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dr.ir. W. Haanstra (Willem)

Assistant Professor

About Me

Willem is an Assistant Professor in the chair of Asset Management & Maintenance Engineering at the Engineering Technology faculty of the University of Twente.

Willem’s research broadly focuses on Life Cycle Engineering, an engineering perspective that can best be described as the assessment and improvement of the entire life cycle of products and physical systems, to make them more sustainable with respect to people, planet, and profit.

Relevant research areas include Sustainable product and capital asset design; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for evaluating environmental and social impacts; Life Cycle Costing and Life Cycle Valuation (LCC and LCV) for assessing financial viability and value creation; Maintenance Engineering methods for optimizing reliability, availability, functionality and extending lifespans; The Circular Economy for organizing closed material and re-use cycles and supply chains at the end-of-life; And strategic decision-making as part of Asset Management. 

As a researcher with a background in Industrial Design Engineering, Willem likes to bridge the worlds of theory and practice by asking and answering ‘how can?’ type questions, often in close collaboration with partners from industry. Previous collaborations include partners from the manufacturing, energy, and transportation sectors.


Other roles:

Expertise

Business & Economics
Asset Management
Assets
Life Cycle
Life Cycle Assessment
Life Cycle Thinking
Engineering & Materials Science
Life Cycle
Sustainable Development
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Life Cycle

Publications

Recent
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. M. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Rajabalinejad, M. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2021). Systems Control in Railway Transport, Challenges Towards Managing Integration. In 10th International Conference on Through-life Engineering Service Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
Ramtahalsing, M. M., Kuiper-Hutten, L. , Haanstra, W. , Braaksma, J. , Rajabalinejad, M. , & van Dongen, L. A. M. (2021). Climate Change in Dutch Railway Infrastructure: Towards a Framework for Adaptation Strategies. In 10th International Conference on Through-life Engineering Service Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

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Education

Coordinator of the Maintenance Engineering and Operations (MEO) specialisation of the Mechanical Engineering master programme.

Affiliated Study Programmes

Master

Courses Academic Year  2023/2024

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
 

Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

Projects

Daily supervision in the following research project(s):

Nina Jakubeit (PhD research in the SIRA project)

Merishna Ramtahalsing (PhD research in the SIRA project)


Co-promotor in the following research project(s):

Henrike Holwerda (PhD research in the SAMEN project)

Current Projects

Finished Projects

Contact Details

Visiting Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex (building no. 20), room W260
De Horst 2
7522LW  Enschede
The Netherlands

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Mailing Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Engineering Technology
Horst Complex  W260
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

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