prof.dr.ir. L.A.M. van Dongen (Leo)

Leo A.M. van Dongen (1954) has worked for the Netherlands Railways (NS, 100% state owned) for 35 years. He retired as Chief Technology Officer (CTO), responsible for the asset management of the rolling stock fleet, workshops and maintenance equipment in August 2019. Since 2010 he is also professor in Maintenance Engineering at the faculty of Engineering Technology, University of Twente. He was chairman of the Department of Design, Production and Management until his retirement in December 2022.

After his studies in mechanical engineering, he completed his doctoral research at Eindhoven University of Technology on energy efficiency of drive trains for electric vehicles. At DAF Trucks he was active in the development of diesel engines. His career within NS has concentrated mainly on technological functions. These include project manager of electric locomotives, secretary to the executive board, fleet manager at NS Reizigers, and, within NedTrain, he was responsible for technical fleet management, maintenance systems, spare parts purchase, maintenance management and construction of new capital goods.

He promotes the academic development of the engineering profession and encourages further research into maintenance processes: from design methodologies for capital goods to the development of associated maintenance concepts, not only for the initial investment, but also for the management during the entire life-cycle!

Business & Economics

# Assets
# Decision Making
# Railway

Engineering & Materials Science

# Asset Management
# Augmented Reality
# Life Cycle
# Virtual Reality

Earth & Environmental Sciences

# Railway

Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), Management (MA)

Martinetti, A. , Nizamis, K. , Chemweno, P. K. , Goulas, C. , van Dongen, L. A. M., Gibson, I. , Thiede, S. , Lutters, E. , Vaneker, T. H. J. , & Bonnema, G. M. (2024). More than 10 years of industry 4.0 in the Netherlands: an opinion on promises, achievements, and emerging challenges. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, 17(1), 1-12. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/19397038.2024.2327380

Ramtahalsing, M. M. (2023). Enabling Inter-organizational Change Integration in Sociotechnical Systems: Systems Thinking Applied in the Dutch Railway Systems. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036558303

Jakubeit, N. (2023). Coordinated interorganizational decision-making: Dealing with project complexity in the Dutch Railway context. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036555937

Ramtahalsing, M. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Rajabalinejad, M. , & van Dongen, L. (2023). MOSAIC: A Structured Multidisciplinary Analysis for Managing the Integration of Inter-Organizational Changes. Engineering Management Journal, 35(4), 405-419. https://doi.org/10.1080/10429247.2022.2143709

Jain, A. , Martinetti, A. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2022). Improving maintainability of the battery storage system in electric aircrafts. In 11th International Conference on Through- life Engineering Services – TESConf2022, 8-9 November 2022, Cranfield, UK Article 8176 https://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/18674

Abbas, Y. (2022). Advancing knowledge management for system integration: Improving the management of lessons learned to enhance organisational learning and railway system performance. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036554237

Jakubeit, N. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Rajabalinejad, M. , & van Dongen, L. (2022). Co-Designing Sustainable Coordination to Support Inter-Organizational Decision Making. Sustainability (Switzerland), 14(11), Article 6467. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14116467

Abbas, Y. , Martinetti, A., Frunt, L., Klinkers, J. , Rajabalinejad, M. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2022). Investigating Interdependencies Between Key Features of Lessons Learned: An Integral Approach for Knowledge Sharing. Journal of information & knowledge management, 21(2), Article 2250019. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0219649222500198

Abbas, Y. , Martinetti, A. , Rajabalinejad, M. , Schuberth, F. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2022). Facilitating digital collaboration through knowledge management: a case study. Knowledge management research & practice, 20(6), 797-813. https://doi.org/10.1080/14778238.2022.2029597

Moerman, J. J. , Braaksma, J. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2021). Reliable introduction of critical assets: an explorative case study in railways. Journal of quality in maintenance engineering, 27(3), 537-549. https://doi.org/10.1108/JQME-05-2020-0037

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