Metropolitan Cities’s Waste Transportation Model

By Asrul H. Ismail, Yulita V. Usman, Laela Chairani, Nur Yulianti H.

Metropolitan cities have the many problem to manage their waste, particularly in transportation management. One of critical factors to be considered at the time of transporting waste is traffic jam. It means using more resources and high cost. Through system engineering process approach as research methodology, the optimization model is developed using linear programming method to assign specific type of fleet in the right time and destination based on the best route to meet maximum saving of cost where traffic jam factor is inserted as an independent variable.

Keywords: linear programming; optimization; transportation model; waste management; travelling sales problem

© 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of ICIBSoS 2012

Internalizing Industry as an Integral Part of University’s Laboratory to Solve Real and Actual Problems in Industry

Many universities in Indonesia, especially engineering faculties, become quite difficult to provide their activities in learning or researching with appropriate facilities. One of the ways to sovle its problems is making collaboration with industry. The concept of this collaboration is to internalize industry with its resources,as much as we can be collaborated, becoming an intergral  part of university as filed laboratory. This collaboration is not just for (formal-limited) research but will be intgrated with the university curriculum and focused on the products, processes, systems and problems of industry over time. Both parties togather have to identify and determine what subject that match and may use industry as a laboratory based on their needs and resources to create the convenience and worthwhile collaboration’s programs. They will share their resources. To minimize conflicts, all actions that will be done, must be written down on a Memorandum of Understanding. On eventually University’s community have real laboratory to sharpen and develop their knowledge, skill and ability meanwhile industry will get solution of its real and actual problems. This kind of collaboration is more fitted for and effective to industrial engineering department.

Keywords:  integrated collaboration, field laboratory, curriculum, industry’s problems, sharing resources, industrial engineering

Presented and Published in International Conference UIBL 2012