• Question: Have you ever worked on a project that has included sport?? and Why??

    Asked by AJH to Adam, Eloise, Iona, Jarrod, Yip on 13 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Man Hang Yip

      Man Hang Yip answered on 13 Jun 2016:

      There was a design class in the first year of my undergraduate studies where we need to design a bicycle that doesn’t exist yet.

    • Photo: Iona Strawson

      Iona Strawson answered on 14 Jun 2016:

      When I was at university we did a project designing a rowing machine. The idea was to better simulate what a rower experiences on the water as opposed to the solid floor. Our machine was going to rock about a bit!

      If you are interested in sports engineering you should look at Loughborough University (where I went). We have a huge engineering department as well as tonnes of sport. The Reebok Step was developed at Loughborough. Unfortunately I think the football from the last world cup that no one could kick properly might also have come from there. But there are lots of courses that incorporate sports, and loads of athletes to try them out on!

    • Photo: Jarrod Hart

      Jarrod Hart answered on 22 Jun 2016:

      You know, I don’t think I have really…

      I guess indirectly, as I work in making materials lighter and stronger, and often sports equipment (baseball bats, helmets, bicycles, golf-clubs and tennis racquets ) are at the cutting edge of what is possible. Carbon fibre has been used in golf clubs (and fishing rods!) for many years now – and you can even by tennis racquets that claim to contain graphene – but this is for sure a ‘con’ – it is not there in any meaningful way yet.

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