IPITS Pascasarjana:

The Urgency of Taking Graduate School

(Urgensi untuk menempuh sekolah pascasarjana)
Dr. Vincentius Raki Mahindara
vincentius.mahindara@vale.com
Utility Engineering, Reliability, and Maintenance System (UMEP) Department
Vale Indonesia
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 Bila kaum muda yang telah belajar di sekolah
menganggap dirinya terlalu tinggi dan pintar
untuk melebur dengan masyarakat yang bekerja dengan cangkul
dan hanya memiliki cita-cita yang sederhana,
maka lebih baik pendidikan itu tidak diberikan sama sekali.

- Tan Malaka -
Pahlawan Nasional Indonesia

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Kerangka Presentasi
• Perkenalan Diri
• Mengapa perlu mengambil sekolah pascasarjana (graduate school)
o Perbedaan budaya dan atmosphere program sarjana dan pascasarjana
o Statistik dan survey sekolah pascasarjana
o Menjadi generalis atau spesialis?
o Berbagi pengalaman saat kuliah pascasarjana
• Konklusi: Apa yang bisa kita perbuat?

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 • B.Eng., ITS Surabaya, 2016
• Graduate with honors, emphasis: Artificial Intelligence on Power System Protection
• Schneider Electric, 2016
• Product Specialist (Zelio Relay), Schneider Electric, 2016
• Senior Product Specialist (Altivar Variable Speed Drive), Schneider Electric, 2017
• Awardee of Indonesia Fast Track Bachelor to Doctorate Program
(PMDSU), 2017
• Electrical Power System Consultant
• Junior (2015-2016), Lead Engineer (2017-2021). Perform failure analysis, Power
system analysis, creation of BoQ, and FEED document. Client: Pertamina, PLN, Pupuk
Indonesia, Petrochemical industry, oil and gas refinery, etc.
• IEEE Member
• ETAP Power System Software Trainer
• PSCAD Training, 2019
• Basic training, SPIN Applicazioni Magnetiche Srl, Piacenza, Italy
• Visiting researcher, Auburn Clean Energy, Auburn University, 2020
• Awardee of Enhancing International Publication (EIP/PKPI), Sandwich program, 2019
• Emphasis: Microgrid protection system for high penetration of inverter-based
resources
• Awardee of Ernst Mach Grant – ASEA-UNINET Sandwich Scholarship at
TU Graz, Austria, 2020 (canceled due to pandemic situation)
• Ph.D., ITS Surabaya, 2021
• Best graduate in PhD class, Graduate with honors, Top GPA (4.00/4.00)
• Emphasis: Protection system and stability issue in industrial power system
• Vale Indonesia, 2021
VINCENTIUS • Senior Electrical Engineer, Utility Engineering (UMEP) Dept., 2021
RAKI MAHINDARA

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Why go to graduate school?

Increase salary potential Career change Follow the passion

(personal pleasure)

“Should You Go to Graduate School?”, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Harvard Business Review, 2020
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The Learning Pyramid
• The pyramid represents the number of
people being in position
• A lot of people know the fundamental concept
but not a leader
• Higher level means longer-time required
and complex to achieve

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect
https://mycollaborativeteam.com/confidence-vs-knowledge-dunning-kruger-collaboration/

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Required skills are constantly change
In 2005 In 2020
• Complex problem solving
• Co-ordinating with others (-3) • Complex problem solving ↔
• People management (-1)
• Critical thinking (+2) • Critical thinking ↑
• Negotiation (-4)
• Quality control • Creativity ↑
• Service orientation (-1)
• Judgment and decision making (+1)
• People management ↓
• Active listening • Co-ordinating with others ↓
• Creativity (+7)
• Emotional intelligence ↑
• Judgment and decision making ↑
• Service orientation ↓
• Negotiation ↓
• Cognitive flexibility ↑

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My Personal Motivation
• This opportunity aims to serve as a “common
ground”, where stakeholders can meet and
Campus/
initiate the “partnership”.
Industry
Academia
PARTNER • The partnership mentioned could offers a
SHIP multi-perspective approach in problem
solving. Thus, offers boarder view.
• In this opportunity, a further collaboration is
Commercial encouraged as part of sharing knowledge
and experience.

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Atmosphere Sarjana vs. Pascasarjana

Strata 1 (Undergraduate) Strata 2 (Master) Strata 3 (PhD, Dr.)

• Mempraktikkan teori yang • Menggabungkan beberapa • Menciptakan teori baru yang
sudah dipelajari teori yang dipelajari dapat dibuktikan
• Luaran berupa skripsi atau • Teori yang diciptakan harus
• Membuat hypothesis yang memenuhi kriteria novelty,
tugas akhir dapat dibuktikan originality, dan significant
• Mahasiswa cenderung impact
• Luaran berupa thesis dan
berambisi tinggi proceeding paper • Luaran berupa disertasi dan
(I want to change the (conference) journal paper
world!)

