Course Title: Design and Technology of Sports Shoes and Apparel

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Design and Technology of Sports Shoes and Apparel

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

MIET2400

City Campus

Postgraduate

115H Aerospace, Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering

Face-to-Face

 Sem 2 2013,
Sem 2 2016

MIET2400

City Campus

Postgraduate

172H School of Engineering

Face-to-Face

 Sem 2 2017

Course Coordinator: Dr Mladenko Kajtaz

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 6122

Course Coordinator Email: mladenko.kajtaz@rmit.edu.au


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None


Course Description

This course covers sports footwear and clothing, which accounts for two thirds of the world’s sporting goods market.

The course introduces you to

- the design of sports shoes including principles of optimisation, mechanical properties of shoes, methods for improving sports performance, and practical examples of footwear design innovation; and

- principles of textile engineering, garment comfort and sports fashion, including fabric thermodynamics, moisture management, and design and fitting of garments.

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 a group project which requires 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 shoes and clothing.


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

  • Understand the scope, principles, norms, accountabilities and bounds of contemporary engineering practice in the specific discipline
  • 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:

  1. Describe and apply engineering principles to the design and analysis of sports shoes and apparel
  2. Relate principles of sports shoe and apparel 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 group projects. 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 projects expose 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

Early Assessment Task: Assignment
Weighting 15%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-2

Laboratory Reports
Weighting 25%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-2

Group project
Weighting 50%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-2

Examination (oral)
Weighting 10%
This assessment supports CLOs 1-2