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Personal site J.L. Coenders
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Education
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| 1995-2003 |
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Participation in various special courses and masterclasses, like:
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Masterclass Staal 2003 by
Berlage Institute and Bouwen met Staal |
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Teambuilding workshop by Smits-Berendsen |
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Workshop on XML by DTO, TU Delft |
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Floormanagement training at McDonald's Trainingcentre, Amsterdam, completed with a dean lists grading |
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Shell Travel Bursary Return Event |
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1998 |
Training in Microstation, Logos, Delft |
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1995 |
Masterclass on Chaos and Fractals, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Amsterdam (UvA) |
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| 1990-1996 |
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High School: Alfrink College in Zoetermeer, The Netherlands (VWO) |
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| 1996-present |
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Delft University of Technology
Faculty of Civil Engineering, MSc
Currently graduating on:
openStrategy Form Finding,
a new concept for structural form finding and structural optimization
Graduation committee:
* Prof.Ir. L.A.G. Wagemans (TU Delft, NL, chair of Structural Engineering)
* Dr.Ir. P.C.J. Hoogenboom (TU Delft, NL, Civil Engineering, associate professor in Structural Mechanics)
* Ir. A. Borgart (TU Delft, NL, Architecture, associate professor in Structural Mechanics)
* C.J.K. Williams MA PhD MIStructE CEng (University of Bath, UK, Architecture and Civil Engineering, associate professor)
* S.S. Ozsariyildiz (TU Delft, NL, Civil Engineering, PhD candidate in Informatics)
Expected date of completion:
September 2004
Main study fields:
* Structural Engineering
* Building Engineering
* Informatics
* Construction Management
* Structural Mechanics
Website:
http://www.universalgrid.nl/formfinding
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Main extracurricular activities and working experience
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| 2003-present |
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Co-founder, main stimulator and participant of various activities of the "Structural Design Lab" (SDL)
Most recent and future activities:
* 23-06-2004: Giving a lecture at the University of Nottingham, UK
* 28-05-2004: Lecture by Theo Jansen on his Strandbeesten and a presentation of BSc graduate students
* 12-05-2004: Workshop Soap Film Modeling
* 21-04-2004: Gave a lecture at "Blob in the Faculty"
* 09-03-2004: Colloquium 2 Structural Design Lab
Website (September 2004):
http://www.structuraldesignlab.citg.tudelft.nl
For more details, click here.
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| 1999-present |
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Co-founder and general manager of Universal Grid,
a company in research of new innovations (formerly: an internet services company)
Main activities and responsibilities:
* General manager
* Main innovator and stimulator
* Engineer of several company products
* Teaching of a special teambuilding course (Mutual Learning Experience) on our company philosophy
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| 1998-present |
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Student Assistant of prof.ir. L.A.G. Wagemans, chair of
Structural Engineering, faculty of Civil Engineering, Delft
University of Technology
Main activities and responsibilities:
* Recent project: Guidance of three students' BSc graduation project on "Adaptive Structures" (8 weeks of research, combined with building),
together with organization of a final presentation with Theo Jansen as a speaker.
He is a dutch artist who developed animals from plastic piping for 20 years, which are adaptive structures in a way.
* Main stimulator of the 'Structural Design Lab', an initiative to create a framework for education, research and extracurriculair activities on "special structures" amd a base for colaboration between graduating students in this field.
* Development of educational methods in Structural Engineering courses
* Teaching of structural design and engineering to 3rd year students
* Network and computer system administration of the group of Structural Engineering
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Organizing participant and speaker in the first Structural Design Lab colloquium open to the public.
Held on the TU Delft, faculty of Civil Engineering.
Presentation of gradutation work on "openStrategy Form Finding, a new concept for structural form finding and structural optimization".
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Participant in the "Masterclass Staal 2003"
on invitation of the TU Delft and the Berlage Institute.
Group of Oliver Lang, LWPAC Architects, Canada.
Performing a short conceptual study on "What if?" scenerios on the possibilities of optimization, resulting in a publication in a book by the Berlage Institute.
