Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology ( id, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember; '10th of November Institute of Technology'; abbreviated as ITS) is an Indonesian
public
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technological university located in
Surabaya
Surabaya ( jv, ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ or jv, ꦯꦹꦫꦨꦪ; ; ) is the capital city of the Provinces of Indonesia, Indonesian province of East Java and the List of Indonesian cities by population, second-largest city in Indonesia, after Jakarta. L ...
,
East Java
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, with a strong emphasis on scientific, engineering, and
vocational education
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system. Located on 180-hectares green area, ITS is home to more than 1,000 faculty members and over 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students.
ITS is ranked 1st in Indonesia and 64th in the world based on the
Times Higher Education (THE)
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Ownership
TPG Capital acquired TSL Education ...
''Impact Ranking 2021'', which reflects to its strong commitment to support the
UN's
Sustainable Development Goals
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under the comprehensive platform of ''ITS Smart Eco Campus''. From the Widya Wahana Project, Indonesia's first solar-powered car, to the Jalapatih Project, Indonesia's first solar-powered ship, ITS is growing as a national powerhouse for green technology and pioneering clean energy innovation in Indonesia, the largest Muslim-populated country in the world. The institute launched and operated Indonesia's first electric bus in 2014 and Indonesia's first teaching industry in automotive
GESITS that produces electric scooter for national commercial market in 2017 in order to transform Indonesia's fossil-based transportation fuel into the sustainable green technology.
The continuous inclusion of
student activism in its curriculum has been substantial for making ITS the most impactful university in Indonesia;
social engagement
Social engagement (also social involvement, social participation) refers to one's degree of participation in a community or society.
Definitions
Prohaska, Anderson and Binstock (2012) noted that the term social engagement is commonly used to r ...
in solving
environmental issues
Environmental issues are effects of human activity on the biophysical environment, most often of which are harmful effects that cause environmental degradation. Environmental protection is the practice of protecting the natural environment on t ...
through national or international competition is formally rewarded in a credit-based evaluation system as part of its integrated character-building curriculum.
The Indonesian second-oldest public technological institute covers 33 undergraduate programs, six vocational study programs, 20 master programs, 15 doctoral programs, and 2
International Undergraduate Programs (IUP) The institute has established seven programs with international accreditation (IABEE and ABET) and 16 programs with the AUN-QA international certification, with more than 360 international partner-institutions in 52 countries. ITS has been expanding its educational disciplines beyond sciences and engineering into fields such as arts, business management, and development studies. With two Indonesian best polytechnics,
Electronic State Polytechnic (PENS) and
Shipbuilding State Polytechnic (PPNS), operate independently in the same area as ITS' main campus in Sukolilo, ITS has been continuously transforming the City of Surabaya as a national powerhouse for advanced technological innovation, impactful scientific and engineering research, and best vocational education.
History
Early years (20th Century)
ITS was founded as an humble technical college on November 10, 1957. In its early years, Angka Nitisastro, a medical doctor who became the first Rector of ITS, announced the student registration from his clinic. Following the suggestion of Indonesian Foreign Minister
Ruslan Abdulgani
Ruslan Abdulgani (November 24, 1914, Surabaya — June 29, 2005, Jakarta, his first name is also spelled Roeslan) was an Indonesian government official and diplomat known for his role as a leader during the Indonesian National Revolution in ...
(1914-2005), the establishment charter of ITS was signed by
Sukarno (1901-1970), the first President of Republic of Indonesia. Both of them were born in Surabaya, which shared emotional connection with the city. In his speech, President Sukarno emphasized on the Spirit of Sepuluh Nopember, which refers to the legendary heroes who fought against colonialism and imperialism in the
Battle of Surabaya
The Battle of Surabaya was fought between regular infantry and militia of the Indonesian nationalist movement and British and British Indian troops as a part of the Indonesian National Revolution against the re-imposition of Dutch colonial r ...
on November 10, 1945, and annually being commemorated as Heroes Day in Indonesia. Initially, the small Sepuluh Nopember Technical College had only two departments, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Three years later, ITS expanded by opening Electronic Engineering, Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding Engineering, and Chemical Engineering departments.
In 1965, ITS developed two more faculties,
Architectural Engineering
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Archi ...
and the
Faculty of
Natural Sciences
Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeatab ...
