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Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux
Mobility Programmes
Course and ECTS credits
Information guide 2006-2007
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Welcome
Gembloux Agricultural University has been, since its inception on July 1860, a Faculty open to all. It has always
welcomed students from the four corners of the earth.
Naturally therefore, it takes part in the different international teaching and research programmes. Gembloux prides
itself on providing the latest scientific expertise to all those who are eager to address issues such as malnutrition
and sustainable resource management.
During their stay in Gembloux, students will be able to develop their projects in an environment of quality according
to an approach which emphasizes the humanistic dimension of the degree of "ingénieur".
We hope you will enjoy your studies and find them rewarding.
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques
Passage des Déportés, 2
5030 Gembloux (Belgique)
Tél: +32 (0)81 62 21 08
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.fsagx.ac.be
Fax: +32 (0)81 62 21 68
Table of contents
Welcome
General Information
Gembloux Agricultural University (FUSAGx). General presentation
Situation
Belgium and Europe
Gembloux in Belgium
Gembloux Agricultural University (FUSAGx)
International relations and european exchange programmes
Organisational structure of FUSAGx
Studies at FUSAGx
An association of physical, biological and human science programmes
Study structure
Undergraduate studies in Agriculture Sciences and Biological Engineering
Undergraduate studies in Sciences
Post-graduate studies
Term dates
Academic Year 2006-2007
Language medium
ECTS credits
Key features
The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) at the FUSAGx
Introduction: European and Belgian Context
The transfer and accumulation credits system at FUSAGx
Conclusion
ECTS students
Course Catalogue
Level description, objectives ans learning outcomes
Bachelor s Degree in Engineering, Orientation Bio-engineering
Bio-engineering
Course list by discipline and by study year
Course content
Practical information on studying and living in Gembloux
How to get there
By plane
By train
By car
Administrative formalities
Admission at FUSAGx
Registration with the police
Insurance
Accommodation
Restaurants
Cost of living
Social service
Sport, relaxation and students'associations
Library
Computer service
Language Laboratory
How to apply
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Institution
GEMBLOUX AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY
Address Passage des Déportés, 2
5030 GEMBLOUX (Belgium)
+32 (0)81 62 21 11
Tel
+32 (0)81 61 45 44
Fax
E-mail [email protected]
Internet http://www.fsagx.ac.be
Head of institution
Professor André THÉWIS
Rector
+32 (0)81 62 21 07
Tel
+32 (0)81 62 25 20
Fax
1st semester
18/09/2006 - 26/01/2007
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2 semester
05/02/2007 - 29/06/2007
Vacation periods
23/12/2006 - 05/01/2007
02/04/2007 - 13/04/2007
Examinations
The last three weeks of each semester are busy with examinations.
Instruction in the departments begins on
1st semester: 18/09/2006
2nd semester: 05/02/2007
International Relations
Professor Jean-Jacques CLAUSTRIAUX
Vice-Rector
+32 (0)81 62 22 75
Tel
+32 (0)81 62 25 20
Fax
Socrates co-ordinator for
Incoming Students and
Outgoing Students
Ms. Claire LAMBERT
Affaires étudiantes
International Relations Office
+32 (0)81 62 23 15
Tel
+32 (0)81 62 21 88
Fax
Accommodation
please contact Ms. C. LAMBERT
Insurance
Gembloux Agricultural University requires and assumes that all incoming
international students have a valid personal (travel) insurance from an
internationally recognised insurance agency for the duration of their stay in
Gembloux. This insurance should cover all costs related to treatment of sudden
illnesses accidents and repatriation. Students cannot register at the University
of Gembloux unless they present proof of valid insurance upon arrival when
registering at the Student Registry Office.
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Situation
Belgium and Europe
Belgium is situated at the heart of Europe, surrounded by France, Germany, the Netherlands and Grand-Duchy of
Luxembourg. The country has a population of 10 million and covers an area of 30,507 km².
Brussels is the capital city of Belgium and is an important international crossroads for economic, political and
cultural life in Europe. It is the site of various European Union institutions.
The three official languages in Belgium are French, Dutch and German. Brussels is a bilingual city (French and
Dutch). In the northern part of the country, a fairly flat area lying between the coast and Brussels, people speak
Dutch (Flemish). To the south, where the highest point reaches 672 m., the land is composed of plateaux, hills and
forests and people speak French. To the East, along the German border, there is a small percentage of German
speakers.
Gembloux in Belgium
Belgium is a federal state. It is divided into three administrative Regions (Walloon, Flemish and Brussels-Capital)
and into three Communities (French, Flemish and German).
The country is also divided into 10 provinces. Gembloux is situated in the Namur Province in the French-speaking
Walloon Region.
Gembloux is 45 km from Brussels by road, 1 hour 30 minutes from Paris by train, and 2 hours 40 minutes from
London by Eurostar. It is on the main Brussels-Luxembourg railway and is close to the Brussels-Luxembourg and
Paris-Köln motorways. The population of Gembloux is 20,000.
The town was established in the Middle Ages around a Benedictine Abbey founded in 940 AD by knight Wicbertus
who later became known as Saint Guibert.
Since the 19th century, Gembloux has gained an international reputation for research, scholarship and business in
the field of agronomy.
It has become what is termed an "agrobiopole", the site of a collection of institutions involved in teaching, research
and technological transfert in agronomy and biological engineering.
Gembloux Agricultural University (FUSAGx)
Set up as a Public Agricultural Institute in 1860, the FUSAGx was originally established in the buildings and park
of the Benedictine Abbey in the heart of the town.
Modern buildings are now interspersed among and around the old buildings, extending the campus into the town.
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FUSAGx is a modern institution situated at the centre of the "Gembloux agrobiopole". It is organised along the
same lines as faculties in other Belgian universities but the subjects taught are related to agronomy in its widest
sense and to biological engineering, including forestry and rural engineering.
Within the University are 250 professors and scientists, assisted by technical and administrative staff, making a
total over 550 people working in the Faculty.
With a population of about 1.050 students coming from about 40 countries, and with graduates working in more
than 60 countries, FUSAGx is an internationally renowned institution for teaching and research, and offers both
undergraduate and post-graduate courses.
The undergraduate programme is a 5-year course leading to the degree in "Bioingénieur" (Master degree).
The post-graduate studies lead to various qualifications: Complementary Masters, DEA (Post-graduate Advanced
Diploma), DES (Post-graduate Specialised Diploma) and PhD in Agricultural Sciences and Biological Engineering.
There are also courses leading to a Secondary Education Teaching Qualification and a Higher Education Teaching
Qualification.
Some 50% of the post-graduate students come from foreign countries, partly because of the research projects
conducted by FUSAGx in developing countries and in collaboration with international agencies throughout the
world.
The University's friendly environment and its strong emphasis on social interaction and student welfare are well
known both in Europe and overseas.
International relations and european exchange programmes
Since its foundation, FUSAGx has opened its doors to students from around the world.
There are now about 1.050 students from about 40 countries. Some 30% of the Faculty's undergraduate students
and 50% of its post-graduate students are from foreign countries. Students from Europe account for 7% of the total
number of students.
FUSAGx is situated in the centre of the "Gembloux agrobiopole", which includes the Research Centre of the
Walloon Region, the Centre of Nature, Wood and Forest of the Walloon Region, the Industrial Higher Institute,
the Horticultural Technical Institute and the Agriculture Walloon Federation.
University staff play an active role in research networks and programmes funded by Belgium (DRI, CGRI, CUD,
FNRS, Federal and Regional Administrations and Ministries) and international agencies (AUF, European Union,
FAO, International Foundation for Science, UNESCO, World Bank and bilateral research programmes). There are
also collaborative links with Africa, America, Asia and Europe.
The University has agreements with many universities and research centres throughout the world and participates
in EU programmes and exchange networks, including ALFA, Socrates-Erasmus and Tempus. The FUSAGx
participates in CREPUQ exchange programme (Québec, Canada).
Under the Socrates-Erasmus programme, FUSAGx has signed bi-lateral agreements with about 20 institutions in
Europe. It is also involved in the Socrates thematic network through AFANET.
There are many ties with Mediterranean countries and with Latin America and through research projects.
Organisational structure of FUSAGx
The organisational structure of FUSAGx is typical of that in most universities.
Head of the institution: Rector: André THÉWIS
Vice-Rector: Jean-Jacques CLAUSTRIAUX
Administrative Director: Pol LENAERTS
Dean: Marie-France DESTAIN
FUSAGx is administered by a Board of Directors, including Faculty members and representatives from the public
and private sectors. The President of the Board is the Rector.
FUSAGx consists of 30 Research and Scholarship Departments, laboratories and common scientific facilities.
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Studies at FUSAGx
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Studies at FUSAGx
An association of physical, biological and human science programmes
In today's world, beset by environmental and food production problems, the work of agronomists needs to be
broad-based. The diversity of their training qualifies them not only for assignments in agriculture, agro-food
industries, bio-industries, forestry, development and rural planning but also for key posts in management, marketing,
production, quality control, research and development in a wide range of fields.
All activities undertaken by agronomists require scientific knowledge as well as an understanding of socio-cultural
and economic issues.
Study structure
Undergraduate studies in Agriculture Sciences and Biological Engineering
A 5-year programme leading to the degree "Bioingénieur" (Master degree)
Secondary school diploma
Years 1, 2 and 3
A three-year basic programme (180 ECTS)
Diploma: "Bachelor in Bioengineering"
Years 4 and 5
Two years of specialisation (120 ECTS) in the fields of
General Agronomy
Tropical Agronomy
Animal Science and Production
Nature, Water and Forestry
Horticulture
Crop Protection
Rural and Environmental Engineering
Economics and Environmental Development
Land Management
Chemistry and Biotechnology
Food science and technology
Water technology
Diploma "Master Bioingénieur" (300 ECTS)
Undergraduate studies in Sciences
Master in Statistics, option Biostatistics (120 ECTS)
Post-graduate studies
1 year
Complementary Master
(60 ECTS)
– in Sanitary Engineering
– in Crop protection of tropical and intertropical areas*
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1 year
Post-graduate Advanced Diploma (DEA)
(60 ECTS)
– DEA in Agricultural Sciences and Biological Engineering
– DEA in Food Sciences and Technology
– DEA in development, environment and societies
1 year
Post-graduate Specialised Diploma (DES)
(60 ECTS)
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DES in Management of animal and vegetable ressources of Intertropical Areas*
DES in Management of Biotechnologies
DES in Hydrology*
DES in Applied Biology*
DES in Management of natural risks*
DES in Rural Economy and Sociology*
DES in Bio-information Technology*
minimum 3 years PhD in Agricultural Sciences and Biological Engineering
(180 ECTS)
1 year
Secondary Education Teaching Qualification
1 year
Higher Education Teaching Qualification
* Joint training between Universities
Term dates
The academic calendar is divided into two terms.
1st semester
from 18/09/2006 to 26/01/2007
2nd semester
from 05/02/2007 to 29/06/2007
Vacation periods
from 23/12/2006 to 05/01/2007
from 02/04/2007 to 13/04/2007
Examinations
The last three weeks of each semester are busy with examinations.
Instruction in the departments begins on:
1st semester: 18/09/2006
2nd semester: 05/02/2007
Students who fail these examinations can resit them at the end of August and the beginning of September.
Language medium
The language medium in classes is French. Students are therefore required to have a working knowledge of French.
Students coming to the Faculty to work on a research project in a laboratory may need to speak English.
Examinations are written or oral and personal reports are sometimes required. All examinations are in French.
Intensive French language courses for speakers of other languages are organised by specialised centres. Information
about these centres can be obtained from the co-ordinator of the Socrates programme.
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ECTS credits
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ECTS credits
Key features
Adapted from: http://europa.eu.int/comm/education/programmes/socrates/ects.
The ECTS programme (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System) was created by the EU to guarantee
the academic recognition of studies completed in another country. It therefore enables academic results from
different institutions to be measured and compared and thus to be transferable from one institution to another. The
student can accumulate credits obtained in the home institution or in a host institution.
ECTS is based on the principle that 60 credits measure the workload of a full-time student during one academic
year. The student workload of a full-time study programme in Europe amounts in most cases to around 1500-1800
hours per year and in those cases one credit stands for around 25 to 30 working hours.
Credits in ECTS can only be obtained after successful completion of the work required and appropriate assessment
of the learning outcomes achieved. Learning outcomes are sets of competences, expressing what the student will
know, understand or be able to do after completion of a process of learning, long or short.
Student workload in ECTS consists of the time required to complete all planned learning activities such as attending
lectures, seminars, independent and private study, preparation of projects and examinations.
Credits are allocated to all educational components of a study programme (such as modules, courses, placements,
dissertation work, etc.) and reflect the quantity of work each component requires to achieve its specific objectives
or learning outcomes in relation to the total quantity of work necessary to complete a full year of study successfully.
The performance of the student is documented by a local/national grade. It is good practice to add an ECTS grade,
in particular in case of credit transfer. The ECTS grading scale ranks the students. Grades are assigned among
students with a pass grade as follows:
ECTS grade
Definition
A
best 10%
B
next 25%
C
next 30%
D
next 25%
E
next 10%
A distinction is made between the grades FX and F that are used for unsuccessful students. FX means: `fail - some
more work required to pass´ and F means: `fail - considerable further work required´. The inclusion of failure rates
in the Transcript of Records is optional. After computation of more than 3000 marks, FUSAGx established the
following ECTS grading scale :
FUSAGx
grade
from 17 to 20
ECTS grade
A
from 15 to 16,5 B
from 13,5 to
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C
from 11,5 to 13 D
from 10 to 11
E
from 7,5 to 9,5
FX
from 0 to 7
F
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ECTS credits
General co-ordinator for ECTS programme:
The Dean: Marie-France DESTAIN
Tél: +32 (0)81 62 22 83
Fax: +32 (0)81 62 25 20
Socrates co-ordinator:
Claire LAMBERT
Tél: +32 (0)81 62 23 15
Fax: +32 (0)81 62 21 68
The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) at the FUSAGx
Introduction: European and Belgian Context
In the "Bologna Declaration" of June 19, 1999, one of the objectives is "to set up a credit system - like the ECTS
system - as an appropriate means to foster students mobility as much as possible. The credits could be obtained
outside the framework of higher education, including lifelong learning, to the extent that those are recognized by
the concerned higher education institutions."
Such a system implies that a systematic way of describing study programs has to be adopted at the European level.
Thus, credits are attached to all the parts of the study programs and are calculated on the basis of the time necessary
to meet the objectives of the programs, which are defined in terms of learning outcomes and competences. As a
result, study programs gain in transparency and can more easily be compared from one institution or one country
to another.
As suggested in the Bologna Declaration, the ECTS system is the appropriate answer to that objective, and the
European Commission, a strong supporter of cooperation between universities and student mobility (mainly through
SOCRATES-ERASMUS programs), set up, as early as 1989, a European credit transfer system that encouraged
the recognition of studies (full or partial) abroad. Today, the ECTS system is evolving to become a system
implemented at institutional, regional, national, and European levels.
In the French Community of Belgium, the decree of March 31, 2004, "which defines higher education, promotes
its integration within the European higher education area, and refinances universities", complements the Bologna
Declaration since it establishes a credit number (minimum 2, maximum 30) to all higher education learning activities,
which can be "transferred" and "accumulated", even outside the ERASMUS student exchange program.
The March 31, 2004 decree, commonly referred to as the "Bologna decree" since it tends to bring the French
Community of Belgium ever closer to the objectives decided by EU members in Bologna, imposes that all the
francophone higher education institutions of Wallonia and Brussels adopt a credit transfer and accumulation system
that resembles the ECTS system:
– The study program of one year corresponds to 60 credits;
– One credit amounts to 24 hours of learning;
– "Learning" is defined as any learning activity, thus lectures, but also personal work, exercises, seminars, projects,
bibliographical research, exam preparation - in other words, the global amount of work a student has to do;
– The student is awarded credits only after a positive assessment of his/her learning.
The transfer and accumulation credits system at FUSAGx
Using the experience it has developed in terms of fostering student exchanges through the SOCRATES-ERASMUS
programs and being enthused by the Bologna momentum, the Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques
de Gembloux (FUSAGx) has quickly reacted to the March 31, 2004 decree.
It has therefore adopted new general regulations for study programs and exams, which are to be revised every year,
and which confer a triple definition to the term credit in conformity with Belgian and European legislations. A
credit is:
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A measure of the time allotted by a student to one learning activity in a subject within a study program. One
credit at the FUSAGx represents 24 hours of work.
A value given to the student after the latter has successfully acquired the necessary competences and know-how
in a subject. The student receives a credit transcript.
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A value corresponding to the work performed by a student outside the FUSAGx, whether this one is a FUSAGx
student or a foreign student.
The Credit as a Work and Time Unit
Since the beginning of the academic year 2004-2005, the FUSAGx has adopted the 3/5/8 system, which is being
implemented throughout Europe.
The FUSAGx study program is expressed in terms of credits. One study year equals 60 credits, and the whole study
program totals 300 credits. The Bachelor s degree in Engineering Sciences - Bio-engineering orientation (1st cycle)
consists in three years of study (180 credits). With this diploma the student may access the 2nd cycle of studies to
obtain the Master s degree in Bio-engineering Sciences (120 credits). The FUSAGx also delivers secondary education
teaching certifications, post Master s degrees, and PhD s. The PhD requires a minimum of three years of study (180
credits). Finally, the FUSAGx delivers higher education teaching certifications and organizes the courses preparatory
to the post Master s degrees and continuing education.
Within the frame of this program reorganization, a credit represents 12 hours of formal teaching (lectures, laboratories,
practical sessions, seminars, ) and 12 hours of personal work (except during the first year of the first cycle, where
more parameters were integrated so as to take into account the adaptation problems that the new student might
encounter). However, the FUSAGx could very well adapt those time allocations on the basis of the students remarks
concerning the real time required for one learning activity. FUSAGx students have indeed the opportunity to be
heard since they have representatives in the Faculty s executive and managing organs.
The students at the Faculty also have the possibility to register for a personal study program, as long as this one is
a coherent selection of courses between 45 and 90 credits, and that it is approved by a selection jury. Besides, one
year of study can take place over two or three years. Finally, a student regularly attending the courses of one study
year can be approved for extra courses (belonging or not to his/her study program). These possibilities are aimed
at meeting the students needs, which can be influenced by their academic, professional, family, or personal situations.
The Credit as a Conferred Unit
In conformity with the FUSAGx rules of deliberation (which are displayed on Internet and Intranet for transparency
purposes), the examination juries decide whether a student passes or fails the academic year for which he/she is
registered. They examine all the grades and give credit for the courses where the student has passed, including
isolated or extra courses. As a result, a student may obtain over 60 credits during one academic year. The credit
transcript is separate from the grade report so that the student disposes of a document recognizing the knowledge
and competences the latter has acquired at the Faculty, and this before receiving the final diploma.
Credits are given following specific passing regulation, which can be found in the exam and study regulations.
These rules take into consideration the student s situation (total or partial passing) and the course status (isolated,
extra, ). Exam juries are also entitled to give credits for non-degree seeking students, who attend preparatory classes
or continuous education, as these meet the same organization, content, and quality criteria than degree-seeking
study programs.
The FUSAGx informs its students that, whether they are obtained at the FUSAGx or in any partner institution during an ERASMUS exchange, for example -, the ECTS are definitively acquired. Consequently, the student
receives an exemption for the learning corresponding to the credit, which is recognized in all the institutions of the
French Community of Belgium, of Europe, or in the world, as long as these institutions agree to recognize credits.
Because the FUSAGx prides itself in providing students with quality education, because the Faculty is renowned
internationally, and because it belongs to a widespread network of inter-university cooperation, the student should
be able to get the full recognition of the credits outside the Faculty.
The Credit as a Recognized Unit
Symmetrically, students coming to the Faculty, who studied or acquired competences elsewhere, get a full
examination of their learning or experience by an admission jury (constituted of examination jury members). On
the basis of this assessment, they may receive credits for certain courses, which will lead to a shortening of their
study time.
Concretely, credits can be given for:
– ECTS listed in a transcript and acquired by the student in a higher education institution;
– Diplomas or certificates from a higher education institution;
– Any know-how or competence acquired through personal or professional experience. Here, the students have
two possibilities: Either they prove that they have five years of experience and register for second-cycle studies,
or they make an original presentation demonstrating their know-how and competences and receive an exemption
for a maximum of 30 ECTS.
Conclusion
The Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux has fully implemented the ECTS system.
Indeed, the FUSAGx designs its study programs as coherent learning activities corresponding to a set number of
credits, at the end of which a diploma or certificate is delivered. Concurrently the FUSAGx delivers credit transcripts
that validate the students passing of courses during the time of their studies.
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With the diploma, the FUSAGx also delivers a diploma supplement, documenting the study program and the
obtained credits. The FUSAGx designed its credits so they could be recognized in other institutions. Similarly, the
FUSAGx commits itself to examine its future students credits from other Belgian or foreign institutions and to
possibly recognize them. The FUSAGx is proud to foster students mobility, in Europe and throughout the world.
ECTS students
Students participating in the ECTS programme will be allocated credits for all academic work successfully
accomplished in any partner institution. They can have their credits transferred from one partner institution to
another on the basis of a prior agreement on the study programme of the other country. Any changes made must
be agreed by the departmental co-ordinators of both institutions.
Students selected for an Erasmus Mobility may receive an Erasmus grant.
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Course Catalogue
The prospectus describes the courses leading to the diploma of "Bioingénieur" (Master degree). The first part of
the prospectus contains the programme of courses for the 5 study years in each discipline organised by FUSAGx
and the ECTS programme.
The Bachelor level is nearly a common level. There are 13 different specializations in the second level. Mobility
students are recommended to choose lectures in the same specialization (to avoid time-table incompatibility). In
other case, the must contact the Socrates co-ordinator.
Level description, objectives ans learning outcomes
Bachelor s Degree in Engineering, Orientation Bio-engineering
The bachelor s degree involves basic training in reasoning and a sound grasp of fundamental knowledge.
Teaching Objectives
– Mind organization (initiation into analytical and systemic processes);
– Reasoning (hypothesis/deduction) within the framework of agricultural sciences and biological engineering;
– Acquisition of fundamental scientific knowledge and introduction into the basic disciplines of agronomy and
biological engineering.
The first two years of The Bachelor s degree are devoted to the study of the following basic scientific disciplines:
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Fundamental Biology;
Botany;
Chemistry;
Economics;
Geology;
English;
Mathematics;
Mechanics;
Mineralogy;
Physics;
Statistics;
Zoology;
Law and Sociology.
The first two years are common to all students.
Schedule of the first year of the Bachelor s degree
Schedule of the second year of the Bachelor s degree
In the third year, students will have to choose among the following fields of the training: Forestry, Environmental
Engineering, Agricultural Production or Chemistry, Bio-industries and Food Engineering.
The Bachelor s Degree in Engineering, orientation Bio-engineering marks the third year.
Theory is generally taught in the mornings, whereas exercises and practical work are organized in the afternoons,
either in the laboratory, or in the field.
Schedule of Agricultural Production
Schedule of Forestry
Schedule of Rural and Environmental Engineering
Schedule of Landscape management
Schedule of Chemistry, Bio-industries and Food Engineering.
Bio-engineering
AGEN Orientation: General Agronomy
Description
The bio-engineer in general agronomy is versatile and therefore able to manage efficiently all agricultural,
food-processing and related systems, of which he/she knows the diversity, technical, economic and social complexity.
He/she is familiar with the environmental aspects of this particularly exposed activity. From top to bottom, be it
at a local, regional or international level, the non-specialized bio-engineer is acquainted with all types of agriculture:
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the productivist, reasoned, ecological, biological, familial, cooperative or capitalist agriculture. Partnerships, paths,
industrialization or valorization are more than words to him, as well as financing, research, law and prospecting.
The study program of this option includes the following specialty modules:
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Sustainable Agriculture
Plant Improvement
Accountancy, Management and Paths
Law and Economics
Economics and Development
Fundamentals of Crop Protection
Fundamentals of Plant Productions
Animal Productions
Plant Productions
Teaching Objectives
The training as a bachelor is followed by courses dealing with plant and animal production techniques and systems,
economics and ecology, agricultural and environmental rights and policies. It further deals with special types of
regional and world agriculture, integrated production, the interactions between agriculture and the environment as
well as with related domains. The end-of-study work can be linked to any of these disciplines or techniques. Case
studies, supervised work, excursions, a travel abroad and the interdisciplinary project illustrate the teaching activities
and contribute to train students in analysis-synthesis-action processes from real problems for the sake of efficiency
and sustainability. Thus students become aware that the nature of important questions is multisector-based, multilocal
and multitemporal, and that the adequate answers often follow from the ingenious adaptation of simple principles,
universal methods and proven techniques. The programme offers a large field of imaginative open-mindedness
facilitating the direct insertion into a responsible professional activity and/or prepare to further possible training
or specialty.
Professional Targets
First a university engineer, the bio-engineer in general agronomy has diversified abilities, centred on biology applied
to agriculture and related fields, and also open to further domains. He/she chooses to be non-specialized, an integrator,
a man of syntheses, an engineer of development, training and animation projects in or outside Europe or even a
firm manager in the field of agriculture, agro-supplying (inputs) and agro-transformation. He/she is required in
jobs where agronomy, a complex and diversified whole, gets in contact with other domains (environment, nature
protection, industry, urbanity, financing and economics, etc). His/her general knowledge, qualities, abilities and
personal style, together with his/her end-of-study work and other personal works make up conclusive helps to enter
into professional life successfully or start further training in agronomy or any related field.
Schedule of second bio-engineer courses (= Master 1)
Schedule of third bio-engineer courses (= Master 2)
ATRO Orientation: Tropical Agronomy
Description
As the name indicates, this curriculum aims to train bio-engineers specialized in agricultural production in tropical
and similar areas. The objective is to become acquainted with the different aspects of agriculture and breeding in
these regions having a very particular climate. This specialty is multidisciplinary in the sense that it includes subjects
such as plant and animal sciences, ecology, biodiversity, economics and engineering and aims at the direct
implementation of these sciences in tropical regions. Bio-engineers in tropical agronomy are therefore initiated
into local socio-economic realities and the way they come within the world framework.
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Biotechnologies and Plant Improvement
Biological Diversity
Fundamentals in Crop Protection
Fundamentals in Plant Productions
Phytotechnology and Agroforestry
Phytotechnology and Tropical Pedology
Animal Productions
Tropical Zootechnics
Teaching Objectives
After having assimilated basic knowledge in agronomy, the student follows a curriculum common to several
specialtys. The subjects deal with plant and animal productions, biodiversity and biotechnologies in a very large
ecological context. The classes more specific to tropical agronomy concern the fields of phytotechnology,
agroforestry, zootechnics, pedology, economics and development and give a great importance to links between the
different subjects. Case studies and supervised work illustrate the teaching activities devoted to tropical areas. The
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interdisciplinary project and the end-of-study work enable to target at topics related to a developing agriculture:
food safety, agricultural diversification, adapted technologies, breeding-agriculture integration, etc. The curriculum
leads to a versatile training based on a global comprehension of the world s changing agriculture and on a systemic
analysis of the potentialities of southern agricultural systems.
The intertropical regions obviously offer jobs for the agronomists who choose to work there. For many employers
the tropical bio-engineer s degree guarantees his will to work overseas and favours his taking on.
The internationalization of exchanges entails that contacts between our countries and the tropical regions will
certainly not decrease. Many public or private enterprises directly intervening in the South need experts to advise
on and manage their activities overseas.
The careers tropical agronomists can embark on are very diversified: rural development project manager or leader,
researcher in national or international agricultural research institutions, consultant or executive in research
departments, agricultural firms or NGOs, teacher, popularizer, etc. Several national or international cooperation
institutions are looking for bio-engineers conciliating a versatile training in tropical agronomy, a general knowledge
of rural development and field work abilities in contact with farmers.
The idea people sometimes have that the tropical agronomist who comes back to his country of origin will decrease
his chances to be reintegrated is groundless: for many employers a career overseas implying large responsibilities
proves his adaptability.
The large number of previous Gembloux students working in Belgium, Europe, the USA, Latin America, Asia and
Africa proves that the jobs occupied by tropical bio-engineers are varied: official representative of Belgian
cooperation development, agricultural embassy attachés, junior and senior experts in UN institutions (FAO, World
Bank, UNDP), research-development specialists in research departments and agrarian companies, teachers or
animators in agronomy schools or national agricultural institutions, researchers in universities or international
agricultural institutions, consultants or experts in private companies covering the whole agricultural path (animal
and plant productions, food-processing valorization, agricultural inputs, etc). To conclude, the functions fulfilled
by bio-engineers specialized in tropical agronomy cover all agricultural disciplines, with a particular accent on
developing countries problems.
EDEV Orientation: Economics and Development
Description
The economic stakes in agronomy are significantly important and complex. The agro-economist is a specialist. His
agricultural knowledge is enlarged by further subjects, which may first look like being non-related to the earth:
social sciences, politics, development, law, macro- and microeconomics, international trade, etc. This wide range
of abilities makes of him a key figure in the food-processing sector, be it at a public or private, local, regional or
international, political or operational level, in production, processing or trade.
