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Introduction
Sports Engineering is a rapidly developing and exciting area of engineering associated with sporting activity, equipment and technology. The aim of a sports engineer is to enable elite and recreational athletes to enjoy injury-free sport with improved performance.
The MEng degree programme integrates important traditional engineering courses with specialist courses relevant to sports engineering. The basic engineering subjects will be taught in conjunction with students on other degree programmes within the Department of Engineering. Therefore, you will be integrated with students studying mechanical, aeronautical, computer-aided and medical engineering, while at the same time being part of a smaller close-knit group of sports engineers. Specific Sports Engineering lectures, practicals, projects and coursework will account for 25 per cent in the first year, rising to 75 per cent in the final year with an extensive final year sports engineering group project.
With a specialised degree, such as Sports Engineering, we wish students to have not only the normal academic requirements, but also to be enthusiastic about sports and the high performance of sports men and women. This course will appeal to those students who are attracted by the practical, problem solving aspect of engineering, but who also have a keen interest in all kind of sports and are eager to improve sporting performance.
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Course outline
Year 1
- Sports Engineering 1
- Mechanics of Fluids
- Engineering Materials
- Mathematics
- Stress Analysis
- Computing & Statistics
- Dynamics
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Year 2
- Sports Engineering 2
- Mechanics and Biomaterials
- Exercise Physiology
- Electrical Technology
- Engineering Design
- Mathematics
- Structural Analysis
- Mechanics of Fluids 2
- Vibrations & Control of Dynamic Systems
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Year 3
- Sports Engineering 3
- Sports Injuries and Repair
- Computer Aided Engineering
- Sports Engineering Project
- Management
- Materials Selection & Design
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Year 4
- Sports Engineering Group Design Project
- Computational Engineering
- Equipment Design
- Computational Fluids
- Robotics
- Tissue Engineering
- Advanced Environmental Engineering
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Research Projects
- Biomechanical analysis of ground reaction forces in sprinting
- Technological advances in ski design
- Performance parameters of bobsleigh design
- Interaction between ice and metal at high speeds in relation to ice track sports - metal selection and relevant properties.
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Facilities
Within the Sports Engineering group in the Department of Engineering we have a range of excellent new facilities, which are fully equipped with state-of-the-art equipment. Throughout the four-year degree programme, you will be working in these facilities and using the specialist equipment for practicals, as well as individual and group projects.
Sports Biomechanics Laboratories
The following are examples of just some of new equipment that students will be using:
- gait analysis walkway
- treadmill with force plates
- rowing machines and exercise bikes
- human movement 3-D video analysis system
- respiratory and muscle physiology equipment
- computer-aided design (CAD)
- computational modelling facilities
- mechanical testing machines.
Tissue Engineering Laboratories
Sports injuries such as torn ligaments or damaged cartilage are often slow to heal and can seriously damage the careers of professional sports men and women. These injuries are now being treated using the latest tissue engineering therapies. This is an exciting area of sports engineering where you will be working alongside medical engineering students in order to understand the latest developments in this rapidly expanding field. The Department of Engineering includes extensive new tissue engineering laboratories, which are the focus of international leading research in this area. These laboratories will also be used by the Sports Engineering students for specific practicals and projects.
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Career opportunities
Career prospects are excellent for students graduating with a degree in Engineering from Queen Mary, University of London. The thorough grounding in basic engineering coupled with specific sports engineering subjects, provides graduates with considerable employment and career flexibility. As an engineer you will develop numerous transferable skills, which include computer literacy, numerical skills and problem solving capabilities, which will be of great value whatever career path you choose to take.
There are opportunities for well-qualified Sports Engineering graduates within small and medium sized sports manufacturers as well as the big companies such as Nike, Adidas and Umbro. There are also opportunities in Sports Engineering research both within university departments and industry.
Overall employment prospects for Engineers are extremely good, with more than 98 per cent employed six months after graduation. Recent graduates who have started work in the Engineering industry started on annual salaries in the region of £19,000. You might expect, as a successful Engineer to be earning £30,000 to £35,000 between five and ten years after graduation.
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