The influence of the independent learning curriculum on the lecture process of undergraduate engineering students in Indonesia

Abstract

Significance changes are taking place at universities in Indonesia since the implementation of the MBKM curriculum. MBKM requires universities to provide internships for students outside the study program equal to twenty credits for three semesters. It makes them confused because they are more familiar with theoretical lectures than practical ones. The same thing happened at the State University of Surabaya. Although universities have issued guidelines for implementing MBKM, many study programs still need to implement them. They assume that the twenty credits of the internship will reduce the theory, increase the burden on students to graduate, and extend the student's study period. The apprentice reduces class to twenty credits in the sixth semester, while it expands to PI and PLP in the seventh and eighth semesters, respectively. MPK appears as a course that accommodates internships in the sixth semester. MPKs classify students' abilities during internships. The evaluation of MPK appeared in the last two semesters of the mechanical engineering education study program. The scores that students got on MPK were higher than in theory, and this caused an increase in their GPA. Not only it, but the MPK scores also increased from the first semester to the second semester. It shows that students' skills improve with internships because the evaluation was based on the number of tasks completed by students.