Politap Holds PBL Expo

KETAPANG – Tuesday (26/07/2022). Held at the Directorate Hall of Politeknik Negeri Ketapang (Ketapang State Polytechnic), a Project Based Learning (PBL) Expo was held for products resulting from the teaching and learning process of even semester students for the 2021/2022 academic year in the DIII Information Technology Study Program and the DIII Agroindustry Study Program. This PBL Expo was attended by representatives from Industry and the World of Work (IDUKA) in Ketapang, Politap lecturers, and student expo participants. 

Endang Kusmana, Director of Politap, stated in his opening remarks that this PBL is one of Politap's efforts to improve the quality of curriculum and learning, especially to enhance students' hard skills and soft skills. According to Endang, through PBL, the learning process can help solve problems faced by IDUKA so that learning outcomes productively support research, community service, and intellectual property rights. Endang added that this year's PBL process prioritized internal needs and some external needs, but for the upcoming semester, it will be opened as widely as possible to IDUKA and the wider community.

Meanwhile, Maryadi Asmu’i, Expert Staff to the Regent for Community and Human Resources of Ketapang Regency, who attended and opened the event, welcomed the PBL Expo as a form of support for the application of appropriate technology from higher education to increase added value for the community. He encouraged Regional Apparatus Organizations (OPD), industry, and MSMEs to collaborate with Politap to take advantage of the PBL process.

Chairman of the PBL Expo Committee Eka Wahyudi stated that the 2022 PBL Expo was the first PBL Expo to showcase the innovative work of Politap students. He hoped that in the future, innovations by Politap lecturers and students could be featured in wider expos. For 2022, the expo featured student projects in information technology, food product innovations from the Agroindustry Study Program's Teaching Factory, and robots from the Electrical Technology Study Program.