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Law and Economics
Quantitative Economics
Animal Productions
Tropical Animal Productions
Plant Productions
Teaching Objectives
The relevance of subjects and the adopted pedagogical methods should make it possible to meet the new expectations
of our ever changing society, notably students and graduates' mobility.
To be able to succeed in a world in which selection criteria are becoming stricter and stricter, more and more modern
instruments and analysis tools should be used in economics. As important is one s (oral or written) communication
skills, which can be further developed in seminars each time the stuff enables it or by foreign language practice.
Economics is a discipline of synthesis. The agro-economist will have to analyse the economic relevance of new
broader, more varied and better intergrated systems .
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The agro-economists training enables them to occupy almost all jobs reserved to non-specialized agronomists.
They are even more appreciated if problems of rentability, organization, assessment, financial analysis, etc. are to
be solved, further to technical problematics.
The jobs available to them in developing or developed countries, in the private or public sector, concern all aspects
of human activity: administration, production, teaching, research, distribution, supervision, planification, management,
etc.
The employers are:
– International institutions: the European Economic Community, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development, the United Nations Development Programme, etc.;
– National, regional and provincial administrations: the Belgian Technical Cooperation, the Ministry of Agriculture
of the Walloon Region (agriculture, natural resources and environment, land planning, etc.), parastatal and
pararegional services, provincial agricultural services, etc.;
– Agro-supplying companies (fertilizers, seeds, phytos, etc.)
– Societies marketing agro-products, inputs and processed products;
– Banks
– University or non-university institutions;
– Research departments;
– Agricultural research institutions;
– Professional and interprofessional associations;
– Agricultural production companies (cooperatives, multinationals,etc.);
– Non-profit making development associations;
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Brokerage Manager of agricultural products (Arvensia)
Head of Department at the European Communities Commission
Product manager at Pype (beet and chicory seeds)
Manager of a micro-credit project in Bangladesh
EU Delegation attaché in Tunis
Attaché to the Economic Analysis Directorate of the General Directorate for Agriculture of the Walloon Region
Engineer at the Walloon Agricultural Federation
Engineer at the Belgian Intervention and Restitution Agency
Head of Documentary Credits Department at the CBC-Bank
Agricultural engineer at the agricultural services of the province of Liège
Project engineer for the implementation of an agricultural accountancy network in Vietnam
Buying Official for the group Carrefour
Manager of a regional water distribution company
Advisor to the Federal Minister of Agriculture
PROV Orientation: Plant Protection
Description
Plant preventive medicine is the business of bio-engineers specialized in plant protection: a crucial role for world
food safety! Indeed plants are permanently assailed with bio-aggressors: viruses, pathogenic microorganisms,
self-propagating insects and plants (weed). In spite of the many efforts to fight against bio-aggressors, they are
largely responsible for most losses on the whole food chain.
A confirmed biologist he situates at the very heart of plant-environment interactions. This plant doctor plays an
essential role in the implementation of sustainable production systems. In a pragmatic analysis procedure, plant
protection enables to identify the biological, phytotechnical and socioeconomic components of problems closely
related to species survival.
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Applied Plant Physiology and Horticulture
Applied Phytopharmacology
Specialized Plant Protection
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The minimal teaching in crop protection is based on a good knowledge of the fundamentals in:
the various plant production systems (temperate, horticultural or tropical) phytotechnologies;
the various crop protection disciplines (phytopathology, applied zoology, malherbology, phytopharmacology).
These courses will introduce students into the biology of the different groups of bio-aggressors responsible for
losses in crops as well as into the concepts underlying the developing of various fighting strategies. At the end of
these classes, students should have a synthetic comprehension of the specific biology and ecology of those groups
of bio-aggressors and their interactions with plants and the (biotic and abiotic) environment.
These subjects are being taught during the second year and are to be followed in the third year by one trimester of
more specific courses including:
a module for intergrated control as well as for animal bio-aggressors. This teaching will consist of case studies
presenting the parameters to be taken into account in a decision-making process related to crop protection (developing
students' global approach through a cross-disciplinary approach, linking technical parameters with socio-economic
production systems characteristics, etc.);
courses offering the possibility of practical work, developing students' critical mind about the potentialities and
limits of different techniques, obliging them to analyse detailed facts and figures and draw conclusions or perspectives
from them (becoming acquainted with the constraints related with the manipulation of biological material, writing
reports, group discussions, etc..
The fundamentals taught in the second year together with the specialty courses in the third year make it possible
to take part in Socrates exchanges in French institutions organizing the DAA (Diplôme d agronomie approfondie:
Complementary Agronomy Degree) in crop protection.
Graduates from the plant protection orientation principally work in technical and university education, public
administrations (Belgian, European or international), private companies, international institutions and practitioners.
The jobs deal with research, development of antiparasitic products, trade, teaching, administrative work or service
and control laboratories.
HORT Orientation: Horticulture
Description
Horticultural sciences are a blend of several disciplines and apply to all procedure levels, from the production to
the marketing of horticultural products. Seeing the broad variety of possible exploitations, horticulture appeals to
specific technologies: fruit, vegetables, medicinal, ornamental or condimental plants, tree nurseries, etc. Here more
than elsewhere, practical teaching will guide students through the wide range of present economic and environmental
techniques. The results of scientific research are largely illustrated by implementations in crop situations.
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Horticulture
Crop Protection
Teaching Objectives
The objective is to develop students' expertise in the field of horticulture as a sector of economic activities in order
to understand and manage its local or international evolution. The training is based on the analysis of the sector in
terms of procedures: from basic scientific research to product distribution.
The main aspects to be dealt with are:
– the acquisition of scientific basics (in plant, systematic and genetic physiology, in crop protection), of production
technologies aids and post-crop performances;
– a good knowledge of horticultural phytotechnics centred on climatic, environmental and commercial constraints;
– the analysis of specific objectives and improvement methods;
– the knowledge/use of tools and equipments;
– the study of the characteristics of the market.
The different aspects are developed throughout theoretical teaching, practical work, seminars and exploitation
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The graduates from the horticulture specialty have access to the many jobs associated with the wide range of
activities in the horticultural sector, in Belgium or abroad, in private (from very small to small businesses) or public
companies.
Examples of jobs occupied by bio-engineers specialized in Horticulture :
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NGO cooperator
Manager (production or marketing company)
Secondary or higher education (technical or general)
Manager of botanical (Montpellier s Botanical Garden) or horticultural collections (private sector)
Researcher at the FRIA, FNRS, RW or CRA
Consulting engineer (Walloon Region Administration, multinationals production sector)
Buying Official (Central buying offices like Biomarché, Delhaize);
BIOV Orientation: Biotechnologies of Plant Productions
Description
Plants' life is apart: they feed themselves, live on their own, look after themselves and protect themselves; they
purify soils, waters and the air; they feed us and supply us with biofuels, biodegradable polymers, etc, and so
improve our quality of life. Biotechnologies science aims to improve the characteristics of plants and exploit them
for wider and wider applications in relation with human life. Students will become acquainted with older techniques
like fermentation procedures, as well as with newer ones like breeding plants by cellular cultures, diagnosing plant
diseases or even modifying plants genetics by transferring isolated genes. In this specialty the bio-engineer will
have to include every innovation within a productive, ecological, economic and human context to be mastered.
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Economics
Genetics and Bioinformatics
Plant Productions
Teaching Objectives
This specialty will develop basic knowledge in plant genetic resources, plant breeding and improvement methods,
phytotechnics situated in their ecological, technical and human contexts, and finally in biotechnologies understood
as technoscientific procedures exploiting human beings' characteristics for production purposes.
The competences to be learned aim to exploit the properties of plant systems and their constituents for food and
industry production purposes, which should be mastered qualitatively and quantitatively within the diversified
ecological and socio-economic contexts.
As for all bio-engineers, autonomy, creativity, team work and communication skills are essential cross-disciplinary
aptitudes for the professional valorization of learning and know-how. These skills should be developed through
varied educational methods like personal or group work, seminars, visits, practice and the end-of-study work.
This orientation being new, it is impossible to give recent professional examples. However the career prospects
concern private companies - large or small businesses in Belgium or abroad - that are active in the field of
agrochemistry, seeds and agrobiotechnologies reinforcing the links: BayerCropScience, Syngenta Seeds, Monsanto,
Advanta-SES, CropDesign, Cosucra and Chicoline of the Warcoing Group, Bioplant In Vitro, Oprins Plant,
Kitozyme, Genencor International, Biogemma and Bioplante in France, etc. The bio-engineers specialized in
biotechnologies and plant productions are to invest the R&D and technico-commercial sector.
At the R&D level, bio-engineers will be faced with the legal constraints on the assessment of innovating agricultural
and food products, possibly issued from modern biotechnologies, as well as with questions about intellectual
property, information or communication. Therefore, bio-engineers' general training (in law, sociology, economics,
etc.) will be valorized, further to their more specific technical competences.
Moreover, administrations, ministries, institutions, services and public laboratories constitute many further career
prospects for bio-engineers specialized in biotechnologies and plant productions, be it in Belgium or in Europe.
Here are some examples: Administration and Agricultural Research Centre of the Walloon Ministry of Agriculture
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and Rurality, Biosecurity and biotechnology service at the Scientific Institute of Public Health Louis Pasteur,
Belgian Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain, European Food Safety Agency (EFSA), etc.
SPRA Orientation: Animal Sciences and Productions
Description
Everybody knows that the breeding and animal-based food-processing paths are sensitive; a rigorous scientific
approach is needed. This is the direction this specialty goes toward. The bio-engineer in animal sciences and
productions will become an expert in physiology, nutrition, immunology, biochemistry and genetics. Some knowledge
in zootechnics and economics will help him manage production systems. The supervision and control of food
products will have no secrets for him thanks to his knowledge of food-processing technologies. This curriculum
is not limited to our temperate regions, but extends to breeding in tropical areas as well.
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Economics and Rural Law
Enterprise Management and Engineering
Pathology, Hygiene and Animal Well-being
Agricultural and Pastoral Productions
Animal Sciences and Productions
Laboratory Techniques
Teaching Objectives
The educational methods developed in the specialty Animal Sciences and Productions aim to train bio-engineers
of a high scientific and technical level, who are able to put a lot into research or biotechnologies, to manage animal
or production paths, to finalize new techniques and to devise production systems in temperate and warmer regions.
The general agricultural curriculum, mainly taught in the first year, is followed by further basics in animal sciences
or related fields (animal feeding, biochemistry and animal physiologies, agricultural and pastoral productions,
genetics and animal improvement, animal products processing, animal well-being and pathologies, etc). These
basics, together with a further training in enterprise management and economics, facilitate the study of paths and
production systems around the world and also lead to a further training in animal biotechnologies.
This curriculum is based on the acquisition of basic knowledge, the mastery of conception and management
techniques, the acquisition of laboratory tools and techniques as well as on the study of animal productions paths.
The teaching will be divided in theoretical courses, seminars, practical and lab work as well as field visits (agricultural
enterprises or industries up- or downstream of productions, research stations, service or supervision of the rural
world institutions, etc). The interdisciplinary project and the end-of-study work also help students to professionalize
the teaching.
In Belgium:
Public sector: secondary and higher education, assistants, doctoral students or researchers at universities or research
institutions, project managers, administrations, etc.
Public sector: embassy attaché, head of agricultural department (DGDC, EU), agricultural accountancy service
(Centrale paysanne luxembourgeoise), research-development or cooperator (DGCD, APEFE, FAO,EU,
CIRAD-IEMVT, NGO, etc.), teacher (DGCD, APEFE, etc.), etc.
Abroad:
Embassy attaché, head of agricultural department (DGDC, EU), agricultural accountancy service (Centrale paysanne
luxembourgeoise), research-development or cooperator (DGCD, APEFE, FAO,EU, CIRAD-IEMVT, NGO, etc.),
teacher (DGCD, APEFE, etc.), etc.
Private sector: market manager, hygiene in agriculture, food engineering, ranch or project manager, expert in a
research department or private firm, etc.
EFOR Orientation: Nature and Forestry
Description
The time of the Epinal picture and forest wardens is far behind us. Understanding how forest ecosystems, natural
and semi-natural milieux work in a sustainable perspective is the nature and forestry bio-engineer s job. This
multifunctional curriculum is very diversified and mainly oriented toward concrete applications like biology and
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ecology, temperate sylviculture, tropical forestry, agroforestry, economics and sociology, engineering techniques,
natural renewable resources, hunting, fishing, wood industry, rural, forest and environmental legislation, etc.
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Economics and Forest Legislation
Forestry and Tropical Ecology
Enterprise Management
Natural Resources Management
Sustainable Ecosystems Management
Integrated Forest Control
Sylviculture and Forest Planning
Engineering Techniques
Wood Management and Chains
Wood Management and Products
Teaching Objectives
Within a university centred on agricultural sciences in the broad sense, the forestry orientation should take into
account the fact that numerous forestry faculties exist around the world (faculties in Forestry or in Environmental
Sciences) and situate themselves in a large progressiveness perspective, particularly starting from basic subjects
common to life sciences .
From the first year, 20 percent of the training focuses on the most diversified possible approach of forests.
Multi-disciplinarity makes sense while associating the following disciplines: sylviculture, forest ecology, natural
milieux management, wood sciences and aquatic world study. In the second year, this percentage reaches 50
throughout the whole curriculum. More courses are centred on engineering techniques and the application of basic
subjects to forest-related problems (ecology, biology, statistics, informatics, etc). Thus field applications and
multidisciplinary activities are being developed mainly. During the first half of the third year, the forest-specific
training makes up a total of more than 80 percent. The subjects aim to increase students professional autonomy
and creativity by encouraging personal synthesis work and case studies ( forestry projects ) and reinforcing
communication skills. The second half of the third year is entirely devoted to the end-of-study work.
Generally speaking, the forest-specific training is divided up as follows:
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Plant and animal productions: 21%
Milieux sciences: 17%
Engineering techniques: 20%
Industrial processing of natural products: 12%
Economics, sociology: 10%
The competences of bio-engineers specialized in nature and forestry are being appreciated by private and public
institutions, in Belgium or abroad, in temperate or tropical regions, and this in the fields of scientific research,
forest and natural spaces management, including aquatic environments and wildlife, scientific popularization,
education, wood industry, expertise, environmental consultancy, applied informatics development, planning projects
and of forest resources valorization in developing countries.
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Manager of natural parks in Wallonia or Africa (Burkina Faso, Senegal, etc.);
Manager of private forest or agro-forest domains;
Teacher at university, higher education or secondary school;
Government official within Ministries of the Walloon Region or at the European Communities Commission;
Expert in non-profit-making associations or non-governmental organizations;
Ecoconsultant in several municipalities;
Consultant for international organisms (FAO, World Bank, European Union, various cooperations);
Research consultant;
Manager of forestry concerns (Wallonia or Africa);
Engineer in the wood industry;
Manager of fish-breeding projects;
Expert in several development projects in Africa, Asia, America and Oceania.
GEAT Orientation: Environmental Management and Land Planning
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This option is of general-interest on the one hand, but deals more specifically with the effect of human activities
on the environment on the other hand. The jobs available to bio-engineers in environmental management and land
planning concern the public sector as well as industry or agriculture. He/she is an expert in biodiversity, natural
resources functioning and society s expectations. Land planning being a major stake of societal development, he/she
should be very skilled at projecting situations in the geographic space ( spatial diagnosis ). This curriculum should
enable the future bio-engineer to make a scientific assessment of the interactions between environment components
in order to conceive the world of tomorrow.
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Land Planning
Ecology
Management of Natural Environments
Environmental Management
Territorial Analysis Tools
Water Sciences
Soil Sciences
Social Sciences
Teaching Objectives
The professional profile aimed at is a non-specialized diagnosis and planning engineer, who is able to tackle concrete
problems of society in relation with sustainable development, environmental respect and space planning in
industrialized or developing countries.
Particular attention is being paid to the systemic and spatial approach, which gives greater importance to relationships
of cause and effect and scale changes.
The interdisciplinary project as well as the land planning seminar and exercises are organized in teams and precisely
aim to stimulate students creativity, critical and participative mind. Each student should learn the integrated
approach of solutions and the good methodology to deal with new and complex situations.
The non-specialized training of the bio-engineer in environmental management and land planning enables him/her
to adapt to a wide range of jobs:
– in public administrations or institutions of research or agricultural management, land planning, environment,
water or waste management; in intermunicipal agencies of economic development or land planning; in municipal
environmental or planning services or in management units of natural parks;
– in research consultancies in agriculture, environment, land planning or town planning, etc.;
– in promotion or animation agencies for environmental management and land planning;
– in private companies dealing with industrial production or environmental management of industries;
– in national and international institutions of integrated management of natural environments and of development
cooperation;
– in secondary or university education.
Schedule of second bio-engineer courses
Schedule of third bio-engineer courses
GERU Orientation: Land Engineering and Environmental Management
Description
This orientation aims at using engineering techniques to serve agriculture and the rural world while preserving the
quality of our environment. Resource management, water-soil-plant relationships, ecosystem exchanges, renewable
energies, physical waste management, environmental assessment, remote sensing and geometronics require strong
engineering capacities (mechanics, material resistance, hydraulics, etc.).
A versatile bio-engineer, you will be able to design and build farming machines, agro-industrial equipment, rural
constructions for various purposes, etc.
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The GERU training focuses on the acquisition of engineering competences linked to agricultural and environmental
activities and to the development of the rural environment. The pedagogical objectives aim at developing:
Outstanding scientific training, including the ability to:
Use basic physical science in relation with a given field (physics, mechanics, hydraulics, hydrology);
Develop models;
Use computers (use of existing software, computer-assisted design, geographical information systems, image
analysis, etc.).
Concept-oriented training (many hours devoted to project development) in order to:
Precisely formulate problems linked to the specific field;
Establish technical specifications;
Consider alternative solutions;
Solve problems and design development projects while taking into account a series of constraints (environmental,
economic, safety, ethical, etc.);
Assess the end project.
Humanities-oriented training, including the management and active knowledge of foreign languages.
Land engineers use their competences in the public as well as the private sector, in Belgium as well as abroad.
Their fields of activity are very varied and range from agro- equipment (production, R&D, technical sales) to water
and waste management (planning, R&D) and to land development.
To illustrate this, we can cite:
– Private companies: Vigan Engineering, Puratos, Asea Brown Boveri, Packo-Agri, Tecna, Aweta (NL), Socfinco,
Dimaco, Geologica, Colgate-Palmolive, SmithKlineBeecham, BIFFA, etc;
– Design houses: SEGES, Agrer, Tractebel, SAFEGE (F), Hydro RD, SHER, Nitrawal, etc.;
– Universities: FUSAGx, ULg, Quebec-Laval, Montreal, etc.;
– Administrations: European Union, Walloon Region (Directorate General of underground and surface water,
Directorate General of technology and research), Brussels Region, etc.;
– Business federations: FEBELCEM;
– Belgian cooperation: DGCD, CTB;
– Research centres: Agricultural research centre, Road research centre, Aquapôle, etc.;
– International Organisations: European Patent Office, European Space Agency, etc.
TCAL Orientation: Food Science and Technology
Description
Food is a top-level science. Safety, traceability, quality, flavour, nutrition, dietetics are terms well known of the
public, but what lies behind them? Disciplines such as microbiological engineering, process engineering, food
science, physical chemistry of food systems are the core constituents of food bio-engineering. It requires knowledge
of ingredients, of their nutritional properties and of their interactions, and of their transforming potential. Down
the line, it involves also the understanding of flux organization and fabrication process optimization through
appropriate technology. Food bio-engineering leads to many jobs in the industrial or artisanal food sector.
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Process engineering
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Microbiology and biology
Practical analytical chemistry
Agro-food science and technology
Food science
Engineering techniques
Bio-industry technology
Teaching Objectives
To integrate scientific knowledge and technological developments to ensure the transformation, the preservation,
and the distribution of foodstuffs, as well as their safety and quality to meet consumers expectations (taste,
healthiness, etc.). To innovate while respecting new regulations and giving the priority to clean technology.
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The training leading to the M.A. in Chemistry and Bio-industry, among which the TCAL orientation, offers numerous
job perspectives in many leading sectors, such as the chemistry and bio-technology field, the food industry, and
the area of environment and energy.
The FEDICHEM, the Belgian Chemical Industry Federation, totals 750 member companies, among which many
small and medium-sized enterprises.
In 2001 the chemical industry turnover represented 24% of the total manufacturing turnover of the country.
Moreover, within the FEDICHEM, BelgoBiotech is a professional division representing the biggest biotechnological
companies of Belgium. These companies are active in the fields of agriculture and food, health, environment, and
bio-industrial processes.
Next to the Agoria technological sector and the chemical area, the FEVIA represents the third industrial sector in
Belgium, the food industry. In 2001 this sector employed 13,7 % of the Belgian industrial labour force while
displaying a turnover of 15,5 %. Besides management, production, and research positions, this industry is increasingly
in need of staff trained for quality - and more specifically food quality - management (hygiene, HACCP systems,
traceability, etc.).
In addition 40 key technologies were defined as priorities for Wallonia by 2010. Our Chemistry and bio-industries
graduates are well trained to work in those fields: bio-informatics, life and agro-food technology (genetic engineering
vaccines, recombining proteins, bio-engineering, technological renewal in the agro-food industry, ), environment
and energy (drinking water treatment and control, biological water treatment and mud processing; waste disposal
technology, new and renewable energies, ).
TEAU Orientation: Water Technology
Description
Blue gold... One of the most precious resources in the world is also one of the most threatened. To become a water
technology bio-engineer, you need to follow a study program that associates chemistry, biology, and engineering.
More specifically, the program includes water analysis techniques, potabilization process, industrial water
management, water treatment technology, ... This option offers many job opportunities, in the public and the private
sector. Indeed, all the sectors where water plays a significant role - chemical, food, bio-pharmaceutical, cosmetics
industries - as well as distributors and administrations employ water technology bio-engineers.
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Water and industries
Process engineering
Management
Perfecting of analytical techniques
Teaching Objectives
To integrate scientific knowledge and technological developments in the field of water chemistry and its industrial
treatment. To handle water management problems, such as water potabilization, water preparation, water treatment,
and waste management.
The training leading to the M.A. in Chemistry and Bio-industry, among which the TEAU orientation, offers
numerous job perspectives in many leading sectors, such as the chemistry and bio-technology field, the food
industry, and the area of environment and energy.
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vaccines, recombining proteins, bio-engineering, "technological renewal" in the agro-food industry, ...), environment
technology, new and renewable energies, ...).
CHIB Orientation: Chemistry and Bio-technology
Description
Biology is in our everyday life: Already in the food and pharmaceutical areas, the discovery, study, analysis, and
control of living substances are essential. The bio-industry is a fast-evolving and booming sector. The CHIB training
programs responds to the needs of this industry, whether they are in the private sector or in the public research
domain. The CHIB option combines the highly challenging sciences and techniques of chemistry, biology and
genes. The subjects studied are molecular chemistry, industrial chemical processes, genetic engineering, production
bio-systems, immuno-biology, bio-informatics, etc. The study program also includes business management and
communication courses, as profitability is as relevant as innovation.
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To acquire the scientific and technological knowledge in the field of biological molecule chemistry and cell
functioning. To be familiar with the biotechnological concepts and tools so as to use them for traditional or innovating
purposes in the sectors of food, health, environment, and bio-industries.
The training leading to the M.A. in Chemistry and Bio-industry, among which the CHIB orientation, offers numerous
job perspectives in many leading sectors, such as the chemistry and bio-technology field, the food industry, and
the area of environment and energy.
vaccines, recombining proteins, bio-engineering, "technological renewal" in the agro-food industry, ...), environment
technology, new and renewable energies, ...).
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Course list by discipline and by study year
Bachelor in bio-engineering, first year
Code Title
AM102 Cellular biology
BV101 Botany
CG101 General chemistry
MA101 General mathematics (first part)
PH101 General physics
ZG101 Zoology
ECTS
2.5
11.5
11.5
11.5
11.5
11.5
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
sept. - june
sept. - june
sept. - june
sept. - june
Time
24 h.
124 h.
124 h.
124 h.
124 h.
124 h.
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
du Jardin P.
Marlier M.
Charles C.
Aubinet M.
Haubruge E.
ECTS
2.5
11.5
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
17
6
1
5
1
2
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - june
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Time
24 h.
124 h.
30 h.
30 h.
30 h.
30 h.
30 h.
30 h.
30 h.
150 h.
98 h.
15 h.
75 h.
15 h.
24 h.
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
du Jardin P.
Furnelle V.
Bouhassoun T.
Lund I.
Trévisiol R.
Gevers V.
De Paepe J.
Bailly V.
Schröder H.
Charles C.
Willems L.
Vertez M.
De Paepe J.
Haubruge E.
ECTS
4
4
4
2
6
5
9
3
3
5
2
5
2
4
2
2
Period
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
Time
48 h.
48 h.
48 h.
24 h.
72 h.
60 h.
108 h.
36 h.
36 h.
60 h.
24 h.
60 h.
24 h.
48 h.
24 h.
24 h.
Lecturer
Renaville R.
du Jardin P.
Lognay G.
Paquot M.
Wathelet J.-P.
Lebailly P.
Lacroix D.
Charles C.
Destain M.-F.
Aubinet M.
Aubinet M.
Palm R.
Claustriaux J.-J.
Depoterre S.
Goisse G.
Vandewattyne
J.
ECTS
3.5
1.5
2
1.5
3.5
2
3.5
1.5
3.5
2
2
3.5
2.5
1.5
Period
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
Time
45 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
45 h.
27 h.
45 h.
18 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
36 h.
27 h.
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
Renaville R.
Feltz C.
Dehon P.
Mahy G.
Rondeux J.
Bock L.
Dautrebande S.
Kettmann R.
Latteur P.
Debouche C.
Baudoin J.-P.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Bachelor in landscape architecture, first year
Code Title
AM102 Cellular biology
BV101 Botany
ZZ104 Concept of nature
ZZ105 Graphic techniques
ZZ109 History of architecture
ZZ110 Landscape composition elements
ZZ111
ZZ112
ZZ113
ZZ114
ZZ115
ZZ116
ZZ117
ZZ118
ZZ120
Descriptive geometry
Art history
Project
Mathematics
Geography, geomorphology
Physics
Applications on descriptive geometry
Entomology
Bachelor in bio-engineering, second year
Code Title
AM101 Comparative animal anatomy and physiology
BV102 Plant physiology
CA101 Qualitative analytical chemistry
CB101 Biological molecules chemistry
CG102 Organic chemistry (first part)
EG101 Political and social economics
LA101 Geosciences
MA102 General mathematics (second part)
ME101 Engineering mechanics
PH102 Electricity
PH103 Environmental physics
SI101 Fundamental statistics
SI102 Introduction to computer science
ZZ101 English language (levels 0 and 1)
ZZ107S Law
ZZ108 Sociology
Agricultural productions 1st year
Code Title
AM201 General microbiology
AM212 Complements of comparative animal anatomy and physiology
AT203 Elements of human and economic geography
DH204 Meterology and agroclimatology
EC201 General ecology
GF206 Forest and forest ecosystem
GP201 Pedology
HA201 Soils physics
KT202 Molecular biology
LT201 Strength of materials and elasticity
MF206 Engine
PC201 Principles of genetics
PT201 Agricultural productions systems
PT202 Fertilizers and soil amendments
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Code Title
RS201 Marketing and consumer market research. part 1
SI201 Applied statistics
SI204 Computer science and algorithmic
SI205 Mathematical methods in decision making
TA202 Techniques of food preparation and preservation
TA207 Agro-food industry
TA209 Refrigeration and drying (part 1)
TA214 Quality management
WB201 Biological chemistry (1st part)
ZT201 Animal production
ZT202 Nutrition and dietetics
ZZ107S Law
ZZ202 English language (level 2)
ECTS
1.5
4
2.5
1.5
2
2
2
1.5
2
2
2
2
3
Period
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - june
Time
18 h.
54 h.
36 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
24 h.
54 h.
Lecturer
Ronsse J.-M.
Claustriaux J.-J.
Claustriaux J.-J.
Palm R.
Deroanne C.
Sindic M.
Béra F.
Sindic M.
Wathelet B.
Théwis A.
Théwis A.
Goisse G.
Duffeler M.-A.
ECTS
3.5
2
1.5
3.5
2
2
2
1.5
3.5
1.5
2
3.5
2
2
2
2
3.5
2.5
4
2.5
2
2
2
2
2
3
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - june
Time
45 h.
27 h.
18 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
45 h.
18 h.
27 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
36 h.
54 h.
36 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
24 h.
54 h.
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
Feltz C.
Dehon P.
Mahy G.
Rondeux J.
Rondeux J.
Claessens H.
Rondeux J.
Bock L.
Dautrebande S.
Dautrebande S.
Kettmann R.
Leclercq A.
Latteur P.
Debouche C.
Debouche C.
Baudoin J.-P.
Falisse A.
Claustriaux J.-J.
Claustriaux J.-J.
Béra F.
Haubruge E.
Théwis A.
Théwis A.
Goisse G.
