Teaching

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IBS7048: Advanced Metagenomics

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2023, 2024

Metagenomics sequencing enabled the acquisition of large datasets in microbial changes. Due to recent developments, the size of the metagenomics sequencing data sets has become larger and requires complex data processing pipelines. Consequently, their outcome also needs a large variety of exploratory analyses and multiple statistical tests. This lecture will deal with the difference between 16S amplicon sequencing, long reads sequencing, shotgun metagenomics sequencing, and conventional pipelines corresponding to each sequencing result. At the end of this lecture, students will need to process dummy sequencing files to generate taxonomic annotation and run hypothesis tests on the sequencing results.

Lecture materials are at this GitHub link  

IBS001 & 002: Thesis Pre-defense Seminar I & II

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2024, 2025

Through this seminar course, students aim to improve their planning, review, and presentation skills for their degree research conducted during graduate studies. By taking Thesis Presentation 2, students enhance their presentation and discussion abilities related to their degree research, allowing them to review their research direction and methodologies before the final degree examination (defense). Additionally, through research presentations, students work on improving their presentation skills, which are essential for academic conferences and similar events.

There is no lecture material and the enrolled students must present their own research in this lecture

BTE3207: Advanced Biostatistics

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2023, 2024

 To understand changes associated with big data in the biomedical field, this lecture will cover understanding what data science is, and how to use it to understand consequences. Furthermore, as this lecture is part of the biological engineer specialization, it will cover how to employ those data science skills and statistical inference, in the bioprocess engineering fields such as optimization.

Lecture materials can be found at this BTE3207 GitHub page 

BTE2105: Microbiology

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2025

The course outline is divided into two main parts. First, up until the midterm exam, it covers the basics of microbiology, including the history of microbiology, microbial structure, growth and differentiation, energy and metabolism, cultivation, diversity and ecology, viruses, and pathogenic bacteria. After the midterm exam, the course focuses on microbial applications, broadly covering topics such as strain development, genetic material and basic genetic engineering, microbiome, antibiotics and bioactive substances, industrial microbiology, and synthetic biology. Minsik covers of the first half of the lecture

Lecture materials can be found at the contents archive of Inha University (I-Class)

ACE2101: Engineering Mathematics I

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2024, 2025

This course covers ordinary differential equations and vector analysis as quantitative tools for solving engineering problems. It includes first, second, and higher-order ordinary differential equations, systems of ordinary differential equations, series solutions, Laplace transforms, and vector calculus. As this subject serves as a widely used tool in engineering, the approach focuses more on calculation methods and mathematical techniques for engineering problems from an applied mathematics perspective, rather than rigorous mathematical proofs.

Lecture materials can be found at the contents archive of Inha University (I-Class)

BTE1202: Creative Bio Engineering Design

Semester: Spring

Offered: 2024, 2025

This course teaches and provides practical experience in various idea generation and selection techniques. The aim is to generate creative, new industrial ideas through lectures. The course is structured in three stages:  History and cycles of innovation of products and processes; methods to investigate needs, benchmark with competitors, recognize issues, and resolve the issues to make ideal final product ; Collecting and presenting relevant materials to generate and implement target ideas to conceptualize creative products.

Lecture materials can be found at the contents archive of Inha University (I-Class)

BPE3206: Biopharmaceutical Production Design

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2024

Acquire basic knowledge and understand recent development trends in biopharmaceuticals (protein therapeutics, cell therapies, anti-cancer immune cell therapies). Based on this, groups will select topics, proceed with finding solutions to problems, and present the final results.

Lecture materials can be found at the contents archive of Inha University (I-Class)

Engineering 101 for high schoolers

Semester: Fall

Offered: 2023

Inha University College of Engineering offers local high schools an introductory engineering lecture. In the year 2023, professors at the Department of Biological Engineering visited 7 high schools in the Seoul-Incheon metropolitan area. Kim visited 3 of them and gave a seminar about; the difference between science and engineering, introduction to biological engineering, and computational biology.

Lecture materials are at this DropBox link