Richard C. Jordan Professor, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Director, Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center
Richard C. Jordan Professor, Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Director, Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center
Dr. 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 use worldwide. Dr. 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.
Art Erdman specializes in mechanical design, bioengineering plus medical device and product design. In July 2007 he founded and became the Director of the Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center. He particularly enjoys working with design teams that start with unmet medical needs and travel through the medical device development process to ultimately create solutions to improve healthcare.
Lab
Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center - G217 Mayo Building
ME Research Areas
Biosystems & Bioengineering
ME Impact Areas
Human Health
Ph.D. 1971, Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.S. 1968, Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
B.S. 1967, Mechanical Engineering, Rutgers University
Richard C. Jordan Professor and a Morse Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, -present
Director of the Earl E. Bakken Medical Devices Center, University of Minnesota, 2007-present