Eric Dinges
About Eric Dinges
Eric Dinges is the Research and Development Manager at Boston Scientific, with extensive experience in biomedical engineering and product development.
Title
Eric Dinges currently holds the position of Research and Development Manager at Boston Scientific.
Current Role at Boston Scientific
Eric Dinges has been serving as the Research and Development Manager at Boston Scientific since 2022. In this role, he leads cross-functional teams to ensure the successful development and launch of medical products. He employs voice of customer (VOC) techniques to align product development with market needs and works directly with physicians to gather feedback for product improvement.
Previous Positions at Boston Scientific
Before becoming the Research and Development Manager, Eric Dinges worked at Boston Scientific in various capacities. He was a Senior R&D Engineer from 2018 to 2022 and an R&D Engineer II from 2016 to 2018. In these roles, he specialized in the design of nitinol scaffolds, essential for medical devices such as stents and heart valves, and developed test methods to ensure their reliability and performance.
Education and Expertise
Eric Dinges holds a Master of Business Administration with a focus on Corporate Finance from the University of Minnesota - Carlson School of Management, completed in 2023. Additionally, he earned a Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2016, and a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Iowa in 2014. His expertise includes nitinol scaffold design and the development of test methods for medical device reliability and performance.
Early Career and Research Experience
Eric Dinges began his career in academia with roles including Research Assistant at The University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics from 2012 to 2014, and subsequently at the University of Iowa until 2014. He also worked as a Teaching Assistant at the University of Iowa in 2013. He then moved to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he worked as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Vascular Tissue Biomechanics Laboratory from 2014 to 2016, focusing on biomedical engineering research in Madison, Wisconsin.