Pattern of student education in realizing literacy of recycling’s principle

Abstract

The essence of Industrial Engineering science is to contribute in transforming the way of thinking and working of business systems and economies. Industrial Engineering study program at Universitas Pelita Harapan has been trying to complement the gap between theoretical teaching and real practice. The ways to educate students so they are more receptive to the principle of recycling is through theoretical teaching in class, research and real practice. Students and lecturers are also invited to a real practice in realizing their involvement in community recycling and social programs through two programs of continuous study, namely Kaizen Environmental Recycling Class Project (2016-2017) and UPH Cintai Bumi program (2018). It is found that 10 lecturers and 148 students involved in the first program, the amount of waste collected in the recycling is 1,075.1 kg and 528 people reached through the external publicity coverage on Facebook with three publications. From the second program, it is found there are 41 types of electronic waste or 307 pieces were collected, and with 7 external publications on Peduli Sampah Cintai Bumi Facebook, it can reach 765 people. Furthermore, the project that was previously embedded in the production system class as an obligation for all IE student, now become a voluntary and independent project organized by student association (HMTI). This means, there is a change in the behavior of students, who previously participated in the recycle program mainly because of the obligation, now they do it voluntarily and independently.