2025 (Current Year) Faculty Courses School of Life Science and Technology Department of Life Science and Technology Graduate major in Life Science and Technology
The present state of digital transformation (DX) in Bio-industries
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Life Science and Technology
- Instructor(s)
- Takashi Suzuki / Akio Kitao / Toshinori Fujie / Shoen Kume / Eiry Kobatake / Susumu Kajiwara / Toshiaki Kamachi / Shunichiro Ogura / Tetsuya Kadonosono
- Class Format
- Lecture/Experiment (Face-to-face)
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 7-9 Thu (B2-227, （B223）)
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- LST.C402
- Number of credits
- 0.500.5
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 2Q
- Syllabus updated
- Apr 30, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
The aim of this course is to develop bio-DX human resources who can deal with real problems in industry and business and who can also create a new key industry "bioeconomy".
Course description and aims
To be able to use DS (data science) and AI to build the infrastructure and utilise a wide variety of bio-data necessary for 'promoting the bio-economy', which aims for sustainable economic growth and a recycling-oriented society through the use of biotechnology, and to be able to create new value from data and seek solutions to business issues.
Keywords
Bioeconomy, biotechnology, data science, AI
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
In addition to classroom lectures, the course incorporates Project Based Learning (PBL).
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Lectures and PBL by lecturers dispatched by companies | undecided |
| Class 2 | Lectures and PBL led by lecturers from industry | undecided |
| Class 3 | Lectures and PBL led by lecturers from industry | undecided |
| Class 4 | No lecture | undecided |
| Class 5 | Lectures and PBL led by lecturers from industry | undecided |
| Class 6 | Lectures and PBL led by lecturers from industry | undecided |
| Class 7 | Factory visit (Chugai Pharmacuetical Co.) | undecided |
| Class 8 | No lecture |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
none
Reference books, course materials, etc.
none
Evaluation methods and criteria
Evaluation is based on in-class presentations and reports.
Related courses
- none
Prerequisites
none