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IEEE Fest & TEUB Workshop

I was invited to IEEE Fest 2025 as a representative of the IEEE Indonesia Section Advisory Board. The event was hosted by the IEEE Brawijaya University Student Branch in Malang on 18 October 2025, led by the Chair, Muhammad Asyir Zarkasih. The program was commenced by the Vice-Rector for Student Affairs and Entrepreneurship, Dr Setiawan Noerdajasakti, together with the university’s faculty and departmental leaders. It was particularly noteworthy to see IEEE SBUB expanding beyond its traditional STEM roots into areas such as management and law.

In my short welcoming remarks, I encouraged the strengthening of enthusiasm, commitment, and innovation capability through collaboration, making use of available channels while initiating the door for broader engagement across IEEE’s various organisational units and programs. In a landscape as complex as today’s, challenges are indeed easier to navigate together; but more than that, complex collaboration often reveals new opportunities, both in innovation and in business.

Prior to the event, in the holding room, we had a discussion with the Vice-Rector on reinforcing an innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem that leverages Telkom Group’s digital platforms and connectivity, alongside the strong collaborative resources of IEEE, including IEEE Indonesia Section. Follow-up actions are now being prepared at both university and faculty levels.

I specifically requested that the founding generation of Workshop TEUB, i.e. several alumni from the E88 cohort, to be present as well. Workshop TEUB was established by a trio: Sigit Shalako Abdurajak, Widiyanto, and yours truly; together with the early activists who were deeply involved in innovation and training initiatives. Several of them were able to attend the event: Saiful Hidayat, Aries Boedi Setiawan, Moch Iszar, and others who unfortunately could not join.

We originally founded the Workshop to address significant limitations in academic content as well as the capability and capacity gaps within our alma mater at the time. To our surprise and pride, the next generations have carried the Workshop far beyond what we imagined. Now operating as an autonomous unit under HME, it has grown into a hub of innovation excellence. The current Head of the Workshop is Akmal Mulki Majid.

IEEE Fest 2025 also featured a student innovation exhibition, presented through a series of presentations and booths from units under HME and the Workshop, along with various other innovation teams across the university. Students showcased their leading work, including IoT implementations, robotics platforms, and their early integrations with intelligent systems. One highlight was Elektro Formula Brawijaya, an EV innovation bridging technological capability with real-world demands. These exhibitions showed that UB students are not merely following technological trends. They are confidently pushing past them, designing precise, concrete solutions ready for industrial validation.

Alongside the exhibition, we conducted a tour of the Workshop and the Electrical Engineering laboratories, accompanied among others by the HME Chair, M Iqbal Maulana. This included, of course, the Electronics Lab, where Sigit Shalako and I once served as lab assistants. The lab has since moved location and now operates with far more advanced, high-precision experimental modules.

The event itself lasted only a day, but the collaboration certainly will not stop there. Technical consultations, sociopreneurship initiatives, and new strategic partnership pathways will continue to grow, strengthening the innovation ecosystem and supporting the sustainable development of national talents.

IEEE Fest & Workshop TEUB

Aku diundang sebagai representatif IEEE Indonesia Section Advisory Board pada IEEE Fest 2025 yang digelar IEEE Brawijaya University Student Branch di Malang, 18 Oktober 2025. Ketuanya Muhammad Asyir Zarkasih, sebagai Chair of IEEE SBUB. Kegiatan ini dibuka Warek UB fidang Kemahasiswaan dan Kewirausahaan, Dr Setiawan Noerdajasakti, serta para pimpinan fakultas dan jurusan. Ini menarik, karena IEEE SBUB benar-benar berekspansi dari jurusan-jurusan yang bersifat STEM, ke bidang seperti manajemen dan hukum.

Welcoming speech pendek dari aku lebih mendorong ditingkatkannya antusiasme, komitman, dan kapabilitas inovasi melalui kolaborasi dengan jalur yang sudah tersedia dan dikembangkan lebih luas lagi melalui berbagai OU dan program di IEEE. Di tengah situasi kompleks, bukan saja tantanagn lebih mungkin diselesaikan bersama; namun seringkali kita memperoleh banyak peluang baru dari sisi inovasi dan bisnis melalui kolaborasi kompleks ini.

Berbincang sebelumnya di holding room dengan Warek, kami membahas penguatan ekosistem kewirausahaan berbasis inovasi yang memanfaatkan platform digital dan konektivitas Telkom Group, serta kolaborasi inovatif yang sangat kuat dari IEEE termasuk IEEE Indonesia Section. Tindak lanjutnya kini disiapkan di tingkat universitas maupun fakultas.

Khusus tahun ini, aku minta dapat dihadirkan generasi pendiri Workshop TEUB juga, yaitu beberapa alumni E88. Workshop TEUB didirikan trio Sigit Shalako Abdurajak, Widiyanto, dan aku sendiri; serta para aktivitas angkatan awal yang aktif pada bidang inovasi dan pelatihan, termasuk yang hadir di kegiatan ini: Saiful Hidayat, Aries Boedi Setiawan, Moch Iszar, dan rekan-rekan lain yang belum bisa hadir. Workshop ini kami dirikan untuk menghadapi banyak keterbatasan konten akademis serta kapabilisa dan kapasitas almamater kami tahun awal itu; dan kami sendiri malah takjub bahwa para penerus kami terus mengembangkan Workshop ini (sekarang sebagai unit otonom bawah HME) mencapai keunggulan inovasi seperti saat ini. Kepala Workshop saat ini adalah Akmal Mulki Majid.

IEEE Fest 2025 juga menampilkan pameran inovasi mahasiswa dalam bentuk presentasi dan booth dari berbagai unit di bawah HME dan Workshop, serta unit-unit inovasi kampus lainnya. Para mahasiswa memamerkan karya unggulan, termasuk implementasi IoT, platform robotika, hingga integrasi dengan sistem cerdas. Salah satunya adalah Elektro Formula Brawijaya, yaitu inovasi EV yang menjembatani kapabilitas teknologi dan kebutuhan dunia nyata. Pameran ini memperlihatkan bagaimana mahasiswa UB tak sekadar mengikuti perkembangan teknologi, tetapi juga berani melintasi batasnya: merancang solusi konkret, presisi, dan siap diuji dalam konteks industri.

Paralel kegiatan pameran, kami melakukan kunjungan ke Workshop dan laboratorium di Teknik Elektro. Dikawal a.l. oleh Ketua HME, M Iqbal Maulana. Termasuk tentunya ke Lab Elektronika, tempat aku jadi lab assistant bersama Sigit Shalako. Labnya sudah pindah tempat, lebih maju, dengan modul eksperimen presisi tinggi.

Acaranya satu hari, tapi kolaborasi tentu tidak berhenti. Konsultasi teknis, program sociopreneurship, dan rintisan kemitraan strategis akan makin dikembangkan berjalan untuk memperkuat ekosistem inovasi dan mendukung pengembangan talenta nasional secara berkelanjutan.