Introductory Sports Engineering and Technology

Tom Allen, PhD, is a Reader in the Department of Engineering at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and serves as Editor-in-Chief of Sports Engineering.Nick Emerson, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer and Associate Head of the School of Product Design within the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer in the UK and Australia and a member of the Design Institute of New Zealand.John Hart, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow in the Sports Engineering Research Group at the Advanced Wellbeing Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He leads the MSc programme in Sports Engineering and Artificial Intelligence at Sheffield Hallam University.Stefan Schwanitz, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Engineering at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. He has taught on both the bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes in Sports Engineering at Chemnitz for over 15 years.

• 1. An Introduction to Sports Engineering and Technology 2. Developing Sporting Goods 3. Sports Mechanics 4. Fluid Dynamics in Sport 5. Fundamentals of Sports Materials 6. Materials in Sporting Goods 7. Manufacturing Sporting Goods 8. Testing Sporting Goods 9. Gauging the Effect of Technology on Sport 10. Current Trends and Future Challenges in Sports Engineering and Technology 11. Other Books on Sports Engineering and Technology