SANDICK

NETHERLANDS (see also List of Individuals)

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6.12.1855 Terborg/NL - 25.1.1933 s'Gravenhage/NL

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Rudolf Adriaan van Sandick graduated as a civil engineer from Delft University in 1878. During his studies, he was involved in the student organization and there learned his qualities in leadership of a group. He joined from 1879 the Waterstaatsdienst of the Dutch Indies and from there returned five years later to become a teacher at Deventer College until 1892, and for two other years at a similar position in Amsterdam. From 1898, van Sandick was the secretary of the Royal Institute of Dutch Engineers, the organization publishing from 1900 the Dutch journal De Ingenieur. Accordingly, he took over as editor until 1932, his year of retirement. During this era, van Sandick made of it one of the best national engineering journal. It was in fact founded in 1886, and counts among the few that have survived until today.

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The success of van Sandick's journal was related to his professional background, where he had learned what the then interested reader wanted to see in a weekly medium. The journal was subdivided into various sections relating to construction, hydraulic engineering or mechanical engineering, to which a news section was added including the professional activities of the Koninklijke Instituut van Ingenieurs KIVI. The journal is currently the main source for engineering biographies, a work that was initiated systematically by van Sandick. His achievements are therefore less in the advancement of the hydraulic profession but more in the erection of a forum for his colleagues. In addition, he was also active in professional commissions, such as those of the Zuiderzee works. He was awarded Honorary Member of KIVI in 1932.

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_{Anonymous (1928). Rudolf van Sandick. World Power 10(57): 234. P Anonymous (1932). Rudolf Adriaan van Sandick. De Ingenieur 47(1): A1. P Anonymous (1933). Ir. Rudolf Adriaan van Sandick. De Ingenieur 48(4): A27. P}

_{Sandick, R.A. van (1903). De havenwerken van Haïdar-Pasja bij Konstantinopel. De Ingenieur}

_{18(25): 432-448.}

_{Sandick, R.A. van (1908). De hoofden van Ijmuiden in het Dresdener laboratorium der rivierwaterbouwkunde. De Ingenieur 23(20): 262-263.}

_{Sandick, R.A. van (1910). Het havenplan voor Soerabaja. De Ingenieur 25(22): 410-415. Sandick, R.A. van (1912). Irrigatie op Java. De Ingenieur 27(46): 914-923.}

_{Sandick, R.A. van (1924). De Technische Hoogeschool te Bandoeng. De Ingenieur 39(43): 844-845.}