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Sports engineering
Sports engineering is a sub-discipline of engineering that applies math and science to develop technology, equipment, and other resources as they pertain to sport.
Sports engineering was first introduced by Isaac Newton’s observation of a tennis ball.[1] In the mid-twentieth century, Howard Head became one of the first engineers to apply engineering principles to improve sports equipment.[2] Starting in 1999, the biannual international conference for sports engineering was established to commemorate achievements in the field.[3] Presently, the journal “Sports Engineering” details the innovations and research projects that sports engineers are working on.[3]
The study of sports engineering requires an understanding of a variety of engineering topics, including physics, mechanical engineering, materials science, and biomechanics.[4] Many practitioners hold degrees in those topics rather than in sports engineering specifically. Specific study programs in sports engineering and technology are becoming more common at the graduate level, and also at the undergraduate level in Europe. Sports engineers also employ computational engineering tools like computer-aided design (CAD), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), and finite element analysis (FEA) to design and produce sports equipment, sportswear, and more.[1]
- ^ a b "An Overview Of Sports Engineering: History, Impact And Research" (PDF).
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