Introduction to Bioelectricity - Purdue University
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Understand how biological systems generate electrical signals, and how they can be recorded and induced with manufactured devices.
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Freshmen level college physics;
Understanding of differential equations
Introductory programming experience (any language acceptable, Python preferred)
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- Engineering
- Electricity
- Biology
- Bioelectricity
- Biological Systems
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What you'll learn
- 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 systemic bioelectricity
- Mathematical analysis including Nernst equation, Goldman equation, linear cable theory, and Hodgkin-Huxley Model of action potential generation and propagation
- To design and build a wireless bioelectric recording device to control a prosthetic limb
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Introduction to Bioelectricity - Purdue University