. In 1965, despite of socio-political crises in Indonesia, ITS had established seven faculties: Faculty of Civil Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding Engineering, and Faculty of Natural Science. In 1972, the campus of the Faculty of Civil Engineering was relocated to Jl. Manyar 8 Surabaya; the ITS campuses was separated. In the late of 1975, the Faculty of Architectural Engineering and Faculty of Natural Science were relocated to Jl. Cokroaminoto 12A, Surabaya. With financial aid from
ADB, ITS started to build a large educational complex in eastern Surabaya, 1977.
In the early 1980s, reorganization took place in ITS, and the former faculties were downgraded into departments and merged into common discipline faculties. Hence the new ITS organization comprises four faculties: the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Industrial Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Planning, and the Faculty of Marine Technology.
In 1988, ITS established its first polytechnic branch, Shipbuilding Polytechnic of Surabaya. This was followed by the second, Electronic Engineering Polytechnic of Surabaya.
New Development (21st Century)
In 2001, as a response to the visionary speech of President
Abdurrahman Wahid
Abdurrahman Wahid ( ; born Abdurrahman ad-Dakhil; 7 September 1940 – 30 December 2009), though more colloquially known as Gus Dur (), was an Indonesian politician and Islamic religious leader who served as the 4th president of Indonesia, fr ...
in front of the faculties, ITS introduced a faculty of information technology consisting of two departments: Informatics Engineering and Information Systems. Two Indonesian leading polytechnics;
Electronic State Polytechnic (PENS) and
Shipbuilding State Polytechnic (PPNS) now operate independently on the same area at ITS' main campus in Sukolilo, a region in the eastern part of the City of Surabaya, East Java, that serves as a national center for advanced technological innovation in robotics and artificial intelligence, shipbuilding and marine engineering, clean and renewable energy, and smart city.
![ITS Robotics Center](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/ITS_Robotics_Center.jpg)
Today, ITS has three campus areas: Cokroaminoto, Manyar, and Sukolilo as the largest educational complex. In 2013, as a technological institute founded by a medical doctor, Angka Nitisastro, ITS marks its engagement to the advanced medical research by graduating its first doctoral graduate on medical engineering, Ingrid Nurtanio, lecturer at University of Hassanuddin.
Muhammad Nuh initiated Indonesia's first undergraduate program
Biomedical Engineering
Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...
in 2007, which historically reconnect ITS to its early years when the newly born institute was led by a medical doctor, Angka Nitisastro.
Campuses
Virtual Tour
Within its website, Institut Teknologi Surabaya provides a
ITS virtual tourto give insight for public to explore each of departments, facilities, and innovation building. Moreover, the course structures and career projects are depicted as detail information.
Location
ITS is located in the
City of Surabaya, the second-largest city in Indonesia.
ITS operates three campuses in Surabaya. Its main campus is located at Sukolilo, wherein all
undergraduate
Undergraduate education is education conducted after secondary education and before postgraduate education. It typically includes all postsecondary programs up to the level of a bachelor's degree. For example, in the United States, an entry-lev ...
programs are delivered, along with the postgraduate buildings, administrative building, main library, faculties housing, student community center, central cafeteria, football stadium, jogging track, and student dormitory that can accommodate 1200 freshmen. A smaller campus is located in Manyar district, providing a Civil Engineering diploma course. The third campus is located at Cokroaminoto Street, providing a
postgraduate
Postgraduate or graduate education refers to academic or professional degrees, certificates, diplomas, or other qualifications pursued by post-secondary students who have earned an undergraduate ( bachelor's) degree.
The organization and ...
Technology Management Magister course.
Cafeteria
A central canteen and numerous smaller canteens can be found in ITS main campus at Sukolilo. Some small-sized canteens are serving students, faculty members, and staff in several departments. A central canteen (Indonesian: ''Kantin Pusat ITS''), the largest in the campus, is offering different counters with diverse foods and beverages in an affordable price. Famous for its affordable and diverse menu, it is not uncommon to see some influential and famous alumni or even students and visitors from other universities enjoying foods in the central canteen.
Academic facilities and campus life
December 14, 2010, President Dr.
