Two Postgraduate Students from ITB Will Represent Indonesia on Hydrogeological Competition in France

By Bayu Septyo

Editor Bayu Septyo

As time goes by, ITB is known now as the house of champions. This superiority is successfully achieved through many victories on national and international competition, especially on academical championships. Those achievement has now re-marked by two postgraduate students from Groundwater Engineering Program, who have qualified to go to the final on International Hydrogeological Competition (IHC) 2016 on September, 2016. This last round on competition which is being held by International Association of Hydrogeologist (IAH) will be held in Montpellier, France.

There are ten competitors from various countries that will show the their best on this stage. This is such an honour for ITB since there's just two delegations for Asia on IHC's final, ITB itself and one university from Tiongkok. All competitors have to win their own national and regional championship before they can beat each other on the final round. "Congratulations to Mr. Lambok Hutasoit (ITB's lecturer of Groundwater Engineering Program) for successful guidance on this team's victory," said by Agus Mochamad Ramdhan (ITB's Chairman of Groundwater Engineering Study Program) when giving information online to all of civitas academica in ITB.

Groundwater Engineering at a Glance

Hydrogeographical condition in Indonesia is such a well-known specific stuff. This condition attracted so many experts to come and do a deep research. For a long time, knowledge about this topic was so limited only on using groundwater as national resource. In fact, groundwater has also technical utilization in a variety of purposes, especially on civil engineering, hydrocarbon, geothermal, mining, and any sector that uses underground facility. Based on that necessity, ITB through Faculty of Earth's Science and Technology (FITB) opened Study Program for any students who graduated from Geology Engineering, Mining Engineering, Geophysics Engineering, Geophysics and Meteorology, Petroleum Engineering, Civil Engineering, Physical Geography, Environmental Engineering, and Earth Physics.