The programme trains future bioengineers to become:
Training provides students with :
Strongly multidisciplinary in character, the training focuses on acquiring skills which combine the theory and techniques of bioengineering. There is special emphasis on the mechanistic study of processes, systems analysis, ecological impact, information systems, fusion of multi-source data and support for decision-taking.
• professional focus programme 30 credits (compulsory)
• choice of one option course for 30 credits from five available. Certain option courses are organized jointly with one or two of the other Masters in Bioengineering programmes. This is the reason for the special numbering of these option courses. (For example, option course 4E is also in the programme for the Master in Agronomic Science where it is called option course 4A; option course 10E is also in the programme for the Master in Agronomic Science where it is called option course 10A and the Master in Chemistry and Bioindustry where it is called option course 10C.)
Year 2 :
• core subjects programme of 38 credits (compulsory)
• choice of one module of 22 credits from six advanced modules: each of the first five modules follow on from the option courses in Year 1. Students are strongly recommended to have studied the corresponding option course in Year 1 if they wish to continue in Year 2. The sixth module is generalist in nature and may be taken to follow on from any option course.
Optional subjects :
There are some optional courses within the programme. They may either be chosen from a suggested list or may be chosen freely from all the courses available at UCL or even at another institution. The same applies to all the optional courses in the programme.
All these choices must be made in the timescale laid down by the Faculty Department and agreed by the Academic Secretary. For courses from another faculty or institution, students must gain prior agreement from the lecturer in charge of the course.
Additional training "Business Creation"
Students enrolled on the Master in Bioengineering programme have the possibility of taking a module of interdisciplinary training entitled "Business Creation". This additional programme features in the Master programmes of various faculties (Bioengineering, Law, Business Management, Civil Engineering, Psychology). It is designed to provide students, as potential creators, with the tools for analysis and understanding which will help them to appreciate how entrepreneurship works when creating or taking on a business and develop projects of this kind within existing organizations.
In addition, this training enables students to gain familiarity with other disciplines and to learn how to work in multidisciplinary teams.
For further information :
- on the training programme, please refer to : http://www.uclouvain.be/cpme.html
- on how the Master in Bioengineering programmes work, please contact the Faculty Office.
Wathever the focus or the options chosen, the programme of this master shall totalise 120 credits, spread over two years of studies each of 60 credits
Choix d'une option (parmi cinq) en première année et d'un module de cours (parmi six) en deuxième année:
University Bachelors |
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Bachelor in Bioengineering [180.0] | Additionnal module in Agronomy [30.0] | Access with additional training | Le cours d'Introduction aux sciences forestières (BIR 1334) doit être ajouté au programme de master. |
Bachelor in Bioengineering [180.0] | Additionnal module in Environment [30.0] | Direct access | |
Belgian Bachelors of the French speaking Community | |||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | ||
Belgian Bachelors of the Dutch speaking Community | |||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | Les conditions d'accès seront définies au cas par cas en fonction des prérequis nécessaires. | |
Foreign Bachelors | |||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | Les conditions d'accès seront définies au cas par cas en fonction des prérequis nécessaires. | |
Non university Bachelors |
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> BA en agronomie > BA en chimie (toutes options) > BA-AESI en sciences: biologie, chimie, physique | Accès au master moyennant réussite d'une année préparatoire de max. 60 crédits | Type court | |
> BA en sciences agronomiques - type long > BA en sciences industrielles - type long | Accès au master moyennant vérification de l'acquisition des matières prérequises (examen d'admission, entretien, examen de dossier, etc.) | Type long | |
Holders of a 2nd cycle University degree |
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Diploma | Special Requirements | Access | Remarks |
"Licenciés" | |||
Ingénieur chimiste et des bioindustries | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | ||
Ingénieur agronome | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | ||
Bioingénieur | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | ||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | ||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | ||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | ||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | Les masters bioingénieur peuvent également être accessibles sur dossier et notamment par validation des acquis de l'expérience (VAE). | |
Masters | |||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | ||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | ||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | ||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | ||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | On the file: direct access or access with additional training | ||
Intitulé du programme appelé par le code | Direct access | ||
Holders of a non-University 2nd cycle degree |
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> MA architecte paysagiste > MA en sciences agronomiques > MA en sciences de l'ingénieur industriel en agronomie > MA en sciences de l'ingénieur industriel, finalités chimie et biochimie > MA en sciences industrielles, finalités chimie et biochimie | Accès direct au master moyennant ajout éventuel de 15 crédits max | Type long |
See the general admission requirements
Strong points of the pedagogical approach
concepts of specialization, gradual choice and individualization of the courses.
