BAEN Belgium Study Abroad Program

Now in its fourth year, the BAEN Department has an environmental study abroad program that takes up to 20 students from Texas A&M and 2 faculty members from the BAEN Department to the Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven (KUL), in Leuven, Belgium. The study abroad program is a 5-week summer (July/August) program that offers four courses, BAEN 460 (Principles of Environmental Hydrology) and BAEN 465 (Design of Biological Waste Treatment Systems) for engineering students and AGSM 335 (Soil and Water Management) and AGSM 337 (Technology for Environmental Engineering) for non-engineering students. The study abroad program focuses on European methods of surface and groundwater collection for drinking water, waste water treatment technology, protection of soil and water resources from non-point source agricultural contamination, compost/manure management, and biogas production. At least four field trips take students to view environmental projects in the Netherlands, Germany, France and other parts of Belgium. In addition, at least four seminar speakers from Belgium and European Union regulatory agencies meet with the class and give presentations on European policies designed to protect soil and water quality from agricultural contaminates.

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