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono officially signed the establishment of the Robotics Center Building (''Gedung Pusat Robotika'') in ITS' campus, Sukolilo, the Indonesian largest technological center for robotics and AI's research. Overall, ITS operates academic facilities on a land area of 187 hectares. ITS hosts graduation ceremony twice in an academic year in a main hall with a capacity of 4,000 occupants. Sport facilities can be found on the campus: a stadium and football ground,
futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and indoor football.
Futsal is played between two teams of five players each, one of whom is ...
courts, basketball courts, tennis courts, wall climbing, gymnasium and indoor badminton courts, rafting canal and jogging tracks.
Faculties and departments
There are 7 faculties and 1 school, some departments offer diploma programs.
In early 2016 the Department of
Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering is an engineering profession that is concerned with the optimization of complex process (engineering), processes, systems, or organizations by developing, improving and implementing integrated systems of people, money, kno ...
achieved
ABET
The ABET (incorporated as the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, Inc.) is a non-governmental organization that accredits post-secondary education programs in applied and natural sciences, computing, engineering and engineering ...
accreditation. In early 2015 the Department of
Informatics, Department of
Statistics
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and Department of
Environmental Engineering
Environmental engineering is a professional engineering discipline that encompasses broad scientific topics like chemistry, biology, ecology, geology, hydraulics, hydrology, microbiology, and mathematics to create solutions that will protect and a ...
also achieved
AUN
Aun the Old (Old Norse ''Aunn inn gamli'', Latinized ''Auchun'', Proto-Norse ''*Audawiniʀ'': English: "Edwin the Old") is a mythical Swedish king of the House of Yngling in the ''Heimskringla''.
Aun was the son of Jorund, and had ten sons, nin ...
accreditation.
Research and achievements
ITS is well known for the systematic inclusion of
student activism in its methodical curriculum; practical engagement in socio-technological activity is formally rewarded through its credit-based evaluation system as part of its character-building curriculum. Within this unique system, undergraduate student must pass the minimum numbers of required credit of social engagement in order to graduate from the institute. Undergraduate students are supervised by selected faculty members in technological project that deals with environmental or social issues for local, national, or international scale. Involvement in national and international competition are encouraged in order to integrate in-class learning and out-of-class impact. ITS is famous for its winning-spirit ethos, as students, led and supervised by selected faculty members, are tirelessly competing in national and international level.
Naval architecture
ITS launched Indonesia's first solar-powered ship, and took part in a world competition, Dong Energy Challenge, in 2014 in the Netherlands. In 2012, ITS participated in the Atlantic Challenge at Bantry, Ireland, and won The Spirit of Atlantic Challenge.
Robotic engineering
In 2012, a team of students was given the Toyota Award at the ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon) in Hong Kong. Two years later, a team of students was given the Second Runner Up and Best Engineering Award at the ABU Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon) in Pune, India. In 2016, a team of students (ICHIRO) was given 10 medals at 21st FIRA Hurocup in Beijing, China. In the same year, a team of students (Barunastra) was given The Second Runner Up and Best Speed and Maneuverability at 9TH Annual International RoboBoat Competition - AUVSI Foundation in Virginia, USA. A year later, a team of students (ICHIRO) was given 14 medals at 22nd FIRA Hurocup in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Concept car
ITS launched Indonesia's first solar-powered car, Widya Wahana. It was tested in Australia, in a world solar car competition. In 2012, the urban energy-efficient concept car, Sapu Angin, won the Asia Pacific energy-saving car competition, Shell Eco Marathon Asia 2012, at Sepang, Malaysia. A year later, ITS (Sapu Angin Speed) won the Best Rookie Award of ICV at Student Formula Japan. Additionally, ITS won the Shell Helix Tribology Award (off-track award) at Shell Eco-Marathon Asia 2013. In the same year, Spectronic VI from ITS won first place among presentation posters and third place in competition at the Chem-e-car Competition in Chemeca 2013, in Brisbane, Australia. 2015, ITS won the Shell Eco Marathon (SEM) Asia 2015, in Manila, the Philippines, in the urban concept diesel category.
Electric vehicles
The institute launched and operated Indonesia's first electric bus in 2014 and Indonesia's first teaching industry (Gesits Project) that produces electric scooter for national commercial market in 2017 in order to transform Indonesia's fossil-based transportation fuel into the green technology.
