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Job van Amerongen was born in Veenendaal in 1946. He studied electrical engineering at Delft University of Technology, where he obtained his master's degree in 1971 and his PhD in 1982. From 1971 to 1973, he fulfilled his military service as an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy. From 1973 to 1987, he was an assistant professor and associate professor at the Control Laboratory of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at Delft University of Technology, where he worked on applications of modern control technology, particularly model reference adaptive control, in ship control systems and electrical energy production systems.From 1987 to 2011, he was professor of Control Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Twente. From 1994 to 1998, he was dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. In the first half of 1999, he took a sabbatical at the University of Newcastle in Australia. From 1998 to 2006, he was scientific director of the Drebbel Institute for Mechatronics. From 2005 to 2011, he was head of the Electrical Engineering department and, since 2010, vice-dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS). From 2008 to 2011, he was a member of the team working on a new curriculum for ‘Creative Technology’. He has been professor emeritus since November 2011. Until 2013, he worked part-time and taught Dynamic Systems in the Creative Technology program. He was still regularly involved in various activities in the Robotics and Mechatronics Group (RAM) and in the Electrical Engineering department. In the second half of 2018, he was interim manager at RAM. He coordinated various critical reflections on programs within the EEMCS faculty: BSc and MSc Electrical Engineering (2016), the MSc program Embedded Systems (2017), evaluation of research in Electrical Engineering (2017), critical reflections for the assessment of the BSc and MSc programs in Electrical Engineering (2022-2023), the 4TU MSc program in Embedded Systems (2022-2023), and the BSc and MSc programs in Business Informatics (2023). In 2020 and 2021, he was domain manager for the implementation of the beta sector plan at the UT. In 2023, as ‘Quartermaster Housing’, he was involved in defining the spatial and functional requirements for a new building with laboratories and offices for the EE Practicum and the EE BSS group. Since 2025, he has been active in the Historic Collection EEMCS.
He is member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Marine Systems.
He is member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities.
In April 2013 he became ‘Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau’.
He conducted research into applications of modern control technology, particularly intelligent control, in mechatronic systems. He was also involved in research into modeling and simulation of dynamic systems and embedded control systems. He is the (co-)author of many papers on adaptive and intelligent control systems, mechatronics, and automatic control of ships, co-author of a book on adaptive control systems, and author of three courses on systems and control at the Dutch Open University. His book ‘Dynamical Systems for Creative Technology’ can be downloaded free of charge as a PDF with links to multimedia content.
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