Monday, August 21st started a new era in teaching at Purdue with the inaugural class held in BMED 1001, the 80-seat classroom located on the first floor of the Biomedical Engineering building. At 8:30 a.m., the students gathered for BME 301, Bioelectricity, under the watchful eye of Professor Irazoqui.

The course covers fundamentals of bioelectricity of the mammalian nervous system and other excitable tissues. Passive and active forms of electric signals in both the single cell and cell-cell communication, tissue and systematic bioelectricity, mathematical analysis including Nernst equation, Goldman equation, linear cable theory, and Hodgkin-Huxley Model of action potential generation and propagation are covered.

The official dedication for the Biomedical Engineering Building will be on Friday, September 22, 2006.