A professional internship is required for a degree in Bioenvironmental Science. Students receive three (3) credit hours after completing this internship.

      Internships provide BESC students an opportunity to explore the practical aspects of their classroom experience as well as giving them an advantage when it comes time to look for employment after graduation.

Students in the program have completed internships with:

• Dames & Moore
• National Association of Environmental Management
• Dupont
• Lockheed-Martin
• Davey Resource Group
• Harding Lawson Associates Inc.
• Brazos Valley Solid Waste Management Agency
• City of Tulsa
• City of Dallas
• City of Houston
• City of College Station
• District Attorney of Harris Co. for Environmental Crime
• Ensafe
• Brazos River Authority
• Lower Neches Valley Authority
• Geochemical and Environmental Research Group

BESC students have also worked at numerous Texas A&M University departments and laboratories such as:

• Southern Crops Research Labs
• Texas Agricultural Experiement Station
• Texas Agricultural Extension Service
• TAMU Plant Pathology and Microbiology
• TAMU Urban Forestry
• TAMU Recycling Center
• Texas Engineering Extension Service-Brayton Fire Training School
• USDA

 

 
Working on such projects as:


• Chemical analysis of oil field samples
• Design and construction of water reclamation plants
• Gathering water, soil and air samples for cases in litigation
• Research of biocontrol agents dealing with cotton pathology
• Feasibility studies for plastics recycling
• The applied use of pine needles as indicators of airborne contaminants
• Macrophyte survey on Lake Waco
• Phase I site assessments

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