Microhydro for Rural Electrification as a Learn-By-Doing and Multidisciplinary Project: Lessons Learned
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: As a polytechnic institution, State Polytechnic of Malang Indonesia (Polinema) strives to fulfill its mission to provide learn-by-doing education to its students through multidisciplinary experiences.Many efforts by the administrators and faculty have been implemented to accomplish this.One example in particular has demonstrated a successful faculty-student project engaging students with learn-by-doing activities while enforcing multidisciplinary team work.The project entails the design, construction, and implementation of a microhydro power plant for a rural area in Malang, East Java, Indonesia.The project was conducted in 2012-2013 under the sponsorship from the Indonesian Higher Education agency.The team that participated in the project consisted of faculty and students from different fields of engineering.Lessons learned from the project as well as challenges encountered during the course of the project will be presented in this paper.The benefits of learn-by-doing education have been widely recognized in academia.Dewey proposed a carefully developed theory of experience and its relation to education who stated that sound educational experience arises from the interaction of two principles: continuity and interaction 2 .On the other hand, Schanks stated that in order to understand anything, we do so by
Authors: Andriani Parastiwi, Taufik Taufik
Language: English
Subfield: Architecture
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W6887960813