Why Study Sports Engineering?

In the past, sports engineering problems have been tackled by either engineers or physiologists, or multidisciplinary teams. The lack of personnel with multidisciplinary skills limits progress. The Sports Engineering program seeks to provide graduates with an appropriate breadth and depth of skills so that they can contribute to and lead such multidisciplinary teams.

Students receive training in the fundamentals of engineering and biological sciences, and then apply these fundamentals to the study of sports-related systems. Graduates will have both mechanical engineering skills and highly specific sporting engineering skills giving a wide range of potential career opportunities.

What will you learn?

Sports Engineering is a program that recognises the interdisciplinary nature of high-performance sporting equipment, facility design and sports performance. The program combines the core of Mechanical Engineering science, technology, design and management, with the fundamentals of physiology and biomechanics and then integrates these areas in a range of sports-related subjects.

The multi-disciplinary structure of sports engineering includes courses that cover

• Computing
• Sports
• Physiology
• Professional Practice
• Design
• Mathematics
• Electronics
• Engineering Science

The program culminates in a large design or research project that allows the students to apply their knowledge to real sports engineering projects. Many of these will be industry-sponsored projects where the students are required to produce real results or products for an industry client.