1st cycle (Bachelor) :
2nd cycle (Master) :
The twelve option courses, which partly overlap at the level of the three Masters in Bioengineering, correspond to fields of activity identified on the basis of a wide-ranging survey of graduates of the Faculty working professionally and of contacts with potential employers.
The interdisciplinarity and the integrated approach are key dimensions in the training of bioengineers in environmental science and technology. This is reflected by :
Training for research. through research, which is essential for conceptual and innovative awareness and developing intellectual rigour, is reflected by different types of activities :
The application of skills, knowledge and techniques that students have acquired and how they use them together is taken into account in an integrated project in environmental science and technology. This is an important learning activity supplements the dissertation which, in the view of the Faculty, remains the most important part of training for research.
Through the close connection between the teaching and research, the development of new tools and new approaches is the subject of advanced training from the beginning of the 2nd cycle and is therefore central to this Master programme. All this enables graduates of this programme to be able to make rapid use of new techniques and approaches in their early professional experience.
Further details about how the assessment is done can be found in the course specifications.
There are two kinds of international mobility : students who have already gained their Bachelor degree can move abroad to study for their Master at another institution ; it is also possible to take some course modules in another institution. The mobility rate for AGRO students on exchange schemes such as Erasmus is around 30-40% and the number of our students who go abroad is similar to the number of foreign students who come to study here.
This mobility should increase given the harmonization of education at the European level and the conclusion of new partnership agreements outside ERASMUS as well as membership of thematic networks. The AGRO Faculty is also a member of the ATHENS network.
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BIRE2200 | Master thesis (in French) | N. | 27credits | x | |||||||||||||||
BIRE2204 | Territorial diagnostic and decision aid (in French) | Olivier Cogels (supplée Pierre Defourny), Olivier Cogels (supplée Frédéric Gaspart), Pierre Defourny (coord.), Frédéric Gaspart, Jean-Paul Malingreau | 45h + 15h | 6credits | 1+2q | x | |||||||||||||
BIRE2210 | Seminars accompanying the dissertation (in French) | Charles Bielders, Patrick Bogaert, Joseph Dufey (coord.), Caroline Vincke | 30h | 3credits | 1q | x | |||||||||||||
Questions de sciences religieuses; un cours au choix parmi les 3 suivants : (2credits) | |||||||||||||||||||
TECO2100 | Questions of religious sciences: biblical readings (in French) | Bernard Van Meenen | 15h | 2credits | 1q | x | |||||||||||||
TECO2200 | Questions of religious sciences: reflections about christian faith (in French) | José Reding | 15h | 2credits | 2q | x | |||||||||||||
TECO2300 | Questions of religious sciences: questions about ethics (in French) | Henri Wattiaux | 15h | 2credits | 1q | x | |||||||||||||
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BIRE2101 | Statistical analysis of spatial and temporal data (in French) | Patrick Bogaert | 22.5h + 15h | 3credits | 2q | x | |
BIRE2102 | Geomatic applied to the environment (in French) | Pierre Defourny | 30h + 22.5h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
BIRE2103 | General hydrology (in French) | Charles Bielders, Marnik Vanclooster | 30h + 22.5h | 5credits | 1q | x | |
BIRE2104 | Applied soil sciences (in French) | Bruno Delvaux, Hugues Titeux (supplée Bruno Delvaux) | 30h + 22.5h | 5credits | 2q | x | |
BIRE2105 | Water and soil quality (in French) | Patrick Gerin (coord.), Henri Halen, Xavier Rollin | 22.5h + 7.5h | 3credits | 2q | x | |
BIRE2106 | Topometry and photogrammetry (in French) | Pierre Defourny, Sébastien Lambot | 22.5h + 22.5h | 4credits | 2q | x | |
BIRA2109A | Agrarian systems and farm : partim (in French) | Pierre Bertin | 22.5h + 7.5h | 3credits | 1q | x | |
STAT2110A | Analyse des données (in French) | N. | 15h + 7.5h | 3credits | 1q | x | |