Research
*Research and Society Service Centre (LPPM)
**Environmental Centre
**Energy Centre
**Earth and Disaster Mitigation Centre
**Marine Centre
**Industrial Centre
**IT & Multimedia Communication Centre
**Continuing Education Unit
**Intellectual Property Rights Unit
*RIMA-ITS (Research Institute For Web and Mobile Application - ITS)
*Laboratory for Housing and Human Settlements
*Robotic Research Centre
Ranking
The QS Asia University Rangkings 2022 has ranked Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS Surabaya) as number 160. In 2023, ITS was ranked 701-750 worldwide according to the Top QS World University Rankings 2023, as well as ranked 160th in the Top QS Asian University Rankings 2022 (sixth in Indonesia after Gadjah Mada University, Bandung Institute of Technology, University of Indonesia, Airlangga University and Bogor Agricultural University).
Student activities
ITS is well known for its winning-spirit ethos in sport. In 2015, Seaborg ITS's team won first place at College Bowl 2015, the largest football league held by Indonesian Flag Football Association (IFFA). Maritime Challenge ITS's team won first place at Atlantic Challenge International (ACI) 2014 in the Oar and Sail category, in France.
ITS has a variety of
student organizations
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involved in
politic
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,
religion
Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...
,
sports
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, the
arts
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, and other activities. These include:
*Student Executive Organization
*Student Legislative
*Manarul 'Ilmi
Masjid Members
*PLH Siklus ITS, students' environmental organization
*ITS Students Choir
*ITS Foreign Language Society (IFLS)
*CLICK ITS, students' film and cinematography organization
*ITS Radio
*Pramuka ITS
*"Tiyang Alit" Theatre
*"Dr Angka" students
cooperative
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned and democratically-control ...
*Workshop of Entrepreneurship & Technology (WE&T-ITS)
*Maritime Challenge
*Loedroek ITS - traditional
East Java
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play, converted to a more modern and contemporary style
*ITS Muay Thai Association
File:Tari Remo.jpg, ''Tari Remo'' (Remo Dance) was performed at the 45th anniversary of ITS
File:Its-tama-chan-yosakoi-surabaya.jpg, Yosakoi dance, performed by ITS's team in Surabaya, during a Surabaya and Kōchi sister-cities celebration
File:Psm its.jpg, ITS student choir
A choir ( ; also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers. Choral music, in turn, is the music written specifically for such an ensemble to perform. Choirs may perform music from the classical music repertoire, which ...
in a contest
Notable alumni
*
Tri Rismaharini
Tri Rismaharini (born 20 November 1961) is an Indonesian politician who is the current Minister of Social Affairs. Popularly known as Risma, she is both the first directly-elected and first female to be the Mayor of Surabaya. She is one of the ...
,
Minister of Social Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (2020–present); graduated from the Department of Architecture.
*
Muhammad Nuh,
Minister of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia (2009 – 2014); graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering.
*
Agus Rahardjo, Head of the
Corruption Eradication Commission
Corruption Eradication Commission ( id, Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi), abbreviated as KPK, is an Indonesian government agency established to prevent and fight corruption in the country. Firli Bahuri, an active police general, is the current ch ...
(2015 – 2019); graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering.
*
Nova Iriansyah
Nova Iriansyah (born 22 November 1963) is an Indonesian architect and politician who has served as the List of governors of Aceh, Governor of Aceh, Indonesia since 2020, although he had served as acting governor since 2018. Before becoming govern ...
,
Governor of Aceh (2020–present); graduated from the Department of Architecture.
*
Eri Cahyadi,
Mayor of Surabaya (2021–present); graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering.
*
Vandiko Gultom,
Regent of Samosir (2021–present); graduated from the Department of Civil Engineering.
*
Putri Raemawasti, journalist and
Miss Universe Indonesia 2008 (
Puteri Indonesia 2007); went to the Department of Industrial Engineering.
Dropped out
*
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono,
President of the Republic of Indonesia
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*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
*President (government title)
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Automobiles
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(2004 - 2014) and songwriter; dropped out of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.
*
Gombloh, folk singer-songwriter; dropped out of the Department of Architecture.
*
Leo Kristi, folk singer-songwriter; dropped out of the Department of Architecture.
*
Jonas Rivanno Wattimena, actor and singer; dropped out of the Department of Environmental Engineering.
References
External links
Official website (Indonesian)Official website (English)*
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