Duffeler M.-A.
ECTS
3.5
2
1.5
3.5
2
2
3.5
1.5
1.5
2
3.5
2
4
2
2
2
2
3.5
2.5
4
2.5
2
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
Time
45 h.
27 h.
18 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
18 h.
18 h.
27 h.
45 h.
27 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
36 h.
54 h.
36 h.
27 h.
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
Feltz C.
Dehon P.
Mahy G.
Rondeux J.
Claessens H.
Bock L.
Bock L.
Dautrebande S.
Dautrebande S.
Kettmann R.
Latteur P.
Latteur P.
Destain M.-F.
Destain M.-F.
Debouche C.
Debouche C.
Baudoin J.-P.
Falisse A.
Claustriaux J.-J.
Claustriaux J.-J.
Béra F.
Forestry, 1st year
Code Title
GF213 Temperate countries forest species
GF214 General silviculture (part 1)
GP201 Pedology
HA201 Soils physics
HA203 General hydrology
LE201 Wood anatomy and identification
MF203 Surveying
MF206 Engine
ZG204 Limnology
ZZ107S Law
Environment engineering, 1st year
Code Title
GP201 Pedology
GP209 Pedogenesis and soil classification
HA201 Soils physics
HA203 General hydrology
LT202 Construction processes
ME201 Dynamics of systems
ME203 Principles of agricultural machines
MF203 Surveying
MF206 Engine
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Code Title
ZG204 Limnology
ECTS
2
2
2
3
Period
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
Time
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
54 h.
Lecturer
Haubruge E.
Théwis A.
Théwis A.
Duffeler M.-A.
ECTS
3.5
4.5
1.5
1.5
5.5
1.5
2
2
6
3.5
1.5
2
2
3.5
4
2.5
2
2
2
2
2
3
Period
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
Time
45 h.
54 h.
18 h.
18 h.
72 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
81 h.
45 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
54 h.
36 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
54 h.
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
Thonart P.
Thonart P.
Brasseur R.
Lognay G.
Lognay G.
Paquot M.
Paquot M.
Marlier M.
Kettmann R.
Kettmann R.
Latteur P.
Debouche C.
Baudoin J.-P.
Claustriaux J.-J.
Claustriaux J.-J.
Deroanne C.
Béra F.
Béra F.
Wathelet B.
Théwis A.
Duffeler M.-A.
ECTS
1.5
0.5
2
1.5
2
2
2
2
2
2
1.5
1.5
2
2.5
2
2
2
3.5
1.5
1.5
2
2
2.5
3.5
2
Period
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
Time
18 h.
9 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
27 h.
36 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
18 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
36 h.
45 h.
27 h.
Lecturer
Bodson B.
Bodson B.
du Jardin P.
Schiffers B.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Gengler N.
Bodson M.
Destain M.-F.
Mergeai G.
Mergeai G.
Baudoin J.-P.
Baudoin J.-P.
Lepoivre P.
Lepoivre P.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Xanthoulis D.
Haubruge E.
Buldgen A.
Théwis A.
Théwis A.
2
2
feb. - june
feb. - june
2
2
2.5
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
18 h. Burny P.
18 h. Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
27 h. Promoteur(s) .
Chemistry, 1st year
Code Title
BI203 Food and agro-food engineering
BI204 Purification and concentration techniques
BR201 Theory of the molecular structure-function relations
CA203 Fundamentals of quantitative analytical chemistry (part: 2)
CB202 Biological chemistry (second part)
CB204 Biological chemistry (3e part)
CG204 Theoretical and physical chemistry
KT203 Applied molecular biology
MF206 Engine
TA202 Techniques of food preparation and preservation
WB201 Biological chemistry (1st part)
General agronomy, 2nd year
Code Title
BO203 Practical aspects of agriculture in temperate regions (1st part)
BO204 Practical aspects of agriculture in temperate regions (2nd part)
BV203 Plant genetics
CA211 Pesticide science bases
EG204 Management
EG206 Food Policy and Strategy
EG210 General accounting and balance sheet analysis
GN202 Animal breeding
HG206 Principles of horticultural science
MR201 Basis of tropical agriculture (first part)
MR202 Basis of tropical agriculture (second part)
PC206 General plant breeding
PC212 General tropical crop husbandry
PP201 Introduction to plant pathology
PP206 In vitro culture of plant tissues
PT210 Weed science and control
PT220 Fundamentals of agriculture in temperate regions
PT221 Crop production in temperate regions (first part)
PT222 Crop production in temperate regions (second part)
XA201 Irrigation
ZG202 Applied zoology
ZT209 Feedstuffs
ZT210 Animal production in temperate regions
ZT212 Animal production in temperate countries: simple stomach
animals and poultry
ZZ222 Agricultural policy
ZZ226 Group dynamic training
ZZ227
ZZ228
ZZ230
General training in communication
Social relationships within the enterprise
Interdisciplinary project (1st part)
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Tropical agronomy, 2nd year
Code Title
EC209 Biodiversity assesment and management
EG204 Management
FT201 Tree species of tropical and subtropical regions
FT204 Tropical agroforestry
GP209 Pedogenesis and soil classification
PC207 Plant genetic resources
XA201 Irrigation
ZT209 Feedstuffs
ZT220 Agro-pastoralism and forage productions (part 1)
ZZ211 Economics of developing countries
ZZ227
ZZ228
ZZ230
ECTS
2
1.5
3.5
2
2
2
2
2
1.5
2
1.5
1.5
2
2
2.5
2
2
2
3.5
1.5
2
2
2.5
2
2
2
2
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
Time
27 h.
18 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
36 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
36 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
2
2
2.5
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Lecturer
du Jardin P.
Schiffers B.
Mahy G.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Doucet J.-L.
Doucet J.-L.
Bock L.
Bodson M.
Mergeai G.
Mergeai G.
Baudoin J.-P.
Baudoin J.-P.
Baudoin J.-P.
Lepoivre P.
Lepoivre P.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Xanthoulis D.
Haubruge E.
Buldgen A.
Buldgen A.
Buldgen A.
Michel B.
Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
ECTS
1.5
2
2
2
2
0.5
1.5
1.5
1.5
2
2
2
1.5
2
2
1.5
2
1.5
1.5
3.5
2.5
3.5
2
Period
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
Time
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
9 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
54 h.
36 h.
45 h.
27 h.
2
2
1.5
2
2
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
2
2
feb. - june
feb. - june
Animal science and livestock production, 2nd year
Code Title
AM204 Food hygiene
AM207 Immunology, immunochemistry
AM208 Microbial biochemistry and physiology
AM220 Biochemistry of the metabolisms in the domestic animals
AM221 Physiology of the domestic animals
BO204 Practical aspects of agriculture in temperate regions (2nd part)
CA207 Applications of analytical chemistry
DH205 Livestock buildings and environment
EG204 Management
EG207 Food and agro-industrial Chain Economy
EG211 Complementary course of accounting
GN201 Quantitative genetics
GN202 Animal breeding
KT203 Applied molecular biology
ZT204 Animal nutrition and feeding
ZT209 Feedstuffs
ZT212 Animal production in temperate countries: simple stomach
animals and poultry
ZZ215 Rural law
ZZ224 Agricultural economics
ZZ227
ZZ228
Lecturer
Culot M.
Portetelle D.
Portetelle D.
Renaville R.
Renaville R.
Bodson B.
Lognay G.
Lognay G.
Dehon P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Gengler N.
Gengler N.
Kettmann R.
Destain M.-F.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Beckers Y.
Buldgen A.
Théwis A.
Théwis A.
Buldgen A.
Buldgen A.
Goisse G.
Burny P.
Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
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Code Title
ZZ230 Interdisciplinary project (1st part)
ECTS Period
2.5
feb. - june
Time Lecturer
ECTS
1.5
2
2
2
2
3.5
2
2
4.5
4.5
2
4.5
2.5
1.5
1.5
3.5
2
2
2
2
2
2
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
Time
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
54 h.
54 h.
27 h.
63 h.
36 h.
18 h.
18 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
2
2
2.5
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Lecturer
Schiffers B.
Mahy G.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Doucet J.-L.
Doucet J.-L.
Doucet J.-L.
Doucet J.-L.
Rondeux J.
Rondeux J.
Lejeune P.
Rondeux J.
Claessens H.
Bock L.
Dautrebande S.
Hébert J.
Hébert J.
Hébert J.
Lepoivre P.
Haubruge E.
Haubruge E.
Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
ECTS
2
1.5
2.5
2
1.5
1.5
3.5
2
2
2
1.5
2
1.5
Period
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Time
27 h.
18 h.
36 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
2
1.5
1.5
1.5
2
2
2
2
2
2
3.5
2
2
2
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
2
2
2.5
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Nature and forest management, 2nd year
Code Title
EC202 Plant geography and phytosociology
EG204 Management
FT201 Tree species of tropical and subtropical regions
FT202 Tropical moist forests management
FT203 Forestry of dry tropical regions
FT206 Genetic improvement of forest trees
GF201 Forest mensuration and forest inventory
GF204 Forest management
GF212 Geomatic
GF216 Applied silviculture
GF218 Site diagnosis
GP204 Pedology of forest environment
HA210 Photointerpretation and remote sensing
HE201 Wood science
HE202 Wood industries
HE204 Forest products sector
ZG205 Aquaculture
ZZ227
ZZ228
ZZ230
Horticulture, 2nd year
Code Title
BV201 Plant ecophysiology
EG204 Management
HG205 Horticulture production systems
HG220 Managing tree growth and development: principles of
arboriculture
HG221 Physiology of plant reproduction and propagation
HG222 Post harverst physiology
PH204 Exchange Models in biosystems
XA201 Irrigation
ZZ227
ZZ228
ZZ230
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
Bodson B.
du Jardin P.
du Jardin P.
Lognay G.
Schiffers B.
Mahy G.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
Mergeai G.
Mergeai G.
Baudoin J.-P.
Baudoin J.-P.
Aubinet M.
Lepoivre P.
Lepoivre P.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Xanthoulis D.
Haubruge E.
Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
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Plant protection, 2nd year
Code Title
EG204 Management
arboriculture
XA201 Irrigation
ZZ227
ZZ228
ZZ230
ECTS
2
1.5
2.5
2
1.5
1.5
3.5
2
2
2
1.5
2
1.5
Period
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Time
27 h.
18 h.
36 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
Bodson B.
du Jardin P.
du Jardin P.
Lognay G.
Schiffers B.
Mahy G.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
2
1.5
1.5
1.5
2
2
2
2
2
2
3.5
2
2
2
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
2
2
2.5
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
Mergeai G.
Mergeai G.
Baudoin J.-P.
Baudoin J.-P.
Aubinet M.
Lepoivre P.
Lepoivre P.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Xanthoulis D.
Haubruge E.
Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
ECTS
1.5
2
2
2
2
1.5
1.5
1.5
1.5
1.5
5.5
2
2.5
2.5
2
2.5
2
2.5
2
2
2
1.5
3.5
2
2
Period
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
Time
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
63 h.
27 h.
36 h.
36 h.
27 h.
36 h.
27 h.
36 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
45 h.
27 h.
18 h.
2
2
2.5
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Agricultural and environmental engineering, 2nd year
Code Title
DH201 Agricultural engineering constructions (1st part)
DH202 Agricultural engineering constructions (2nd part)
EG204 Management
GF212 Geomatic
HA207 Drainage
HA211 Soil and water conservation
HA220 Sediment transport in the rivers
HA221 Groundwater hydrodynamics
LT203 Theory of structural calculations
ME207 Kinematics and dynamics of machines
ME208 Mechanical engineering design
ME209 Computer aided design
ME211 Metrology
MF201 Fluid mechanics
MF202 Open channel hydraulics
MF204 Surveying (complement)
MF207 Hydraulic pump and network
PH205 Digital electronics (first part)
VE201 Applied soil mechanics
VE203 Earth structures and roads
XA201 Irrigation
ZZ227
ZZ228
ZZ230
Lecturer
Dehon P.
Dehon P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Lejeune P.
Dautrebande S.
Dautrebande S.
Dautrebande S.
Dautrebande S.
Dautrebande S.
Latteur P.
Destain M.-F.
Destain M.-F.
Destain M.-F.
Destain M.-F.
Debouche C.
Debouche C.
Debouche C.
Debouche C.
Aubinet M.
Aubinet M.
Verbrugge J.-C.
Verbrugge J.-C.
Xanthoulis D.
Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
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Economics and development, 2nd year
Code Title
EG204 Management
EG205 International economics
EG211 Complementary course of accounting
RS202 Marketing and consumer market research (part 2)
SI202 Elements of multivariate statistical methods
SI203 Statistical methods for economics
ZT209 Feedstuffs
ZZ204 General and rural sociology
ZZ220 Operations research for economics
ZZ225 Economic models
ZZ227
ZZ228
ZZ230
ECTS
2
2.5
2
2
1.5
2
1.5
1.5
2.5
3.5
1.5
1.5
3
1.5
2.5
2.5
3.5
2
2
2
2.5
2
4
2
Period
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Time
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
36 h.
45 h.
18 h.
18 h.
36 h.
18 h.
27 h.
36 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
45 h.
18 h.
2
2
2.5
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Lecturer
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Bodson M.
Mergeai G.
Mergeai G.
Baudoin J.-P.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Ronsse J.-M.
Palm R.
Palm R.
Buldgen A.
Théwis A.
Buldgen A.
Buldgen A.
Bodson D.
Godart J.-M.
Burny P.
Godart J.-M.
Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
ECTS
4
2
2
3.5
1.5
0.5
2
2
2
2
2
1.5
1.5
2.5
4.5
1.5
1.5
1.5
1.5
2
2
2
2.5
1.5
2
2
Period
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
Time
54 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
18 h.
9 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
36 h.
63 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
2
2
2.5
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Environment and land management, 2nd year
Code Title
AT207 Concepts and method of town and country planning
AT208 Economic geography elements
EC202 Plant geography and phytosociology
EC206 Applied ecology in regional development
EM201 Microbial ecology: water microbiology
EM202 Microbial ecology: soil microbiology
EM203 Basic principles of wastewater
GF212 Geomatic
GP202 Geomorphopedological identification
GP206 Applied regional pedology
GP210 Soil quality evaluation and management
HA211 Soil and water conservation
MN204 Hydrogeology and ground water management
MN210 Soil components and the environment
PT202 Fertilizers and soil amendments
SI202 Elements of multivariate statistical methods
VE201 Applied soil mechanics
XA201 Irrigation
ZZ204 General and rural sociology
ZZ212 Projects management
ZZ215 Rural law
ZZ227
ZZ228
ZZ230
Lecturer
Feltz C.
Feltz C.
Mahy G.
Mahy G.
Culot M.
Culot M.
Culot M.
Lejeune P.
Bock L.
Bock L.
Bock L.
Dautrebande S.
Dautrebande S.
Marcoen J.-M.
Marcoen J.-M.
Mergeai G.
Falisse A.
Palm R.
Verbrugge J.-C.
Xanthoulis D.
Buldgen A.
Bodson D.
Michel B.
Goisse G.
Burny P.
Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
Crop science, 2nd Year (common core)
Code Title
ECTS Period
2
feb. - june
Time Lecturer
27 h. Portetelle D.
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Code Title
EG204 Management
arboriculture
XA201 Irrigation
ZZ227
ZZ228
ZZ230
ECTS
1.5
2.5
2
1.5
1.5
3.5
2
2
2
1.5
2
1.5
Period
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Time
18 h.
36 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
Lecturer
Bodson B.
du Jardin P.
du Jardin P.
Lognay G.
Schiffers B.
Mahy G.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
2
1.5
1.5
1.5
2
2
2
2
2
2
3.5
2
2
2
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
2
2
2.5
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
Mergeai G.
Mergeai G.
Baudoin J.-P.
Baudoin J.-P.
Aubinet M.
Lepoivre P.
Lepoivre P.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Xanthoulis D.
Haubruge E.
Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Time
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
90 h.
18 h.
54 h.
27 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
36 h.
27 h.
63 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
Food science and technology, 2nd year
Code Title
ECTS
AM202 Microbial genetics and genetic engineering of microorganisms 2
AM204 Food hygiene
1.5
2
2
BE201 Agro-food engineering (part 2)
2
BI201 Fermentation and extraction factories (1st part)
3.5
CA204 Instrumental analysis ( electrochemistry and spectrometry)
5.5
1.5
CB203 Industrial chemical processes engineering
4.5
2
CG203 Organic chemistry (part 2)
3.5
EG204 Management
2
2
2
KT201 Genetic engineering
1.5
LO201 Applied organic chemistry
2
2.5
2
TA204 Food technology (part one)
5
TA212 Physico-chemistry of formulations
1.5
TA213 Agro-food engineering
1.5
1.5
2
ZZ227
ZZ228
ZZ230
2
2
2.5
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
Culot M.
Portetelle D.
Portetelle D.
Béra F.
Thonart P.
Lognay G.
Schiffers B.
Paquot M.
Paquot M.
Wathelet J.-P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Culot M.
Kettmann R.
Lognay G.
Debouche C.
Aubinet M.
Sindic M.
Sindic M.
Béra F.
Sindic M.
Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
Time
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
Water technology, 2nd year
Code Title
ECTS
AM204 Food hygiene
1.5
2
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Lecturer
Portetelle D.
Culot M.
Portetelle D.
Course Catalogue
Code Title
EG204 Management
EM201 Microbial ecology: water microbiology
ZZ227
ZZ228
ZZ230
ECTS
2
2
3.5
5.5
1.5
4.5
2
3.5
2
2
1.5
2
1.5
2
2.5
2
5
1.5
1.5
1.5
2
Period
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Time
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
90 h.
18 h.
54 h.
27 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
36 h.
27 h.
63 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
2
2
2.5
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
Béra F.
Thonart P.
Lognay G.
Schiffers B.
Paquot M.
Paquot M.
Wathelet J.-P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Culot M.
Culot M.
Kettmann R.
Lognay G.
Debouche C.
Aubinet M.
Sindic M.
Sindic M.
Béra F.
Sindic M.
Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
sept. - june
sept. - jan.
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
Time
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
90 h.
18 h.
54 h.
27 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
36 h.
27 h.
63 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
Chemistry and technology, 2nd year (common core)
Code Title
ECTS
AM204 Food hygiene
1.5
2
2
2
3.5
5.5
1.5
4.5
2
3.5
EG204 Management
2
2
2
1.5
2
2.5
2
5
1.5
1.5
1.5
2
ZZ227
ZZ228
ZZ230
2
2
2.5
feb. - june
feb. - june
feb. - june
ECTS
2
2
4
29
2
2.5
1.5
2.5
2
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
Culot M.
Portetelle D.
Portetelle D.
Béra F.
Thonart P.
Lognay G.
Schiffers B.
Paquot M.
Paquot M.
Wathelet J.-P.
Lebailly P.
Lebailly P.
Culot M.
Kettmann R.
Lognay G.
Debouche C.
Aubinet M.
Sindic M.
Sindic M.
Béra F.
Sindic M.
Vandewattyne
J.
18 h. Massart Y.-E.
18 h. Dehon P.
General agronomy, 3rd year
Code Title
PT206
PT214
TFE
ZZ211
ZZ212
ZZ215
ZZ223
ZZ224
Integrated agriculture
Final dissertation
Economics of developing countries
Projects management
Rural law
Environmental economy
Agricultural economics
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
Time
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
0 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
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Lecturer
Lebailly P.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Promoteur(s) .
Michel B.
Michel B.
Goisse G.
Hamaide B.
Burny P.
Course Catalogue
Code Title
ZZ231 Animal pathology and hygiene (part 1)
ZZ233 Interdisciplinay project (2nd part)
ECTS Period
Time Lecturer
2.5
sept. - jan. 27 h. Kerkhofs P.
10
sept. - jan. 84 h. Promoteur(s) .
Tropical agronomy, 3rd year
Code Title
GP203 Pedology of tropical and subtropical environments
PC204 Special tropical crop husbandry (first part)
PC205 Special tropical crop husbandry (second part)
TFE
Final dissertation
ZT207 Animal production systems in tropical regions
ZZ221 Tropicals markets
ZZ231 Animal pathology and hygiene (part 1)
ECTS
2
2
4
1.5
29
4.5
2.5
2
2.5
10
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
ECTS
1.5
1.5
1.5
2
29
4.5
2.5
2
1.5
2.5
1.5
10
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
Time
27 h.
27 h.
45 h.
18 h.
0 h.
54 h.
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
84 h.
Lecturer
Doucet J.-L.
Bock L.
Baudoin J.-P.
Baudoin J.-P.
Promoteur(s) .
Buldgen A.
Michel B.
Michel B.
Kerkhofs P.
Promoteur(s) .
Time
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
27 h.
0 h.
54 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
84 h.
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
Portetelle D.
Debouche C.
Deroanne C.
Promoteur(s) .
Buldgen A.
Théwis A.
Michel B.
Théwis A.
Kerkhofs P.
Kerkhofs P.
Promoteur(s) .
Animal science and livestock production, 3rd year
Code Title
AM203 Immunobiology
AM206 Animal cell culture
MF205 Introduction to environnemtal assessment
TA201 Dairy science
TFE
Final dissertation
ZZ203
ZZ211
ZZ229
ZZ231
ZZ232
ZZ233
Economics of developing countries
Animal pathology and hygiene (part 1)
Animal pathology and hygiene (part 2)
Interdisciplinay project (2nd part)
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
Nature and forest management, 3rd year
Code Title
FT205 Management of natural ecosystems
GF202 Natural ressources inventory methods
GF205 Forest economics
GF211 Forest harvesting
GF217 Cynegetique
HE203 Wood-based products
TFE
Final dissertation
ZZ205
ZZ208
Forestry law
ECTS
2
2
2.5
3
1.5
1.5
2.5
29
2
1.5
ZZ212
ZZ233
Projects management
2.5
10
Time
27 h.
27 h.
27 h.
36 h.
18 h.
18 h.
27 h.
0 h.
sept. - jan. 27 h.
sept. - jan. 18 h.
Lecturer
Doucet J.-L.
Doucet J.-L.
Lejeune P.
Rondeux J.
Lejeune P.
Rondeux J.
Hébert J.
Promoteur(s) .
Lejeune P.
Orban de Xivry
E.
sept. - jan. 27 h. Michel B.
Horticulture, 3rd year
Code Title
HG201
HG202
HG207
HG209
MG201
PP202
PT212
PT213
TFE
TO201
ZG211
ZZ233
ECTS
5
1.5
1.5
Analysis of the network of operators in the horticulture industry 1.5
Horticultural production method and equipment
2.5
2
Growth regulators
1.5
Application techniques for products to treat crops
1.5
Final dissertation
29
Marketing of horticultural products
2.5
Biological control of insect pests
1.5
10
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
Time
54 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
0 h.
sept. - jan. 27 h.
sept. - jan. 18 h.
sept. - jan. 84 h.
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Lecturer
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
Bodson M.
Magein H.
Lepoivre P.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Promoteur(s) .
Toussaint A.
Haubruge E.
Promoteur(s) .
Course Catalogue
Plant protection, 3rd year
Code Title
CA210 Residues analysis and metabolisation of pesticides
PP210 Integrated control of plant pathogens
PT213 Application techniques for products to treat crops
SC201 Pesticide formulations
TFE
Final dissertation
ZG207 Pest integrated management
ZG208 Applied Entomology
ZZ206 European regulation and ecotoxicology
ZZ214 Applied phytopathology
ZZ216
ZZ217
ZZ218
ZZ233
ECTS
2
2
1.5
2
29
2
2
1.5
2
2
2
2
10
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
ECTS
3
2
5
1.5
2.5
1.5
1.5
29
2
2
10
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
ECTS
2
2
29
4.5
2
2.5
1.5
2
2.5
2
10
Period
Time Lecturer
sept. - jan. 27 h. Lebailly P.
sept. - jan. 27 h. Lebailly P.
0 h. Promoteur(s) .
sept. - jan. 54 h. Buldgen A.
sept. - jan. 18 h. Goisse G.
sept. - jan. 27 h. Hamaide B.
sept. - jan. 27 h. Burny P.
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
Law of physical planning
Forestry law
ECTS
2
5
1.5
2.5
2
1.5
29
2
1.5
1.5
1.5
10
Lecturer
Feltz C.
Feltz C.
Feltz C.
Mahy G.
Doucet J.-L.
Debouche C.
Promoteur(s) .
Lejeune P.
Bolca M.
Orban de Xivry
E.
sept. - jan. 18 h. Xanthoulis D.
ECTS
1.5
2
4
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
Time
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
0 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
84 h.
Lecturer
Schiffers B.
Jijakli H.
Falisse A.
Schiffers B.
Promoteur(s) .
Haubruge E.
Haubruge E.
Houins G.
Jijakli H.
Falisse A.
Haubruge E.
Jijakli H.
Promoteur(s) .
Agricultural and environmental engineering, 3rd year
Code Title
DH203 Agricultural engineering constructions (3rd part)
HA208 Hydraulics amenagment of rural eng.
HA209
ME210
MF205
PH206
TFE
ZZ209
ZZ210
ZZ233
Introduction to environnemtal assessment
Digital electronics (second part)
Final dissertation
Waste management
Renewable energies
Time
36 h.
27 h.
54 h.
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
0 h.
sept. - jan. 27 h.
sept. - jan. 27 h.
sept. - jan. 84 h.
Lecturer
Dehon P.
Culot M.
Dautrebande S.
Dautrebande S.
Destain M.-F.
Debouche C.
Aubinet M.
Promoteur(s) .
Minne L.
Schenkel Y.
Promoteur(s) .
Economics and development, 3rd year
Code Title
EG208 Economics of development Seminar
TFE
Final dissertation
ZZ211 Economics of developing countries
ZZ215 Rural law
ZZ221 Tropicals markets
ZZ223 Environmental economy
ZZ224 Agricultural economics
Environment and land management, 3rd year
Code Title
AT204 Land-use policy in rural areas
AT206 Seminar in town and country planning
AT209
EC210
FT204
MF205
TFE
ZZ205
ZZ207
ZZ208
ZZ213
ZZ233
Ecology applied to open communities
Tropical agroforestry
Introduction to environnemtal assessment
Final dissertation
Time
27 h.
54 h.
18 h.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
0 h.
sept. - jan. 27 h.
sept. - jan. 18 h.
sept. - jan. 18 h.
Biotechnology and crop science, 3rd Year
Code Title
BV204
GN201
PC204
Quantitative genetics
Special tropical crop husbandry (first part)
Time
18 h.
27 h.
45 h.
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Lecturer
du Jardin P.
Gengler N.
Baudoin J.-P.
Course Catalogue
Code Title
PP211
PT206
PT212
TFE
ZG211
ZZ201
ZZ219
ZZ233
ZZ234
ECTS
1.5
2
Growth regulators
1.5
Final dissertation
29
Biological control of insect pests
1.5
1.5
4
10
Bio-informatics part I : Methods for the analysis of genomic 1.5
sequences
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
Time
18 h.
27 h.
18 h.
0 h.
18 h.
18 h.
45 h.
84 h.
18 h.
Lecturer
Jijakli H.
Falisse A.
Falisse A.
Promoteur(s) .
Haubruge E.
Toussaint A.
du Jardin P.
Promoteur(s) .
Brasseur R.
Time
45 h.
27 h.
18 h.
63 h.
45 h.
27 h.
0 h.
sept. - jan. 84 h.
Lecturer
Thonart P.
Thonart P.
Aubinet M.
Deroanne C.
Deroanne C.
Deroanne C.
Promoteur(s) .
Promoteur(s) .
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
Food science and technology, 3rd year
Code Title
BI202 Fermentation and extraction factories (2nd part)
BI205 Industrial microbiology
PH206 Digital electronics (second part)
TA205 Food technology (part two)
TA206 Technology of food industries (part three)
TA208 Synthesis works and seminars
TFE
Final dissertation
ECTS
4.5
2.5
1.5
5.5
4.5
2.5
29
10
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
Water technology, 3rd year
Code Title
ECTS
2.5
BI206 Fundamental processes of physico-chemical wastewater 2
treatment
CA205 Advanced analytical chemistry
2.5
CA208
2
EM204 Fundamental processes of biological wastewater treatment
2
EM205 Water legislation and policy
1.5
HA209
1.5
PH206 Digital electronics (second part)
1.5
5.5
TFE
Final dissertation
29
10
Period
Time Lecturer
sept. - jan. 27 h. Thonart P.
sept. - jan. 18 h. Thonart P.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
27 h.
27 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
18 h.
63 h.
0 h.
sept. - jan. 84 h.
Lognay G.
Lognay G.
Culot M.
Culot M.
Dautrebande S.
Aubinet M.
Deroanne C.
Promoteur(s) .
Promoteur(s) .
Period
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
sept. - jan.
Lecturer
Portetelle D.
Portetelle D.
Thonart P.
Thonart P.
Lognay G.
Deroanne C.
Promoteur(s) .
Wathelet J.-P.
Promoteur(s) .
Chemistry and biotechnology, 3rd year
Code Title
AM203 Immunobiology
AM206 Animal cell culture
BI202 Fermentation and extraction factories (2nd part)
CA205 Advanced analytical chemistry
TFE
Final dissertation
WJ201 Current questions in organic and biological chemistry
ECTS
1.5
1.5
4.5
2.5
2.5
5.5
29
3
10
Time
18 h.
18 h.
45 h.
27 h.
27 h.
63 h.
0 h.
sept. - jan. 27 h.
sept. - jan. 84 h.
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Course content
AM101 – Comparative animal anatomy and physiology (4 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Renaville Robert
Teaching method(s): Lectures, Practical works
Teaching language: French
Evaluation method(s): Oral examination, Written examination
Evaluation language: French
Course objective:
The aim of this course is to describe for the main animal breeding (ruminant, monogastric and
poultry) the anatomy and the physiology of the biological functions.
Course content:
A. Cellular and tissue organization (± 10 H)
The epithelial tissue, the glands, the conjonctive tissue (blood, cartilage, bone, ..), membranes
(mucous, synovial, ..), the bone tissue (ossification, growth and the rehandling bone (minerals,
vitamins, reg
Prerequisites:
For more informations:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Biologie animale et microbienne,
passage des Déportés, 2 - 5030 Gembloux
AM102 – Cellular biology (2.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Portetelle Daniel
Teaching method(s): Lectures
Evaluation method(s): Written examination
Course objective:
The cell biology is the base of the life chain : To understand how cells work and divide, we need
to know a good deal about the identities and structures of molecules, how they fit together and what
they do.
Course content:
. Molecular and cellular basis of the living world
. Cellular organizations and functions; eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell
. Tools of cell biology including new approaches
. Storage and expression of genetic information
. The eukaryotic cell cycle : phases, stages of mitosis, meiosis and fertilization, regulators of cell
cycle progression, cytoskeleton and cellular motility, programmed cell death, ageing and cancer
. Cellular membranes systems : biogenesis, traffic and functions, internal organization of the nucleus,
protein sorting and transport, bioenergetics and metabolism
. Reception and transduction of environmental information
. Cellular interactions and the extracellular matrix
. Within the limits of living cells : viruses, plasmids, viroïds and prions.
Prerequisites:
AM201 – General microbiology (3.5 ECTS)
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Course objective:
This course provides a balanced introduction to all major areas of Microbiology. Foundations are
presented emphasizing on basic biochemistry, structure/function, biology and methodology. Principal
attention is devoted to present micro-organisms as important biological models and for their
importance and utilization in environment, agronomy and agroindustry.
Course content:
- History ans scope of microbiology
- Study of microbial structure: microscopy and specimen preparation
- Procaryotic cell structure and functions
- Eucaryotic cell structure and functions
- Microbial nutrition, growth and control (including antimicrobial chemotherapy)
- Microbial metabolisms, the generation of energy
- Microbial genetics: general principles, recombination, transposans and plasmids, transformation
- Diversity of the microbial world; principles of microbial taxonomy
- Viruses: general characteristics, bacteriophages and viruses of eucaryotes (first principles)
- Microorganisms as components of the environment (overview)
- Food and industrial microbiology (overview)
- Microbial biohazards and biosafety in laboratory and the environnement
- Practical works to isolate and characterize micro-organisms from different samples
Prerequisites:
KT202 - OU - CG102
AM202 – Microbial
genetics
microorganisms (2 ECTS)
and
genetic
engineering
of
Course objective:
Overview of several micro-organisms presented as biological models and contributing to the
development of specific topics of microbial genetics. Overview of specialized methods developed
in molecular genetics of microorganisms
Course content:
- Bacterial genetics: mutations and their chemical basis, transformations, conjugation, plasmids,
transposition, transduction and lysogenic conversion, artificial transfer*
- Approaches for identification of microorganisms; microbial genomics; modern and post-modern
genetics
- Yeast as model system:
.Yeast genome structure: methodologies, nomenclature, genes and other functional sequence
elements, perspectives
.Molecular structure and gene expression; study of some biological functions and their regulation
.Complementation strategies, recombination and gene conversion
.Genetic analysis : mutations and tetrad analysis
.Non-mendelian genetic elements; transposable elements
.Recombinant DNA technology: yeast vectors, two-hybrid system; practical works
- Genetics of extrachromosomal elements: mitochondria, plastids, plasmids;
- Genetics of bacteriophages
- Gene heterologous expression : systems and applications
- Practical works: methods in yeast genetics
*Remark: see also complementary informations in KY201 course
Prerequisites:
KT202 - OU - AM201
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AM203 – Immunobiology (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Lectures, Seminars
Course objective:
Overview of interactions between immunology, immunochemistry and biological sciences. Applied
approaches especially in agricultural sciences and biological engineering.
Course content:
Several topics are presented and adapted following the different vocational guidances:
Production of immunoreagents: impacts in bioindustry and agronomy;
Principles and methods of vaccinology; vaccines in agriculture
Nutrition, environmental factors and immune response
Immunomodulation in animal production, animal reproduction, plant resistance to pathogens
Immunity, animal welfare and health; ethical aspects
Abzymes: production and developments
Quality controls, biosafety and biohazards
Specific cases: immunodeficiency, AIDS, autoimmunity, hypersensitive reactions,
xenotransplantation and cancer.
Prerequisites:
AM204 – Food hygiene (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Culot Marc
Course objective:
Overview of microorganisms related to food-borne diseases, food spoilage, food storage and food
quality. Overview of microbial biohazards and detection and preservation processes
Course content:
Risk evaluation: HACCP
Management and mastery of microbial quality by good practices of hygiene and manufacturing
Food spoilage and preservation processes
Diseases and foods: diseases transmitted by foods, microbial toxins
Practical examples : cases of microbial deterioration: milk and milk products, eggs and egg products,
meat, fish, shellfish, fruits, vegetables, drinks
Prerequisites:
AM201
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Ecologie microbienne et épuration
des eaux, passage des Déportés, 2 - 5030 Gembloux
AM206 – Animal cell culture (1.5 ECTS)
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Course objective:
Overview of the basics of animal cell culture
Overview of their utilization and applications in microbiology, virology, biotechnology, immunology,
modern toxicology and quality control
Course content:
Introduction: the use of animal cell culture
Biology of the cultured cells
The cell culture laboratory and its requirements
Laboratory safety and biohazards
The culture environment: substrate, gas phase, medium and temperature
Basic cell culture techniques
Quality control and biosafety of handling cells
Specialized techniques
Specific cell types and their requirements: a survey
Implications of animal cell culture in microbiology for growing of specific bacteria, virology for
animal viruses, immunology and biotechnology; use in viability, cytotoxicity and modern toxicology.
Prerequisites:
AM208 – Microbial biochemistry and physiology (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Detailed study of microbial metabolism. Overview of biochemical mechanisms developed for
generation of cellular energy and biosynthesis required for their needs according to their environment.
Course content:
- Mechanisms of energy-giving conversions
- Substrate uptake and entry to the cell
- Energy production systems: aerobic respiration, anaerobic respiration including fermentation,
chemilitotrophic and phototrophic metabolisms
- Fermentations: importance in agronomy and agroindustry; alcoholic fermentation of yeast as a
model for studying enzymes and regulations
- Biosynthesis of monomers
- Regulations of gene expression: mechanisms at the molecular level
- Applied topics: gastrointestinal microflora, rumen microflora, prebiotics and probiotics,
bacteriocines, antibiotic resistance and its set of problems in animal production
- Practical works: methods measuring some parameters of microbial metabolisms
Prerequisites:
KT202 - OU - AM201
AM212 – Complements
of
physiology (1.5 ECTS)
comparative
animal
anatomy
Teaching method(s):
Evaluation method(s): Oral examination
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Course objective:
The objectives of this course are to describe the physiological processes and the techniques related
to the reproduction of the poultries, fish and mammals.
Course content:
The different subjects in this course described the process in the three main groups of animals (fish,
poultries and mammals) and are organised around the following subjects:
brief description of the anatomy of the reproductive system
description of the hormonal regulation endocrinienne of the reproduction system
description of the techniques to control the reproduction (superovulation, embryo transfer, transgenic
animal, ...)
Prerequisites:
AM220 – Biochemistry of the metabolisms in the domestic animals (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
The objective of this course is to describe the different metobolismes associated to the cell activities
and to describe the mecanismes of biosynthesis in animal production (lactation, growth, reproduction,
egg)
Course content:
This course includes the following chapters: bioenergetics and metabolism(organization and
regulation of the metabolic ways), glycolysis and hexoses catabolism connected glucose and sugars,
aerobic and anaerobic conditions, production of lactate....), citric acid cycle(citrate and respiratory
chain of transport of electrons, components of the cycle of citrate and ways biosynthetic...), oxidative
phosphorylation, biosynthesis of carbohydrates and gluconeogenesis (metabolism of glycogen,
regulation of the metabolism of the carbohydrates....), biosynthesis of lipids, biosynthesis of amino
acids and nucleotides (desamination, ion ammonium and cycle of urea, catabolism....).
These various biochemical processes will be illustrated by studying their role in lacation, growth,
reproduction and egg production.
Prerequisites:
AM221 – Physiology of the domestic animals (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Study of the endocrine and molecular mechanismes involved in the regulation of the main biological
functions (growth, lactation, reproduction) in the farm animal's species.
Course content:
A. Molecular and physiological description of the different hormone's famillies and types of receptors.
Description of the endocrine, paracrine and autocrine regulation systems
Relationships between hypothalamus and pituitary gland
Description of the somatotropic axis (GHRH, SRIF, GH, IGF)
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Description of the thyroid funcyion
Description of the adrenal axis
Endocrine regulation of growth (from foetus to fattening)
Endocrine regulation of lactation (mammary gland development,
induction of lactation, persistence of lactation.
Description of eggs production
Pancreatic function
Renal function
Reproduction
B. Biotechnology and animal productions
Gene markers and selection
Transgenic animals
Embryo's technologies
New strategies to prmotote milk, growth or fat production
Prerequisites:
AT203 – Elements of human and economic geography (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Feltz Claude
Teaching method(s): Case studies, Lectures, Visits
Course objective:
Designed for students having taken a degree-level course in general agronomy, this course is an
introduction to the way in which geographic sciences can contribute to one's knowledge of a territory
and of the relationships between man and territory. Knowledge of these aspects is considered to
form a prerequisite for the spatial analysis that is needed before land can be managed in a town and
country planning context.
Course content:
- Geography of populations - demographic dynamics
to include the planetary scale (demographic transition), Belgian demographic dynamics (statistical
indicators and their interpretation, issues,...) and the local scale (local demographic diagnosis,
scenarios and the needs of territorial management).
- Maps: from map-making history to Geographical Information Systems.
- Urban geography - history of the town, organic and planified urban forms
- Rural landscapes of Europe.
- Agro-geographic regions and rural landscape in Wallonia.
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Aménagement des territoires,
AT204 – Land-use policy in rural areas (2 ECTS)
Evaluation method(s): Personal report
Course objective:
In-depth review of land-use issues specific to rural areas.
Course content:
The typological approach: defining and differentiating rural areas: the countryside in Wallonia.
Agriculture and rural areas in Wallonia.
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Rural settlements and its sub-regional diversity.
Tourism: forms and land use in the rural environment
Rural landscapes: diversity, pressures and the future.
Land management in rural areas and the environment.
Towards a synthesis of different approaches for land-use management.
environmental management and development on a local scale.
Prerequisites:
AT207
AT206 – Seminar in town and country planning (5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Field works, Practical works, Visits
Course objective:
To confront students with a concrete case which will lead them to produce a land-use diagnosis, to
design projects of development in response to the problems and objectives raised and to become
aware how such problems and objectives can be both diverse and intertwined.
Course content:
Analysis of a case study applying a method resulting in a land-use plan for the subject area.
This involves:
- overall reconnaissance of the area
- gathering and interpreting relevant data
- a synthetic diagnostic approach to problems and action objectives
- projecting and assessing of the relevance of planning proposals
- confronting the sector-based development approaches provided by the various working parties
- performing a critical review by merging results and confronting points of view
Every year, a land-use issue is selected according to topical interest, availability of data, and the
size of the group.
Examples of cases studies:
In Belgium: communes de Manhay ('97), Gembloux ('98 et 2000), secteur du Sud-Luxembourg
(2002)
In foreign countries: Omisalj-Croatia ('99), Qadisha-Libanon (2001-2003), Kotor-Montenegro
(2004)
Prerequisites:
AT207
AT207 – Concepts and method of town and country planning (4 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
An approach to the general concepts, tools and methods of town and country planning. The various
scales of territory and corresponding planning issues and tools are presented by showing examples
of land use planning processes.
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Course content:
1. Spatial planning - scales, methods and issues
- At the origin : correcting regional disparities and coordinating infrastructure; at national scale:
comparison between France and Germany; than European scale the Regional Policies
- the sub-regional scale - planning for land-use designation;
- the scale of villages and urban neighbourhoods: implementation plans and urban design.
2. "Strategic" planning
- the local community level: fine-tuning land-use designation in space and time, public development
initiatives and planning by-laws;
- the regional level: Issues in the Walloon strategic planning policy document (Schéma de
Développement de l'Espace Régional);
- the Union level and the ESDP European Spatial Development Perspective
3. Overview: town and country planning methodology and trends; the role of environmental
management in land-use policy.
4. Legislation and institutions involved in land-use planning in Wallonia: tools and how they interact.
Prerequisites:
AT208
AT208 – Economic geography elements (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
As a follow-on to the general introduction to human geography, this course considers the major
geographic theories on spatial economic organisation as a key to understanding the mechanisms at
which the corrective action taken by town and country planners is aimed.
Course content:
Enterprise and space - the location of industry
- The iron and steel industry is used to exemplify how location criteria evolved together with
technology from the 16th to the 20th century, and to help to understand the origins of Walloon
industrial fabric.
- Recent developments relating to the issue of the location of activities is then introduced, together
with the notions of network and district as new paradigms governing the relationships between
space and activities.
Towns and regions - networks and urban hierarchy : Functional hierarchy and the size of population
units are discussed.
The city, economic phenomenon and development centre, the price of land and the urban real estate
issue
Applications in Belgium, and particularly in Wallonia - understanding regional economic
organization: industry, urban organization, current trends
Introduction to the concepts linking the understanding of spatial logic and the objectives and means
of action of town and country planning.
Prerequisites:
BE201 – Agro-food engineering (part 2) (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Béra François
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Course objective:
Through the study of unit operations, to train the students in the use of the engineer sciences linking
them to their mechanical, thermodynamic, physico-chemical bases.
Course content:
- Fluids flow in porous media : development of the equations of KOZENY-CARMAN,
BURKE-PLUMMER, ERGUN
- Homogeneous/heterogeneous fluidization ; laminar/turbulent flows
Design of a fluidized bed dryer
- Filtration with cake.
Theory, technology, calculation, the filtration additives
- Centrifuge decantation and decantation by gravity.
Theory, technology, calculation
- Evaporation
Theory, technology, calculation
- Thermobacteriology
Evaluation of the thermal processes used in industry
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Technologie des industries
agro-alimentaires, passage des Déportés, 2 - 5030 Gembloux
BI201 –
Fermentation and extraction factories (1st part) (3.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Thonart Philippe
Evaluation method(s): Group report, Written examination
Course objective:
This course gives an overview of the principles used in industrial microbiology. The different steps
necesary for doing a product are developped and integrated in a general production scheme. The
exemples of enzymes and micro-organismes are developped.
Course content:
I. Introduction : the biotechnology
II. Growth kinetic and chemical balance
III. Bioenginering
IV. Optimization of biotechnological production.
V. Downstream processing
VI. Examples of industrial production.
VI. The enzymes in agro-food industries.
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Bio-industries, passage des Déportés,
2 - 5030 Gembloux
BI202 –
Fermentation and extraction factories (2nd part) (4.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Lectures, Practical works, Visits
Course objective:
This course proposes an application of the principles given in the courses of industrial engineering,
fermentation and extraction factories (1st part) to specific industries like sugar refinery, brewery,
baker's yeast production factory and distillery.
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Course content:
- Study or raw products in the following factories : sugar refinery, brewery, distillery.
- Study of raw product treatment.
- Study of the technological principles of diffusion in sugar refinery and brewery.
- Study of the fermentation in brewery and distillery.
- Study of concentration and purification processes in sugar rafinery and distillery.
Prerequisites:
2 - 5030 Gembloux
BI203 –
Food and agro-food engineering (4.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
This course gives the basic processes of food engineering : heat transfer, mass transfer and mixing
processes. Different problems are considered during the practical works.
Course content:
Mass transfer :
- definition of binary and ternary mixture laws and diagrams.
- equilibria and plate calculation methods
- simple, co-current and countercurrent contact.
Heat transfer :
- thermal conduction in steady-state conditions
- thermal conduction in non steady-state conditions
- convection
Mixing processes :
- homogeneous reactors
- static mixers.
Prerequisites:
2 - 5030 Gembloux
BI204 –
Purification and concentration techniques (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
This course developped the main principles of the purification and concentration techniques.
Different examples related to food industries, bio-industries and depolluting industries are cited.
Course content:
- Membrane technologies
- electrodialysis
- ultrafiltration
- microfiltration
- reverse osmosis
- Scaling-up chromatographic techniques
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-Precipitation
- Biphasic extractors (liquid-liquid, vapor-liquid)
Prerequisites:
2 - 5030 Gembloux
BI205 –
Industrial microbiology (2.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
This course gives an overview of the functionnal properties of the micro-organisms and their use
at an industrial level.
Course content:
1. Introduction
2. Functional properties
2.1. Acid production
2.2. Amins acids
3. Gaz production
3.1. CO2 production
3.2. Methane production
4. Oxydo-reduction
5. Solvant production
6. Texturizing properties
7. Aroma production
8. Competition properties
9. Probioties
10. Degradation properties
10.1. Enzyme
10.2. Compost
10.3. Bioremediation
11. Physico-chemical properties modification
12. Case study
Prerequisites:
2 - 5030 Gembloux
BI206 –
Fundamental processes
treatment (2 ECTS)
of
physico-chemical
wastewater
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
The aim of this course is to give fundamentals basis of differents technologies used in waste water
engineering.
Course content:
- Waters sampling
- flows equalization
- decantation sedimentation
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- flows designs
- lamella plate clarification,
- oxygen transfer,
- coagulation-flowlation
- flotation
- absorption
- cycloning
Prerequisites:
2 - 5030 Gembloux
BO203 – Practical aspects of agriculture in temperate regions (1st
part) (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Bodson Bernard
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Develop capabilities of observing,analysing, resolving problems in main crops
Course content:
Observation and evaluation methods for soils, plants, flora and faun in agricultural land.
Criteria of stategies elaboration and of practical modalities for intervention in crop.
Evaluation of efficacity and quality of crop intervention.
Agronomic,economic and environmental constraints in crop intervention.
Environmental management for crop husbandry.
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Phytotechnie des régions tempérées,
BO204 – Practical aspects of agriculture in temperate regions (2nd
part) (0.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Bodson Bernard
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Develop capabilities of observing,analysing, resolving problems in forrage crops
Course content:
Observation and evaluation methods for soils, plants, flora and faun in agricultural land.
Criteria of stategies elaboration and of practical modalities for intervention in forrage crops.
Evaluation of efficacity and quality of crop intervention.
Agronomic,economic and environmental constraints in crop intervention.
Environmental management for forrage crop husbandry.
Prerequisites:
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BR201 – Theory of the molecular structure-function relations (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Brasseur Robert, Brasseur Robert
Teaching method(s): Lectures, Lectures
Teaching language: French, French
Evaluation method(s): Oral examination, Personal report, Oral examination, Personal report
Evaluation language: French, French
Course objective:
Demonstrate to the students that the structure of the molecules (lipids, proteins, nucleic acids) and
their function are intimately related
Course content:
Four steps are successively covered:
Step 1 describes the chemical properties of the molecules of the living world
Step 2 analyses in details the energy functions involved in the structure of biological molecules and
macromolecules
Step 3 describes the status of the experimental knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of the
molecular components of the living cell
Step 4 covers the present methods of prediction of structure and function ofmolecules involved in
the cell life
At the end of the course the student should possess a good knowledge of the techniques used and
a view structure-function relations. The importance, but also the limitations of the present knowledge
and the efforts to reach a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms should lead him, in
the whole of his scientific work, to further consider the structural mechanisms involed.
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Biologie fondamentale, passage
des Déportés, 2 - 5030 Gembloux
BV101 – Botany (11.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): du Jardin Patrick
Teaching method(s): Field works, Lectures, Practical works
Evaluation method(s): Group report, Oral examination, Personal report, Written examination
Course objective:
Basic knowledge in botany (concepts and methods of the main disciplines); plants are studied from
the cellular to the community levels.
Course content:
INTRODUCTION : Definition of plants and their importance.
PART 1 : ORGANIZATION OF SEED PLANTS
PART 3 : SYSTEMATICS OF ANGIOSPERMS
PART 4 : INITIATION TO THE STUDY OF VEGETATION
PRACTICAL WORKS : herbarium, description of a plant community
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Biologie végétale, passage des
Déportés, 2 - 5030 Gembloux
BV102 – Plant physiology (4 ECTS)
Evaluation method(s): Group report, Oral examination, Personal report, Written examination
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Course objective:
Basic knowledge on the functioning of plants (metabolism, growth, development), stressing the
structure - function relationships from the molecular to the whole plant levels.
Course content:
Introduction
Introduction to bioenergetics and enzymatic catalysis
Exploiting light energy : photosynthesis
Recovering chemical energy : oxidative catabolisms
Water relationships
Mineral nutrition
Pland developpement : general principles and the role of hormonres
Reproduction physiology
Prerequisites:
CG101 - OU - BV101 - OU - AM101
BV201 – Plant ecophysiology (2.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Case studies, Lectures, Seminars
Evaluation method(s): Oral examination, Personal report
Course objective:
Describing the physiological and biochemical bases of crop productions - undestanding the responses
of plants to their environment and the physiological components of crop yield
Course content:
I. Introduction
What is ecophysiology ?
What is crop yield ?
II. The production of biomass
The response of photosynthesis to environmental factors
Importance of respiration in the carbon budget and plant productivity
III. Partitioning and allocation of the biomass
Biomass partitioning between organs
Allocation between metabolic products and qualitative control of plant products
IV. Introduction to stress physiology
What is stress ?
Measuring stress
Resisting to stress
Prerequisites:
BV102 - OU - CG102 - OU - BV101
BV203 – Plant genetics (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Describing the organization of plant genomes and the methods for their study. Presenting the
applications of molecular genetics in crop improvement and its perspectives
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Course content:
I. The structure of Plant genomes
The nuclear genome
Ther extra-nuclear genomes
II. The use of molecular markers in Plant breeding
The identification of genotypes
Constructing and using genetic and physical maps in crop species
III. Plant genetic engineering
Concepts and methods
Applications and perspectives
Prerequisites:
PC201 - OU - KT202
CA101 – Qualitative analytical chemistry (4 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Lognay Georges
Evaluation method(s): Group report, Oral examination
Course objective:
To demonstate the importance of chemical reactions and physico-chemical process in order to
identify the various
compounds of a sample.
Course content:
Importance of oxydo-reduction, precipitation, acide-base and complex reactions in the framework
of compounds
identification.
Identification procedures of ions in solution.
Sample dissolution.
Adsorption, partition exchange, size exlusion fundamentals.
Introduction to chromatographic separations.
Kinetic theory and plate theory of chromatography.
Selectivity.
Prerequisites:
CG101
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Chimie analytique, passage des
CA203 – Fundamentals of quantitative analytical chemistry (part:
2) (5.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Beside the goals of the CA: 206 course of which it represents the continuation , this one introduces
a wide range of techniques of modern analytical chemistry (mainly chromatographie methods). It
intends also to teach enough laboratory skills that will give students confidence.
Course content:
The rest of stoichiometric methods
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-Volumetric methods ( principles and applications)
Precipitation titrimetry ; Complex formation titrations.
-Gazometric Methods
.Eliminating the interferences
.Chromatographic methods
- Introduction to chromatographic methods
General description of chromarography; Band broadening and column efficiency,Column
resolution
-Gas Chromatography ( G.C.) with packed and capillary columns
The various injectors and detectors
-High Liquid Performance Chromatography (H.P.L.C.)
injectors and choice of the phase
-Comparaison HPLC / GC
.Analysis of real samples
Fertilizers ( the various forms of N, K2O, P2O5),Iron in an ore, Calcium and Magnesium in rocks,
Chloride determination in a salt, Water Hardness,
Prerequisites:
CA206
CA204 – Instrumental
analysis
spectrometry) (5.5 ECTS)
(
electrochemistry
and
Teaching method(s): Case studies, Lectures, Practical works, Seminars
Course objective:
To provide the student with an introduction to the principles upon which modern analytical
instruments are based as well as to engender an appreciation of the various kinds of instruments
currently available by insisting on their strengths and their limitations.
Course content:
ELECTROCHEMISTRY:
Introduction to electroanalytical chemistry
Liquid junction potentials, currents in electoanalytical cells
Voltammetry and polarography (Linear scan, pulse, square wave, cylic applications of potentials
Heyrovsky equation, Reversibility test
Coulometry (Potentiostatic and Amperiostatic)
Potentiometry
Indicators electrodes ( metallic and membranes electrodes), Direct potentiometry and
potentiometric titrations
Amperometry
Conducimetry
OPTICAL METHODS of ANALYSIS
Properties of electromagnetic radiations(Absorption, Emission, Refraction Reflexion Diffraction
and Remission Laws )
Instrument of optical spectroscopy
Molecular ultaviolet / visible absorption spectroscopy
Molecular fluorescence, phosphorescence, luminescence
Atomic spectroscopy based upon flame and electrothermal atomization
Emission spectroscopy besd upon plasma, arc, spark
ANALYSIS of REAL SAMPLES
Heavy metals in water,in fertilizers; Vitamin C in orange juice; Chromium in alloys,
benzimidazole fungicide in lettuce,..
Prerequisites:
CA206 - OU - CA203 - OU - CA101
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CA205 – Advanced analytical chemistry (2.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To tackle some methods which are not in use in our Unit, to supplement and to update some learning
already set out in the CA204 course and to introduce the notion of quality in the analytical laboratory.
Course content:
Seminars presented by specialized people in one of the following topics:
.Near infrared spectrometry and chemometrics.
.Modified electrodes and biosensors
.Analytical methods validation
.Laboratory certification according to EN 45.000 and GLP rules.
-Lessons presented by the lecturer himself and devoted to :
.Capillary electrophoresis
.Automated methods of analysis such as Flow Injection Analysis
.Additional information on chromatography
-Seminars presented by every student
Oral presentation of a new paper from an international journal such as Anal.Chim.Acta or Anal.
Chem or Fresenius J. Anal.Chem. followed by a general discussion and appreciation with the
lecturer and the other students.
Prerequisites:
CA204 - OU - CA203 - OU - CA101 - OU - CA206
CA206 – Fundamentals of quantitative analytical chemistry (part:
1) (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Firstly, to inculcate a rigorous background in chemical principles that are particulary important to
analytical chemistry.
Secondly, to develop an appreciation for the difficult task of judjing the accuracy and the precision
of the experimental data.
Course content:
-ERRORS in CHEMICAL ANALYSIS (systematic, random and gross errors)
.Detection
.Remedies
-SOLIDS, LIQUIDS and GAZES SAMPLING ( Principles and Techniques)
-PREPARING SAMPLES for ANALYSIS
-SAMPLE DECOMPOSITION ; DISSOLUTION (wet and dry techniques; advantages and
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drawbacks) and ANALYTE EXTRACTION
-PRESENTATION of SOME STOICHIOMETRIC METHODS
.Gravimetric methods (principles and applications)
.Volumetric methods
Neutralization titrations (principles and applications)
Oxydo-reduction titrations ( principles and applications)
-CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS
Prerequisites:
CA101
CA207 – Applications of analytical chemistry (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To tackle the fundamentals of the quantitative analytical chemistry applied to the inorganic analysis
of feeds ( nutrient elements and heavy metals)
Course content:
The principles of quantitative analytical chemistry, general definitions, preparation of
samples,experssion of results.
Introduction to instrumental inorganic analysis of fodders:
-molecular absorption spectrophotometry
-atomic absorption spectrophotometry
-flame emission photometry
-polarography
Prerequisites:
CA206 - OU - CA101
CA210 – Residues analysis and metabolisation of pesticides (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Schiffers Bruno
Course objective:
To introduce the various procedures suitable to determine the pesticides residues in foods, feed,
and in the different compartments of the environment as well as to isolate, identify and quantitate
the pesticides metabolites.
Course content:
Introduction (Legal and biochemical residues)
Sampling and receipt of samples
Analytical methods
.Principles and applications :
Extraction; Clean-up; Quantitation by insisting on:
The chromatographic methods; the performance of specialized detectors( ECD,NPSD,
SSD,)
the hyphenated techniques such as GC/MS.
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Alternatives methods (Enzymatic methods,biological tests, Enzyme Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay)
Managing a residue analysis laboratory in compliance with the GLP and the EN 45.000 rules
Pesticides monitoring in food
Radiochemical tracors in the frame of metabolites studies
Experimental procedures fitted to the metabolites studies
Study of some typical metabolic pathways
Prerequisites:
CA211
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Phytopharmacie, passage des
CA211 – Pesticide science bases (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To explain the various methods of plant diseases, pests and weeds control as well as the significant
properties of the pesticides (toxicology, biological activity, persistence, ways of degradation, .).
To present the bases of the classification of the products and the Belgian and European regulation
(homologation). To study the biological activity of the insecticides, the fungicides and the herbicides.
Course content:
- Bases of the plant protection
- Origin of the plant health products
- Concepts of toxicology and risks analysis
- Ways of intoxication and first aid
- Classification of the products and Belgian legislation
- Physicochemical properties of the pesticides
- Biological activity of the insecticides
- Biological activity of the fungicides
- Biological activity of the herbicides
- Volatilization and drift of pesticides in the air
- Solubilization and leaching of pesticides
- Soil-pesticide interactions and bioavailability
- Biological breakdown and bio-accumulation
- Degradation, metabolisation and residues of pesticides
- Formulation of the pesticides and spraying techniques
Prerequisites:
CB101 – Biological molecules chemistry (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Paquot Michel
Course objective:
To give basic knowledge in organic chemistry of natural molecules
Course content:
Main chemical links
Water properties
Amino acids, peptides and proteins
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- structure and main properties
- examples of protein structure(alpha-keratin, fibroïn, collagen, alastin)
- mechanismes of denaturarion and practical importance
Glucids
- main oses
- chemical reactivity and physical properties
- structure and conformation
- polysaccharides (starch, inulin, cellulose, hemicelluloses)
- applications
Maillard Reactions
Lipids
- structure and properties of fatty acids
- glycerides
- unsaponifiable
- physical properties
- applications
Prerequisites:
CG101
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Chimie biologique industrielle,
CB202 – Biological chemistry (second part) (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Lectures, Practical works, Seminars
Course objective:
To point out molecular structure-function relationships for natural polymer (partim)
Course content:
Wood fiber ultrastructure
Dietary fiber ultrastructure
Lignin
Hemicelluloses
Starch molecular structure
Prerequisites:
CB101
CB203 – Industrial chemical processes engineering (4.5 ECTS)
Evaluation method(s): Oral examination, Personal report, Written examination
Course objective:
Integrate unit operations of chemistry in a global and applicable process
Course content:
Methodology for studying chemical industry processes
- functional analysis of processes and value analysis
- study of process thermodynamic feasability
- spatial organisation of industrial diagram
- corrosion problems
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Substitution possibilities of petrolochemistry by agroressources
Industrial chemistry
Prerequisites:
BI203 - OU - TA209
CB204 – Biological chemistry (3e part) (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
to emphasize structure-function relationships for the main biological molecules
Course content:
Structure and functions of some plant and animal proteins
Protein engineering : enzymatical engineering, biomaterials, lipopeptides, de novo protein
Structure-function relationships of phospholipides-Biological membrane
Applications of organized molecular systems
Functional properties of polysaccharides and polymer - polymer interactions
Prerequisites:
CB202 - OU - WB201 - OU - CB101
CG101 – General chemistry (11.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Marlier Michel
Evaluation method(s): Group report, Oral examination, Written examination
Course objective:
To ensure a basic training, theoretical as well as practical, in General chemistry for the future «
bio-ingénieurs »
Course content:
INTRODUCTION: Definitions, nomenclature, stoechiometry, expressing the concentration of the
solutions
PART 1: ATOMISTIC. Atomic models and atomic orbitals. The chemical bond (Lewis concept
and quantum model of the bond): hybridation of atomic orbitals , molecular orbitals. Resonance
concept. Electric and magnetic properties of molecules. Molecular interactions.
PART 2: STATES OF THE MATTER. Kinetic theory of gases. Perfect and real gases. The structure
and the properties of liquids and solids.
PART 3: PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL EQUILIBRIUM. Phase diagrams. Two-components
systems: liquid-gas, liquid-liquid, liquid-solid equilibrium, eutectics. Distillation. Expression of
Kc, Kp, Kps. Acid-base equilibrium, titration, hydrolysis, buffer solutions. Electrochemistry:
oxydoreduction equations, half-reactions and elctrodes, standard potential, Nernst equation, redox
titration, electrolysis.
PART 4: CHEMICAL KINETICS. The rate and the order of chemical reactions. The temperature
dependance of reaction rates. Mechanisms of the reactions. Collision theory. Energetic profile of
reactions. Catalysis.
PERSONAL WORK: Exercises and laboratories concerning parts 3 and 4.
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Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Chimie générale et organique,
CG102 – Organic chemistry (first part) (6 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Wathelet Jean-Paul
Course objective:
To ensure a basic training in Organic chemistry for the « candidats bio-ingénieurs » ; for the future
« bio-ingénieurs » in Chemistry and Bioindustry , the course is the starting point of a teaching
which will be supplemented later on.
Course content:
1. BASIC CONCEPTS :
Isomers, stereoisomers, Fischer and Newman projections, Cahn-Ingold-Prelog nomenclature.
Covalence and polarisation, inductive and mesomeric effects.
2. REACTIONAL MECHANISMS:
Energetic and electronic aspects (homolytic or heterolytic cleavages, carbocation and carbanion
formation); stereochemical aspects; acidity, basicity, role of solvents.
3. STUDY OF THE MAIN FUNCTIONAL GROUPS :
- Alkanes: free-radical substitution.
- Alkenes: electrophilic addition and anti-Markovnikov effect.
- Alkynes: electrophilic addition and nucleophilic attack; heavy metals
salts.
- Aromatic hydrocarbons: addition and substitution.
- Haloalkanes: SN1, SN2, E1, E2 mechanisms.
- Organometallic compounds: substitution, addition, reactions with labile H.
- Alcohols: reaction with bases and acids, esterification, dehydrogenation.
- Aldehydes et Ketones: substitution and nucleophilic addition.
- Amines: acidity-basicity, acylation, diazotization, reaction with carbonyl
groups.
- Carboxylic acids and derivatives: acidity-basicity, reduction,
decarboxylation. Nitrile hydrolysis, malonic synthesis, additionelimination for acyl halides.
Prerequisites:
CG101
CG203 – Organic chemistry (part 2) (3.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
How to use synergically the extraction, purification and identification (physical as well as chemical)
techniques of organic molecules contained in complex bioogical matrixes.
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Course content:
Classification of organic compounds according to their solubilty in various solvents.
Critical analysis of the reasons of solubility and the solvent-solute interactions.
Chemical characterization of organic compounds.
Presentation of laboratory techniques of extraction and purification.
Characterization of organic compounds by gas chromatography,high performance liquid
chromatography, mass spectrometry,infra-red, uv.
For each student, preparation of a personal research case. This project requires a good knowledge
of CG 203 and CG 204 courses and includes bibliographic search, seminars, discussion with
teaching assistants, practical realisation in laboratory and finally, the redaction of a synthetical
report concerning the project and the results.
Prerequisites:
CG204 - OU - CB101 - OU - CG101 - OU - LO201 - OU - CG102
CG204 – Theoretical and physical chemistry (6 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Marlier Michel
Teaching method(s): Case studies, Lectures, Practical works
Course objective:
From a series of lectures, practical works and case studies concerning the most important
spectrometric techniques, the students must be able to realize a correct structural analysis of various
organic molecules.
Course content:
1. General overview of optical methods in organic analysis, related to the spectrometric techniques
detailed in the course.
2. Bases of quantum mechanics.
3. Theory of molecular orbitals. Application of the general concepts to the ultraviolet and visible
spectrometry.
4. Theory of harmonic and anharmonic oscillator and application to molecular vibrations: infrared
spectrometry.
5. Interaction between nuclear spins and magnetic field: application to H 1 and C 13 nuclear
magnetic resonance spectrometry (nmr).
6. Theory and applications of mass spectrometry (apparatus, ionisation and fragmentation
mechanisms).
7. Hyphenated techniques: GC-MS and GC-FTIR.
Prerequisites:
CG102 - OU - CG101
DH201 – Agricultural engineering constructions (1st part) (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Dehon Pierre
Course objective:
Destined to users, this course has for purpose to analyse various types of buildings met in agriculture
to the construction viewpoint, to choose conditions of implantation, to proceed to an elementary
structure study and plans as well as the choice of materials destined to the agricultural construction.
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Course content:
It comprises three parts:
· the agricultural buildings by exposing met types, parameters of construction, criteria of implantation,
the choice of the construction and realisation of works,
· the general technique applied on the agricultural building taking into account: the ground and
site, the metallic structure and agricultural buildings, the structure in woods and other agricultural
construction types, the choice of a solution - examples of design
· the study of building's wall and roof cladding: by analyse and the choice of materials for the
construction of walls, covers and floors used in agricultural buildings.
Prerequisites:
LT201
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Mécanique et construction, passage
DH202 – Agricultural engineering constructions (2nd part) (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Case studies, Lectures, Practical works, Visits
Course objective:
This teaching of 30 hours is given to students of the orientation agricultural engineering (2
ing.).Course of construction oriented to the housing of animals, whose aim is to develop a conceptual
aspect concerning the physic of buildings (thorough study of static and dynamic ventilations and
the thermal aspect) as well as installations, equipment, plans and specifications.
Course content:
It processes the following subjects:
· Characteristics of the air - relationships and useful diagrams in agricultural buildings
· Dynamic and static ventilation of livestock buildings
· Action of the wind on agricultural constructions
· Internal temperature evaluation and needs in heat of livestock buildings including buildings with
several rooms,
· Considerations on documents to projects of animals housing
· Housing of animals: calf, bull, pig and other typical speculations,
· Installations and complementary equipments,
· Study of cases.
Prerequisites:
DH201
DH203 – Agricultural engineering constructions (3rd part) (3 ECTS)
Course objective:
This teaching of 36 h is given to students of the orientation agricultural engineering (3 ing.)
This course allows to do the conception of the storage of crops and to solve particular problems
resulting of the storage of these products as well as to imagine installations having links to the
problem of energy at the farm.
The design of special agricultural engineering constructions are also analysed
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Course content:
It processes the following subjects:
Storage of crops
- conception of buildings and equipment in relation with the conservation of agricultural products,
- design of installations and ventilation equipment of grains, forage and tubers,
- calculation of silos and particular studies (storage of the silage).
Energy at the farm
- thermal phenomena related to solar energy,energy analyses and valorisation of agricultural wastes.
Special agricultural constructions - design of rural bridges.
Prerequisites:
DH202 - OU - DH201
DH204 – Meterology and agroclimatology (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
This teaching of 18 hours is given to students of various orientations (1 ing.).
The objective is the study of atmospheric phenomena, the weather prevision, the action of
meteorological phenomena on the globe and to show the interest of this discipline in areas linked
to agronomy and the environment.
Course content:
Its content is the following:
· General characteristics of the atmosphere
· Notion of air temperature
· Atmospheric Pressure
· Air humidity
· Adiabatic transformations and aerologic diagram
· Clouds and precipitations
· Dynamic of the atmosphere
· Synoptic meteorology - weather prevision
· Notion of weather maps
· Meteorological observation methods and the different types of measurements
· Climates and atmospheric circulations
· Agroclimatologic applications.
Prerequisites:
DH205 – Livestock buildings and environment (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
The purpose of this course is to analyse the technical building integration of livestock in the
environment to the internal and external viewpoint and interactions between these infrastructures
and the surrounding in view to build an animal housing of quality respecting the surrounding and
animals.
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Course content:
Its content is the following:
The building and its interactions with animal productions:
· definition - bonds with their utilisations - demands in connection with animals, space, foods,
· elementary ventilation notions and elimination of gases, appreciation of the inside atmosphere
The building and its interactions with the surrounding:
· rural constructions and legislation - impact and norm studies of pollution,
· management of wastes - storage - elimination - integration to the site and to the landscape,
· various adjustments, pollutions due to odours and noises.
Prerequisites:
DH204 - OU - LT201 - OU - ZT201
EC201 – General ecology (3.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Mahy Grégory
Course objective:
To understand regulation mechanisms of natural ressources with a perpsective of substainable
management.
Course content:
THEMES :
Spation temporal structure and regulation of ecological systems from the individuals to the
ecosystems. Ecological methods at the hierarchical organisational level of ecological system.
Interactions between human activities and ecological processes.
MAIN CHAPTERS
1. What is (and is not) ecology ?
2. Autecology : the organisms within the environment. Ecological amplitude, adaptation, climate
and biomes, ecological niche.
3. Population ecology : what is a population, population structure, population dynamics and
regulation, dispersal.
4. Community ecology : community structure, species richness and diversity, the bioidversity crisis.
5. Ecosystems : structure and energy flow, trophic network, nutrient cycling, climate change.
Group work on an applied theme.
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Ecology, passage des Déportés, 2
- 5030 Gembloux
EC202 – Plant geography and phytosociology (2 ECTS)
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Course objective:
Principles of plant and vegetation distribution
Analysis of plant communities
Vegetation analysis applied to biodiversity management and environment management
Course content:
Introduction
Vegetation characteristics
The physionomy of vegetation
Flora and vegetation analysis
- The floristic relevé
- Classification methods : Zurich-Montepellier, numerical classification
- Ordination methods
- Classification systems
The dynamic of vegetation
Vegetation geography
- species distribution and endemism
- phytogeographic territories
Prerequisites:
- 5030 Gembloux
EC206 – Applied ecology in regional development (3.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
How to manage biodiversity in human driven landscapes.
Course content:
Le paysage ecologique comme unité spatiale de gestion : principes d'ecologie du paysage
Elements of landscape ecology
Landscape dynamics and its effect on ecological systems
Ecological evaluation of landscapes
The design of protected area
Landscape connectivity : the role of linear elements and the role of the matrix
Tools for the biological management of landscapes
Field works and practical work on ecological network design.
Prerequisites:
EC201
- 5030 Gembloux
EC209 – Biodiversity assesment and management (3.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Case studies, Lectures, Seminars, Visits
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Course objective:
Tools for the caracterisation and management of biodiversity
Course content:
Theoretical part
1. What is biodiversity
2. Methods for the quantification of biodiversity : genetic diversity, species diversity, community
diversity.
3. The biodiversity crisis : caracters and causes.
4. Biodiversity conservation and management
- the values of bioidversity
- international conventions
- biological conservation : the species approach
- protected zones
- restoring biodiversity
Practical work
Group project on the interactions between biological ressources exploitation and biodiversity
management
Prerequisites:
EC201
- 5030 Gembloux
EC210 – Ecology applied to open communities (2.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Typology and management of open habitat with a emphasis on biodiversity
Course content:
Definition and typology of open habitat
Open habitat of temperate climaten their relations with human activities and their ecological value
- Climax open habitat
- Open habitat generated by traditional agriculture
- Open habitat with urban zones
- Agriculture as an open habitat
Management of open habitats
- Restauration and management of open habitat
- Agri-environmental planning
Prerequisites:
- 5030 Gembloux
EG101 – Political and social economics (5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Lebailly Philippe
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Course objective:
- Introduction to basic political economic reasoning and to economic issues analysis
- To contribute to the general education of students by insisting on the analysis of economic policy
problems related to European integration
Course content:
I. Microeconomic Analysis
1. Consumer's choice theory
1.1. The Utility fonction
1.2. Consumer's choice analysis
1.3. Elasticity
2. Producer's choice theory
2.1. Production fonction
2.2. Production costs
2.3. Sale receipts
3. Markets study
3.1. The Concept of market
3.2. Conditions for open competition
3.3. Price formation in open competition
3.4. Price formation in monopoly situation
II. Macroeconomic analysis
1. National accountancy
1.1. Introduction
1.2. Concepts and definitions
1.3. Rules of Consistency
2. Gross National Product
2.1. Production method
2.2. Income method
2.3. Expenditure method
3. Macroeconomic equilibriums
III. Money
1. Introduction and definition
2. History
3. The different forms of money
4. The demand of money
5. The output of money
6. The International Monetary System
7. The European Monetary System
IV. Economic Policy
1. Economic Policy
2. Budget policy
V. European Integration : Elements and basic mechanisms
1. The economic and monetary union
2. The budget of the EU
3. European institutions
4. European structural funds
5. The ACP convention
Prerequisites:
SI101 - OU - MA101
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Economie et développement rural,
EG204 – Management (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
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Course objective:
To initiate the students to the principles of management by dealing successively with financial,
organization and human resource problems.
Course content:
A. Introduction
B. Financial management
1. The financial cycles of the company
2. The measurement of the company's performance
C. The main industrial and organizational theories
1. Introduction
2. Work organization : pre-taylorism
3. The classical theory
4. The behaviorist theory
5. The theory of needs and motivation
D. Human resources management
1. History
2. Structures of the organization
3. Planification
4. Job analysis and assessment
E. Steps for entreprise creation
1. Legal requirements
2. Project feasability
3. Business plan
Prerequisites:
EG205 – International economics (2.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To understand the role of the economy in international relations and to characterize the main
agricultural markets.
Course content:
A. International trade theory
1. Comparative advantages
2. National accounting and the balance of payments
3. Exchange rates
B. International trade
1. Trade policy tools
2. Forward markets
3. Barriers to export growth
C. Trade terms
D. Globalization : the case of foodsector.
Prerequisites:
EG101
EG206 – Food Policy and Strategy (2 ECTS)
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Course objective:
To analyse from an economic point of view all the activities linked to the food chair in a giver
society.
Course content:
To introduce the food industry economy through consideration of each sector successively.
Prerequisites:
EG207 – Food and agro-industrial Chain Economy (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
To analyse agro-industrial production, processing and marketing chains by considering the basic
principles of industrial organization in order to understand the competitive dynamic and the
performance of the principal chains-products.
Course content:
A particular focus will be attributed to the study of horizontal and vertical integration.
In the framework of this course, belgian and foreign sectorial studies related to crop and animal
produces will be presented and discussed.
Prerequisites:
EG208 – Economics of development Seminar (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
The objectives of the seminars are to analyse and to go deeply into issues that are specific to rural
economics and sociology and to address these issues with the available quantitative methods. Group
projects, presentations from externals with professional or academic experience and field trips
contribute to reach these objectives.
Course content:
Seminars are organized according to some themes choosen together by students and teachers. These
themes deal with concrete problems related to rural economics and sociology in developed as well
as in developing economics.
Seminars are organized in order to encourage active participation of students. Students are invited
to prepare each seminar with the appropriate litterature available to them.
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Prerequisites:
EG210 – General accounting and balance sheet analysis (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
To teach basic accounting techniques so that the students be able to undestand and analyse the
documents produced by companies
Course content:
1. Introduction
2. Basic principles
3. General Rules
4. Real accounting holding
5. Assets
6. Liabilities
7. The result accounts
8. Elements of trade legislation
9. Exercises
Prerequisites:
EG211 – Complementary course of accounting (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
To show the accounting tools and to introduce the students to management accountancy.
Course content:
1. Exercises on Computers
2. Introduction to analytical accounting
3. Total cost price
Prerequisites:
EM201 – Microbial ecology: water microbiology (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
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Course objective:
Presentation of the microbiological quality of differents type of water according to their uses
Course content:
Composition and contamination of natural (rain, underground, surface)waters
Evolution of microorganisms in waters
Main hydric diseases
Drinking water production
Disinfection of waters
Prerequisites:
AM201
EM202 – Microbial ecology: soil microbiology (0.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Fundamental role of microorganisms in soils structure and fertility, and also in matters cycle.
Course content:
Microorganisms and organic matter role in soil structure
Microorganisms role in soil fertility
Microorganisms role in plants nutrition and health
Microorganisms utility in matters cycle
Prerequisites:
AM201
EM203 – Basic principles of wastewater (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
The aim of the course is to give the basis of biological wastewater treatment. We introduce the
concept of municipal water treatment, then usual systems as activated sludge are presented.
Course content:
Part I : Water treatment
- Chapter 1 : General water problems
- Chapter 2 : Water caracteristic parameters
- Chapter 3 : Sewer system and preliminary treatment
- Chapter 4 : Principles of biological wastewater treatment
- Chapter 5 : Suspended growth biological treatment
- Chapter 6 : Other systems (biofilms systems)
- Chapter 7 : Individual on site systems
Part II : Self purification of rivers
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Prerequisites:
EM204 – Fundamental processes of biological wastewater treatment (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Diverse biological epuration systems
Course content:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Prerequisites:
EM203
EM205 – Water legislation and policy (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
The aim of this course is to present legislative histories (local and international) that lead or set
water quality objectives and control means of treatment results
Course content:
European background of federal and regional legislations (Water Framework Directive)
Different legislations about water types and their uses (quality objectives)
Taxation and "polluter pays" principle (tax calculation)
New regulation of environmental licence (single licence)
Permission of water intake and discharges
Classificatois of firms by risks (Seveso directive - major risks)
Administration and authorities structure (Belgium and others countries)
ISO and EMAS certifications
Environmental audit and incidence studies
Prerequisites:
FT201 – Tree species of tropical and subtropical regions (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Doucet Jean-Louis
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Course objective:
Students learn to identify botanic families through vegetative characteristics. This knowledge should
allow them to identify species using determination keys and reference books.
Course content:
1. Identification criteria and remarkable characteristics
2. Reference books
3. Systematic (about 50 families)
4. Collection, conservation and handling of tropical vegetal samples.
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Tropical and subtropical forestry,
FT202 – Tropical moist forests management (3.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Sustainable management of tropical moist forests
Course content:
1. Floristic regions and history of vegetation types
2. Forest ecology and impact of human activities
3. Ecology of the most important commercial African species
4. Forest management
5. Sylvicultural techniques
6. Biodiversity management
7. Forest management by local communities
8. Low impact exploitation techniques
9. Forest certification
Prerequisites:
FT201
FT203 – Forestry of dry tropical regions (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Sustainable management of dry vegetation types (forests, savannahs, steppes)
Course content:
1. Floristic regions and climatology
2. Description of most important vegetation types
3. Description of main African tree species
4. Impact of human interventions : deforestation, pasture, fires
5. Forest management
6. Natural and artificial regeneration techniques
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7. Desertification and anti-erosion measures
8. Forest management by local communities
Prerequisites:
FT201
FT204 – Tropical agroforestry (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Proposing management methods to reconcile agriculture and forestry in a sustainable manner.
Course content:
1. Definition
2. Agroforestry systems in dry tropical regions
2.1. Multipurpose trees on cropland
2.2. Windbreaks
2.3. Alley cropping
3. Agroforestry systems in moist tropical regions
3.1. Shifting cultivation
3.2. Improved fallows
3.3. Home gardens
3.4. Live hedges
3.5. Alley cropping
3.6. Taungya
Prerequisites:
FT201
FT205 – Management of natural ecosystems (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Case studies, Lectures
Course objective:
Starting with lectures by experts in natural ecosystems management and reviewing articles that
express opposite opinions, management methods that reconcile social, ecologic and economic
aspects are presented to the students.
Course content:
1. Tropical natural ecosystems
1.1. Spatial occupation and territorial management
1.2. Theories on property management
1.3. Participatory management of game species
1.4. Management of forest resources by local communities
1.5. Sustainable management of moist tropical forests
2. Temperate natural or semi-natural ecosystems
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2.1. Management of Forest biodiversity
2.2. Management of open areas
2.3. Ecotones
2.4. Riparian forest vegetation types
Prerequisites:
FT206 – Genetic improvement of forest trees (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Providing an introduction to Genetics and improvement of forest trees
Course content:
1. Introduction
2. Basic concepts
2.1 Particular biological aspects
2.2 Genetic ecology
2.3 Population genetics
2.4 Quantitative genetics
3. Selection of populations
3.1 Provenances
3.2 Seed Stands
4. Individual selection
4.1 Plus trees
4.2 Seed orchards
4.3 Multiclonal varieties
5. Breeding strategies
6. Practical examples
Prerequisites:
BV203
GF201 – Forest mensuration and forest inventory (4.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Rondeux Jacques
Teaching method(s): Case studies, Field works, Lectures, Practical works
Course objective:
Principles and methods in the estimation of quantitative aspects of trees and stand with emphasis
on the mathematical and statistical techniques involved.
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Course content:
Scope of forest mensuration. Importance of forest mensuration to forestry.
Tree cross sectional area (definitions, measurement devices, errors).
Tree height (definitions, measurement devices, errors).
Other measured characteristics (age, bark, crown, stump, ...).
Measures of form and cubic volume. Biomass (general considerations, methods of determination).
Volume tables (type, mathematical models, construction, different applications).
Stand structure (parameters describing even-aged and uneven-aged stands).
Stand measurements (area, complete enumeration, volume determination, Bitterlich method).
Growth of trees and stands, site assessement, classification and construction of growth models.
Yield tables and models.
Forest inventory (statistical principles, sampling units, measurements and calculations in inventory,
type of sampling designs(random and systematic).
Types of sampling inventory : multi-phase, stratified, cluster, multi-stage, Bitterlich method.
Planning and executing a forest inventory (at management and national levels).
Prerequisites:
SI201 - OU - GF214 - OU - GF215
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Gestion des ressources forestières
et des milieux naturels, passage des Déportés, 2 - 5030 Gembloux
GF202 – Natural ressources inventory methods (2.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Lejeune Philippe
Course objective:
Presentation of techniques and methods that can be used to collect and analysed data in the context
of natural resources management. This course put emphasize on Information System (Database
and Geodatabase) conception and management.
Course content:
1. Introduction
2. Sampling techniques applied to natural resources description
- Design of a sampling schedule
- Area estimation by points counting
3. Wildlife populations counting
- Abundance indexes
- Aerial transect with complete counting
- Distance sampling
- Other methods
4. Introduction to Database Management System
- Basic concepts
- Design of a database (conceptual model)
- Relational model
- CASE tools
- SQL language
- Relational DBMS (MS Access)
Prerequisites:
SI201 - OU - GF212
GF204 – Forest management (4.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Case studies, Field works, Lectures, Practical works, Seminars
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Course objective:
Focuses on the planning and implementation processes necessary to achieve integrated use of forests
and associated natural resources. Provides students with the foundation necessary for the
management and administration of a multiresource enterprise.
Course content:
Principles, concepts and application of management methods which concern forested lands with
emphasis upon the integration approach required to meet society's changing life.
Resource information (site, ecological and economical factors) for forest management.
Organization of the forest (forest organization and subdivision, forest inventory control).
Main planification methods required to manage coppices, coppices with standards, evenaged and
unevenaged high forests (contents, structure of plans and illustrative outlines).
Determination of the allowable cut (application of area and volume control and combination
approaches).
Regulation of forests of evenagedstands (cases analyses of regulation with various types of age-class
distribution). Controle method applied to unevenaged forests.
Elaboration of some decision-making models useful in multiple-use management.
Real-life examples and practical applications (use of micro-computers, models and geographic
information system as decision-supports).
Prerequisites:
GF201 - OU - GF214 - OU - GF215 - OU - GF212
GF205 – Forest economics (3 ECTS)
Course objective:
Provides understanding and familiarity with economic tools contributing to making competent
decisions in resource economics, management and policy
Course content:
Introduction of forest valuation (income value, capital, investment and interest).
Time value of money and compound interest (arithmetic of interest, application to forestry decisions).
Revenues and costs. Direct and indirect methods of stumpage and land values.
Decision criteria for financial investments (net present value, internal rate of return, benefit-cost
ratio, payback period and other parameters) - advantages and disadvantages.
Methods of economic planning.
Rotation determination (financial criteria).
Nature and objectives of forestry projects.
Financial and economic analysis.
Project context (level of details, components).
Input and output identifications.
Market prices and reference prices. Forestry projects and uncertainty.
Methods for evaluating risk in forest investments.
Appraisal of forest damages (nature, kinds and purposes of damages appraisal; legal aspects and
methods used). Conducting expertises in case of death duties, compulsory purchase, etc.
Prerequisites:
HE204 - OU - GF204 - OU - GF201
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GF206 – Forest and forest ecosystem (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Introduction to the art of producing and managing forested areas. Understanding and control of
forest ecosystems
Course content:
Importance and role of the forest in the world.
Objective notions of forest (ecosystem concept, climax, developmental patterns, man and forest).
Silviculture and agronomy: similarities and differences.
Silviculture as applied ecology (scope and terminology of silvicultural practices).
Main components of the forest. Stand dynamics (structure, growtth, cohorts and age classes).
Types of forests and kinds of stands (coppice, coppice with standards, high forest).
Preparation and treatment of the site.
Treatments applied to forests to maintain and enhance their utility for any purpose.
Development of silvicultural systems and methods of regeneration (artificial, natural).
Silviculture and management of even-aged stands and uneven-aged stands (pure and mixed).
Silvicultural management of wildlife habitat and watershed ecosystems.
Agroforestry concept.
