Developing Module Handbook in Outcome-Based Education (OBE) Curriculum for Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering

Abstract

The development of the world of education is required to be more competitive and have quality following international standards, including the Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate Study Program. This study program continues to develop graduates who can compete globally. The stage that must be passed is to follow system standard Outcome-Based Education (OBE), which focuses on what students should have or should do in achieving graduation. In the OBE method, learning outcomes are carried out by an identification process and continued with an assessment process and learning methods adapted to these outcomes; it is one of the orientations of Merdeka Belajar Kampus Merdeka (MBKM). The main issues are that the study program still does not have a handbook module that follows the OBE curriculum. The aim of this research is to develop a module handbook that is adapted to the OBE curriculum and validated. This type of this study is development research using Research and Development (RnD) with a 4-D Models. This procedure is defined, designed, developed, and disseminated. The defined stage is the stage regarding the characteristics of learning activities. The design stages are media and formats used in module development. Develop stage purpose The goal of the development stage is to produce a final draft and the disseminate distribution of module development. The result of this study is that learning activities of the program's learning objectives are formulated into Program Learning Outcomes (PLO), and each handbook module has defined it. The design results are module handbook content according to the OBE curriculum. Two validators have validated the developed result with a percentage 89%%, 88 % students readability validation and 83.32% lecturers readability validation. The readability test was carried out on 19 students and seven peer lecturers to see if the handbook module was appropriate. From these criteria, the module handbook is appropriate to be distributed. In order to support teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic, the distribution of the handbook module through the upload process to the website of the mechanical engineering department.