Robotics 8970 Colloquium: Dr. Andrew Hansen (MADE)

Development and Translation of Products for Veterans – Made by MADE

 This presentation will provide an overview of the Minneapolis Adaptive Design & Engineering (MADE) Program’s history and development of products for Veterans. The MADE Program specializes in the development of rehabilitation technologies such as lower-limb prostheses, wheelchairs, exercise equipment, and skin screening systems. We utilize a stage-gate model for product development and work on projects that aim to improve the participation of Veterans in important life activities regardless of their physical abilities. MADE is also a site for the Technology Transfer Assistance Program, which serves to prototype clinician-driven ideas throughout the country.

About Andrew Hansen

Hansen received a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Iowa in 1995, preceding his master’s and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from Northwestern University in 1998 and 2002. In 2010, Dr. Hansen and Dr. Gary Goldish founded the MADE Program, which has grown to over 25 multidisciplinary personnel in 2021. Dr. Hansen directs the MADE Program at the Minneapolis VA as a Research Biomedical Engineer, and is also a Professor of Rehabilitation Science and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Minnesota.