The Sports Engineering Research Group (SERG) is the world’s largest academic group in sports engineering and an internationally renowned centre of excellence for research and knowledge transfer. The centre’s work is based on four research disciplines; applied computing, biomechanics, design engineering, and skill acquisition.

Now approaching its 15th year – the MSc Sports Engineering programme, run by SERG at Sheffield Hallam Univeristy, has an excellent reputation with employers, and a track record of launching research and development careers in the sports equipment industry and in academia. Making use of SPARC’s extensive expertise and our cutting-edge facilities, the course develops:

• technical, problem solving and engineering skills
• biomechanical and physiological understanding of athletes
• real-world experience through an industry-linked research project

Partners for recent student projects include Adidas, Ping, Prince Sports, Mitre, Gunn and Moore, International Tennis Federation, International Rugby Board, D3o, English Institute of Sport and UK Sport.

The course is for high achieving graduates in engineering and the physical sciences who wish to develop and apply their technical knowledge to the world of sport. Previous students have gone on to work at the cutting edge of research and development with international companies, such as Adidas and Prince Sports. Each student undertakes an extensive ‘real-world’ research project, often in collaboration with an industrial partner. 

Click here for full details on the course. We recommend all prospective student get in contact with us directly first, ahead of applying. To discuss the programme in more depth or arrange a visit contact Dr John Hart or Dr Mike Thelwell.

Hear Dr John Hart talk about the course in his SERG interview on YouTube:

Learn more about the MSc course leaders Dr Mike Thelwell in his blog article: My journey from student to course leader in MSc Sports Engineering.

Having spoken with our industrial clients and research partners to understand the evolving needs of the sports industry, we set about developing a brand-new offer of MSc Sports Engineering. This is now fully validated and we are delighted to announce will be launch this September (2024). To learn more about the revamp, check out the blog article: MSc Sports Engineering – Reimagined.