Sports Engineering Minor

The interdisciplinary minor in Sports Engineering is primarily designed for students majoring in one of the university engineering fields. Students from other colleges can take the Sports Engineering minor but will have to take additional courses to satisfy prerequisites. The field of sports engineering is the technical application of math and physics to solve sporting problems, which might include designing equipment, building facilities, analyzing athlete performance, developing test standards, and ensuring compliance with safety requirements. The Sports Engineering minor will provide an opportunity for engineering students to complement their engineering major education by immersing them in a set of well-connected classes that will cover the technical and societal aspects for a career in sports.

The Sports Engineering minor consists of 24 credits.

Required Courses (12 credits)

• ENGN.2200 Introduction to Sports Engineering
• Choose one from the following:
  • POLI.3230 Politics and Baseball
  • POLI.3240 Politics of Football
  • POLI.3210 Soccer and Politics
  • POLI.2180 Introduction to Politics and Sports
  • POLI.3290 Politics of College Sports
  • PSYC.3550 Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • SOCI.2140 Sociology of Sports
  • ENGL.2530 The Culture of American Sport
  • PHIL.3900 Philosophy of Sport
  • PHIL.3850 Philosophy of Popular Culture
  • HIST.3660 History of Race and Gender in Sports
  • ENGL.3685 Sports Writing
• Choose one from the following:
  • BIOL.2100 Biology for Engineers
  • NUTR.1100 Nutrition & Wellness
  • LIFE.1060 Human Biology
  • PUBH.1021 Introduction to Public Health
  • HSCI.1010 Anatomy & Physiology I
  • EXER.2020 Introduction to Exercise Science
  • PSYC.3550 Sport and Exercise Psychology
• Choose one from the following:
  • HONR.3400 Special Topics in Honors Seminar: Business of Sports
  • LGST.3720 Sports, Entertainment and Art Law
  • PLAS.5370 Business Law for Engineers
  • PLAS.5900 Survey of Intellectual Property
  • ENTR.3000 Principles of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • MECH.4230 Capstone Design¹ 
  • PLAS.4150 Capstone Project I¹
  • PLAS.4160 Capstone Project II¹
  • ENGN.4020 Industrial Capstone¹

Electives (12 credits)

Three of the elective courses (9 credits) need to be from one of the six focus areas and at least one of those three courses needs to be at 4000 level or above. The remaining elective course can be any remaining course within the minor.

• Biomechanics
  • BMEN.4300 Occupational Ergonomics
  • BMEN.4310 Biomechanics I
  • BMEN.4315 Biomechanics II
  • BMEN.4810 Data Analytics & Biostatistics
  • BMEN.4380 Computational Biomechanics
  • BMEN.5310 Occupational Biomechanics
• Sports Engineering Mechanics
  • ENGN.2070 Dynamics
  • CIVE.3010 / MECH.3810 / CHEN.3030 Fluid Mechanics
  • MECH.4040 Advanced Mechanical Dynamic Measurement Systems
  • MECH.4510 Dynamic Systems Analysis
  • MECH.5500 Vibration
  • MECH.5160 Experimental Modal Analysis
  • MECH.5630 Dynamic Behavior of Materials
• Sports Electronics
  • EECE.2160 ECE Application Programming
  • EECE.2460 Introduction to Data Communication Networks
  • EECE.3620 Signals and Systems
  • EECE.3170 Microprocessor Systems Design I
  • EECE.5180 Wireless Communications
  • EECE.5410 Introduction to Biosensors
  • EECE.5841 Computer Vision and Digital Image Processing
  • EECE.5850 Network and Cyber Security
• Sports Materials
  • PLAS.1080 Introduction to Polymer Sustainability
  • PLAS.2020 Polymer Materials II
  • MECH.2960 Materials Science for Engineers
  • CHEN.3080 Intro to Material Science Engineering
  • PLAS.4030 / PLAS.5030 Mechanical Behavior of Polymers
  • CHEN.5080 Material Science and Engineering
  • MECH.5110 FEA of Textiles and Composites
  • MECH.5140 Finite Element Analysis of Composites
  • PLAS.5210 Polymers in Sports
  • CHEN.5230 Nanodevices and Electronic Materials Processing
  • PLAS.5350 Rubber Technology
  • CHEN.5370 Nanomaterials Characterization I
  • PLAS.5440 Advanced Plastics Materials
  • CHEN.5460 Biomaterials Science and Engineering
  • MECH.5630 Dynamic Behavior of Materials
  • PLAS.5750 Biomaterials I
  • MECH.5960 Mechanics of Composite Materials
  • MECH.5970 Processing of Composites
• Sports Product Design
  • EECE.2010 Circuit Theory I
  • ENGN.2070 Dynamics
  • PLAS.4180 / PLAS.5180 Product and Process Design
  • BMEN.4030 Medical Device Design I
  • MECH.4730 Design Theory and Constraints
  • PLAS.5150 Lean Plastics Manufacturing
  • MECH.5120 Applied Finite Element Analysis
  • PLAS.5370 Business Law for Engineers
  • PLAS.5490 Product Design for Elastomers
  • PLAS.5530 Medical Device Design I
  • PLAS.5900 Survey of Intellectual Property
  • PLAS.6180 Structural Product Design
  • ENGN.4030 Industrial Capstone¹
• Sports Infrastructure
  • CIVE.2250 Surveying I
  • CIVE.3400 Transportation Engineering
  • CIVE.3300 Soil Mechanics
  • CIVE.3520 Reinforced Concrete
  • CIVE.4520 Steel Design
  • CIVE.4600 Water Resource Engineering

¹Sports focused project is required.

For more information, contact Patrick Drane, program coordinator.