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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Challenges of Laparoscopic Surgery

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students teams use a laparoscopic surgical trainer to perform simple laparoscopic surgery tasks (dissections, sutures) using laparoscopic tools. Just like in the operating room, where the purpose is to perform surgery carefully and...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Designing a Robotic Surgical Device

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Student teams create laparoscopic surgical robots designed to reduce the invasiveness of diagnosing endometriosis and investigate how the disease forms and spreads. Using a synthetic abdominal cavity simulator, students test and iterate...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Abdominal Cavity and Laparoscopic Surgery

For Teachers 10th - 12th
For students interested in studying biomechanical engineering, especially in the field of surgery, this lesson serves as an anatomy and physiology primer of the abdominopelvic cavity. Students are introduced to the abdominopelvic...