UNAIR NEWS – UNAIR Rector Prof. Dr. Mohammad Nasih, SE., MT., Ak., CMA., stated that professors are not ordinary people, they were chosen as not every lecturer can be professor. They are expected to advance, more than be professors, as there are tasks and works they need to be done.
”As professors, there are something more after that, not only as agents of education, but also to be agents of research, science development, agents of civilization development,a nd also agents of growth and economy for people prosperity,” said Prof. Moh Nasih.
It was stated in his speech during Open Assembly of Universitas Airlangga in Inauguration of three UNAIR professors in Garuda Mukti Hall Management Office Building UNAIR, Saturday, December 10. The three professors inaugurated were Professor on Optical Physics Faculty of Science and Technology (FST); Prof. Dr. Mirni Lamid, drh., MP., Professor on Cattles’ Feed Studies Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FKH) and Prof. Dr. Utari Kresnoadi, drg., MS.Sp.Pros (K) Professor on Prostodontics Faculty of Dentistry (FKG) UNAIR.
Prof. Moh. Yasin will be 453rd professor since UNAIR establishment in 1954 or 161st professor since UNAIR achieved a status as PTN-BH. Prof. Yasin, 8th active professor of FST UNAIR presented his scientific oration titled “Pengembangan Teknologi Sensor Serat Optik untuk Menuju Kemandirian Bangsa”.
While Prof. Mirni Lamid is 25th active FKH professor, 454th of UNAIR professor or 162nd professor since UNAIR became a PTN-BH. Her scientific oration was titled “Peran Bioteknologi Pakan Ternak Terhadap Pertambahan Berat Badan Sapi sebagai Upaya Pemenuhan Konsumsi Daging Nasional”. Then Prof. Dr. Utari Kresnoadi, M.S., drg., Sp.Pros (K)., as 545th UNAIR professor and 163rd since UNAIR became PTN-BH presented her scientific oration titled “Rekayasa Jaringan di Bidang Prosthethic Dentistry”.
In response to the ideas presented in each inauguration of professors, Prof. Moh Nasih worried that those brilliant ideas will be ‘taken’ by someone. Therefore, the ideas should not stop only at the research. There are people out there , he said, who have the money and can ‘stel’ their brilliant ideas.
”Don’t let us think hard, do research and find the ideas, but the people who enjoy and sell were other people. It will be our loss. Those brilliant ideas can be pushed to be academic products we can sell ourselves. Even though there is a saying ‘Seek knowledge even as far as China’, but if we look for investors we shouldn’t look that far but look around here,” said the Rector.
With research which does not stop at research, it means the knowledge is useful for others. Therefore, the professors were encouraged to continue quality researches with better technology and can be sold to people. It is admitted that the ‘homework’ is how to improve the academic products and make them useful for the alma mater and society.
“From the forum let us together encourage and develop science and technology to produce something from our knowledge for mankind’s prosperity. Products which are still in the drawers, laboratories, let us get them out to bring usefulness for people,” said the professor of Accounting, Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) UNAIR. (*)
Author: Bambang Bes
