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Arthur G. Erdman
Professor
Email: agerdman@umn.edu
Telephone: (612) 625-8580

Associate Director, Industrial Interaction, Department of Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Ph.D., 1971, M.S., 1968, Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

B.S., 1967, Mechanical Engineering, Rutgers University

Research

Arthur G. Erdman, P.E., 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 product design. Dr. Erdman has published over 275 technical papers, 3 books, holds over 30 patents, and shares with his former students 9 Best Paper Awards at international conferences. 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 used 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 Xerox, 3M, Andersen Windows, Proctor and Gamble, HP, Rollerblade, Sulzer Medica and Yamaha. He has received a number of awards including ASME Machine Design Award and the ASME Outstanding Design Educator Award. Erdman is a Fellow of ASME and a Founding Fellow of AIMBE. He has been the Chair of six Design of Medical Devices Conferences which are held next to the University of Minnesota each April.

Publications

ASME Journal of Medical Devices (editor)

Laboratories

LINCAGES Software