The MEng courses are the preferred route to achieving Chartered Engineer status. The MEng Sports Technology course is aimed at the most ambitious of students who wish to develop high-flying careers within sports goods and sports performance sectors and to become the future leaders of industry in companies concerned with the design and manufacture of consumer and elite sports products. By combining a thorough technology education with a sound design base, our graduates are ideally placed to conceive and develop innovative designs and turn them into profitable products. The course covers industrial design, human factors and marketing for the sports equipment sector. It reinforces this by providing an up-to-date knowledge of manufacturing processes and materials, to enable improvements in sports product performance and ease of use.

Sports technology combines the excellence of engineering science, measurement and analysis, and sports science to relate the playing, or use characteristics, of sporting equipment to the underlying principles of product design. Based in our dedicated, purpose-built Sports Technology Institute, the course focuses on, design, manufacture and testing of sports equipment, clothing and footwear, and has been specifically developed to provide the sports industry with graduates possessing the required specialist technical knowledge and skills to improve existing and develop new sports goods and products.

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