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BIR1311 | Thermodynamics (in French) | Yann Bartosiewicz | 30h + 15h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
BIR1319 | Colloïdal and surface chemistry (in French) | Christine Dupont | 30h | 3credits | 2q | x | |
BIRC2109 | Process engineering : unit operations (in French) | Marc Meurens (coord.), Patricio Ruiz Barrientos | 45h + 15h | 6credits | 2q | x | |
BRES2103 | Soil physics (in French) | Charles Bielders, Mathieu Javaux | 30h + 15h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
BRTE2101 | Biological physico-chemistry of water and soil (in French) | Joseph Dufey, Patrick Gerin | 37.5h + 15h | 5credits | 1q | x | |
BRTE2102 | Integrated exercises in environmental science and technology (in French) | Patrick Gerin (coord.), Mathieu Javaux, Marnik Vanclooster | 45h + 0h | 4credits | 1+2q | x | |
Cours au choix en 1ère année de master pour 4 crédits minimum parmi les intitulés suivants : | |||||||
BRES2102 | Soil hydrodynamics : modelling (in French) | Sébastien Lambot, Marnik Vanclooster | 30h + 22.5h | 5credits | 2q | x | |
MAPR2643 | Treatment of liquid effluents (in English) | Spyridon Agathos, Léon Duvivier | 30h + 7.5h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
MAPR2680 | Treatments of gaseous wastes (in English) | Jacques Devaux, Olivier Françoisse | 30h + 7.5h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
MAPR2690 | Valorisation and Treatment of Solid Wastes (in English) | Jacques Devaux, Joris Proost | 30h + 7.5h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
AUCE2191 | Geoenvironment (in French) | Alain Holeyman | 30h + 15h | 4credits | 2q | x | |
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AUCE2965 | Introduction au droit de l'urbanisme et de l'aménagement du territoire (in French) | Francis Haumont, Francis Haumont (supplée N.) | 15h | 2credits | 1q | x | |
DROP2061A | Droit du développement durable - 1ère partie (in French) | N. | 15h | 2credits | 2q | x | |
BIRA2105 | Agricultural and rural policies (in French) | Bruno Henry de Frahan | 30h + 0h | 3credits | 1q | x | |
BRAT2101 | Suburban and rural space development (in French) | Pierre Defourny (coord.), Freddy Devillez, Yves Hanin, Anne-Laure Jacquemart | 45h + 22.5h | 6credits | 1q | x | |
BRAT2102 | Spatial modelling of territorial dynamics (in French) | Pierre Defourny | 15h + 15h | 3credits | 2q | x | |
BRAT2103 | Rural sociology and land development (in French) | Daniel Bodson | 30h | 3credits | 1q | x | |
BIRF2104A | Ecologie forestière et phytosiciologie: partie phytosiciologie (in French) | N. | 15h + 30h | 4credits | 2q | x | |
Un cours au choix en 1ère année de master pour minimum 4 crédits parmi les intitulés suivants : | |||||||
BIRA2107A | Animal productions : principles and feeding (in French) | Michel Focant, Yvan Larondelle (coord.) | 30h + 15h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
BIRA2108 | Plant production (in French) | Pierre Bertin, Xavier Draye (coord.) | 37.5h + 15h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
BIRF2105A | Sylviculture et dendrologie: partie sylviculture (in French) | Quentin Ponette | 30h + 30h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
Un cours au choix en 1ère année de master pour minimum 3 crédits parmi les intitulés suivants : | |||||||
ENVI2011 | Méthodes d'évaluation et de gestion environnementale (in French) | Jean-Pierre Tack | 30h | 3credits | 2q | x | |
DROP2061B | Droit du développement durable - 2ème partie (in French) | N. | 15h | 3credits | 2q | x | |
DROP2062B | Droit de l'urbanisme - 2ème partie (in French) | Charles-Hubert Born, Francis Haumont | 15h | 3credits | 2q | x | |
DROP2063 | Environmental Law (in French) | Damien Jans, Nicolas de Sadeleer | 30h | 5credits | 2q | x | |
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BRES2102 | Soil hydrodynamics : modelling (in French) | Sébastien Lambot, Marnik Vanclooster | 30h + 22.5h | 5credits | 2q | x | |
BRES2103 | Soil physics (in French) | Charles Bielders, Mathieu Javaux | 30h + 15h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
Cours au choix en 1ère année de master pour 21 crédits minimum parmi les intitulés suivants : | |||||||
BRES2101 | Electronics and measurement (in French) | Francis Labrique | 30h + 22.5h | 5credits | 1q | x | |
BRES2104 | Hydraulics of open irrigation channels (in French) | Mathieu Javaux | 30h + 22.5h | 5credits | 2q | x | |