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| 1996-2003 |
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Floormanager at Broks Investments, McInvest B.V., a francise corporation of McDonald's
Prior functions: assistent manager, crewtrainer, crewmember
Main activities and responsibilities:
* Leading shifts of 8 hours and 30 people
* Main responsible for the restaurant during the shift of 8 hours
* Training of new crewmembers
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Participating organizer of a field-trip to Stuttgart, Germany for the Structural Design Lab: Visiting
Schlaich-Bergermann Partner, Sobek Ingenieure, the Institute fur Leichttragwerke (ILEK) and several structures, such as the Multihalle Mannheim
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Initiator and participating organizer of a lunch discussion seminar, called "Blop or Flop, the sense and non-sense
of free-form architecture" for the Structural Design Lab
Main activities and responsibilities:
* Communication between the different parties: students organizations, speakers and invitees
* Formulation of the main subjects to speak about
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Practical work at Arcadis, an international engineering company, in The Hague, The Netherlands
Main activities:
* Structural design and engineering of the steel structure of Blok 12, a hotel in Almere, The Netherlands, designed by William Alsop
* Structural engineering work on the truss and roof structure of Blok 6, a cinema in Almere, The Netherlands, designed by OMA (Rem Koolhaas)
* Structural engineering calculation of a tapis roulant in Kronenburg, a shopping mall in Arnhem, The Netherlands
* Evaluation and reporting
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Project experience in Chili, South America
Designing a tunnel under the Rio Mapocho for the Chilean ministery of public works (ministerio de obras publicas)
Main activities:
* Structural design and engineering of the tunnel sections
* Project website
* Reporting
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| 1996-2001 |
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Participant in several committees of the students organization of the faculty of Civil Engineering,
Het Gezelschap "Practische Studie"
Some committees:
* Website committee (3 years)
* Excursion committee organizing a field trip to London, UK and surroundings
* Freshmen faculty orientation committee, organizing a weekend for 1st year students
* Seversal educational committee
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| 1999-2000 |
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Student member of the board of education of the faculty of Civil Engineering
Advising the dean of the faculty on educational matters.
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| September 1999 - September 2000 |
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Member of the senate of the main students organization of the faculty of Civil Engineering,
Het Gezelschap "Practische Studie", an organization with 1200 student members. The council consists of 6 people (currently 7),
each with a field of expertise.
Field of expertise: Education
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| 1992-1996 |
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Several small jobs: e.g. programming for a structural engineering company
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Languages
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| Dutch |
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Native language |
| English |
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Fluent in speaking, reading and writing |
| Spanish |
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Good in speaking, fair in reading and writing |
| French |
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Fair in understanding, poor in speaking |
| German |
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Fair in understanding, poor in speaking |
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Information Communication Technology knowledge and experience
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| Operating systems |
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Linux (Redhat)
Microsoft Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP
Novell Netware
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Assembler
Basic (various flavors)
C, C++, C#
Delphi
Java
Python
Unified Modelling Language (UML)
Idef-0 Modelling Language
(Turbo) Pascal
and various others
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Borland Delphi
Borland jBuilder, Borland Together, Rational Rose
Borland Pascal, Turbo Pascal
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Javascript
Perl/CGI
PHP
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HTML
XML
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| Productivity |
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OpenOffice
StarOffice
Microsoft Office 98/2000/XP
LaTeX
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AutoCAD 14/2000/2002/2004
MatrixFrame/CAE
ESA Prima Win
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Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop
The Gimp
Macromedia Flash
Rhinoceros 3D
Maya
Various smaller tools, like Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Netscape, etc.
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System Development Methodology (SDM, Cap Gemini)
eXtreme Programming
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Familiar with various systems and algorithms, like:
Finite Element Methods (FEM)
Neural Networks
Genetic Algorithms (GA)
Dynamic Relaxation
NURBS mathematics
Object-Oriented Paradigm
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Publications
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Scientific paper on "openStrategy Form Finding, a new concept for structural form
finding and structural optimization", for the 2004 International Association for Shell and Spatial
Structures (IASS) Conference in Montpelier, France.
To be published in September 2004. |
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Scientific paper "Engineered by Evolution, two-dimensional prototype application
of openStrategy Form Finding", for the 2004 International Association for Shell and Spatial
Structures (IASS) Conference in Montpelier, France.
To be published in September 2004. |
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Contribution to "Blob in the Faculty" book by TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture on openStrategy Form Finding research.
Published in April 2004. |
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Contribution to "Masterclass Staal 2003" book by the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam on "What if... you could use the disturbance of the balance of optimization to create diversity".
To be published in May 2004. |
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Online article on Modular Programming ideas, published on the Universal Grid website
(link), 08-01-2003 |
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Professional projects
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Parametric modelling of "De Kleine Bieb", together with a young artist,
Daan Roosegaarde (Berlage Institute), for modeling, design and production purposes.
Parametric model in Java which allows design of variants of "De Kleine Bieb" and output of 2D/3D drawings and models.
Expected date of completion: Octobre 2004 (book), Spring 2005 (realisation) |
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Interests and hobbies
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Structural Engineering
Informatics, computer science and artificial intelligence
Mechanics
Mathematics
Design and art
Science and technology
Innovation
Management
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Snowboarding
Mountainbiking
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Reading books on the various fields of interest
Programming
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Professional memberships
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Student member of the "Koninklijke Instituut Voor Ingenieurs (KIVI)", the Dutch Royal Institute for Engineers |
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Student member of the "International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS)" |
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Student member of "Bouwen met Staal (BmS)", the Dutch institute for steel engineers |
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Student member of the "Betonvereniging (BV)", the Dutch institute for concrete engineers |
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Member of various student organizations: Het Gezelschap "Practische Studie", VSSD, U-Dispuut, Betondispuut |
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