During their studies in the Physics Engineering Undergraduate Program, students may choose one of the five fields of interest offered. The field of interest is closely related to the elective courses taken and the final project topic proposed by the student. The Physics Engineering Undergraduate Program at FTI-ITS offers 5 fields of interest (known as Kelompok Bidang Minat/KBM), as follows:
Instrumentation Engineering
The Instrumentation Engineering field of interest deals with the design, manufacturing, and utilisation of physical instruments or instrumentation systems for detection, observation, measurement, automatic control, computation and simulation, communication, or data acquisition systems in experiments and testing, as well as the control of industrial process data.
Development of the Instrumentation Engineering Field
- Developing the design of measurement, control, and safety instrumentation for industrial and medical applications.
- Developing network technology for detection, observation, and control systems.
- Developing neural network, genetic algorithm, fuzzy logic, and artificial intelligence methods for computation and simulation.
- Developing the design of medical instrumentation for medical applications.
Facilities for developing this field of interest are provided by the Instrumentation Engineering Laboratory.
Energy and Environmental Conditioning Engineering
The Energy and Environmental Conditioning Engineering field of interest is characterised by the development of thermal and energy engineering disciplines and their application to the environment, with research and application of science and technology focused on thermal physical variables such as temperature, pressure, fluid flow, and others, in order to achieve comfortable environmental conditions that in turn improve system performance. In the energy field, research and development are focused on the engineering of energy provision or generation (conversion), energy conservation, energy conversion, and energy management, both in industry and within the wider community. The mission of this laboratory is to create research, development, and applications of energy technology and thermal environmental conditioning engineering at the departmental, faculty, institutional, regional, and international levels.
Facilities for developing this field of interest are provided by the Energy and Environmental Conditioning Engineering Laboratory.
Materials Engineering
The Materials Engineering field of interest deals with the design and performance analysis of materials. This field depends heavily on the advancement of knowledge and application of materials on one hand, and on the application of materials according to their properties and uses on the other.
Development of the Materials Engineering Field
- Design and engineering of sensors, including sensors based on semiconductor & ceramic materials.
- Design and engineering of packaging materials for industrial products, including packaging for microelectronic devices & sensors.
- Performance analysis of materials, both in industrial instruments and in operating systems within the manufacturing industry.
Facilities for developing this field of interest are provided by the Advanced Functional Materials Laboratory.
Vibration and Acoustics
The Vibration and Acoustics field of interest deals with the concepts and characteristics of vibration, acoustics, and lighting, applied to achieve comfortable conditions that meet technical requirements both indoors and outdoors.
Facilities for developing this field of interest are provided by the Vibration and Acoustics Laboratory.
Photonics Engineering
The study of the nature, function, and role of light, optics, optoelectronics, and photonics in the advancement of science and technology is the core activity of this field of interest. The study of light began long ago, and to date many mysteries have been unravelled, leading to wide application across various technological fields, for example communication systems using optical fibre media, which offer far better loss characteristics and transmission capacity than conventional cables.
Photonics has contributed greatly to the fields of instrumentation, information transmission systems, medicine, industry, and others. These developments are inseparable from the invention of the laser in the 1960s, which marked the beginning of a revolution in the world of optics. The development of laser technology, in terms of design, characteristics, and application, is also part of the activities within the photonics engineering field of interest. This field has two student chapters, namely OSA and SPIE, international photonics organisations that support learning and research funding in photonics professionally.
Activities within this field of interest and its student chapters are supported and carried out by the Photonics Engineering Laboratory.
