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 | High Tech Hot Shots: Careers in Sports Engineering
Author: Celeste Baine
Pub Date: 05/2004
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Bulk Sales Opportunities Offers a fresh way to look at a career in sports for the student with a passion for athletics and an aptitude for engineering.
This inspiring guide contains:
- Over 20 sports engineering career profiles that highlight new opportunities.
- inspirational, real-life success stories
- Explanations of how engineering innovation can play a major role in athletic success and broaden your horizons.
- A "Getting Started" chapter that tells how you can ease the transition from student to successful engineer.
- Employer web sites and contact information for every sport and a large recommended reading section that connects you to sports engineering.
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Consider this book a gateway, as it presents possibilities that might not have been imagined. Explore what types of engineers are involved in over a dozen sports, from "Extreme" sports like skateboarding to more traditional sports like tennis and get advice from engineers about how to succeed as a sports engineer. This book is like no other career book available. The opportunities are endless and the sporting goods industry offers a very creative and fun way to spend your days as an engineer. Many engineers in this industry say that it is exciting to be the first person to test the equipment they just designed!
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
CHAPTER 1 - SPORTS ENGINEERING AND YOUR FUTURE
Sports Engineering 101
Creative Engineering
CHAPTER 2 - THE SPORTS
Skateboarding
Bowling
Golf
Tennis
Inline Skating
Fishing
Baseball and Football
Snow Sports
Bicycling
Swimming
Parathletes
CHAPTER 3 - SPORTS SUPPORT CAREERS
Helmets
Shoes
Broadcast Engineering
Food for Athletes
CHAPTER 4 - SPORTING FACILITIES
Stadiums, Arenas, Tracks, and Courses
CHAPTER 5 - GETTING STARTED
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY/RECOMMENDED READING
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Praise for High Tech Hot Shots
"The ever-changing job market makes up-to-date resources about science careers critical for students and their advisors. 'High Tech Hot Shots' is a well-written resource for the school library, guidance counselor's office, or science classroom."
LaRue Sellers
Science Chair, NSTA Recommends
"At Pure Fishing, I am responsible for creating new spinning and spin cast fishing reels...I definitely enjoy my work, because I can personally relate to the use of the products. The great thing about being an engineer in this industry is that after a prototype is created, I do my best to test it on a beautiful stretch of water."
John Chapman
Director of Spinning Reel Development, Pure Fishing
"At K2, I designed snowboard footprints, profiles, and constructions with an emphasis on womenís boards. I also organized and led onsnow tests on Mt. Hood for prototype testing. Gretchen Bleiler, the winner of the Women's Superpipe in the 2003 X-Games and the Women's US Open Halfpipe Championships rides my board!"
Stacie Glass
Former Snowboard Design Engineer, K2 Snowboards
"In my position at the U.S. Olympic Committee, I get to work with some of the best athletes in the world, and get to experience many sports that I never knew existed until I took this job. Many times the designers are also the 'test pilots', so we get to try out a new instrumented boxing bag, take a luge sled down a start ramp, or paddle our instrumented kayak. Like I said before, I never know what to expect next, but I wouldn't want it any other way."
Tom Westenburg
Principal Engineer, United States Olympic Committee
"By working hard at developing my skills as an engineer, and being willing to say five simple words, the whole world becomes your oyster. The words? 'Yeah, I can do that.' Those five words and the ability to back it up is what gets you challenging work, fine homes, and fun cars to drive."
Kyle Milliken
Project Engineer, Huizhoua, China
"If you want to work in the golf industry, you must play and appreciate the sport or else you cannot design good products. A bachelor's degree is the minimum education, but we are finding that master's degrees are more valuable, and even PhDs are becoming common. The most important skills an engineering student can develop are to know their subjects very well, be deep but not narrow, be creative, proactive, and a good person."
Bing-Ling Chao
Director of Advanced Technology, Taylormade-Adidas Golf Co
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