BIBLIOMETRIC COMPUTATIONAL MAPPING ANALYSIS OF PUBLICATIONS ON MECHANICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION USING VOSVIEWER

This study examines the development of mechanical engineering education research through a bibliometric approach to computational mapping analysis using VOSviewer. The article data was obtained from the Google Scholar database using the publish or perish reference manager application. The title and abstract of the article are used to guide the search process by referring to the keyword "Mechanical Engineering Education". 338 articles were found that were considered relevant. The study period used as the study material is the Google Scholar indexed article for the last 10 years (2012 to 2021). The results showed that mechanical engineering education research can be separated into 3 terms: mechanical engineering education, mechanical engineering, and education. The term "Mechanical Engineering Education" is associated with 157 links with a total link strength of 564. The term "Mechanical Engineering" has 213 links with a total link strength of 1036 and the term "Education" has 224 links with a total link strength of 1201. Results of the analysis of the development of engineering education publications machines in the last 10 years show quite frequent fluctuations. In 2012-2014 it decreased from 56 in 2012 to 25 in 2014. Research fluctuations occurred from 2014-2019 (sequentially 25, 34, 26, 39, 33, 40 publications per year). In 2019-2021 there was a decrease in research, namely from the number of 40 studies (2019) to 11 studies (2021). Meanwhile, popular mechanical engineering education research was conducted in 2012, namely 56 studies. We checked how many articles have been published on mechanical engineering education and its relation to problem areas using VOSviewer. This review can serve as a starting point for research related to other materials.