Thomas Bangels

Experience

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  LBK

  May 2015 - May 2016

  Organiser of the Interfacultairy RockRally (IFR)

  The Interfacultairy Rockrally is a music competition between the different student associations of Leuven. With a team of presidium students, we organised two preliminary rounds and a final, which took place at ‘the Depot’ for ± 300 people.

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  Engie Parkies

  Jul 2015 - Aug 2016

  Group coordinator

  During the summer months, I was responsible to lead a group of ± 20 students during several festivals. My job was to make sure that the cashier team was doing well and that the disassembling after the concert was done efficiently.

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  National Instruments

  Feb 2016 - Jun 2016

  Student design competition: Autonomous vehicle development

  Enrolled in the National Instruments Student Design Compention with a team of students. We Developed an autonomous tractor which could safely drive on a farm while mapping the grass quality and detecting weeds/faeces.https://goo.gl/Re2XK1

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  Mpacts

  Sept 2017 - now

  Mpacts is simulation software which uses the Discrete Element Method (DEM) to understand, predict and solve industrial processes. Our strength lies in our flexibility. We try to be as accurate as possible for big and small problems, simple and complex models, from pharmacy to agricultural vehicles.http://mpacts.com Developing new high-tech agricultural vehicles.Our strategy combines realistic crop models, which take biological variability into account, with our fast and flexible in-house developed DEM algorithm software, Mpacts. http://mpacts.com

  • Co-manager

    Jan 2019 - now

  • Simulations engineer

    Sept 2017 - Jan 2019