A total of 5 lecturers from Politeknik Negeri Ketapang (Ketapang State Polytechnic) have successfully qualified as recipients of the 2022 Research and Community Service Grants for Higher Education Institutions Organizing Vocational Education. These five lecturers passed the selection process held by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology based on the Announcement of Recipients of Research and Community Service Grants of the Directorate General of Vocational Education Number 0746/D4/AK.04/ 2022 dated 11 June 2022.
Maya Santi, Head of the Center for Research and Community Service (P3KM) of Politeknik Negeri Ketapang, stated that the number of funded proposals accounts for 42% of the total 12 research titles submitted at the central level. This achievement certainly serves as motivation for lecturers to continue cultivating a research culture, with the hope that the research can be applied in industry (DUDI), government, and society.
Furthermore, Maya added the list of lecturers' names, schemes, and funded research titles from Politeknik Negeri Ketapang that passed the selection for the National Competitive Research Beginner Lecturer Research Scheme for Fiscal Year 2022:
| NIDN | NAME | SCHEME | TITLE |
| 0016088905 | Ahmad Ravi, S.Pd., M.Pd. | Beginner Lecturer Research | Study of Marshall Parameters Using Ale-Ale Shell Waste as Filler in Asphalt Concrete Wearing Course to Improve the Quality of Road Pavement Construction |
| 1104079101 | Darmanto, S.Kom., M.Kom | Beginner Lecturer Research | Mapping Flood-Prone Areas Using Geographic Information Systems in Disaster Mitigation in Ketapang Regency |
| 0018089302 | Firmanilah Kamil, S.Pd., M.Pd. | Beginner Lecturer Research | Problem-Solving-Based Scientific Approach to Improve Learning Motivation and Learning Outcomes of Civil Engineering Students Post Covid-19 Pandemic |
| 0015038802 | Maya Santi, S.Pd., M.T. | Beginner Lecturer Research | Utilization of Bauxite Processing Waste into Alumina (redmud) in the Production of Geopolymer Concrete Bricks |
| 0023068211 | Saifudin Usman, S.T., M.Tr.Kom | Beginner Lecturer Research | Development of IoT-Based Wireless Sensor Network with LoRa Communication for Electrical Power and Energy Quality Monitoring Systems at Politeknik Negeri Ketapang |