The Undergraduate Telecommunication Engineering Study Program (PSSTT) is one of the academic study programs established at the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS). PSSTT was officially established on March 1, 2022, as indicated by the issuance of the Rector’s Decree No. 288/IT2/T/HK.0001/2022 concerning the Opening of the Undergraduate Telecommunication Engineering Study Program. PSSTT was established in order to support the ITS Strategic Plan in the field of Information Technology and Telecommunications.
To become a leading provider of higher education with international recognition and a reference for the development and application of Science and Technology (IPTEK) in the field of Telecommunication Engineering through education, research, and community service. The managing unit of the Undergraduate Telecommunication Engineering Study Program at ITS is the Faculty of Intelligent Electrical and Informatics Technology (FTEIC). The history of FTEIC is closely related to the long transformation of the Department of Electrical Engineering (DTE), which was established on November 3, 1960, based on Decree No. 93367/U.U/1960. In its development, the Department—led by a Head of Department who also served as a member of the Institute Presidium—was transformed into the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FTE) in 1963. Since then, FTE has developed rapidly and dynamically, both in terms of organizational structure and academic disciplines. Academically, FTE initially had only two study programs, which later expanded to eleven study programs and were subsequently restructured into five study programs. In 1982, based on Presidential Decree No. 58 of 1982 concerning Changes in the Faculty Structure at ITS, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FTE) was renamed the Department of Electrical Engineering (JTE). This decision placed the Department of Electrical Engineering and several other departments under the Faculty of Industrial Technology (FTI). Since then, the five study programs previously under FTE were reorganized into fields of study under JTE. These five fields of study are Power Systems Engineering, Telecommunications, Electronics, Control Systems Engineering, and Computer Engineering. In 1985, the Computer Engineering field of study was established as the Department of Computer Engineering, which later changed its name to the Department of Informatics Engineering in 1995. In 2001, at the initiative of the 4th President of the Republic of Indonesia, the Department of Informatics Engineering was transformed into the Faculty of Information Technology (FTIf), which later changed its name to the Faculty of Information and Communication Technology (FTIK) in 2017. In the same year, the Department of Electrical Engineering was transformed back into the Faculty of Electrical Technology (FTE). Along with the change of ITS status to a PTNBH in 2019, FTIf and FTE merged into FTEIC, which consists of the Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Informatics Engineering, Department of Information Systems, and Department of Information Technology. In 2022, based on Rector’s Decree No. 288/IT2/T/HK.0001/2022, the Department of Electrical Engineering developed one of its fields of study, namely Multimedia Telecommunications, into the Undergraduate Program in Telecommunications Engineering. Since then, the Department of Electrical Engineering has coordinated four study programs: the Undergraduate Program in Electrical Engineering, the Master’s Program in Electrical Engineering, the Doctoral Program in Electrical Engineering, and the Undergraduate Program in Telecommunications Engineering. The historical development of FTEIC can be seen below.
Timeline of FTEIC’s transformation history
The Undergraduate Program in Telecommunications Engineering has the following scientific vision: “To become an excellent provider of higher education with international recognition and a reference for the development and application of Science and Technology (IPTEK) in the field of Telecommunications Engineering through education, research, and community service.”
Graduates of the Undergraduate Program in Telecommunications Engineering are expected to have the following profile: