Core Facilities

The Medical Devices Center Core Facilities are located on the 5th Floor of Shepherd Labs on the East Bank of the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities Campus. The Core Facilitie4s consists of 11 rooms all of which contain common use equipment researchers will use to design and test medical devices. For Tour information, please click here.

•   Mechanical Fabrication (508)

  • Mechanical prototypes come to life in this well stocked machine shop. Features include a high precision benchtop lathe, milling machine, drill press, band saw and many precise measurement tools for quality controls.
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    Assembly/Molding and Brainstorming (554)

• This multiple-purpose room will be used for brainstorming medical device design, assembly of medical devices, and for molding components. It features a Smartboard digital whiteboard system which allows the efficient transfer of ideas as well as projection capability. Click Here to view the the schedule for the brainstorming room.
  
  

•   SimPortal/Anatomy and Physiology (566)

• This room features anatomic models, as well as plasticized organs, so that engineers can become familiar with the human body and how their device will interface with it. There is also a direct connection to the SimPortal and to dozens of surgical rooms using a large screen, three dimensional projector to view surgical procedures in real-time.

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•   Wet Lab (596)

• This lab will be used for testing devices in tissue environments.This includes microscopes and other instrumentation.
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    MDC Fellows Director Office (583)

• Marie Johnson's office.

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    MDC Fellows Offices (585/587)

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    CAD/Precision Instruments Lab (546)

• This room is for analyzing and optimizing designs for medical devices including digitization using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software, as well as testing equipment. Reverse engineering is also possible using a three-dimensional laser scanner and data processing software.

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•   Core Facilities Lab Director Office (544) 

  Dillon Hodapp's office.

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    Electronics Fabrication (544B) 

• Medical device prototypes requiring electronics can be designed, fabricated, and tested in this room. Resources include a vast on-hand stock of electronic components, industrial quality soldering tools, as well as signal generation and data acquisition capabilities.

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•   Collaboration Room (535/575)