Teaching

See my Curriculum Vitae for more details. Please contact me in case you are interested in e.g. slides or exercises.

At the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam I am involved in the following courses.

Business Mathematics. This is a course for the first year of the Bedrijfskunde (Business Administration) bachelor. It covers various topics ranging from equation solving to linear programming and from matrix operations to constrained optimization. It also features training in Word and Excel.
Supply Chain Management 2. This is an elective course for the second year of the Bedrijfskunde (Business Administration) bachelor. It covers network design, global supply chain management, inventory management, pricing and revenue management, and coordination and sourcing decisions.
Supply Chain Management 1. This is a course for the first year of the Bedrijfskunde (Business Administration) bachelor. It covers inventory management, production and distribution networks, sales and operations planning, and sustainability.
Numerical Methods. This is a course for the second year of the Econometrics & Operations Research bachelor. It covers Python programming, floating point representations, and numerical methods for root finding, interpolation, derivation, integration, and splines.

Previous teaching experience

From March 2019 to August 2021, I coordinated the following courses at Maastricht University.

Quantitative Introduction to Business. This is a course for the first year of the Econometrics & Operations Research bachelor. It covers operations management problems in strategic capacity planning, facility layout, location planning, inventory management, scheduling, and linear programming.
Second-Year Project I. This is a course for the second year of the Econometrics & Operations Research bachelor. Students have one week to implement a Java program that computes solutions to an optimization problem.
Allocations and Algorithms (now called Advanced Algorithms). This is a course for the third year of the Econometrics & Operations Research bachelor. It covers fundamental techniques in algorithm design (in particular approximation algorithms) and an introduction to the field of algorithmic game theory.
Management of Operations and Product Development. This is a course for the second year of the International Business bachelor. It covers operations management problems in strategic capacity planning, facility layout, location planning, quality management, inventory management, scheduling, project management, and integer linear programming.

Here is a short summary of my past teaching experience.

Operations Research and Business Intelligence courses at Maastricht University (2014 - 2018)
Calculus and Analysis courses at Eindhoven University of Technology (2009 - 2011)
Mathematics and Projection Theory at Civilion (2012 - 2013)
Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry at StudieCentrum Zuid (2011 - 2013)
Private tutor in Mathematics and Calculus (2004 - 2013)

I obtained my University Teaching Qualification from Maastricht University in November 2021.

Steven Miltenburg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, started in September 2022. Co-promotor with René Sitters.
Moritz Buchem, Maastricht University, 29 November 2022. Hiking in the Scheduling Landscape: Exact and Approximation Algorithms for Parallel Machines. Co-promotor, with promotor Tjark Vredeveld.

Shelton Aloewel, TSCM (2024 expected)
Max Berns, TSCM (2024 expected)
Jikke Bovelander, E&OR (2024 expected)
Tom Geurts, TSCM (2024 expected)
Pepijn de Lange, TSCM (2024 expected)
Jelger Oud, E&OR (2024 expected)
Wouter Smidt, TSCM (2024 expected)
Lynn Vlaar, TSCM (2024 expected)
Lorance Helwani, E&OR: Scheduling a Subset of Jobs on a Single Machine with Precedence Constraints (2024)
Stefan de Haas, E&OR: Scheduling a subset of jobs to minimize the sum of weighted completion times on a single machine (2023)
Fleur Krijgsman, E&OR: Partial scheduling on a single machine with the objective to minimize the total flow (2023)
Jay Schardam, TSCM: The use of customer communication and pick-up-points during the delivery process to optimize routes in the last mile (2023)
Tjarko Schermer, TSCM: Quantification of the financial effects of a Customer-to-Customer return policy under varying scenarios (2023)
Gidius Bok, E&OR: The Actual Weight Algorithm (2022)
Elbert van de Gein, TSCM: Anticipatory Order Picking: A Simulation and Comparison with Order Picking (2022)
Selina Meeks, E&OR: Small and Large Equitable Travelling Salesman Problem (2021)