Art Erdman
Director, Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center
- Health
- Science and Technology
- Bioengineering
- Mechanical Engineering
Introduction
Arthur G. Erdman, Ph.D., is the Richard C. Jordan Professor and a Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota, specializing in mechanical design, bioengineering, and medical device and product design.
In July 2007, he founded and became the director of the Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center at the University of Minnesota.
Erdman currently has a number of ongoing projects of which many are related to biomedical engineering and medical device design. He led the effort to create LINCAGES, a mechanism software design package that has been used worldwide.
Erdman has had research collaborations with faculty in Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Epidemiology, Orthopedics, Surgery, Dentistry, Otolaryngology and Sport Biomechanics. He has consulted at over 50 companies in mechanical and product design, including Honeywell, Medtronic, Xerox, 3M, Andersen Windows, Proctor and Gamble, Graco, HP, Rollerblade, Sulzer Medica, Gillette, Dell, Abbott (formerly St. Jude Medical) and Yamaha.