Prerequisites:
GF211 – Forest harvesting (1.5 ECTS)
Evaluation method(s): Personal report, Written examination
Course objective:
Presentation of main forest harvesting systems used throughout the world. Attention is paid to
- interaction between environment constraints and equipments;
- improvement thanks to new technologies;
- security measures in forest harvesting
Course content:
1. Introduction
2. Manual felling
3. Mechanized felling
4. Wood primary transport
5. Productivity and profitability in logging
6. Tropical forest harvesting
7. Selection of a harvesting system
8. Security measure in forest harvesting
9. Biomass harvesting
Prerequisites:
GF206
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GF212 – Geomatic (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Introduction to GIS as a tool for spatial data capture, management and analysis in the context of
land and natural resource management
Course content:
1. Introduction
2. Data modelling and data structure
3. Georeferencing
4. Data acqusition
5. Data display and layout
6. Spatial data analysis
7. GIS software
8. GIS management
9. Main spatial data set in wallonian region
Prerequisites:
GF213 – Temperate countries forest species (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Field works, Lectures, Visits
Course objective:
Identification and study of leaf and softwood trees from temperate countries
Course content:
- Fortest geography of Belgium
- The Belgian forest (species, stands, ...)
- Forest species description and characteristics : botanical and dendrological characters, dispersal,
synecology, autecology, regeneration, growth and production, wood and uses; dangers and pests;
silviculture
- Field visits
Prerequisites:
BV101 - OU - GF206 - OU - GP201
GF214 – General silviculture (part 1) (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Claessens Hugues
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Course objective:
Basic principles for silviculture in temperate and tropical countries
Course content:
1. History of european forest and silviculture
2. Forest ecosystem
3. Technics of silviculture
4. Silvicultural systems (high forest, "near natura silviculture", ligniculture)
5. Conservation silviculture
6. Forest field visits
Prerequisites:
GF206 - OU - EC201 - OU - BV102 - OU - GP201
GF215 – General silviculture (part 2) (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Complements on silvicultural operations
Course content:
- Thinning norms (thinning tables, ...)
- 2 days of immersion in forest management
Prerequisites:
EC201 - OU - GF206 - OU - GP201 - OU - GF214
GF216 – Applied silviculture (4.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Field works, Visits
Evaluation method(s): Group report, Oral examination, Personal report
Course objective:
Silviculture of the main species of temperate Europe
Course content:
1. Detailed study of 4 species (or groups of species): Leaf: common beech and oaks (Q. robur, Q.
sessilis, Q. rubra) / Conifers: Norway Spruce and Douglas Fir 2. Brief study of the following species:
Common Ash, Gean, Maple, with emphasis on Ash (1 day visit). Populars (1 day visit). Pines (1
or 2 days visit). Firs and other species.
Prerequisites:
GF213 - OU - GF214 - OU - GP201
GF217 – Cynegetique (1.5 ECTS)
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Teaching method(s): Case studies, Field works, Lectures, Seminars, Visits
Course objective:
To give to the Water and Forest Ingeneers the minimum knowledge about hunting, in order to carry
out their profession, in the private as well in the public sectors, and to deal with complex problems
of hunting management
Course content:
1. Introduction 2. Generalities 3. Outline of legislation about hunting 4. Game biology 5. Game
population management 6. Hunting areas management 7. Hunting weapons and munitions
Prerequisites:
GF206
GF218 – Site diagnosis (2.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Claessens Hugues
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Deals with the different concepts and technics of site diagnosis in the context of forest management,
with field application to belgian forest sites
Course content:
Theorical concepts
- Forest site description (abiotic and floristic)
- Ecological land classification
Application to belgian forest
- Forest site description
- Site typology
- Floristic indicators
- Phytosociology
Field applications
Prerequisites:
GF213 - OU - BV101 - OU - GF206 - OU - EC201 - OU - EC202 - OU - GP201 - OU - ZZ116
GN201 – Quantitative genetics (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Gengler Nicolas
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Teach the bases of and the most used methods in quantitative genetics
Course content:
1. Introduction into quantitative genetics
2. Bases element in mathematics and statistics
2.1. Matrix algebra
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2.2. Introduction into linear models
3. Quantiative and qualitative, monogenetic and polygenetic traits
4. Varability of populations
5. Heredity and environment
5.1. Sources of genetic variation, additive and non-additive
5.2. Sources of environmental variation
6. Resemblance between related and measurements of relationships
6.1. Genetic covariance between relatives
6.2. Environmental covariance between relatives
7. Effects of the modes of reproduction
7.1. Heterosis
7.2. Consanguinity
8. Covariance and correlation between traits
8.1. Decomposition of phenotypical covariances
8.2. Genetic correlation
8.3. Consequences of the existence of correlations among traits
9. Contributions of molecular genetics
9.1. Major genes and QTL
9.2. Selection assisted by molecular information
10. Estimate of the parameters and breeding values
10.1. Linear models
10.2. Introduction to breeding value estimation methods: selection index and linear mixed models
10.3. Introduction to genetic parameter estimation methods
11. Complements
11.1. Genetics of the evolution
11.2. Biodiversity
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Zootechnie, passage des Déportés,
2 - 5030 Gembloux
GN202 – Animal breeding (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Gengler Nicolas
Course objective:
Teach modern techniques used in animal breeding with special emphasis on the most used methods
in quantitative genetics
Course content:
History of animal breeding and genetics
Breeding struxtures and other players in animal breeders
Introduction to techniques used in animal breeding and genetics
- Fundamental concepts
- Definition of breeding goals
Selection Index
- Definition, notation, computation
- Examples (using OCTAVE and SAS)
- Links between selection index and mixed models
- Total merit index
Mixed models
- Definition, notation, computation
- Examples (using OCTAVE and SAS
Genetic markers and QTL/ETL
Genetic progress
Practical applications and examples
- Genetic evaluationq
- Selection programs
Prerequisites:
PC201 - OU - SI101 - OU - MA101 - OU - MA102
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2 - 5030 Gembloux
GP201 – Pedology (3.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Bock Laurent
Teaching method(s): Field works, Lectures
Course objective:
To portray soil as an organized, living and dynamic system (soil as a reactor); the comprehension
of which (or pedological synthesis) being essential for all uses aiming at sustainability, reversibility
and respect for the environment.
Course content:
Soil as an environmental factor - general concepts introducing the profile definition.
The notion of parental material in comparison with forms and formations-supports (origin, nature,
deposition).
Elements of identification :
- criteria of differenciation and horizon symbols;
- presentation of the Belgian soil map;
- main soil types of the world.
Field identification (2x 1/2 day early in the programme).
Solid components :
- mineral (granulometry, composition);
- organic - living and dead (morphology, determination, evolution).
Particles organization or (micro) structure
(genesis, morphology, porous resultant, sensitivity, appropriated characterizations).
Liquid and gaseous phases :
- water in the soil (characteristics, behaviour, incidences);
- soil air, oxydo-reduction potential and soil temperature.
Colloïdal properties and soil solution.
Acidity and alkalinity.
(Bio)availability in (micro)nutrients.
Outline for soil fertility assessment.
Prerequisites:
LA101
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Géopédologie, passage des Déportés,
2 - 5030 Gembloux
GP202 – Geomorphopedological identification (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
To give the means of a practical pedology making optimal use of existing information where present
or being able to provide any missing data and establish the framework of a soil reference system
for projects.
Course content:
Methodology of geographical approach (soil identification and use) based on cartographic and
photographic illustrations produced for projects in Belgium and Overseas (copies of original papers
including case studies in Guinea and China).
Guidelines for profile description and implementation (handbook and form of the Laboratory).
Concepts of adapted samplings.
Strategy in soil analyses.
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Principles of an interpretation both geomorphopedological (explicative) and agropedological or
environmental (statement).
Framework for soil evaluation and decision making as regards land use and crop/tree choice.
Field demonstration at the contact of Lower Ardenne and Famenne (1 day) as well as in the Loamy
region (2x1/2 day) illustrating the Belgian soil map.
Prerequisites:
GP201
2 - 5030 Gembloux
GP203 – Pedology of tropical and subtropical environments (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
To apply the principles of general pedology to the knowledge and the appropriate management of
soils in the frame of hot sub-continental specificities. Examples are taken from personal experiences
Course content:
Factors of pedogenesis in hot regions (subtropical and tropical).
The resulting soils :
- typology;
- mineral and organic composition;
- properties, potentialities and constraints;
- morphosequential relations.
Principles of geomorphopedological identification and soil quality evaluation.
Sampling and soil analysis strategies.
Systems of soil use and management in relation with their specificities (context of shifting cultivation
and improved or intensive cropping).
Elements of soil conservation and improvement.
Special questions (soils mapping for irrigation, saline soils and mangroves, rice growing,
desertification, ...).
Prerequisites:
GP201
2 - 5030 Gembloux
GP204 – Pedology of forest environment (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To initiate to principles of operational pedology aiming at the knowledge of forest soils and to
specify their ecosystemic role.
Course content:
Indices of edaphic characterization in forest environment.
Humus characterisation.
Chemical and physical fertility factors and balance sheet.
Hydric and trophic interpretative keys of soil maps.
Options of soil management, improvement and even use of "marginal land".
Process and field truth in Ardenne.
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Prerequisites:
GP201
2 - 5030 Gembloux
GP206 – Applied regional pedology (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
To illustrate more abundantly in the field and in good weather conditions, the lectures of
geomorphopedological identification (GP202) and of soil quality evaluation and management
(GP210) while completing the knowledge of the regional pedological specificities and of the relations
soils-societies on the base of the soil map.
Course content:
Alalysis of representative maps of different natural regions.
Field diagnosis in regions up to now not illustrated in previous lectures.
Walk through a reallocated site with a land evaluator, contact with farmers, visit of new fittings.
In-depth reading of a soil map and production of a toposequence to illustrate in the field by augerings
and photographs and to comment in terms of rock-relief-soil-land use-housing-landscape... relations.
Introduction by the producer to the geo-environmental tool for decision making developed for the
Walloon Region.
Prerequisites:
GP202 - OU - GP210
2 - 5030 Gembloux
GP209 – Pedogenesis and soil classification (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To deepen the understanding of pedogenetical factors and of soil typology to better diagnose and
so, to better manage the contraints and suitabilities while offering an idea about a more specific
field of research.
Course content:
Chronospatial reasoning of events and major processes.
Fine typologic analysis and specific diagnostic criteria.
Comparative study of the principal systems of world classifications (French, FAO-WRB, USDA).
Example from personal experience of a pedogenetic reconstitution (Algeria).
Prerequisites:
GP201
2 - 5030 Gembloux
GP210 – Soil quality evaluation and management (2 ECTS)
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Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
To apply the principles of geomorphopedological identification to the inventory of pressures on
soil, to the monitoring of its quality, to the means of prevention and reaction, to the delivering of
advice in Belgium and Overseas.
Course content:
Introduction based on the European and Walloon inventories.
Identification, causes and consequences of pressures on soil :
- edaphic(ss) or ecologic (soil organic state, acidification tendency, ...) degradation;
- crusting, compaction, poaching, hydric (and aeolian) erosion;
- diffused or site specific contaminations (heavy metal, pesticides and other organic contaminants,
nitrate and phosphorous, artificial radionuclides);
- economic subtraction.
Procedures of investigation (historic, ecosystemic, cartographic and analytic) and monitoring (choice
of indicators, positioning, frequency, ...).
Means of prevention and intervention adapted to the context :
- options of allocation, land management, agronomic practices, particular techniques, ...;
- agricultural or forest context, peri-urban land, industrial site, ....
Reflection on control issues (notion of observatory) and information management.
Case studies, contribution of guest speakers.
Prerequisites:
GP202
2 - 5030 Gembloux
HA201 – Soils physics (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Dautrebande Sylvia
Course objective:
Fundamental aspects of soils physic with hydric, solute, thermic transfers in unsaturated soils.
Course content:
Physical caracteristics of soils
Soil and water : hydrostatic
Methods of soils moisture measurements
Thermodynamics of the unsaturated soils
Methods of soil water retention potential measurements
Soils moisture transfer
Water flow in saturated soils
Soil moisture transfer unsaturated soils
Solute transfer in unsaturated soils
Soil - Water - Plant modelling
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Hyfrologie et hydraulique agricole,
HA203 – General hydrology (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Field works, Lectures, Practical works, Visits
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Course objective:
Basis and Ingenieurs formation in Surface Hydrology
Course content:
1) Measurements in Hydrology
- Rainfall
- Others climatic factors
. Interception
. Infiltration
. Potential and actual evaporation and evapotranspiration
2) Rainfall and climatic deficits
3) Treatment and interpretation of flowdata
- Flowdata
- Statistical and stochastic models
- Conceptual catchment models
- Design floods
Prerequisites:
HA201
HA207 – Drainage (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Field works, Practical works
Course objective:
Application project
Course content:
Drainage project
Prerequisites:
MF201 - OU - HA221 - OU - HA201
HA208 – Hydraulics amenagment of rural eng. (5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Eng. principes and technics of Hydraulic Conservations, plus environmental aspects
Course content:
Hydraulics constructions
- Diversion dams
- Criteria of selected site
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- Uplift forces
- Spillvays
- Hydraulic - jump basins
- Cutoffs
- Riprap
Projects
- Irrigation project
- Hydraulics construction project
Seminars on the environmental impact of hydraulics constructions and management projects
Prerequisites:
HA209 – (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Basic and applicated formation on the salutes transfers in unsaturated soils
Course content:
Theory of transfer
- Equation of convection - dispersion
Mathematical models
Application
- Pesticides
- Nitrates
- Salinity
Prerequisites:
HA201
HA210 – Photointerpretation and remote sensing (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Basic formation in Remote Sensing for the study of terrestrial ressources
Course content:
Remote Sensing
- Satellites
- Scanning
- Imagery
- Treatment and interpretation
- GIS (principes)
- Applications
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Photointerpretation
- Aerial photo
- Principes of photointerpretation
- Applications
Prerequisites:
HA211 – Soil and water conservation (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Basic theory of hydraulic Soils erosion end technical aspects of soil conservation
Course content:
1) Sheet and rill erosion
- Model of Wishmeier
- General considerations
2) The USLE equation
- Critical erosion
- The terms of the USLE equation
Prerequisites:
HA220 – Sediment transport in the rivers (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
néant
Course content:
- The critical velocity
- The bed load
- The bed material load
- The suspended load
- The wash load
- Disilting systems
- Reservoir sedimentation
Prerequisites:
HA201 - OU - MF201 - OU - MF202
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HA221 – Groundwater hydrodynamics (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
néant
Course content:
- Darcy law
- Laplace solutions
- Dupuit solutions
- Methods and Models for Rural Engineering : problems (drainage, pumping, wetlands
management,...)
Prerequisites:
HA207 - OU - HA201 - OU - MF202
HE201 – Wood science (3.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Hébert Jacques
Course objective:
The students will develop a knowledge of wood characteristics including properties and defects.
They will learn to assess wood quality by means of suitable techniques such as measurements,
grading, microdensitometry and other tests. In addition, the students will learn to recognize the
most common temperate species from a wood sample.
Course content:
Physical, mechanical, biological properties :
- moisture content, density, hardness;
- strength and stiffness;
- conductivity, combustibility,...
Wood defects due to growth excess, physical agents, plants or animals and man actions.
Microdensitometry, theory and practice.
Macroscopic recognition of temperate species wood samples.
Grading rules and standards for timber
Assessment of strength and stiffness on structural wood, relationships between visual grading,
strength measurement and machine stress grading.
Prerequisites:
HE202 – Wood industries (2 ECTS)
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Course objective:
To provide a well-argued knowledge of the various wood transformation technologies taking into
account the global market changes
Course content:
Introduction to wood technology
Transformation technics in relation to forest resources and economical background
Description of various technologies :
Slicing and Peeling
Plywood
Pulp and paper
Sawing
Drying
Wood frames
Flooring
Wood energy (Densification, Gazification, Charcoal)
Prerequisites:
HE203 – Wood-based products (2.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To complete the wood technology study and to analyse the relationships between raw material
characteristics and end-product properties (in-depth knowledge of particle board technology).
Course content:
Natural durability
Wood protection
Laminated wood
Boards quality
Particle boards
Structural boards
Cement boards
Fiber boards
Normalisation
Economical aspects
Prerequisites:
HE204 – Forest products sector (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
This course will explore the analysis and interpretation of multiple relationships in both temperate
and tropical timber markets between forest management, economy, wood technology and forest
politics. Afterwards, the students must be able to make a diagnosis of a particular forest sector.
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Course content:
Definition and evolution of the forest sector.
Timber sales organization.
Stumpage prices analysis.
Logging organization in Belgium.
Grouping modes of forest owners and estates.
Market development of small diameter timber.
Centralizing organization for high value timber.
Assessment of future wood availability for pulp industry.
Tropical timber market evolution.
World development of prices and timber markets.
Short and medium term prospect in forest products market.
Current events.
Forest politics in Belgium, France, Germany and UK.
Diagnosis of a particular forest sector (seminar).
Prerequisites:
HG205 – Horticulture production systems (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Bodson Monique
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Description and approach of the different production systems and decision supports, in term of
sustainable horticulture.
Course content:
- Factors determining the location and development of the horticulture industry
- Approach of the different production systems
- Constraints of specific production options in relation to commercial objectives
- Interest and limits of the different production systems in term of economic and ecologic
requirements.
Prerequisites:
HG206 - OU - HG221 - OU - HG222 - OU - XA201 - OU - BV201
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Physiologie végétale à finalité
horticole, passage des Déportés, 2 - 5030 Gembloux
HG206 – Principles of horticultural science (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Principles of horticulture science: description and analysis of the physiological and technological
basis. Principles of plant production management : approach of methods and techniques by case
study.
Course content:
- Analysis of the characteristics and specificities of horticultural productions.
- Management and controls of the crop climate and microclimatic factors : light, temperature,
atmosphere composition.
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- Management and controls of edaphic factors : substrates properties ; soilless systems ;
microorganisms and symbiotic associations.
- Management of the plant production system : varietal range and cultural practices.
Prerequisites:
AM201 - OU - BV102 - OU - PC201 - OU - BV101
HG209 – Analysis of the network of operators in the horticulture
industry (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Course content:
Prerequisites:
HG220 – Managing tree growth
arboriculture (1.5 ECTS)
and
development:
principles
of
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Principles of tree management and cultural practices in fruit arboriculture and ornamental
arboriculture.
Course content:
- Physiological basis of tree development and coordinated growth.
- Tree architecture : spatial and temporal localization of primary and secondary growth , as
influencing tree morphology and crown structure.
- Impact of cultural practices on the tree development, and conditions of their uses.
- Principles of fruit arboriculture and ornamental arboriculture
Prerequisites:
BV101 - OU - BV201 - OU - BV102 - OU - HG206
HG221 – Physiology of plant reproduction and propagation (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
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Course objective:
Analysis of the physiological controls of plant reproduction and their impacts in horticulture :
conditions and methods of plant propagation.
Course content:
- Characteristics and controls of sexual plant reproduction : from the seeds to the seeds
- Principles and techniques of seed propagation : applications and limits
- Characteristics of natural vegetative reproduction
- Principles and techniques of clonal propagation : applications and limits
Prerequisites:
BV101 - OU - BV102
HG222 – Post harverst physiology (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Analysis of the characteristics and conditions of post-harvest modifications of horticultural crops
(vegetables, fruits and flowers) and management of the storage conditions for optimal commercial
quality
Course content:
- Physiological properties of harvested crops : impact of growth and maturation conditions on the
keeping quality
- Ripening and senescence of harvested crops : cellular changes and respiration characteristics
- The role of ethylene : controls of ethylene emission and action
- Maturity and harvest indices
- Quality attributes of horticultural products
- Storage conditions : impact of temperature and atmosphere composition on the post harvest
physiology
Prerequisites:
BV101 - OU - BV102
KT201 – Genetic engineering (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Kettmann Richard
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Course objective:
To present the strategy leading to the cloning, the identification and the expression of a gene of
particular interest with special emphasis on animal cells.
Course content:
Theory :
- Bacteriophages : their use to construct cDNA expression librairies. - Expression of a gene of
interest using recombinant plasmids or viruses (baculovirus, retrovirus, vaccinia virus,...). Transgenic animals. - Gene therapy. siRNAs and potential applications - DNA analysis by Southern
blot analysis, RFLP, RAPD, AFLP, ... . Examples.
Practice :
- Phage manipulation : titration, identification of recombinants, DNA analysis.
-FACS analyses
Prerequisites:
KT202
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Biologie moléculaire et cellulaire,
KT202 – Molecular biology (3.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
A study of the functioning of the genome
Course content:
-DNA (structure and function, replication, repairs, molecular hybridization). - From DNA to RNA
including chromosomes and gene regulation. - DNA technology (DNA cloning, DNA engineering).
- From RNA to protein, intracellular transport, post-traductional modifications - Cell signalling.
Prerequisites:
CG102 - OU - CG101
KT203 – Applied molecular biology (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Practical works
Course objective:
An illustratation of selected topics of lectures in molecular biology (KT 202)
Course content:
-Extraction, purification and characterization of calf thymus DNA;
-Extraction, purification and characterization of plasmid DNA ;
-Extraction and purification of RNAs;
-In vitro protein synthesis in rabbit reticulocytes lysates.
Prerequisites:
KT202
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LA101 – Geosciences (9 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Lacroix Daniel
Course objective:
Description and interpretation of minerals, rocks, geological processes and associated landforms
Course content:
Mineralogy
Crystallography
Description of minerals
Geology and geomorphology
Petrology
Tectonics, geological maps
Geophysics
Stratigraphy, quaternary geology
Geology of Belgium
Hydrogeology
Prerequisites:
2 - 5030 Gembloux
LE201 – Wood anatomy and identification (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Leclercq André
Course objective:
To lay the foundation for the knowledge of wood which is a complex raw material by the diversity
of its chemicals, its anisotropic structure and the multitude of anatomical variations. To observe
the main physical and mechanical properties of clear wood.
Course content:
WOOD ANATOMY
Anatomical structure of softwoods and hardwoods
Structure of cell wall and submicroscopical structure
Wood anatomy of tropical hardwood species
Anatomical features leading to the identification of wooden species
Heartwood and heartwood formation
Abnormal structure (compression wood and tension wood)
WOOD CHEMISTRY
General composition; Cellulose, hemicellulose, lignine and secondary components.
Prerequisites:
LO201 – Applied organic chemistry (2 ECTS)
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Course objective:
The applied organic chemistry course focuses on modern extraction, purification and identification
methods of organic molecules from complex biological systems with special emphasize to chemical
characterization, chromatographic and sampling techniques
Course content:
- Structure-properties relationship of organic molecules : solubility and polarity
- chemical characterization of organic functions by specific reactions; study of their mechanism
- Derivatization reaction of selected classes of analytes
- Fundamental and practical aspects of chromatography (Gas liquid chromatography and high
performance liquid chromatography ): chromatographic calculations, optimisation and measurement
of performances, molecular basis of the interactions, instrument and column description. Application
to the chromatographic analysis of natural molecules.
- Extraction and purification procedures in organic analysis including adsorption chromatography
; description of modern sampling methods for volatile products analysis ( hydrodistillation
procedures, headspace techniques, SPME, SBSE...)
- Chiral and multidimensionnal separations
- Application of hyphenated techniques to the study of organic molecules
Case analysis : determination of methodologic criteria, measurement of protocol performances
Personal work dealing with a particular aspect of the course ( 4h equivalent)
Prerequisites:
CG102 - OU - CB101 - OU - CG204
LT201 – Strength of materials and elasticity (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Latteur Pierre
Course objective:
To achieve (for more informations, please refer to french release).
Course content:
To achieve (for more informations, please refer to french release).
Prerequisites:
ME101 - OU - MA101 - OU - MA102
LT202 – Construction processes (4 ECTS)
Course objective:
To achieve. Please refer to french release.
Course content:
Prerequisites:
LT201 - OU - MA101 - OU - MA102 - OU - ME101
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LT203 – Theory of structural calculations (5.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Course content:
Prerequisites:
LT201 - OU - MA101 - OU - MA102 - OU - ME101
MA101 – General mathematics (first part) (11.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Charles Catherine
Course objective:
To provide basics in mathematics to students majoring in engineering,
with initiation to the main mathematical tools and their applications in
problem analysis and solution
Course content:
LINEAR ALGEBRA AND ANALYTIC GEOMETRY
Vector algebra in euclidean space
Basic concepts of analytic geometry
Straight lines and planes
Lines and surface
Real vector spaces
Matrix algebra
Systems of linear equations
Transformation of coordinates
DIFFERENTIAL AND INTEGRAL CALCULUS WITH ONE REAL VARIABLE
Functions and numbers
Real functions of real variable - limits and continuity
Derivatives and applications
Antiderivatives and definite integrals
Methods of integration
Definite integrale applications - improper integrals
Numerical series; power series
Introduction to vector analysis
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Applied mathematic, passage des
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MA102 – General mathematics (second part) (3 ECTS)
Course objective:
To complete the basics in mathematics (course MA101) with some more
specialized areas used in other graduate courses
Course content:
FUNCTIONS OF TWO AND THREE VARIABLES
Definitions; partial derivatives; composite functions derivation
Taylor's theorem for two variables; maxima, minima and saddle points
Gradiant and applications to geometry
First differential
DOUBLE INTEGRALS
Definition; computation by iterated integrals and by transformation of
variables
Application to volume and surface area computation
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
General concepts
Main first order differential equations
Some second order differential equations
MATRIX ALGEBRA (second part)
Matrices with complex entries
Characteristic values and vectors
Triangularization and diagonalization.
Prerequisites:
MA101
ME101 – Engineering mechanics (3 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Destain Marie-France
Course objective:
To build a foundation in mechanics (statics and dynamics) : presentation of general methods and
application of these methods to practical engineering problems.
Course content:
STATICS
- Concurrent forces in a plane
- Parallel forces in a plane
- General case of forces in a plane
DYNAMICS
- Rectilinear translation
- Curvilinear motion
- Rotation of a rigid body about a fixed axis
- Plane motion of a rigid body
Prerequisites:
MA101 - OU - PH101
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ME201 – Dynamics of systems (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
To give the basis of system modeling in the agricultural and agro-industry area (input - output
relationships). Exercices are performed by using Matlab.
Course content:
- The mathematical concept of a system, classification of agricultural systems
- Linear models in the time domain, first-order and second-order models
- The transfer function, poles and residues,transient responses
- The frequency response, Bode and Nyquist diagrams
Prerequisites:
MA101 - OU - MA102
ME203 – Principles of agricultural machines (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
- To discuss the methods and equipment used to accomplish the various operations employed in
production agriculture.
- To present agricultural machines as a system of sub-components performing different functions.
Course content:
- 1st part: THE TRACTOR
* Tractor traction
* Tractor equilibrium
* Tractor hitching
* Transmission of power
- 2nd part: THE AGRICULTURAL MACHINES
* Soil tillage
* Crop planting
* Chemical application
* Grain harvesting
* Beet harvesting
* Forage harvesting
Prerequisites:
ME101
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ME207 – Kinematics and dynamics of machines (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
To acquire a knowledge in mechanics often used in agricultural machines.
Course content:
- Analysis of mechanisms :
- Four-bar linkages
- Cams and followers
- Slider-crank mechanism
- Gear trains
- Mechanical vibrations
- Contact problems: Hertz theory, lubrification
- Modelling of mechanical systems (Software: Working Model)
Prerequisites:
ME101 - OU - ME201
ME208 – Mechanical engineering design (2.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To give the basis of mechanical engineering design.
Course content:
- The industrial products
- The normalized drawing
- Screws, fasteners and connections
- Welded joints
- Bearings
- Clutches, brakes and couplings
- Belts and chains
- Shafts and axles
Prerequisites:
LT201 - OU - ME207
ME209 – Computer aided design (2.5 ECTS)
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Course objective:
The student should be able to use computer aided design software to prepare 2D and 3D models.
He will use this expertise to conduct a design project.
Course content:
- Basics of technical design
- Use of computer-aided design (CAD) software to model parts and assemblies
- Design project:
- Functional scheme
- Dimensioning
- Drawing
Prerequisites:
ME207 - OU - ME208
ME210 – (2.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
To present applications of automatics and robotics in agriculture
Course content:
- Defintions
- Modelling of dynamic systems
- Process control: control laws, controllers
- Application 1: hydraulic control
- Application 2: livestock production
Prerequisites:
ME201 - OU - ME211
ME211 – Metrology (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
To examine the basic physical principles of sensors
Course content:
- Physical principles of sensing
- Interface electronic circuits
- Position, level and displacement measurement
- Velocity and acceleration measurement
- Force and strain sensors
- Pressure sensors
- Flow sensors
- Temperature sensors
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Prerequisites:
PH205
MF201 – Fluid mechanics (2.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Debouche Charles
Course objective:
Teaching the fondamental concepts of fluid mechanics and their emprirical complements used in
engineering applications on fluids.
Allow the students to understand the working principle of a turbomachine
Course content:
1. Properties of fluides
2. Fluid statics
3. Kinematics of fluid flow
4. Flow of an ideal fluid
5. Flow of a real fluid
6. Laminar and turbulent flow
7. Fluid flow in pipes
8. Pipes network
9. Pipeline problems
10. Turbomachines: introduction
11. Pump and pipeline: design and selection
Prerequisites:
MA102 - OU - ME101 - OU - PH101 - OU - PH102 - OU - MA101
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Mécanique des fluides et
environnement, passage des Déportés, 2 - 5030 Gembloux
MF202 – Open channel hydraulics (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Teaching the fondamental concepts of water flow in open channels.
