A Jack of all trades may be a master of integration, as such an individual knows enough from many learned trades and skills to be able to bring their disciplines together in a practical manner. This person is a generalist rather than a specialist. A person who is exceptional in many disciplines is known as a polymath or a renaissance man; a typical example is Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia.
When I was hearing a welcoming speech from my lecturer, Dr. Sutanto Hadisupadmo, I hear something funny and quite interesting, He said to us (as a freshman that day), " Do you know what Engineering Physics graduates will be? Macgyver."
Yeah, Macgyver. I'm a big fan of Macgyver, actually I'm a big fan of adventure Movies , like Indiana Jones, Star Wars, Star Trek and Back to the Future Trilogies and it gave me enough motivation back then. I don't know if it was a coincidence, but I know when Dr. Sutanto said that, I knew that Engineering Physics meet my expectations.
Some of my families and friends keep asking me, they said like, " You're in physics dept. right?"
or "Do you want to be a lecturer?", or very absurd statement like," Here comes our future scientist! ".
There are only 5 Universities in Indonesia, that provide Engineering Physics education. You can count how many universities ( Both state and private) that provide Mechanical, Civil, or Electrical Engineering educations. So we could understand why you not heard much about engineering physics.
Engineering physics majors blend courses from engineering, physics, and math to build an understanding of how these areas interact and support each other. You’ll boost your knowledge of the physical environment while discovering how physics is applied to problem-solving in our rapidly changing high-tech world. (woooh How cool is that!).
We know many, but not in depth. We are Jack of All Trades, master of none. (Wicked!)
So, right know I'm at the end of 7th Semester, at Engineering Physics Dept. at ITB. So it's been 3,5 years, since the welcoming speech. Many (Experiences) come and goes, now I join Energy Management Laboratory, I really interested in energy technology, especially in renewable technolgy. Energy Management Laboratory is a part of Engineering Physics group of expertise. Like I said engineering physics is a multidisciplinary fields, it provides comprehensive analysis of a complex physical phenomena as found in energy systems as seen in the figure below.
With the increase of global energy demand as well as promoting more environmental benign energy technologies, Energy Management Lab, provide solutions to the society through research and education activities. From energy audit at Building to Power Plant.(For more information please visit) http://energy.tf.itb.ac.id/
So if you interested in energy technology or conservation of energy, Engineering Physics provide very interesting lectures like, Energy Conversion, Energy system, Energy Conservation or Special Topics A : Energy. The good thing is if you are Engineering Physics's student ( Like me) you can blend your broad knowledge, from basic science and engineering, to make something new and unique that potentially you can not find in other field. For example like Dye Sensitized Sollar Cell Using Antocyanine from Black Rice. Different from conventional solar cells whose working principle is based on solid state theory, dye-sensitized solar cell is a photoelectrochemical-based solar cell. Photo absorption is done by dye molecule and charge separation by inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals which have a large band gap, and uses electrolytes for dye regeneration. (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/2010/789541.html).
So if you interested in energy technology or conservation of energy, Engineering Physics provide very interesting lectures like, Energy Conversion, Energy system, Energy Conservation or Special Topics A : Energy. The good thing is if you are Engineering Physics's student ( Like me) you can blend your broad knowledge, from basic science and engineering, to make something new and unique that potentially you can not find in other field. For example like Dye Sensitized Sollar Cell Using Antocyanine from Black Rice. Different from conventional solar cells whose working principle is based on solid state theory, dye-sensitized solar cell is a photoelectrochemical-based solar cell. Photo absorption is done by dye molecule and charge separation by inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals which have a large band gap, and uses electrolytes for dye regeneration. (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/2010/789541.html).
Actually I'm not started any research yet, I'm hoping to do a research about energy monitoring using wireless device (Well, we see about that next semester).
Engineering Physics ( both academic life and social life), giving me many experiences. I hope there is some kind of international student association of Engineering Physics. So we can share many knowledge and experience base on Engineering Physics. Sharing about global issues and how ( from engineering physics point of view) we can solve it. And I'm really hoping Engineering Physics will be frontier in energy technology, based on research and action.
Jack of all Trades. Master of none. All around Problem Solver.
MacGyver: If I had some duct tape, I could fix that.
