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Subject: Presentation "Sports Engineering Design" - April 8th, Auditorium
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 14:27:42 +0100
From: Steve McKinty <Steve.McKinty@???>
Organization: Sun Microsystems
To: gnb07@???
Hi all,
On Tuesday April 8th at 18:30 Sun will host a speaker from Sheffield Hallam
University, for a talk on "Sports Engineering Design". This is part of the
IET "Engineering Gold" prestige lecture tour, see
http://www.theiet.org/events/gold/
The talk (which will be in *English*) is open to anyone, Sun or non-Sun,
and is *free of charge*.
There is a poster with information at:
https://gec.france/~smckinty/IET_Eng_Gold_Grenoble.pdf
and I would very much appreciate it if people could pass this poster (PDF)
file to anyone who might be interested in attending, perhaps friends in
other companies, students etc. The auditorium holds 70 people, I'd really
like to see it full!
We ask people to register online, so that we have an idea of the numbers
who will be attending. Ignore all the stuff at that link about "course
cancellation", this is a free lecture, and there will be *no* charges.
The poster is best printed 2-up, with both sides on one landscape page.
Thanks
Steve
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Talk Abstract:
Individual sports have developed over the last thousands of years with
only current manufacturing capabilities, the laws of physics and
imagination as the limiting factors. The development of professional
sport as a spectator sport has necessitated laws to be developed for
each sport to ensure that everyone plays by the same rules. However, in
our technological world, there are plenty of opportunities to use
science and engineering to enhance performance either of athletes,
products, or more generally of the two together. This lecture will
explore the cutting edge research that examines the fundamental
mechanics of the athlete's interaction with their equipment; it will
also examine the ethics of using technology to enhance performance and
ask, "when is it cheating"?
Forty years after the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, the lecture will
focus on some of the latest technological developments in winter sports.
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