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Ir. Makmur Ginting, M.Sc, a lecturer at the Department of Civil Engineering, Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU), was featured as a guest speaker on Dialog Sumut, a national television program aired by Metro TV on August 27, 2019. He specializes in Water Resources Engineering and currently serves as the Head of the Hydraulics Laboratory at the...

Several faculty members from the Department of Civil Engineering at Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) participated in the 2019 Indonesian Construction Experts Association (HAKI) Seminar held on August 27–28, 2019, at Hotel Borobudur, Jakarta. The seminar carried the theme “Assessment, Repair, and Retrofit of Existing Civil Structures,” which addressed essential strategies for evaluating and strengthening existing...

The Toll Road Regulatory Agency (BPJT) of the Ministry of Public Works and Public Housing held a Training of Trainers (ToT) on Toll Road Safety Audit on Monday, August 26, 2019, at the Sapphire Sky Hotel & Conference, BSD, Tangerang-Banten. This training aimed to enhance the competence of professionals in civil and transportation engineering to...

Medis Sejahtera Surbakti, S.T., M.T., Ph.D., Head of the Civil Engineering Department at Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU), was a featured speaker on Metro TV’s Dialog Sumut program aired on August 22, 2019. He is also a lecturer in the Transportation Engineering Expertise Group at USU. The episode focused on the topic “Urban Toll Road in...

The Faculty of Engineering at Universitas Sumatera Utara proudly congratulates Anisa Nurfadilah, a Civil Engineering student (Student ID: 17040477), for winning 3rd Place in the Outstanding Student Selection (Pilmapres) at the faculty level. This achievement reflects Anisa’s dedication and commitment in excelling both academically and in extracurricular activities as a student of engineering.   Her success was...

As a follow-up to the Governor of North Sumatra's Decree No. 188.44/411/KPTS/2019, the Provincial Government of North Sumatra held an Integrated Coordination Team Meeting on Flood Control in Medan City and its surroundings on Tuesday, July 23, 2019. This meeting, conducted at the Raja Inal Siregar Hall of the Governor's Office, marked the official kickoff...

The National Seminar held on July 30, 2019 was an activity carried out by the Department of Civil Engineering, Universitas Sumatera Utara, and was one of a series of XII LUSTRUM events of the Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Sumatera Utara. This National Seminar is also expected to provide solutions for Medan City in overcoming flooding,...

This public lecture was organized by the USU Faculty of Forestry. Participants in this activity also included students from the USU Civil Engineering Department and Environmental Engineering Department. There were 30 DTS students present. This activity was held on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, at the USU Faculty of Forestry Hall.   In this activity, several innovations created...

The Department of Civil Engineering at Universitas Sumatera Utara congratulates Teuku Hafiz Riansyah, a 2016 intake student, for successfully obtaining funding from the Ministry of Education and Culture (Dikti) in the 2019 Student Creativity Program (PKM) 5 Fields. Teuku Hafiz was selected under the PKM-K (Entrepreneurship) category with his proposal titled “USU MARCHENDISE”.   The project received...

To strengthen collegial relationships and foster a sense of unity, the lecturers of the Civil Engineering Department at Universitas Sumatera Utara held a Halal bi Halal gathering on Wednesday, June 19, 2019. The event, which took place in the department's meeting room, is an annual tradition organized after the Eid al-Fitr holiday to express mutual...

Students from the USU Civil Engineering Department conducted a field lecture on Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at PT. Wijaya Karya Beton (Binjai). The agenda for the activity was a visit concerning the ins and outs of WIKA Beton, illustrating how WIKA Beton produces concrete, pre-stressed and non-pre-stressed concrete, which is distributed to every project in...

Universitas Sumatera Utara (USU) is continuously committed to improving education quality and international accreditation. The participation of the Head of the Civil Engineering Department in The 33rd ASEAN University Network – Quality Assurance (AUN-QA) reflects this ongoing effort. The AUN-QA event itself is an important forum for higher education institutions in Southeast Asia to share...

This training activity was attended by several stakeholders with the aim of obtaining input related to the draft regulations for Green Building in Medan City. Based on Permen PUPR No. 2 of 2015, which states that Green Buildings are buildings that meet building requirements and demonstrate significantly measurable performance in saving energy, water, and other...

As part of the university’s commitment to enhancing education quality, all study programs under the Faculty of Engineering, including the Civil Engineering Department of Universitas Sumatera Utara, held a Technical Guidance (Bimtek) session for Quality Control Units (GKM) on Friday, May 24, 2019. The activity was part of the 12th Cycle for developing Internal Quality...

Representatives from the USU Civil Engineering Department, Prof. Dr.Ing. Johannes Tarigan and Ir. Makmur Ginting, M.Sc, attended the invitation to the Regional Apparatus Forum from the Medan City Public Works Agency, held on Tuesday, March 05, 2019, at Saka Premiere Hotel Medan. The activity, led by the Mayor of Medan and the Head of the Medan...