Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Career in Sports Engineering

Introduction: If one is a sports person by heart, then certainly this might be the right career. With the rising no. of Indians winning gold medal at Olympics, Sports is certainly the next big thing in India. Sport is the field of Engineering that involves the design, development and testing of sports instruments. This course will definitely make a good career option for Indian Engineers. There is more demand of this course abroad. Indian Universities Olympics sports are the next big things in India. This course is different and interesting and has a great scope in the future.
Career Prospects: The field is quite vast within small and medium size companies as well as large companies like Adidas, Nike, Umbro, and many more. Not only mechanical engineer but also civil, computer, or biomedical engineers scan also make good career in sports engineering.

Job Prospects: A sports Engineer has to be very clear in his concepts. As he is the one who seeks and finds technical answers so as to improve the efficiency of a sportsperson. How does a lawn tennis player increase the speed of his service? This is an e.g. question which a sports engineer has to answer. Big companies like Adidas
hires sports engineers who work on shoes technology to improve the quality. Other sports equipment like ball, bat, badminton racket, bicycle, body movements of players etc are all related factors, which are taken care of by the sports engineer.
Institutes/Colleges: Sports engineering courses are mainly conducted abroad, In India only Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women’s University, Mumbai, offers Diploma in Sports Science and Nutrition, 1-year course
Contact: For further details log on to sndt.digitaluniversity.ac