Arthur Johnson

Biography

Arthur Thomas Johnson is an American bioengineer, farmer, author, and academic. He is a professor emeritus of Bioengineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, and operates his family farm, SweetAire Farm, in Darlington, Maryland. Johnson's research focuses on human performance with respirators, biomechanics, instrumentation, transport processes, bioengineering instruction, and the development of the Airflow Perturbation Device for measuring respiratory resistance. His publications comprise journal articles and five books, including Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology, Biological Process Engineering, Biology for Engineers, Greetings from SweetAire Farm, and Design of Biomedical Devices and Systems. He is the recipient of the 1992 Excellence in Teaching Materials Award and the 2012 Theo Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award from the American Society for Engineering Education, along with the Institute of Biological Engineering's Brahm and Sudha Verma Lifetime Visionary Award in 2008, and the 2020 Cyrus Hall McCormick-Jerome Increase Case Gold Medal from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers. Johnson is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and a Life Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education, the American Society for Agricultural and Biological Engineers, as well as the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He is also a Fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association and the Biomedical Engineering Society.

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