BRES2105 | Drainage and soil conservation (in French) | Charles Bielders | 30h + 22.5h | 5credits | 2q | x | |
BRES2106 | Integrated management of the soil-plant system (in French) | Stephan Declerck, Bruno Delvaux, Xavier Draye (coord.), Nathalie Kruyts (supplée Bruno Delvaux), Richard Lambert, Bernard Toussaint | 45h + 15h | 6credits | 2q | x | |
BRTE2101 | Biological physico-chemistry of water and soil (in French) | Joseph Dufey, Patrick Gerin | 37.5h + 15h | 5credits | 1q | x | |
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BRAT2102 | Spatial modelling of territorial dynamics (in French) | Pierre Defourny | 15h + 15h | 3credits | 2q | x | |
BRTI2102 | Process modelling and forescasting systems (in French) | Emmanuel Hanert | 30h + 15h | 5credits | 1q | x | |
INGI1271 | Files and databases (in French) | Alain Pirotte | 30h + 30h | 5credits | 2q | x | |
STAT2320 | Design of experiment. (in French) | Patrick Bogaert, Bernadette Govaerts | 22.5h + 7.5h | 5credits | 2q | x | |
INGE1216 | Management Science: Deterministic models (in French) | Philippe Chevalier, Mathieu Van Vyve | 30h + 15h | 5credits | x | ||
Cours au choix libre en 1ère année de master pour minimum 7 crédits | |||||||
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Pour suivre ce module, il est vivement conseillé d'avoir suivi l'option 4E en technologies environnementales : eau, sol, air | |||||||
BIRE22034 | Integrated project (in environmental technologies : water-soil-air) (in French) | N. | 50h | 5credits | x | ||
BRES2101 | Electronics and measurement (in French) | Francis Labrique | 30h + 22.5h | 5credits | 1q | x | |
BRTE2201 | Human and animal toxicology (in French) | Alfred Bernard, Cathy Debier | 45h + 7.5h | 5credits | 1q | x | |
Cours au choix en 2ème année du master pour minimum 4 crédits parmi les intitulés suivants : | |||||||
BRES2102 | Soil hydrodynamics : modelling (in French) | Sébastien Lambot, Marnik Vanclooster | 30h + 22.5h | 5credits | 2q | x | |
MAPR2643 | Treatment of liquid effluents (in English) | Spyridon Agathos, Léon Duvivier | 30h + 7.5h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
MAPR2680 | Treatments of gaseous wastes (in English) | Jacques Devaux, Olivier Françoisse | 30h + 7.5h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
MAPR2690 | Valorisation and Treatment of Solid Wastes (in English) | Jacques Devaux, Joris Proost | 30h + 7.5h | 4credits | 1q | x | |
AUCE2191 | Geoenvironment (in French) | Alain Holeyman | 30h + 15h | 4credits | 2q | x | |
Cours au choix libre en 2ème année de master: volume modulable pour obtenir un total minimum de 60 crédits pour l'année en cours. | |||||||
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Pour suivre ce module, il est vivement conseillé d'avoir suivi l'option 5E en Aménagement du territoire. | |||||||
AUCE3011A | Acteurs, territoires et contextes de développement (in French) | N. | 30h | 3credits | 1q | x | |
BIRE22035 | Integrated project (and field training in land development) (in French) | N. | 80h | 8credits | x | ||
Cours au choix en 2ème année de master pour 3 crédits minimum parmi les intitulés suivants : | |||||||
BRAI2210 | Integrated development (in French) | Jean-François Sneessens | 30h | 3credits | 1q | x | |
BRAI2212 | Economics of rural development (in French) | Frédéric Gaspart, Bruno Henry de Frahan (coord.) | 30h | 3credits | 1q | x | |
GEO2150A | Aides à la décision en géographie - Faisabilité des projets (in French) | N. | 15h + 15h | 3credits | 2q | x | |
ECGE1228 | Regional Economics (in French) | Jacques-François Thisse | 30h + 10h | 5credits | 2q | x | |
Cours au choix libre en 2ème année de master pour minimum 8 crédits | |||||||
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Pour suivre ce module, il est vivement conseillé d'avoir suivi l'option 6E en Nature, eaux et forêts. | |||||||
BIRE22036 | Integrated project (and field training in forestry) (in French) | N. | 90h | 9credits | 1+2q | x | |
BIRF2201 | Economie et politique forestières (in French) | Daniel Bemelmans (coord.), Jean-Louis Blanchez, Mathieu Jonard | 37.5h | 3credits | 1q | x | |
BIRF2202A | Aménagement des formations forestières (in French) | Quentin Ponette (coord.) | 22.5h + 15h | 3credits | x | ||
Cours au choix en 2ème année de master pour minimum 3 crédits parmi les intitulés suivants : | |||||||