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Graduate School: Statistic

Statistik Pendiidkan Tinggi 2020, Sekertariat Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi, Kemendikbud

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Lahir antara Lahir antara Lahir antara Lahir antara Lahir antara
2012-2025 1997-2012 1981-1996 1965-1980 1946-1964
Gen A Gen Z Gen Y Gen X Baby Boomers

0-10 Tahun 10-25 Tahun 26-41 Tahun 42-57 Tahun 58-76 Tahun

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 Graduate School: Statistic

• The data are nation-wide (gathered and

processed by Kemendikbud)
• The statistic shows a significant growth in
PhD degree over years
• Probably related with the pandemic situation
(university offers a remote-learning or class)
• Pandemic start March 2020

Growth of newcomer student in Indonesia (2017-2020)

Statistik Pendiidkan Tinggi 2017-2020, Sekertariat Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi, Kemendikbud

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New student in ITS (2017-2020) Graduation in ITS (2018-2020)
Statistik Pendiidkan Tinggi 2017-2020, Sekertariat Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi, Kemendikbud Statistik Pendiidkan Tinggi 2017-2020, Sekertariat Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi, Kemendikbud
Anomaly found in 2019 ed. Replaced by the news from ITS

• The graduate school (master and PhD, known as S2 and S3) in ITS is growing within
period of 2018-2020
• However, the number of graduated student is decreasing
• Does the pandemic affect the student’s performance?

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 • The number of students in Indonesia is:
o Under grad (95.16%) > master (4.25%) > PhD
(0.59%)
• Only 4.46% undergrad student that pursue
the master degree
o 0.62% of population continue up to PhD degree

Statistik Pendiidkan Tinggi 2020, Sekertariat Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Tinggi, Kemendikbud

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Indonesia’s Literacy Index
• IMHO, one of the most
important routine in graduate
school is literature review
• At least, we need to read about
three to five paper per week
• Read, not scam the paper
• It is also important to
understand the high-quality
paper
• Due to low literacy index, many
problem occurred in industry or
business (i.e., bad
documentation)
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 Generalist or Specialist?
• The winner doesn’t take it all
• The considerations:
o Transferrable skills
o Progressiveness
o Flexibility
o Adaptability
o Better pay

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Learning is a never-ending journey
• Conversion of rejected • Journal published
manuscript to IEEE • Writing new concept of
flagship conference new approach
• Meet new colleague • Submit to flagship
• Research project for • Discussion and research conference
undergrad theses collaboration • Invitation to submit in
(Skripsi/Tugas Akhir) • Writing new concept IEEE Trans
2014/2015 2016 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

• Problem identification • Graduate school • Invitation to publish in • Revise the rejected

• Difficulty to obtain the • Main topic for dissertation IEEE Trans. Indus. journal in 2021
proper setting for proposal Application • New idea on
protection relay • First publication attempt in • Creation of patent industry application
journal: REJECTED • New approach to solve (experience based)
• Minor part published in the problem
conference and grad- • New collaboration with
theses other party

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Publication is a checkpoint in your journey!

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If I Can Turn Back Time: Sharing Session
• Identifikasi permasalahan dan peluang
keterbaruan
o Apakah masalah tersebut bersifat pribadi atau
umum?
o Apakah keterbaruan (novelty) tersebut bersifat
betul-betul “baru” untuk dunia ilmu pengetahuan
atau “baru” untuk diri kita sendiri?
• Bertemu dengan orang/lingkungan yang tepat
o Berdiskusi dengan orang yang memiliki
pengalaman lebih pada bidang tersebut
o Kerjasama dengan member laboratorium atau
komunitas peneliti
o Memberikan motivasi saat mengalami kegagalan
atau penolakan
o Memberikan masukan/perspektif yang berbeda
terhadap penulisan
• Jangan ragu untuk mencoba dan berdiskusi!

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 Language skill
• In numbers, Non-native English
speaker are larger population than
native English speaker
• The language skill include:
o Read, write, and speak
(communicate)

https://declansoftware.com/blog/152/2020/12/03/which-language-has-the-most-non-native-speakers-and-why/

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Sharing Session:
Graduate Student’s Side-project
Brainstorming

Challenge

End Product

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Conclusions: What’s to prepare in Graduate School?
• Maintain your ambition
• Enlarge the network within the
graduate students
• Don’t hesitate to reach the community
or field-related research group
• Keep your communication clear with
your supervisor
• Start to read and write
o You will never produce a good paper if you
never read a good one.
• Set the target and do review

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 Kesalahan orang-orang pandai ialah menganggap yang lain bodoh,
dan kesalahan orang-orang bodoh ialah menganggap orang lain pandai.

- Pramoedya Ananta Toer -

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Terima Kasih
dan
selamat berkarya!

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