TEAM Lab

How Engineers are Helping Make a Rare, Complex Surgery Safer

A collaboration between UC Davis Health and the Translating Engineering Advances to Engineering, or TEAM, Lab is simplifying a rare, complex surgery through three-dimensional printed models to help surgical teams plan and prepare.

Video: TEAM Lab's Aggie Square Story

The Translating Engineering Advances to Medicine (TEAM) Lab at UC Davis is a unit within the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the UC Davis College of Engineering. The lab designs and manufactures devices to support research and solve problems in human and veterinary health.

Engineering Solutions

In many classrooms, instructors use touchscreen tablets to operate overhead projectors. They are straightforward tools, but only if the user can see which buttons to press. This summer, University of California, Davis, history lecturer Seth Clark discovered his sight impairment made the tablets challenging to use.