Course Title: Design and Mechanics of Sports Equipment
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Design and Mechanics of Sports Equipment
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
MIET2399 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
115H Aerospace, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 2 2013, Sem 2 2016 |
MIET2399 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
172H School of Engineering |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 2 2017 |
Course Coordinator: Dr Kate Fox
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 4296
Course Coordinator Email: kate.fox@rmit.edu.au
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
None
Course Description
This course covers the spectrum of sports equipment including balls, implements and protective equipment. The course introduces you to the design of sports equipment including principles of equipment design and optimisation, mechanical properties of equipment, methods for improving sports performance, and practical examples of design innovation. The main focus of the course is targeted at innovation and problem solution, based on systems design, mechanical modelling, design optimisation and equipment testing.
This course is intended to represent the problems and solutions that a new graduate might be expected to undertake shortly after starting work as a professional sports technologist. In this course you are required to undertake group projects which require you to demonstrate technical skills and personal attributes at levels which are commensurate with professional sports technology practice.
This course will provide you ample opportunities to familiarise yourself with various real-world sports technology problems. You will learn to design, analyse and test a wide range of sports equipment.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
This course contributes to the following program learning outcomes:
2. Problem Solving and Design
- Anticipate the consequences of intended action or inaction and understand how the consequences are managed collectively by your organisation, project or team
- Develop and operate within a hazard and risk framework appropriate to engineering activities
3. Analysis
- Comprehend and apply advanced theory-based understanding of engineering fundamentals and specialist bodies of knowledge in the selected discipline area to predict the effect of engineering activities
4. Professional Practice
- Initiate, plan, lead or manage engineering activities
- Apply systematic approaches to the conduct and management of engineering projects
- Demonstrate effective team membership and team leadership
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of the course, you should be able to:
- Describe and apply mechanics principles to the design of sports equipment
- Relate principles of sports equipment technology to identify problems and develop solutions
Overview of Learning Activities
Learning activities for this course include face-to-face lectures, tutorials, laboratory experiments and analyses, and a group project. The basic theoretical background will be explained in the lectures and various real-world technology problems will be discussed and analysed in the lectures and tutorials. The basic principles will also be demonstrated and reinforced through the laboratory experiments. The group project exposes you to the development of an optimised or innovative sports product within a team in a simulated company environment under close supervision of the course coordinator.
Overview of Learning Resources
You will typically need to use professional level resources such as a prescribed textbook, lecture notes and laboratory handbooks that are available on the course Blackboard (accessed via myRMIT), and specialist books and journals that are accessible in the RMIT library and other major libraries. Internet sources may be helpful, but will not be sufficient by themselves.
Overview of Assessment
X This course has no hurdle requirements.
☐ All hurdle requirements for this course are indicated clearly in the assessment regime that follows, against the relevant assessment task(s) and all have been approved by the College Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor (Learning & Teaching).
Assessment Tasks
Assignments
Weighting 40%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-2
Laboratory Report
Weighting 30%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-2
Group project
Weighting 30%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-2