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Personal site J.L. Coenders
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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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| 2004 |
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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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| 2003 |
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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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| 2003 |
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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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| 2003 |
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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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| 2001 |
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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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| 2001 |
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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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