Bioengineering: chemistry and bio-industries, professional focus (Erasmus Mundus BIOCEB)

Programme content

Added value

Added value of the bioscience engineering masters

Versatile training

At the end of the first cycle of studies, students move on to one of the four master's fields. However, this choice does not lock them into a narrow specialization. The general profile of the Gembloux bioscience engineer guarantees a capacity to adapt to the rapid evolution of the professions, as evidenced by the varied careers of bioscience engineers trained at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech. The most important thing is to focus on the field that best suits your tastes, aptitudes and professional project.

In addition to the teachers at Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, about fifty specialists from the world of work participate in teaching in bioscience engineering masters.

Psychosocial skills

The "skills portfolio" makes it possible to refine the construction of professional skills outside the technical fields of specialisation. These are essentially the psycho-social skills (or "Soft Skills") to be reinforced with a view to a future professional project.

The portfolio is an opportunity to enhance in its curriculum personalized training or personal projects that are part of the development of the future professional project. For example, it can provide entrepreneurship coaching for the creation of a company or the follow-up of training courses giving access to technical cooperation for development projects.

Each master's degree also includes a group project, supervised by specialists, which develops communication and organisational skills.

An active internship in a company

Being confronted with professional realities is fundamental to maturing and refining your professional project. A minimum eight-week internship is required in a master's degree. It allows you to discover a profession, a company and a sector of activity. It is also an opportunity to acquire the necessary steps to find a job.

To prepare students for this internship, they will be supervised by human resources specialists who will help them to approach the internship as effectively as possible and who will then analyse their experience with them in order to make the most of this contact with the professional world.

Master thesis

The last months of the second master's degree are entirely dedicated to the completion of a final year work. It is a personal scientific work on a theme defined in consultation with the promoter(s) leading to the demonstration by the students of their autonomy and their ability to pose and solve a problem whose level is compatible with the objectives of the training and the time allocated. This personal work may include the development of analytical methods, measurement tools or planning techniques.

The Faculty also offers the possibility of carrying out this end-of-study work in companies. Compared to the traditional end-of-study work, this formula involves a period of immersion in a company of at least eight weeks. It aims to increase the development of skills such as organizational, time management and task sharing skills. It also aims to raise awareness of the constraints of the professional context (time, deadlines, reliability, safety, costs...). The students jointly define with the Faculty and the company the theme of the final year work.