Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)

Introduction
The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) aims to introduce research activities in the Department of Metallurgical Engineering (DME) ITB and to encourage students to pursue career in R&D. In this program, students will experience the excitement of research and are expected to overcome the challenges associated with it. Students will be supervised by faculty members and obtained technical support from Energia Indonesia .

Benefits

• Gain the required research experiences to pursue graduate degrees (e.g. M.S., M. Phil, Ph.D.)
• Network with professors and like-minded students
• Opportunities to get summer/winter research internship positions in overseas universities/research institution
• Published scientific report

Responsibilities

• A commitment of 4 hours per week for two semesters
• Conduct literature reviews, experiments/calculations, and data processing
• Create reports and present biweekly
• Co-author a research paper

Requirements

• Sophomore (year 2) & junior year (year 3) students at the DME ITB
• Students with a minimum GPA of 3.75 are highly encouraged to apply
• Proficiency in English (reading & writing)
• High motivation and curiosity towards science and engineering

Selection process
Eligible students should send a motivation letter to imam.santoso@metallurgy.itb.ac.id and will be invited for interview.

Projects

Cooler design of electric arc furnace refractory in metal industry – optimizing conductivity coefficient using CFD simulation
Related course(s): Transport phenomena – heat transfer
Relevancy: Process Plant
Estimated duration: 6 months – 1 year
Next level: Endurance cooler design, failure scenario (critical temp), hot spot problem
Contact: imam.santoso@metallurgy.itb.ac.id

New Method in Alloy Design through the Modification of Atomic-scale Microstructure and Composition; Computational thermodynamic
Related course(s): Physical Metallurgy, Phase Transformation, Alloy Design
Relevancy: Computational Alloy Design
Estimated duration: 6 months – 1 year
Next level: High-temperature alloy design, first-principle calculations
Contact: tria_laksana@mining.itb.ac.id

Stress Analysis on the deflected buried pipeline under land subsidence using finite element method
Related course(s): Physical Metallurgy, strength of the materials
Relevancy: Computational Alloy Design
Estimated duration: 6 months – 1 year
Next level: Crack propagation in pipe elbow
Contact: achmad.ariaseta@metallurgy.itb.ac.id

CFD simulation of steam gasification of coal in a fluidized bed reactor
Related course(s): Coal Preparation and Utilization, Thermodynamics Kinetics, Transport phenomena
Relevancy: Reactor Design
Estimated duration: 6 months – 1 year
Next level: CFD simulation of steam-CO2 gasification of coal: exergy optimization
Contact: halim@office.itb.ac.id

CFD Simulation of Hydrodynamics Characteristics in a Mechanical Flotation Cell
Related course(s): Flotation, Mineral Processing, Transport phenomena
Relevancy: Reactor Design
Estimated duration: 6 months – 1 year
Next level: CFD Simulation of Hydrodynamics Characteristics in hydrocyclone
Contact: esanwani@mining.itb.ac.id

Computational Fluid Dynamics in Autoclave Circuit Design
Related course(s): Hydrometallurgy, Metallurgical Kinetics, Calculation in Metallurgical Process, Transport Phenomena
Relevancy: Computational Fluid Design, HPAL of Nickel Ore, Heat Transfer,
Estimated duration: 6 months – 1 year
Next level: Continuous multistage autoclaving circuit
Contact: reza@metallurgy.itb.ac.id

CFD Simulation of Fluid Flow and Solidification for Industrial Applications
Related course(s): Physical Metallurgy, Transport Phenomena – Heat Transfer, Phase Transformation
Relevancy: Process Plant, Computational Simulation
Estimated duration: 6 months – 1 year
Next level: Die Cast Process Simulation, CFD – FLOWCas
Contact: fadhli@metallurgy.itb.ac.id

Thermal analysis for sidewall lining reduction cells – aluminum smelter; the CFD simulation
Related course(s): Transport phenomena – heat transfer
Relevancy: Process Plant
Estimated duration: 6 months – 1 year
Next level: Minimum thickness optimization, thermal-electric approach
Contact: imam.santoso@metallurgy.itb.ac.id

Production of Metal by non-fossil reduction process: Decreasing CO2 emission from metal industries.
Related course(s): Pyrometallurgy, Reaction Kinetics
Relevancy: Process plant, metal production process
Estimated duration: 6 months – 1 year
Next Level: Reactor design and process simulation
Contact: imam.santoso@metallurgy.itb.ac.id

Recycling of Rare Earth from Electronic Waste: Raw Materials for Advanced Material Applications
Related course(s): Pyrometallurgy, Thermodynamics
Relevancy: Process plant, recycling, zero waste management
Estimated duration: 6 months – 1 year
Next level: Proses plant design and process routes selection
Contact: imam.santoso@metallurgy.itb.ac.id