, which are equipped with modern equipments and instruments. Closely link to the Department of Agricultural Engineering, is the Center for Research and Engineering Apllication in Tropical Agriculture (CREATA), a research institution, which focus the activities in agricultural engineering, supported by 30 research staffs and technicians. Through CREATA, regional and international cooperation in graduate study and research program had been established, particularly with Japan institution and universities. In the near future, the Department of Agricultural Engineering will be enlarged and enhanced into a College of Agricultural Engineering and at present is under evaluation by a team from the Ministry for National Education.