Abstract :
Muhammadiyah University of Gresik as one of the academic community
institution that has Informatics Major is expected to detect trend of the potential of
every students. The problem is most of college students are less aware of their
capabilities so we need a search sy stem of potential college students.
This research is expected to recognize the college student potential earlier
so as to facilitate college students to develop their potential, facilitate college
students in making the topic of the final project, and to produce qualified
graduates college students in the field who are able to apply their knowledge in
the community.
System testing is done by taking the value of supporting courses Field of
Software Engineering and Intelligent Systems. The data used for testing is the
lecture value of the Informatics Engineering Major of UMG ?s 2010 students.
Determination of K values have largerly influence validity of the system. Based
on the test results with the v alue K = 2 clusters obtained the best validity value is
0.928 for the Field of Software Engineering and 0.96 for Intelligent Systems.