BRAI2217 | Meadows and trails (in French) | Frédéric Janssens, Richard Lambert | 45h | 4credits | 2q | x | |
BIRF2203 | Pisciculture (in French) | Xavier Rollin | 30h | 3credits | 1q | x | |
Cours au choix libre en 2ème année de master: volume modulable pour obtenir un total minimum de 60 crédits pour l'année en cours. | |||||||
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Pour suivre ce module, il est vivement conseillé d'avoir suivi l'option 7E en ressources en eau et en sol. | |||||||
BIRE22037 | Integrated project (project, seminars and field training in soil and water resources) (in French) | N. | 90h | 9credits | 1+2q | x | |
Cours au choix en 2ème année de master pour minimum 3 crédits parmi les intitulés suivants : | |||||||
BRES2203 | Soil management and planning in warm regions (in French) | Charles Bielders, Thomas Delfosse (supplée Bruno Delvaux), Bruno Delvaux | 22.5h + 7.5h | 3credits | 1q | x | |
BRES2204 | Integrated management of water resources (in French) | Olivier Cogels, Quentin Goor, Amaury Tilmant (coord.) | 30h + 22.5h | 5credits | 1q | x | |
BRES2206 | Material resistance and earth-made constructions (in French) | Sébastien Lambot | 30h + 22.5h | 5credits | 1q | x | |
Cours au choix libre en 2ème année de master: volume modulable pour obtenir un total minimum de 60 crédits pour l'année en cours. | |||||||
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Pour suivre ce module, il est vivement conseillé d'avoir suivi l'option 10E en Analyse et gestion de l'information en ingénierie biologique. | |||||||
BIRE22031 | Integrated project (in technologies and information management) (in French) | N. | 60h | 6credits | x | ||
BRES2101 | Electronics and measurement (in French) | Francis Labrique | 30h + 22.5h | 5credits | 1q | x | |
BRTI2202 | Special questions in information management (in French) | Emmanuel Hanert | 30h | 3credits | 1q | x | |
BRTI2203 | Communication scientifique dans le domaine des sciences exactes (in French) | Pascale Gualtieri, Joël Saucin | 30h | 3credits | 1q | x | |
INGE1322 | Computer science: Analysis and Design of Information Systems (in French) | Jean Vanderdonckt | 30h + 15h | 5credits | x | ||
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Ce module est accessible à tous les étudiants quelle que soit l'option suivie en 1ère année de master. | |||||||
Un cours au choix en 2ème année de master pour minimum 5 crédits parmi les intitulés suivants: | |||||||
BIRE22031 | Integrated project (in technologies and information management) (in French) | N. | 60h | 6credits | x | ||
BIRE22034 | Integrated project (in environmental technologies : water-soil-air) (in French) | N. | 50h | 5credits | x | ||
BIRE22035 | Integrated project (and field training in land development) (in French) | N. | 80h | 8credits | x | ||
BIRE22036 | Integrated project (and field training in forestry) (in French) | N. | 90h | 9credits | 1+2q | x | |
BIRE22037 | Integrated project (project, seminars and field training in soil and water resources) (in French) | N. | 90h | 9credits | 1+2q | x | |
Cours au choix libre en 2ème année de master: volume modulable pour obtenir un total minimum de 60 crédits pour l'année en cours. | |||||||
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Ce module est accessible à tous les étudiants quelle que soit leur option. Il intègre l'ensemble de la formation interdisciplinaire CPME. Les étudiants qui choisissent ce module réalisent leur mémoire dans le cadre de cette formation. L'accès à ce module est réservé à un public limité: http://www.uclouvain.be/cpme.html | |||||||
CPME2001 | Entrepreneurship Theory (in French) | Frank Janssen | 30h | 5credits | x | ||
CPME2002 | Managerial, legal and economic aspects of the creation of a company (in French) | Régis Coeurderoy, Yves De Cordt | 30h | 5credits | x | ||
CPME2003 | Business plan of the creation of a company (in French) | Frank Janssen, Olivier Jaspers | 30h | 5credits | x | x | |
CPME2004 | Advanced seminar on Enterpreneurship (in French) | Frank Janssen | 30h | 5credits | x | ||
Cours au choix libre: volume modulable pour obtenir un total minimum de 60 crédits pour l'année en cours. Pour rappel, le programme de ce module s'articule avec celui de l'option au cours des deux années de master conformément aux directives du secrétaire académique qui veillera à la répartition de l'ensemble des cours sur les deux années de master. | |||||||