Antonie (Tony) Vandenberge

Antonie (Tony) Vandenberge is a Professor of Practice in the Engineering, Design, and Society Department. Tony thrives on creative exploration in a project team setting.  It is Tony’s experience that the way we learn something is just as influential as the technical expertise acquired in preparing his students for responding to the demands of professional life. Tony teaches cornerstone and capstone design courses where Tony and his students get hands-on while paying close attention with each other to how the whole person is shaped – present instructor included. 

Tony brings 30 years of industrial experience and 5 ½ years as a Mines Capstone Advisor. Prior to joining Mines, Tony led a team in meeting year on year commercial and schedule targets for the $250 Million logistics scope of KBR’s international headquarters’ portfolio of engineering construction projects. This included cultivating project execution teams, estimating, contract management, safety, project execution delivery, and trade compliance. The teams created and operated project supply chains for engineered equipment and bulk materials delivery to worldwide locations, often requiring site and marine infrastructure creation. 

During his career, Tony spent 5 Years in engineering design program management for realizing champion’s new ideas into accepted practices and created a world class discrete event simulation engineering team for KBR. Tony spent his first 5 years in manufacturing consulting following professors from Penn State and Purdue into a company startup, which released a commercially successful simulation product called “Arena”. 

Tony likes to spend time with his wife and kids and dogs goofing around and getting his hands dirty with car engine building and fire mitigation projects with his neighbors and being handy around the house. 

Education:

• B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University
• MA in Ministry from Asbury Theological Seminary