Other Activities
Below is a summary of all other activities during my Bachelor at Industrial Design. Besides committee work at our study association, I also did quite a few other extracurricular activities.
Coordinating Mind the Step Dutch Design Week Exposition
For the DDW (Dutch Design Week) in 2015, I helped organise and coordinate the Mind the Step expo in the Klokgebouw, a collaborative exhibition of all technical universities in the Netherlands. I helped with preparations, building the expo, coordinating and running the expo, and closing the expo.
I learned a lot about event management and all aspects and stakeholders that are involved in this, which greatly improved my professional skills. On top of this, I also developed my communicative skills, learning about staff coordination and giving briefings, because I was staff manager.
DSM Application Brainstorm
A couple of months ago, I organised a brainstorm session with the company DSM and Industrial Design students through our study association Lucid. The idea arose when my father, who works at the innovation department at DSM, said he would like to do something with Industrial Design students. Though my father, I contacted the 3D printing department because they had invented a new 3D printing material with long-lasting scent, but had no use for it yet.
I was organiser of the brainstorm, setting up a promotion strategy, and being mediator between several parties. I made sure that DSM would leave the brainstorm session with a lot of fresh ideas and several teams of enthusiastic students. I arranged that students who participated in the brainstorm would get the opportunity to develop and get credits for their idea within DSM, and I closed a lucrative sponsorship deal for Lucid as well.
After the brainstorm session, I organised a follow up day at DSM, situated on the Chemelot Campus, where the student teams, myself included, learned a lot about manufacturing techniques, and got to develop their idea and present it in front of DSM officials. The student teams are still in the process of developing their idea within DSM, and I am still organising and mediating
Student Assistant Faculty Promotion
Being a student assistant for the ID faculty promotion team has improved my communication skills. As the public for the orientation days is a very varied audience, I have learned how to approach and inform people from different cultures, and people from literally all ages.
This is of course not only a learning activity, it is great to see people become more interested in the studies the more you tell about them, and the team of student assistants is a lovely group of people and tremendous fun to work with.
(translated from dutch)
''Within the student team, Jelle is an enthusiastic informer with a positive and open attitude. Someone who tackles problems, thinks in solutions and hopefully continues to work for the ID student team in the future.''
-Lieke Thijssen Communication officer Industrial Design
Engineering Design Tutor
Last year, I was student tutor for the course ‘’Engineering Design’’, a course where students from all faculties join multi-disciplinary teams to design and build a remotely operated rescue vehicle for disaster areas. I followed training and received certificates in brainstorming, supervising and grading students.
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