Innovation in Maritime Transport 🚢| Alternative fuels ⚡️| Business strategies 👨💼| Technology enthousiast 👨💻| Sailor ⛵️
At Conoship, I'm involved with research on the latest technologies for ship-design and shipbuilding. New fuels and other carbon-reducing measures are my focus. My work combines the assessment of technological feasibility into actual ship designs and the business strategies that are required to put the new technologies in the market. Conoship International
Oct 2019 - presentFinialised my master thesis for the TU Delft Master Management of Technology at Rijkswaterstaat, regarding the transition towards smart inland shipping in the Netherlands. Download my thesis at vanterwis.ga/thesis.
Feb 2019 - Aug 2019"In the Management of Technology (MOT) programme you learn to explore and understand technology as a corporate resource - a resource that allows a firm to keep many different balls in the air. It shows how firms can use technology to design and develop products and services that maximise customer satisfaction on the one hand, while maximising corporate productivity, profitability and competitiveness on the other."
Sept 2017 - Aug 2019At Dockwise/Boskalis I've been writing my bachelor thesis about 'Safety in Engineering'. Covering the challenges that Engineers face in the design of Offshore operations, like Float-on, Float-off and Load-outs on Semi-Submersible vessels.
Feb 2017 - July 2017During my minor at Damen Shipyards Bergum, I've been performing a research on the feasibility of wind-propulsion on commercial cargo vessels, such as Flettner rotors, Dynarigs, and other appliances.
Feb 2016 - July 2016Obtained my bachelor in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering during my study at the NHL Hogeschool in Leeuwarden.
2012 - 2017