International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Vol. XXXII, Part 6. Bandung-lndonesia 1999 
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THE INTERNET AND ITS PROSPECT FOR SPATIAL INFORMATION EDUCATION AND TRAINING 
AT DEPARTMENT OF GEODETIC ENGINEERING 
OF THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BANDUNG (ITB) 
Irawan Sumarto Ph.D. & Dr.T.Lukman Aziz 
Department of Geodetic Engineering ITB 
irawan@gd.itb.ac.id & tlaziz@gd.itb.ac.id 
Keywords: curriculum, the Internet 
ABSTRACT 
A degree course in surveying has been offered in Indonesia for over than 45 years. The new developments in Information 
Technology such as the Internet open a new prospect to integrate this technology into curriculum. This paper will review the 
Surveying and Spatial Information courses at ITB and discussed the Internet prospect for education. Course content and facilities 
will be presented. 
1. INTRODUCTION 
Undergraduate degrees in Surveying which are typically 
designated Bachelor of engineering degrees, are offered at six 
Indonesian Universities. Two of them are state universities 
that are Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) and University 
of Gajah Mada (UGM). Institute of Technology Bandung has 
been involved in the formal education of Surveyors since 1950 
when the Department of Geodetic Engineering was 
established. 
The Department currently offers a comprehensive course at 
both undergraduate (S-l) and post-graduate (S-2) levels. The 
Department as part of a continuing education program also 
regularly offers short courses and workshops covering a variety 
of specialist topics. This reflects the commitment of the 
surveying profession to raise the general level of formal 
education for new practitioners, and the need to provide 
established professionals with refresher courses on aspects of 
changing technology. 
This paper outlines the course content and facilities at ITB. A 
list of photogrammetric laboratory is also presented. 
2. CURRICULUM 
The S-l curriculum is divided into eight semesters for the 
completion of the Bachelor Degree course. The general 
structure of the cuniculum covers the following five parts of 
studies: The general foundation, the science foundation, and 
the technical foundation, the professional subjects and elective 
subjects (Table 1). 
Table 1. Percentage and subjects taught 
111 
Subject Category 
Nöhtbel* ôf 
Sniffed 
1 
General Foundation 
10 
272 
12 
2 
Science Foundation 
7 
400 
17 
3 
Technical Foundation 
10 
464 
20 
4 
Professional Subjects 
23 
1040 
45 
5 
Elective Subjects 
4 
128 
6 
Total 
54 
2304 
100 
In 1998, the Department undertook a thorough review of its 
teaching program. Substantial changes were made to all its 
courses in order to meet the new challenges. During the four 
years course (8 semesters) of study, students must took a 
minimal of 144 credit semester units (SKS) or equivalent to 
2304 contact hours in the classroom (Sumarto, 1998). An 
average contact hour per week is 18 hours for the total of 16 
weeks per semester 
Subjects that are related directly to Photogrammetry, Remote 
Sensing and GIS has a total of approximately 400 contact 
hours. These subjects are obligatory within the course of 
studies in ITB. A list of S-l curriculum is presented in the 
attachment. 
At the S-2 level curriculum is divided into two main streams 
that are Advanced Surveying and Spatial Information 
Technology. During two years of study for Master level (S-2), 
students must take a 36 SKS or equivalent to 576 contact 
hours. 
3. FACILITIES 
In the last two years there were around 600 applicants each 
year that choose Geodetic engineering as one of their