INCREASING THE COMPETENCE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ LEARNING RESULTS IN THE ENGINE ELEMENTS COURSE BY BENEFITTING THE MACHINERY TOOLS IN THE ENGINEERING LABORATORY OF SEMARANG STATE UNIVERSITY10.

The study was to find the improvement on the competence of university students’ learning results in the Engine Elements Course in the topic of Shaft Planning and Calculation. The competencies that would be improved were knowledge, analysis, calculation results and cummulative learning results. In order to achieve the objective of the study, the researcher implemented a quasi-experiment method by selecting 49 university students to be given lesson and be tested. There are three types of learning stages. The first stage consisted of theoretical study and test. Then, the second stage consisted of laboratory study and test. Last but not the least, the third stage consisted of laboratory observation and test. The analysis that the researcher performed in the stud was the Partial Least Square (PLS) analysis in order to identify the differences from one test to another.From the results of the study, there were three aspects which results improvement might be measured, namely knowledge (A), analysis (B) and calculation results (C). The learning results improvement between knowledge A1 and knowledge A2 was 3.5% and between knowledge A2 and knowledge A3 was 1.1%. Then, the learning results improvement between analysis B1 and analysis B2 was 40.0% and between analysis B2 and analysis B3 was 10.5%. Next, the learning results improvement between calculation results C1 and calculation results C2 was 59.4% and between calculation results C2 and calculation results C3 was 46.1%. Altogether, the improvement on the learning results competency between P1 and P2 was 25.6% and between P2 and P3 was 14.89%.