By the windmills and waterways of Rotterdam and Kinderdijk, the civil engineering students of Gonzaga in Delft explore sustainability.

Students in Gonzaga in Delft: Sustainable Cities learned about the Netherlands’ sustainable agriculture techniques with a visit to Tomato World.

Civil engineering students studying abroad in the Netherlands learn how to think about sustainable materials and their role in engineering design and practice.

A roundup of various weekend trips the students made in small groups.

Touring Rotterdam for Sustainable Features

Evaluating Rotterdam neighborhoods' social sustainability.

The Delft University of Technology has the Green Village, a field lab for students’ innovations.

Topics of the day included ethics of transportation engineeringand introduction to water management.

Students take a side trip to Belgium

Biking around Rijswijk, the students observed and learned about how a city that was built around cars was transitioned to focus more on biking and public transit.

Students get fitted for bikes to get around the Netherlands.

The Gonzaga in Delft 2026 experience studies sustainable cities.

Students headed to the Nieuwe Kerk, New Church, clocktower

Tomatoworld is an information and education center that teaches the great value of the Dutch greenhouse horticulture sector

Much of the Netherlands is below sea level, so its inhabitants are the best at water management