Allow the students to design open channels and other plants with flow under atmospheric pressure.
Course content:
1. Open channels and their properties
2. Energy pprinciples and critical flow
3. Momentum principles
4. Development of uniform flow and its formulas
5. Computation of uniform flow
6. Design of channels for uniform flow
7. Development of gradualy varied flow
8. Computation of gradualy varied flow
9. Spatialy varied flow (increasing or decreasing discharge)
10. Flow over spillways
11. Hydraulic jump and its use as energy dissipator
12. Flow through non prismatic channel sections
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Prerequisites:
MA102 - OU - ME101 - OU - PH101 - OU - PH102 - OU - MA101
MF203 – Surveying (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Field works, Lectures, Practical works
Course objective:
Teaching basic theory and practical material for use in engineering surveying
Course content:
1. Geodesy
2. Map projection
3. Theory of measurments and errors
4. Theodolites and their use
5. Angle measurement
6. Distance measurement
7. Levelling
8. Satellite surveying systems (GPS)
Prerequisites:
MA102 - OU - SI101
MF204 – Surveying (complement) (2.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Field works, Lectures, Practical works, Visits
Course objective:
Analysis and adjustment of survey measurements
Course content:
1. Least squares adjustment and analysis
2. Application in traverse
3. Application in resection
4. Foundations of photogrammetry
5. Rectification
6. Aerotriangulation
7. Stereoscopy
Prerequisites:
MF203
MF205 – Introduction to environnemtal assessment (1.5 ECTS)
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Course objective:
To introduce the various environmental assessment methods and to initiate to they use.
Course content:
Presentation of the environmental assessment methods
Eco-label,
Environmental impact assessment,
Life cycle assessment,
Eco-balance,
Product line analysis,
Environmental audit (EMAS and ISO 14000),
Environmental indicatories.
General methodology of environmental assessment
Initiation,
Inventory,
Impact assessment,
Improvment.
Applications.
Prerequisites:
MF206 – Engine (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Teaching basic theory for engine use in engineering applications
Energy uses and ressources in the world
Course content:
1. Energy uses and ressources in the world
2. Principles and definitions for engine
3. Electrical engine
4. Gasoline engine
5. Diesel engine
Prerequisites:
MF207 – Hydraulic pump and network (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
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Course objective:
To confer the knowledge requisite to the fluid transport bt network and their regulation
Course content:
1. Pipe and reservoir network
2. Flow is sprinkling rail
3. Torbo-pup theory
4. Running pumps in parallel
5. Venturi Chanel
6. Water level regulation
7. Dimensional analysis and hydraulic similarity
8. Transfert process
Prerequisites:
MF201 - OU - MF202
MG201 – Horticultural production method and equipment (2.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Magein Hugo
Course objective:
To analyze and discuss the cultural practices and the specific equipments of horticulture in relation
with features, the quality and the destination of the productions under shelter and full field
Course content:
The whole phytotechnical course of a production conditions its profitability and the quality of the
product at the time of the harvest, but more again, can seriously influence the possibilities of
merchandising and storage to longer term of this product.
This course understands three parts therefore, correspondent to the three important phases of the
cultural practice :
- initiation of the culture : choice of the variety and analysis of the incentive of the choice, types of
materials available, programming and techniques appropriate in culture;
- culture : impacts of phytotechnical interventions on the quality of the production, techniques of
follow-up of the evolution of the quality during the cycle;
- harvest : programming of the harvest and techniques of handling, criterias of qualitative assessment
and possibilities of sorting.
These gaits of analysis are concretized so much by chosen examples in some fruit, vegetable or
ornamental productions types according to there met constraints.
Courses are completed by visits in order to appreciate demonstrations of techniques and by original
studies.
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Phytotechnie tropicale et horticulture,
MN204 – Hydrogeology and ground water management (2.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Marcoen Jean-Marie
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Course objective:
Course content:
Prerequisites:
HA201
2 - 5030 Gembloux
MR201 – Basis of tropical agriculture (first part) (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Mergeai Guy
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
To describe the principal factors which influence the organisation, the operation and the dynamics
of agriculture in the tropical zones of the world as well as the characteristics and the evolution of
the latest mode of exploitation of the tropical ecosystems at agricultural ends
Course content:
Introduction
Importance of Agriculture in the tropical areas
Characteristics of the abiotic factors influencing agriculture in the tropical areas
Characteristics of the biotic factors influencing agriculture in the tropical areas
Characteristics of the socio-economic factors influencing agriculture in the tropical areas
Characteristics and typical evolutions of the principal agrarian systems of the tropical zones : pastoral
farming systems, slash and burn farming systems, hydraulic farming systems of the arid regions,
flooded-rice hydraulic farming systems, post-forester not hydraulics systems of the tropical zones
Prerequisites:
EC201 - OU - GP201 - OU - PT201
MR202 – Basis of tropical agriculture (second part) (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Mergeai Guy
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
To study the main possible technical interventions in order to improve the performances of the
tropical farms
Course content:
Introduction
Review of a few basic technical concepts
Improvement of the physical properties, physicochemical and biological of the soils
Multiplication and choice of the plant multiplication material
Installation of the crops
Crop protection against weeds, diseases and pests
Harvest and storage of the agricultura products
Prerequisites:
DH204 - OU - EC201 - OU - GP201 - OU - PT201 - OU - MR201
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PC201 – Principles of genetics (3.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Baudoin Jean-Pierre
Course objective:
To study the principles of inheritance and genetic variation in procaryots and eucaryots, dividing
the content along three main components : formal genetics, introduction to quantitative genetics
and to population genetics.
Course content:
- Introduction : genetics and the organism.
- Structures, functions and organisation of genes.
- The support of genetic information in procaryots and eucaryots.
- The genetic recombinations in procaryots.
- The chromosome theory of inheritance : mitosis, meiosis.
- The modifications of genetic material : genic, chromosomic and genomic mutations.
- The Mendelian analysis : principles and applications to haploid and euploid organisms.
- The development of the Mendelian analysis : relation between genes, linkage and sex-linked
inheritance.
- Introduction to quantitative genetics.
- Introduction to population genetics.
- Practical works are aimed to solve genetic problems.
Prerequisites:
SI101 - OU - ZG101 - OU - BV101
PC204 – Special tropical crop husbandry (first part) (4 ECTS)
Course objective:
to develop the crop husbandry and the plant breeding of food and industrial crops in tropical
regions.The species are chosen according to their biological cycle and the agroecological situations
(with or without inputs)
Course content:
-Cultural and varietal components of tropical crop husbandry
-Comparative study of sole cropping and cultural associations
-Comparative study of the management of food and industrial crops, with vegetative and reproductive
propagation, with different biological cycles (annual, pluriannual and perennial)
-Analysis of crop husbandry (cultural practices and plant breeding) of food crops: cereals, roots
and tubers, grain legumes, fruit crops
-Analysis of crop husbandry (cultural practices and plant breeding) of pluriannual and perennial
crops in traditional and industrial plantations
-Seed production in tropical regions
Prerequisites:
PC206
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PC205 – Special tropical crop husbandry (second part) (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
to develop a project of crop husbandry in tropical regions, taking into account the physical, biological
and socioeconomical environment of a well targeted zone.To point out the constraints, the solutions
and the prospects
Course content:
-Principles of a research and development methodology applied in the cropping systems of the
intertropical environment
-Case studies of various agroecological situations in the tropics
-development of a project in crop husbandry by the student, with the description of the environment,
the constraints, the strategy already applied, the solutions to improve the situation and the prospects
Prerequisites:
PC206 – General plant breeding (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
To develop the basis of varietal improvement in cultivated plants and to develop on the basis of
breeding systems selection schemes at the intra- and interspecific levels
Course content:
- Definition and steps in varietal selection
- Natural evolution, plant domestication and organisation of gene pools
- Breeding systems and floral biology
- Schemes of plant breeding (vegetative and generative propagation)
- Polyploidy and interspecific hibridizations
- Applications of plant breeding to agronomic constraints
Prerequisites:
PC201
PC207 – Plant genetic resources (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
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Course objective:
To develop all the steps required for the conservation and exploitation of plant genetic resources
diversity : collecting missions, in situ and ex situ conservation, multiplication, caracterisation and
agronomic evaluation, exchanges of material.
Course content:
- Basis and organisation of plant genetic resources diversity
- The worldwide network of plant genetic resources
- The plant collections, the structure and activities of a gene bank
- In situ conservation methods
- Ex situ conservation steps
- Technical data on seed conservation
- The characterisation and evaluation of plant genetic resources
- Case studies : in situ conservation (wild and cultivated varieties), ex situ conservation (annual and
perennial plants, orthodox and recalcitrant seeds).
At the end of the lecture, the student is able to develop a project in plant genetic ressource
management on model plant.
Prerequisites:
PC201 - OU - BV203
PC212 – General tropical crop husbandry (2.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
To develop principles of crop husbandry governing plant production systems in the tropics and
analyze these principles through case studies on food and industrial crops
Course content:
- recalling plant production systems in relation with the main tropical agroecological situations
- recalling agroecological constraints and methods to overcome them on the basis of the cropping
systems
- case studies based upon the biological statut and use of the plant products : annual and perennial
plant, food and industrial crops
- prospects for the improvement of crop productions
At the end of the lectire, the student is able to develop a project on tropical crop husbandry on model
plant.
Prerequisites:
PH101 – General physics (11.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Aubinet Marc
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Course objective:
Course content:
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Physique des bio-systèmes, passage
PH102 – Electricity (5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Course content:
Prerequisites:
PH101
PH103 – Environmental physics (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Allow the students to establish the static and dynamic energy balance of systems and study its
sensitivity to environmental variables.
Course content:
1. GENERAL ENERGY BALANCE EQUATION
2. RADIATION
( radiation origin, interaction radiation - matter, variables describing the radiation, solar radiation,
infrared radiation , radiation balance- greenhouse effect)
3. CONDUCTION
( Fourier's law, application to one dimension systems : electrical analogue of heat transfer, description
of the heat and to homogeneous soils)
4. CONVECTION
(convection types, flow types, definition and computation of the boundary layer, applications)
5. LATENT HEAT
( introducation to psychrometry, phase change, water vapour transport (electrical analogy))
6. ENERGY BALANCE
( static balance : dry and wet thermometer, humid surfaces , dynamic balance : night cooling of
soil, dynamiv greenhouse effect)
Prerequisites:
PH102
PH204 – Exchange Models in biosystems (2 ECTS)
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Course objective:
Course content:
Prerequisites:
PH205 – Digital electronics (first part) (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Course content:
Prerequisites:
PH206 – Digital electronics (second part) (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Course content:
Prerequisites:
PP201 – Introduction to plant pathology (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Lepoivre Philippe
Teaching method(s): Practical works, Seminars
Course objective:
The course presents the foundations of the biology of plant pathogens on which rest the different
control strategies. At the end of the course, students have a synthetic view of the specificity of the
biology of plant pathogens, their interactions with the plants (mechanisms of virulence of the
pathogen and mechanisms of host resistance) and their environment (biotic and abiotic).
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Course content:
1. Introduction : Plant diseases in relation with the contemporary evolution of the systems of
production
2. Infectious molecules :
3. Prokaryotic plant pathogens
4. Fungal plant pathogens
5. Diagnosis of the plant pathogens
6. Genetic and molecular of the host-parasite specificity
7. Breeding for resistance
8. Principles of biological control of plant pathogens
9. Biological control methods
10. Biological properties of fungicides
Prerequisites:
AM201 - OU - KT202 - OU - BV201
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Phytopathologie, passage des
PP206 – In vitro culture of plant tissues (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Lepoivre Philippe
Course objective:
To present the potential and the limitation of the technologies involved in plant breeding and plant
propagation
Course content:
1. Bases of plant breeding and plant propagation
2. General methodologies of plant tissue culture
3. The growth regulators
4. In vitro Morphogenesis and embryogenesis
5. The limits of the hybridization
6. Protoplasts and protoplasts fusion
7. Somaclonal variation
8. Gene transfer
9. Base of the production of cultivated varieties
10. The production of virus free plants
11. Clonal propagation of the plants
Students must present a short seminar which illustrate a specific applications of a techniques
described in the frame of the course
Prerequisites:
PP210 – Integrated control of plant pathogens (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Jijakli Haissam
Teaching method(s): Case studies, Lectures, Seminars, Visits
Course objective:
To provide a global view of the different strategies of plant diseases control through practical
projects analysed by the student
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Course content:
A practical problem (dealing with plant breeding, chemical or biological control, the appropriateness
of a technique of diagnostic,...) has to be analysed by the students. The students (group work)
carried out a global analysis of the problem taking into account all aspects of the management of
plant disease control ( including the social, economical, technological components)
The conclusions of the group are presented in a written prouf refort during an oral presentation.
Prerequisites:
PP201
PP211 – (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Jijakli Haissam
Course objective:
To present the potential and the limitations of plant biotechnologies applied to plant protection
Course content:
1. Introduction
2. Molecular diagnostic
3. Perspectives of antibodies in plant pathology
4. Molecular markers for disease resistance
5. Plant transformation
6. Risks of transgenesis
7. Characterization of phytopatogens (phylogenic studies, analysis of the variability,)
8. Host-pathogen interactions (mechanisms of resistance, specificity of the hos-parasite interactions,)
9. Biosafety regulations
Practical applications dealing with different techniques of molecular diagnostic (PCR, RT-PCR)
of viruses and bacteria exemplifies the potential and limitations of the technique. Presentation and
discussion of the results are recorded in a personal report.
Prerequisites:
PP201
PT201 – Agricultural productions systems (2.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Falisse André
Course objective:
Approach in their diversity the main farming systems of the world, as resulting from ecological
features and historical, political and socio-economical evolutions; give the bases for typology
establishment; assess the farming systems on bases of their productivity, stability, autonomy and
sustainablity
Course content:
Current situation: agricultural production in the world; population; yields; land.
History of agriculture.
Climates and agriculture.
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Agricultural geography.
Main productions: crop species; domestic animals species (briefly, references to course "Animal
Production Systems".
Cropping systems.
Agricultural systems.
Productivity, efficiency, stability and sustainability of agricultural systems.
Examples of typologies.
Prerequisites:
PT202 – Fertilizers and soil amendments (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Precise the role of fertilizers in the processes of agricultural production and in the broader context
of biogeochimal cycles of nutrients, management of resources and environmental impacts.
Describe the fertilizers and give the basics in fertilization.
Course content:
Part 1. Knowledge of the fertilizers
Soil mineral amendments
Organic matter and Soil organic amendments
Nitrogen and nitrogen fertilizers
Phosphate and Phosphate fertilizers
Potash and Potash fertilizers
Secondary elements and fertilizers
Microelements, fertilizers; shortage and toxicity
Complex fertilizers
For every element:
- biogeochemical cycle
- gains and losses for bioavailable pools
- behaviour in soils and plants
Part 2. Use of fertilizers - Fertilisation
Principles and their evolution
Examples of fertilizations for different crop types (annuals, perennials, ...) and in various contexts
(temperate, tropical, horticulture, ...)and agricultural systems.
Tools for helping in fertilisation determination
Part 3. Topics linked to fertilization
Fertilizers and products quality
Fertilizers, energy and agricultural production
Fertilizers and the environment
Legislation and Rules related to fertilizers.
Prerequisites:
BV102
PT210 – Weed science and control (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
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Course objective:
Knowledge of the weed biology and ecophysiology and of the interference of weeds with crop
productivity. Knowledge of weed control means notably chemical (herbicides) and non chemical.
Reasoning their use in building Integrated Weed Management strategies including effectiveness,
environenment and biodiversity.
Course content:
1. Weeds knowledge:definition, weed damages, nocivity tresholds
2. Biology of weeds, incl. modes of propagation, ecology, weed population dynamics
3. Non chemical means for weed population management:
- physical means
- biological means
4. Chemical means: the herbicides
Absorption. Translocation.
Metabolisation in plants and in the environment (soil, water)
Herbicides modes of action.
Basis of selectivity.
Weed resistances to herbicides.
5. Weed Management Strategies, notably Integrated Weed Management:
in arable crops, in agricultural land and in non-agricultural zones.
Prerequisites:
PT212 – Growth regulators (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To Precise the roles of Plant Growth Regulators (PGR) in agriculture and in plant research. To
illustrate the diversity of their biological effects and agricultural uses.
Course content:
Description of the main groups of PGR
- nature, effects, study methods d'études
- agricultural uses
- other uses (in vitro culture, ...)
Workshops :
By the discussion of recent scientific papers, to illustrate and precise the state of knowledge and to
make the links between fundamental and applied research and practical utilization:
- Methods of study of PGR and similar substances
- utilizations
Prerequisites:
PT213 – Application techniques for products to treat crops (1.5 ECTS)
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Course objective:
To understand the importance of correct agrochemicals application. To precise the potential and
limits of application methods and equipment.
Course content:
1. Introduction: Agrochemiclas, Application methods and their place in Integrted Crop Protection
(ICP)
2. Classification and choice criterias for the main techniques. Methods description and properties.
spray applications, powder, granules, ...
3. Formulas. Special topics: distribution evenness, nozzles,...
4. Visits: Familiarisation to equipment, technics and quality control.
Prerequisites:
PT214 – Integrated agriculture (4 ECTS)
Course objective:
To understand and to act upon the evolution of european agriculture. To reason the basis and the
empowerment of integrated agriculture as a reply to society expectations and as a component of
sustainable development.
Course content:
1. The different meanings of integrated agriculture:
- Integrated Crop Production (ICM), including I.C.P., Nutrients Management, Conservation
agriculture...
- Integrated agriculture (integrated farming) as Agriculture integrating its components such as plant
production, animal production. Organic (biological) farming. Multifunctionality of agriculture.
Novel crops and novel food. GMOs.
- Integrated agriculture as a result of political, economical, environmental and social constraints.
Quality. Traceability.Agriculture and Environment.
2. Special Topics (chosen in function of the participants)
- Ecoconditionality: present and future.
- Organic farming.
- The international agreements and their impacts on agriculture: sugar agreement, Kyoto protocol,
...
- Examples of regional unsustainable agriculture and recent reconversions.
- European Directives and their impacts on agriculture.
Prerequisites:
PT220 – Fundamentals of agriculture in temperate regions (3.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
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Course objective:
To give the basics of agricultural production in temperate regions i.e. in technologically advanced
agriculture, taking into account the current technico-economic context. Limits to intensification.
Concept of sustainable development applied to agricultural production.
Course content:
1. Soil tillage: the main types of soil tillage, objectives, technical means, costs, impacts on
environmement (9h)
2. Crop husbandry for "model" crops (36 h):
- Production of cereals in Temperate Europe
- Production of maize in temperate Europe.
- Production of protein-rich crop (pea)
Prerequisites:
PT221 – Crop production in temperate regions (first part) (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
To give the bases for rationalizing the production process of major crops in order to reach economical
efficiency,quality requirements and minimum environmental impacts.
Course content:
1. Sugar Beet as a model of industrial crop.
The economical and industrial contexts
The prodution process
Objectives in plant breeding
2. Potato, as a model for various production objectives; as a model for vegetative propagation crops.
Actions in the process of production: from planting to harvesting and storage.
The production of seed potato.
Prerequisites:
PT222 – Crop production in temperate regions (second part) (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
To acquire the basics for defining production methods adapted to farmers objectives, economical
and environmental constraints, for cash crops and for fodder crops.
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Course content:
1. Fodder crops: the production of grass.
Grasslands management. Grass cultivation (ley-farming). Alfalfa cultivation.
Production processes
Plant breeding objectives
2. Oil seed rape as a model of oil-protein crop and a model for food and non-food uses.
Economical and political frame.
Crop Husbandry
Plant breeding objectives.
Prerequisites:
RS201 – Marketing and consumer market research. part 1 (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Ronsse Jean-Michel
Course objective:
Initiale students to the marketing objectives and goals of entreprises.
To familiarise them with vocabulary
Course content:
Part 1 : Marketing :
1. Introduction.
2. Marketing, economy and sociology.
3. The main marketing sources (importance of sociological changes, communication, consumerism,
evolution of consuption and market size, process of development and entreprises, consuptions
segmentation and local market fragmentation, targeting changes.)
4. Definitions of marketing.
5. Marketing field : types of marketing, role of marketing in the everyday life of entreprises,
marketing departement and entreprise, strategic marketing plansboard.
Part 2 : Market research
1. Introduction to market research. Market research and economy. How to take a decision. Problems
and answers.
2. Market research deals : importance of budget size, time and available sources.
Description of what is important in designing, applying and carrying markat research to the kinds
of problems regularly encountered in commerce, trade and bussiness.
3. Desk Research : introduction, types of desk research, information sources, how and where to
find available sources, conceiving process for desk research program.
Examples.
4. Qualitative research and motivation research : attitudes and motivations, individual interviews
(example), trade research (examples), group discussions (examples), how to conceive qualitative
research (examples). Semi structured interviews (examples).
5. Quantitative surveys : ad hoc surveys (examples), omnibus surveys (example), sampling
(example),questionnaire design (example), interviewing, field control, mail surveys (examples),
panel research (examples), editing (examples, market research datas (examples).
Prerequisites:
RS202 – Marketing and consumer market research (part 2) (3 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Ronsse Jean-Michel
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Evaluation method(s): Group report
Course objective:
N
Course content:
N
Prerequisites:
SC201 – Pesticide formulations (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
1. To study the composition of the phytopharmacological product formulations and the various
industrial processes necessary to their manufacture - 2. To study the quality control of the
formulations and its role on the level of the invitations to tender - 3. To highlight the relations
between the physicochemical properties of the formulations and the biological activity of a substance
activates.
Course content:
1. Properties and industrial processes of manufacture of the pesticide formulations:
Physicochemical properties of the active substances and development of the formulations
Evolution of the formulations and the industrial processes of production
Nature and role of the various additives used (carriers, surfactant, etc.)
Effects on efficacy and selectivity of pesticide products
Properties and techniques of production of DP, WP, EC., SL, WG, GR., SC, WS
Processing of seed treatment and control release formulations
Formulation of alternative active ingredients (plant extracts, micro-organism)
2. Specification, regulation and quality control of formulations and international regulations on the
quality of products
Standardized methods (CIPAC, AID, ASTM)and compliance with GLP
Procedure of invitation to tender (organization, drafting of schedule, particular clause for the purchase
and the control of product)
Products formulation and environmental restrictions
Prevention of waste and control of the rejections in production
3. Hazards and security of the workers
Hazards and risk assesment
Particular constraints in developing countries
4. Packaging and waste disposal
Nature, properties and compatibility of packaging materials with the formulations
Selection criteria and standards of quality
5. Waste disposal (produced out-of-date, empty packagings,...)
Prerequisites:
CA211 - OU - CA211
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SI101 –
Fundamental statistics (5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Palm Rodolphe
Course objective:
To learn the elements of descriptive statistics and the principles of the statistical methods.
Course content:
Descriptive statistics
- univariate
- bivariate and multivariate
Probability and probability distributions
- probability and random variables
- important univariate and bivariate distributions
Statistical inference
- sampling distributions
- parameter estimation
- hypothesis testing
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Statistique, informatique et
mathématique appliquées, passage des Déportés, 2 - 5030 Gembloux
SI102 –
Introduction to computer science (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Claustriaux Jean-Jacques
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Introduction to computer science and office automation
Course content:
Operating system
Network
Tools for learning
Wordprocessing
Spreadsheet
Prerequisites:
SI201 –
Applied statistics (4 ECTS)
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Course objective:
To understand classical statistical methods with applications on computer ; to present the principles
of statistical designs and samplings for comparative scientific studies.
Course content:
Conception
- sampling technics
- experimental designs
Data analysis
- assumptions
- analyses of variance
- means structure
- variance component
- linear regression
- correlation
Computer program
- statistical software : applications
Prerequisites:
SI101
SI202 –
Elements of multivariate statistical methods (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To learn how to use and how to read software outputs for some mutivariate statistical methods.
Course content:
Principal component analysis
- aim
- principle
- case studies
Cluster analysis
- aim
- principle
- case studies
Discriminant analysis
- aim
- principle
- case studies
Prerequisites:
SI201 - OU - SI102 ou SI315
SI203 –
Statistical methods for economics (2.5 ECTS)
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Course objective:
To learn statistical tools particularly useful to economics.
Course content:
Descriptive statistics
- mesures of central location, dispersion, concentration
- index numbers
Time series
- decomposition methods
- smoothing methods
- ARIMA models
Prerequisites:
SI201 - OU - SI102 ou SI315
SI204 –
Computer science and algorithmic (2.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To build algorithms with previous analysis methodology.
Course content:
Methodology
Symbolic programming (Visual Basic)
Prerequisites:
SI102
SI205 –
Mathematical methods in decision making (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To learn some elements of operations research and more particularly linear programming.
Course content:
Introduction to linear programming
- simplex algorithm
- sensitivity analysis
- parametric programming
- duality
Classical problems solved by linear programming
- blending
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- product mix
- cutting
- staff covering
- transportation
- multiperiod decision
Network models
- shortest path
- maximum flow
- critical path method (CPM)
- program evaluation and review technique (PERT)
Extensions
- non linear programming
- interger programming
Multicriteria decision marking
Prerequisites:
SI102 ou SI315
TA201 – Dairy science (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Deroanne Claude
Course objective:
To illustrate across the example of the dairy industry the quality aspects in relation to the technology
in food industries and the strict relationship between food technology and raw material properties.
Course content:
Milk structure an composition.
Milk quality.
Milk collection and on-farm handling.
Cleaning and disinfection in dairy industry.
Milk microbiology.
Dairy products and their making technologies.
Prerequisites:
TA202
TA202 – Techniques of food preparation and preservation (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
To master the basic knowledge for applying the technology of transformation and preservation of
agricultural and breeding productions intended to human food.
Course content:
Functional relationship between production, transformation and distribution
Technological quality of raw materials and derivatives
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Deterioration of foodstuffs
Sensory analysis
Processing of vegetable productions
Fundamentals of food preservation
Thermal preservation of foods (including methods, process, materials)
Drying, food irradiation, modified atmosphere packaging
Food packaging
Characterization of meat quality
Slaughtering
Prerequisites:
TA204 – Food technology (part one) (5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Sindic Marianne
Course objective:
To complete the theoretical training about formulations, in particular in the field of food industries
technology.
Course content:
Physico-chemistry of formulations
- Dispersibility and wettability
- Viscoelastic properties
- Thermodynamic approach of colloidal stabilisation
- Structure of monolayer film
- Micro-emulsion and surfactants
- Individual or group training, in laboratory
Food hydrocolloids
Fonctional properties of food ingredients and food additives
Main polysaccharides, additives and food processing aids
Prerequisites:
TA212
TA205 – Food technology (part two) (5.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To illustrate, starting from the example of milk, the relationship between raw materials
physico-chemistry, technologies and products.
To allow the student to develop his own project about a food industry.
Course content:
Part 1. Dairy science and technology
See TA201 layin emphasis on milk and dairy products physico-chemistry.
Part 2. Personal project
Definition of a food product and legislation
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Selection criteria and control of raw material
Unit operations and manufacturing
Quality control
Particular items (cleaning, disinfection, HACCP.)
Choice of a development project, visit to related enterprise, experimental procedure.
Prerequisites:
TA202 - OU - WB201 - OU - TA204 - OU - CB203 - OU - AM201 - OU - TA212
TA206 – Technology of food industries (part three) (4.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To take fat matter treatment as a model to describe the technology of food industry.
Course content:
Short overview of the historical evolution of knowledge in the field of fat matter.
Recall on the physical and chemical properties of fat matter.
Classification, characterization, and analysis
Polymorphism and intersolubility of glycerides
Technology of extraction and refining
Technology of transformation, hydrogenation, interesterification and cracking
Margarine industry
Prerequisites:
BI203 - OU - TA204 - OU - CG203 - OU - CB203 - OU - WB201 - OU - TA212
TA207 – Agro-food industry (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Presenting to students in agricultural section the main industries and technologies in food excepted
the dairy technology and industry
Course content:
Agricultural and food sectors
Quality in agricultural and food sectors
Cereal industries
Sugar industries
Fat industries
Proteagenous industries
Fruit and vegetable, processing
Prerequisites:
TA202
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TA208 – Synthesis works and seminars (2.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Case studies, Seminars, Visits
Course objective:
The objective of this lesson is to make students aware of non-technical facts of company, and
requests of management oriented positions. The program is allowing students to have a open view
on external world. It involves short training in a non agricultural company.
Course content:
This lecture contains two parts :
The first one regards the short training. It contains an oral presentation for each student related to
one's own short training. The presentation is followed by a Q&A session in which every students
of the lecture participate. Those debates improve exchange of point of view, and learn how to
manage relations with a group of attendees. It aims also to promote everybody's communication
skills. The students get also a short information about speech and meeting management.
The second part concerns external speakers. Industrial "specialists" speak about various topics in
relation with industrial world realities. Even if the topics may vary from a year to another, the
learning remains the same. Each years, 6 speakers, who come from various origins, coma and talk
with students about their career, their know-how and "field" facts.For example, the following
subjects were recently approached : company founding, organization philosophy, validation, internal
and external communication, marketing techniques.
