An effort of the Department of Industrial Engineering - University of Surabaya in order to Provide Human Resources in the Field of Standardization

The needs of professionals in the field of quality and standardization are increasing with the open free market world. Department of Industrial Engineering-University of Surabaya anticipates these needs by developing curriculum in 2010, which include a variety of elective courses in the field of standardization. In addition, learning methods are designed with attention to the attractive delivery methods and gives students the opportunity to realize the abilities and skills in a project task in order to the achievement of specified competencies in the graduate profile. Although it was unknown by the students, the subject in the field of standardization is quite interesting for the students, with the increasing number of participants in the subjects of standardization, quality management systems, and safety and health management system. Similarly, evaluation of the learning process conducted by the students showed good performance results, and furthermore, there is increasing research to final project in the field of quality and standardization. In addition to following the regular lectures, students also increased insight about the standards with the opportunity provided by the management of the Industrial Engineering Department which is supported by the National Standardization Agency (BSN) in the organization of events such as exhibition on education about standardization, implementation of the standardization game competitions, and workshops for quality management system. Hopefully, all the efforts that have been undertaken by the Department of Industrial Engineering, is contribute to provide of professionals in the field of standardization required by the business community and industry in Indonesia