Prerequisites:
TA209 – Refrigeration and drying (part 1) (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
The aim of this course is to enable the students to understand and to integrate the whole of the
physical phenomena involved in food drying, refrigerating systems and the cooling of biological
products
Course content:
T,S) and (P,h) diagrams of a refrigerant
Study of thermodynamic cycles of refrigerating machinery
Mechanical refrigerating machinery and their components : exchangers, compressors, control
systems, refrigerants
Sorption machinery
Cryorefrigeration
Insulating material
Cold stores design
Wet air thermodynamics
Wet materials, the concept of water activity
Drying, an equilibrium break
The different drying processes and their calculation methods
Dryer calculation
Freeze-drying
Drying with superheated vapor
Prerequisites:
TA209
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TA210 – Refrigeration and drying (part 2) (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
Strengthening through practical works, of the theoretical knowledge of the TA 209 course
Course content:
In lecture halls :
Solving of exercises using diagrams of humid air (h,x), ammonia (T,S), a fluorocarbon
Cold stores calculation
Dryers calculation
In laboratory (students are divided up into groups of 6)
Study of the operation of a heat pump and its components. Measure of parameters, calculation of
the heat exchange coefficients, calculation of the compressor efficiency
Study ot the operation of a spray dryer. Using measurements carried out on the dryer and the product,
energy and mass balance of the plant
Prerequisites:
TA212 – Physico-chemistry of formulations (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
To lay the foundations of physico-chemical properties that influence formulation stability especially
colloïdal stability.
Course content:
Water, hydrophobicity, hydrophobic interactives
Rheology
Colloïdal systems
Colloïdal stability (electrostatic stabilization and DLVO theory)
Zeta potential
Surface tension and surface free energy
- cohesion and adhesion energies
- Gibbs adsorption isotherm
Emulsifiers properties : hydrophile-lipophile balance, phase diagram, CMC
Prerequisites:
TA202
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TA213 – Agro-food engineering (1.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Strengthening through practical works, of the theoretical knouwledge of the TA211 course, bringing
students to develop their initiative.
Course content:
Students are divided into groups of 3.
Taking into account the imposed objective, they have to :
- study the operation
- identify the critical parameters
- develop the measurement methods
- measure the operation parameters
of an evaporator, a cake filtration unit, a gravity thickener, an UHT sterilizer, a disk-bowl centrifuge,
a screw centrifuge.
Prerequisites:
TA214 – Quality management (1.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Present an overview of the standards, specify the requirements of the mains and replace them in
their normative context.
Course content:
Introduction to quality systems and international standards.
Quality management principles.Product certification.
Quality system structure.
Documentation.
Audits.
Food safety management systems - Method HACCP.
Accreditation.
Traceability.
Prerequisites:
TO201 – Marketing of horticultural products (2.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Toussaint André
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Course objective:
Analysis of the main operating steps of the horticulture industry : from the production field to the
consumer. Their interrelationships and driving forces.
Course content:
- Description of the principal network organisations for the main horticulture products : vegetables,
fruits, ornamentals.
- The operators of the networks : production zones, sales organisations, consumer organisation :
links and interconnections
- Constraints and requirements specific to each operators : economic factors, quality objectives,
sales contracts, label and certification
- Analysis of the market evolution : commercial criteria, society and consummer requirements.
Prerequisites:
ZZ204 - OU - RS201 - OU - HG206
VE201 – Applied soil mechanics (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Verbrugge Jean-Claude
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Fundamental laws and principles of soil mechanics. Choice and interpretation of laboratory and in
situ soil tests. Enable the future engineers to solve usual geotechnical problems.
Course content:
Stresses in soils, constitutive laws for saturated, unsaturated and dry soils. Experimental determination
of soil geomechanical parameters using in situ and laboratory tests.
Design, calculation and technology of: foundations, settlements, retaining structures, compaction,
slopes, earth dams and conduits.
Prerequisites:
LA101 - OU - ME101 - OU - HA221 - OU - LT201
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Géotechnique environnementale,
VE203 – Earth structures and roads (3.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Verbrugge Jean-Claude
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Course content:
Prerequisites:
ME101
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Géotechnique environnementale,
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WB201 – Biological chemistry (1st part) (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Wathelet Bernard
Course objective:
To draw molecular and structural properties of the main compounds classes from biological chemistry
Present analysis and purification methods for biomolecules
Course content:
Peptides and proteins : analysis and sequences, conformation, peptidic synthesis, interactions,
purification
Lipids : structure, analysis, alterations, transformations
Physical and chemical properties
Structure activitiy of proteins
Precipitation, Partition, Ion exchange, Chromatography, Electrophoresis
* Courses WB 201 and CB 202 are a whole
Prerequisites:
CG102 - OU - CB101 - OU - CG101
WJ201 – Current questions in organic and biological chemistry (3 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Practical works, Seminars
Course objective:
Better understanding of the synthesis or the transformation of organic and/or biological molecules
by analysing the reactional mechanisms.
Course content:
I Practical work (Problems)
Correlation between the structure of the molecules and their reactivity (inductive effects, mesomer
effects, hyperconjugaison effects, steric effects ).
Reagents and reactions (rupture of the bonds, structure, stability and mode of formation of the
reactive organic entities, energetic and kinetic aspects of the reactions)
Methods for studying the reaction mechanisms
Mechanisms in organic chemistry (the way of the reaction, stereochemistry, influence of the carbon
structure, solvent) Electrophilic addition on the double bonds, triple bonds and the trigonal cycles
;
Nucleophilic addition on the double bonds, the aromatic ring, the trigonal cycles, the acetylenic
compounds and nitriles;
Nucleophilic substitution on saturated carbon (SN1, SN2, SNi), on the carbon of a carbonyl and on
the aromatic ring;
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Elimination E1 and E2 .
Electrophilic substitution on the saturated carbon , on the triple bounds and on the aromatic ring.
Radical reactions (additions, substitution on saturated carbon and on aromatic rings, elimination,
transpositions, biradicaux)
II Seminars
Presentation by the student of a particular subject relating to the recent evolution of the organic
or biological chemistry (mechanisms, syntheses, catalyse, biomolecules...)
Prerequisites:
CG102 - OU - CB202 - OU - WB201 - OU - CB101
XA201 – Irrigation (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Xanthoulis Dimitri
Teaching method(s): Lectures, Seminars, Visits
Course objective:
Surface, drip and sprinkling irrigation engeneering formation
Course content:
1st PART : Crops water needs
1st Chapter : Evaporation and evapotranspiration
2nd Chapter : Irrigation agriculturals yields tests
3rd Chapter : Examples of irrigation systems
2nd PART : Surface irrigation
1st Chapter : Surface irrigation systems
2nd Chapter : Theory of surface irrigation
3rd Chapter : fields leveling
3rd PART : Drip irrigation
1st chapter : General remarks
2nd Chapter : Drip irrigation systems
3rd Chapter : Disposition
4th Chapter : Crops water needs for surface irrigation
5th Chapter : Network design
6th Chapter : Related equipments
7th Chapter : Network and irrigated parcels survey
Prerequisites:
HA201
ZG101 – Zoology (11.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Haubruge Eric
Course objective:
Contribute to the education by the science history but also by the discovery of the animal kingdom
structures and the underscoring of the evolution fundamental rules.
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Course content:
1. Basic concepts of Zoology
Nature of Sciences and History of the Natural Sciences
Embryology and development
Taxonomy, Phylogeny and Evolution of the Animal Kingdom
2. Biological Evolution
Evolution : theories and mechanisms
Primates and evolution of the Man
Facts of the Evolution
3. Biodiversity and animal Kingdom
The Origin of life and Protists
Invertebrates and the Origin of animal Divesity
Evolution of the Chordates
Prerequisites:
Faculté universitaire des Sciences agronomiques de Gembloux, Entomologie fonctionnelle et
évolutive, passage des Déportés, 2 - 5030 Gembloux
ZG202 – Applied zoology (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
To give a broad outline of biology and ecology of the Arthropods with a view to the control of the
damage which they cause in Agriculture, Forestry and the Breeding (with a detailed attention for
parasitology).
Course content:
1. Invertebrates and the Interactions with Environment
Ecology of the animal populations
Climate and its Impact on the Invertebrates
Biological Rhythms and Migrations
2. Invertebrate Pests of Crops and Forests
Nematodes
Molluscs
Arthropods : Millipedes and Mites
Arthropods : Insects
3. Parasitology and pest control strategies
Parasites of medical and veterinary importance
Prospects for pest control.
Prerequisites:
ZG101
ZG204 – Limnology (2 ECTS)
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Course objective:
Understanding the organisation of the river ecosystem.
Implement this knowledge to management of river ecosystem.
Course content:
1. Identity and dynamics of the components of surface water
Physicochemical characteristics of Water
Biotic components of surface Water
Aquatic ecosystems : structure and function
2. Impact of the Man on Cycle of Water
Managements of surface Water in Wallonia
3. Aquatic Ecotoxicology
Pollutants and their impact on Physiology of the aquatic organisms and Biological quality of the
ecosystem
4. Case studies
Prerequisites:
ZG101 - OU - EC201
ZG205 – Aquaculture (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Seminars
Course objective:
Understanding the general biology of fish.
Knowledge of the organisation of fish farming.
Grasping the management technics of fish populations.
Course content:
The course will be organized in the form of seminars and visits whose topics will be :
Fish breedings,
Management of the aquatic environments,
Knowledge of the settlements,
Management Strategies of the piscicultural stockings in Wallonia,
Biology and identification of fish,
Fish breeding : cyprinids and salmonids,
Piscicultural installations (fish scales).
Prerequisites:
ZG101 - OU - ZG204
ZG207 – Pest integrated management (2 ECTS)
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Teaching method(s): Seminars
Course objective:
To supplement the training of the students in the field of crop protection by developing the spirit
of integration of various disciplines acquired during their studies like by stimulating the critical
spirit and the decision-making.
Course content:
During this lecture, several seminars will be organized on the topics of :
The integrated management of forest pests,
The integrated management of stored product pests,
The integrated management of orchard pests,
The integrated management of vegetable crop pests,
The integrated management of crop pests,
The integrated management of rodents,
Computerized decision-making systems in integrated pest management.
Prerequisites:
ZG202 - OU - ZG101
ZG208 – Applied Entomology (2 ECTS)
Course objective:
To look further into knowledge in the field of physiology, the ecology of the pest insects.
Course content:
1. "Plants-Insects" Relations
Co-evolution between the plants and the insects
Defence systems of the plants
Adaptive mechanisms of the herbivore insects
2. The biological control
"Prey-Predatory" Relations
"Host-Parasites" Relations
The use of the optimization of biological control in integrated pest management
3. Insecticides : modes of action and resistance management
Insecticides and their modes of action
Pesticides resistance of insects
4. Pest Control Strategies.
Prerequisites:
ZG211 – Biological control of insect pests (1.5 ECTS)
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Course objective:
To make state of recent progress in the field of biotechnology in crop pest protection.
Course content:
1. Bio-insecticides
The genetic engineering of the biological control agents
Bacteria
Viruses
The plant resistance to the insects
Environmental risk management
2. Hormones and peri-receptors
Endocrine Mimetic substances and impact on the insect development
Infochemical substances and chemosensory receptors
Allelochemicals in integrated pest management.
Prerequisites:
KT202
ZT201 – Animal production (2 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Théwis André
Course objective:
To give a general survey of animal productions in the world and the basis of animal husbandry
Course content:
I. Classification, general features and distribution of domestic animals around the world
II. Functions and environmental impacts of farm animals
III. Main breeds of cattle, sheep and pigs; zootechnical parameters
IV. Principles of animal welfare
V. Environment and climate for farm animals
VI. Reproduction of farm animals
VII. Stock breeding structure
VIII. Principles of farm animal breeding
Prerequisites:
AM101
2 - 5030 Gembloux
ZT202 – Nutrition and dietetics (2 ECTS)
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Course objective:
To give a basic training in human and animal nutrition
Course content:
General food and feed composition and analysis.
Organic nutrients (carbohydrates, lipids, proteins) and their metabolism in humans, monogastric
animals and ruminants. Main associated diseases.
Evaluation of food and feedstuffs: digestibility - bioavailability - bioenergetic - protein evaluation.
Regulation of food and water intake.
Nutritional requirements of healthy human (energy, protein, minerals and vitamins).
Prerequisites:
CB101 - OU - AM101
2 - 5030 Gembloux
ZT204 – Animal nutrition and feeding (3.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Beckers Yves
Course objective:
The main objective is to illustrate by laboratories measurements and an animal experiment some
of the fundamental principles uin human and animal feeding and nutrition. The secondary objective
is to write a scientific report.
Course content:
1 - Determination of the silage quality (effectiveness of preservation).
2 - Determination of the chemical composition (NIRS analysis) and the nutritional value of the
silage.
3 - Identification of a feed based on its chemical composition and tabular values
4 - Determination of the nitrogen digestibility and the biological value of protein sources in the
rats.
5 - Diet formulation with PC.
Prerequisites:
ZT202
2 - 5030 Gembloux
ZT207 – Animal production systems in tropical regions (4.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Buldgen André
Course objective:
Initiate the engineer candidates to the field of animal farming systems in hot regions and to the
methods concerning the implementation of livestock projects in these regions.
Course content:
Adaptation of domestic animals to tropical climates and introduction of exotic breed; cattle
ethnography in hot climates; general description of the main livestock systems in hot regions (cattle,
sheep, pig, poultry : Sahelian, Sudanian, Guinean, Equatorial regions) [this part is the most
developed]; pratical works illustrating the course by studying real cases (programmes, plans and
projects) developed by the Unit : ranching, identification, follow-up and evaluation of projects
(cattle, sheep, pig, poultry), pastoral planning, livestock and agriculture integration.
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Prerequisites:
ZT201 - OU - ZT202
2 - 5030 Gembloux
ZT209 – Feedstuffs (2.5 ECTS)
Teaching method(s): Lectures, Practical works, Seminars, Visits
Course objective:
- To describe the different groups of feedstuffs, their nutritive characteristics and values, their use
in animal feeding. To identify the main feedstuffs and calculate their nutritional values.
Course content:
- Study of the different groups of feedstuffs (cereals, oil seeds, pulses, tubers and roots, forages,
by-products of cereals, tubers and roots, protein concentrates - oilseeds cakes and meals - animal
protein concentrates, ...). - Methods of preservation of feedstuffs (ensiling, hay making, dehydration)
and industrial treatments (pelleting, cooking, extrusion, ...). - Antinutritive factors. - Main moulds
and toxins. - Additives (personal presentation). - Calculation of energy and protein values of
feedstuffs for monogastrics, birds and ruminants. - Identification of feedstuffs. - Visit of a feed
industry.
Prerequisites:
ZT202
2 - 5030 Gembloux
ZT210 – Animal production in temperate regions (3.5 ECTS)
Course objective:
Detailed study of the dairy cow and milk production as a model of farm animal production
Course content:
Rearing of the dairy calf, heifer and young bull.
Factors affecting milk production an milk composition.
Management of the dairy cow: nutritional requirements and feeding - reproduction - milking systems
- housing.
Feeding of the high producing dairy cow - Metabolic diseases.
Diet formulation and visits of dairy farms.
Beef production
Suckling cow: management - feeding-reproduction.
Intensive meat production: calf - bull - cullcow - Double muscled Belgian Blue breed - Quantitative
and qualitative aspects of meat production.
Visits of farmes for beefproduction
Prerequisites:
ZT201 - OU - ZT202 - OU - ZT209
2 - 5030 Gembloux
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ZT212 – Animal production in temperate countries: simple stomach animals
and poultry (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Critical studies of various animal productions (pigs and poultry) from farm visits and scientific
littérature, environmental effects and food safety.
Course content:
Pig production
Breeds - Feeding - Housing - Reproduction - Management.
Meat quality and safety - Environmental pollution.
Poultry production
Chicken and eggs productions - alternative productions visits of farms and agritonsiness enterprises.
Visits of farms and agribusiness enterprises.
Prerequisites:
2 - 5030 Gembloux
ZT220 – Agro-pastoralism and forage productions (part 1) (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
Giving the students the farming basic knowledge necessary to the fodder crop production and
describing the principal forage resources in tropical regions.
Course content:
Grass organography
Germination, growth and reproduction physiology of forage plants (grasses especially)
Agrostology of the principal forage species in tropical regions
Prerequisites:
2 - 5030 Gembloux
ZT221 – Agro-pastoralism and forage productions (part 2) (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
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Course objective:
Teaching the students the knowledge and the methods for the production, the valorisation and the
management of forages resources
Course content:
Grasslands quality : digestibility, estimation of the nutritive value, palatibility and feeding behaviour
Floristic analysis and mapping of grasslands
Basic elements of rational grazing and forage fertilisation
Estimation of grasslands production
Practical works (vegetation analysis, etc.)
Excursion (research in the scope, farming systems)
Prerequisites:
2 - 5030 Gembloux
ZZ115 – Mathematics (6 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
To provide basics in mathematics to students with initiation to the main mathematical tools and
their applications in problem analysis and solution.
Course content:
Algebra
Trigonometry
Vector algebra in euclidean space
Geometric constructions in plane and space
Differential and integral calculus with one real variable
First order differential equations
Prerequisites:
ZZ201 – (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Toussaint André
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
To analyse the impact of biotechnologies on the horticultural sector, and draw the basis of the
commercial applications in agriculture. Evaluation criteria for alternatives to traditional technologies,
gains and risks in food and ornamental productions, advantages and drawbacks in socio-economical,
ecological and technological terms.
Course content:
1. Integration of biotechnologies in vegetable production
- Use of biotechnologies for the conform reproduction (potatoes mini-tubers production, artichoke
desinfection, etc.); in plant breeding (tomato embryos culture, haploïdization for asparagus, etc.)
- Genetic cartography and mapping (the case of Brassica and Phaseolus)
- Future research
2. Integration of biotechnologies in fruit production
- Use of biotechnologies for the conform reproduction (micropropagation of several berries,
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cryoconservation of apple tree varieties, etc.); in plant breeding (mutagenesis and somaclonal
variation of loganberry, etc.)
- Genetic transformation (the case of the apple tree)
- Phyllogenesis work
- Future research
3. Integration of biotechnologies in ornamental production
- Chronology in biotechnologies emergence
- Use of biotechnologies for the conform reproduction (cryoconservation of pink, etc.) ; in plant
breeding (somaclonal variation (Paulownia), in vitro mutagenesis (Weigela), etc.)
- Future research (plant architecture; resistance to abiotic stress and to diseases and insects,
development and commercialisation of genetically modified organisms)
Prerequisites:
ZZ205 – (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
x
Course content:
x
Prerequisites:
ZZ213 – (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Xanthoulis Dimitri
Course objective:
To acquire basic knowledge for the management and technologies of processing domestic, industrial
and agricultural waste and their environmental implications.
Course content:
General information (Definition, characterization)
Alternatives (re-use, advanced technologies)
Recycling (material, matter, energy)
Collection and sorting
Composting
Methanisation
Heat treatments (Incineration, Cement factory, Pyrolysis)
Landfill design
Soil pollution
Inerting
Specific waste (Hospital, Breeding, Industries)
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Prerequisites:
ZZ228 – Social relationships within the enterprise (2 ECTS)
Teaching method(s):
Course objective:
This course fits in a general training module within the curriculum for all orientations for 2nd cycle,
in order to provide the bioengineers students with a wider personal development as well as
professional skills.
Course content:
This training is generally dedicated to social relationship within the enterprise, with topics such as:
recruitment,
selection and integration of the new managers,
tools for skill assessment, evaluation of interests and personality,
strategic vision and staff motivation,
the social dialogue,
European social policy.
This teaching is organized as a module of six conferences.
The lecturers are well known characters in the social, politic and economic world.
Each conference consists of three hours of lecture and debate, under the responsibility for the
lecturer.
Prerequisites:
ZZ234 – Bio-informatics part I : Methods for the analysis of genomic
sequences (1.5 ECTS)
Lecturer(s): Brasseur Robert, Brasseur Robert
Teaching method(s): ,
Teaching language: French, French
Evaluation method(s): Oral examination, Personal report, Oral examination, Personal report
Evaluation language: French, French
Course objective:
Overview of the various methods for the analysis of protein sequences and practical applications.
Course content:
-analysis of the composition
-hydrophobicity analysis
-data banks
-homology search
-sequence alignments
-detection of functional motifs
-prediction of secondary structures
-prediction of three-dimensional structures
Prerequisites:
BR201 - OU - KT202
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The international reputation of FUSAGx stems from the quality of its teaching at University level and its friendly
environment which fosters easy contact between teaching staff and students.
FUSAGx has always welcomed students from other countries, and its high percentage of foreign students, coming
from a wide variety of backgrounds and cultures, has created an important international dimension to the social
and academic environment.
How to get there
It would be advisable to arrive in Gembloux during the working week, as this will make it easier for the institution
to welcome you.
By plane
Coming by plane, you will arrive at Brussels Airport. The train is the cheapest way of getting to Brussels, the capital
city. A train leaves every 20 minutes from the airport terminal. You must change at Bruxelles-Nord (Brussels North)
and take Intercity (IC) train for Gembloux (on the line to Namur or Arlon or Luxembourg).
By train
If you come by train, including Eurostar, you will arrive at Bruxelles-Midi (Brussels South). From there, you should
take an Intercity train for Gembloux (on the line to Namur or Arlon or Luxembourg). The journey takes about 50
minutes.
The institution is 10 minutes walk from Gembloux station. On leaving the station, go down the road on the left
(avenue de la Faculté). At the traffic lights, turn right and 100 metres further along is the main entrance to FUSAGx.
By car
If you come via highway E411 (Brussels-Luxembourg), take exit 11
If you come via highway E42 (Paris-Lille-Cologne/Berlin), take exit 14.
On arrival at FUSAGx, proceed to the Students office to register and to let the Socrates co-ordinator know of your
arrival.
Administrative formalities
Admission at FUSAGx
Students attending FUSAGx through the European mobility programme should notify the Students office on arrival.
The registration procedure is quite simple. In addition of the documents sent by post, you will need the following
documents:
– a letter of certification from your home University confirming your registration there and your participation in
a European mobility programme;
– a certificate showing your grant allocation;
– two identity photographs for the enrolment forms;
– an E128 form or other evidence of health insurance;
– an evidence of rapatriation
Phone: +32 (0)81 62 21 08
Fax: +32 (0)81 62 21 68
Registration with the police
To obtain a residence permit provided by the Administration Service in the City Hall of Gembloux (open between
8.30 am and 12 noon), you will need:
– three photocopies of your identity card if you are an EU resident, or two photocopies of your passport and visa
if you are not an EU resident
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an E128 form or other evidence of health insurance
certificate and photocopy or registration at FUSAGx
certificate and photocopy of grant allocation or other evidence of financial resources
four identity photographs and 6 €.
Insurance
Students are covered by FUSAGx's "civil responsibility" insurance, which covers all damage to persons or goods
caused within the University if that damage is FUSAGx's responsibility. Any other insurance is at the expense of
the student.
Students who are EU residents are expected to go to a national health service facility, taking with them the E128
form they have obtained in their home country.
To obtain other information about health insurance, contact the Social Service.
Accommodation
Students are accommodated in the FUSAGx lodging houses (home, Maison Nord-Sud, Maison du Monde) or in
private rooms.
The lodging houses are not far from the Faculty and provide a range of study, domestic and social facilities.
Apart from the flats, most of the rooms are single study-bedrooms.
Over 500 rooms or flats are available in private houses in Gembloux and surrounding villages.
The monthly rent for a single room in a private house is about 196 €.
FUSAGx can provide accommodation for students only if a reservation request has been made before the end of
June for students coming at the beginning of the academic year, or before the end of November for those coming
at the beginning of the second term.
Lodgings in the town:
Michelle MOREAU-VAN MARSENILLE
Maison du Monde
Phone: +32 (0)81 60 12 70
Fax: +32 (0)81 61 15 25
Faculty lodgings
Françoise DECAMP
Service social
Phone: +32 (0)81 62 21 35
Fax: +32 (0)81 62 21 68
Restaurants
The self-service restaurant is on the ground floor of the students' residence ("Home des étudiants"). It is open every
day except on Saturdays, Sundays and official holidays.
Meal times and prices are:
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breakfast (from 8 am to 9 am): 1,50 €
lunch (from 12.00 am to 13.30 pm): 3,60 €
sandwich: 2,10 €
cold meal: 3,10 €
A large number of snack bars, pizzerias and restaurants in town offer a wide selection of meals at different prices.
Cost of living
The cost of living for a student in Gembloux average out at about 500 € per month.
Some sample prices:
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Accommodation (including heating): average price 196 €
Restaurant in town: from 10 €
Restaurant at FUSAGx: 3,60 €
Cinema: 6,00 €
A glass of beer: 1,50 €
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– A load of bread: 2,00 €
– Petrol: 1,20 €
Social service
The social Service can help students in a number of ways: to reserve a room in FUSAGx lodging houses, to find
a job, or to arrange for counselling about health insurance or personal problems such as anxiety, study problems
or loneliness. Arrangements can also be made to visit a psychologist if necessary. Discussions with Social Service
counsellors or psychologist are in complete confidence.
Social service
Françoise DECAMP
Phone: +32 (0)81 62 21 35
Fax: +32 (0)81 62 21 68
Sport, relaxation and students'associations
The sporting association of FUSAGx (ASAG) provides excellent facilities for about 30 sports and participates in
inter-University and international competitions.
FUSAGx does not have its own swimming pool but the city swimming pool is only 5 minutes walk from the campus.
All details about clubs and activities can be obtained from the "licencié en éducation physique" (sports co-ordinator).
The students' associations are the AG and CIE. They organise cultural and leisure activities, provide notes and
laboratory material, and represent the students within the overall University structure.
The associations are based on the campus and offer their members a wide range of activities through clubs,
entertainment, bars and meetings. The AG has the sales monopoly of a beer "Bière de l'Abbaye de Gembloux".
The students' associations can also help students who have difficulties with regard to their studies or to material
needs.
All full-and part-time students are eligible for membership of the associations.
ASAG
Alain STEVENS
Bâtiment 22 (derrière le restaurant)
Phone: +32 (0)81 62 23 24
Fax: +32 (0)81 61 23 40
http://sport.fsagx.ac.be
AG
Porche d'entrée
Phone: +32 (0)81 62 22 01
Fax: +32 (0)81 61 41 67
CIE
Maison du Monde
Phone: +32 (0)81 60 12 70
Library
The library is a learning, training and Research tool and has more than 100.000 monographs and 1400 current
periodicals. It is the authorised repository in Belgium for the special collections from the Washington-based
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and from other international institutions.
The main sections of the library are: the lending desk, the periodicals reading room, the books free-access area, the
students' reading room and the language laboratory.
The main international databases on CD-ROM are available free-of-charge for consultation by library users. The
information system of the library offers free access to catalogues as well as access to the Internet.
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The library specialises in agricultural and scientific terminology and in foreign information resources, providing
access to scientific and technical information from all over the world. The library publishes the international journal
Biotechnology, Agronomy, Society and Environment.
Library
Bernard POCHET
Phone: + 32 (0)81 62 21 03
Fax: +32 (0)81 61 45 44
http://www.bib.fsagx.ac.be
Computer service
The computer service provides students with all the necessary means to acquire a practical knowledge of computer
sciences. For training purposes, students have access to a network of powerful personal computer that provide
computer-based training. Students will learn about the main scientific software and how to process Research results
or draw up Research and course reports using office automation tools.
The computer service is open to all students.
Informatique générale
Pierre RAMLOT
passage des Déportés, 2
Phone: +32 (0)81 62 24 73
Fax: +32 (0)81 62 24 73
Language Laboratory
The Language Laboratory is at your disposal from Monday to Friday from 8.30 am to 8.30 pm. You have the
opportunity to learn several languages there.
The Language Laboratory entrance is located across Espace Senghor.
English
The multimedia installation gives you the possibility to learn English on your own thanks to the Reflex English
method (you can listen to dialogues, record yourself, correct your own exercises, etc.)
Within the frame of their English course, B.A. students in their 1st and 2nd year have the opportunity to work on
listening comprehension exercises about general and agronomical topics available in the Language Laboratory.
Television sets and VCRs let you watch tapes that can be borrowed at the library.
For everybody, conversation classes are organised weekly by the language teachers during lunch time. No registration
required.
Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Russian, and Portuguese
Audio methods can be borrowed at the library.
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Language laboratory
passage des Déportés, 2
Phone: +32 (0)81 62 24 46
Marie-Anne DUFFELER
Sophie DEPOTERRE
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How to apply
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How to apply
Dead-line for mobility students exchanges
– for the complete year, or 1st semester: April 30
– for the second trimester: Novembre 15
Please send a complete dossier including the following forms:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Student application form (available in Word or PDF format)
Learning agreement (available in Word or PDF format)
Curriculum vitae
Proof of insurance (available in Word or PDF format)
Certificate of knowledge of the French language (available in Word or PDF format)
Proof of mobility grant and minimum income (500 € / month)
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1 Gembloux Agricultural University (FUSAGx).

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