Professional Masters in Sports Engineering

Purdue University's Professional Master’s Program in Sports Engineering targets students who intend to learn skills that are in high demand in applied sports engineering, such as sports equipment / facility / athlete performance, biomechanics, data analytics, management and entrepreneurship. There are very few programs in the United States that offer formal sports engineering education, so participation in this program is advantageous for those with aspirations to work in sports. With the launch of the Ray Ewry Sports Engineering Center at Purdue, we have the opportunity to equip the next leaders in this field with the skills and tools needed to be successful in industry.

How Do I Apply?

This is an on-campus program, based in Indianapolis. After checking application requirements, you can start your application online.

  • For “Select a Campus”, choose Purdue West Lafayette (PWL)
  • For “Proposed Graduate Major”, choose Mechanical Engineering
  • For “Degree Objective”, choose MS in Mechanical Engineering (MSME)
  • For “Area of Interest”, choose Professional Masters - Sports Engineering
  • For “desired location for graduate studies”, choose Indianapolis Location

How Does It Work?

Completion of the Professional Master's in Sports Engineering typically takes one to two years. While this is an on-campus program, certain classes can be completed online when available. Graduates receive an MSME degree (Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering) with a concentration in Sports Engineering. No thesis is involved, and it does not provide a path to a doctoral degree. Students are ineligible for teaching/research/graduate assistantships or fellowships that provide tuition remission.

For international applicants: this is a STEM program, and international students are eligible for CPT/OPT.

You will take a total of 30 credit hours to complete the degree:

1. Core Courses in Professional Development

Choose 9 credit hours of professional development courses from these options:

  • MSE 57400 - Sports Engineering and Entrepreneurship
  • BME 52100 - Biosensors: Fundamentals & Applications
  • HK 59000 - Biomechanics in Sports & Rehabilitation
  • ME 55400 - Intellectual Property for Engineers (1 cr)
  • MGMT 52200 - New Product Development (2 crs)
  • MGMT 57100 - Data Mining (2 crs)
  • MGMT 57500 - Supply Chain Technology (2 crs)
  • MGMT 67000 - Business Analytics

...or any course from the following listing

  • AAE 57100 - Complex System Safety
  • AAE 59000 - Space Law Lab (1 cr)
  • AAE 59000/ IE 59000 - Aerospace Human Factors
  • AAE 59000 - Space Policy (1 cr)
  • ABE 62600 - Learn to Translate Research into Impact  (Life of a Faculty Entrepreneur: Discovery, Delivery, Translation/Understand Technology Commercialization)
  • AGEC 52500 - Environmental Policy Analysis
  • ASEC 54800/ASEC 59100 - Communicating Science to the Public (1 cr)
  • ASEC 55100 - International Engagement and Development Strategies (8-week, online)
  • ASEC 58500 - Science Communication
  • BME 56400 - Ethical Engineering of Medical Technologies
  • BME 69500 - Pediatric Medical Devices
  • CE 52100 - Construction Business Management
  • CE 52400 - Legal Aspects in Engineering Practice
  • CE 59601 - Entrepreneurship & Business Strategy in Engineering
  • CE 59700 - Innovation Science & Socio-tech change
  • CEM 59700 - High Tech Entrepreneurship
  • CEM 59700 - Construction Accounting
  • ECE 50005/ ECE 59500 - IP Generation and Management: an Inventor's View
  • ECE 60004 - Communication for Engineering Leaders (1 cr, summer only)
  • ENE 55400 - Globalization and Engineering
  • ENE 59500 - Exploring Alternative Career Paths as an Engineering Educator
  • ENE 59500 - Teaching Engineering Online
  • ENGL 51500 - Advanced Professional Writing
  • ENGL 60411 - Writing Proposals and Grants
  • ENGL 60511 - Editing and Publishing
  • ENGR 50200 - Engineering Leadership
  • ENTR 50000 - Technology Realization Program/Commercialization/Entrepreneurship (2 crs)
  • IE 55800 - Safety Engineering
  • IE 59000 - Quality Systems Management
  • IE 59000/ ENGR 59600 - Technical Product Management
  • ME 59999 - PMP Professional Development (only allowed to register once)
  • MGMT 60000 - Accounting for Managers
  • MGMT 61000 - Financial Marketing
  • MGMT 62000 - Marketing Management
  • MGMT 65000 - Strategic Management I
  • MGMT 66000 - Operations Management
  • MGMT 68800 - Development of Global Business Strategy (2 crs)
  • MGMT 69000 - Change Management (2 crs)
  • MSE 53500 - Lean Manufacturing of Materials
  • NUR 69060 - Innovative Care and Innovations in Healthcare Delivery
  • OLS 50100 - Leadership and Ethics
  • OLS 57100 - Advanced Project Management in Technology

Only one project management course can be used in the plan of study. Choose one from the following list:

  • CE 59700 - Leadership and Advanced Project Management (cross listed as CEM 59700 - Advanced Project Management and Analysis)
  • IE 59000 - Project Management 
  • MGMT 56200 - Project Management (2 crs)

You can take other in-person MGMT grad level lecture courses, but the above list is recommended. Daniels School of Business restricts registration, so please watch for the MGMT course registration survey released by the ME Grad Office each semester and complete the survey by the deadline if you’d like to take MGMT courses. Otherwise, you’ll need to wait until MGMT courses open to the general student population to register by yourself through the scheduling assistant. Registration for non-MGMT courses is conducted through the scheduling assistant as usual. 

2. Core Sports Engineering Classes

Choose 12 credit hours of core sports engineering courses from these options:

  • BME 54200 – Cell & Tissue Mechanics
  • BME 58100 – Bio-Electro-Mechanical Systems (BioMEMS) & Biomedical Microsystems (Fundamentals of MEMS & Micro-Integrated Systems) 
  • ECE 56200 – Introduction to Data Management  
  • ECE 57000 – Artificial Intelligence
  • IE 57700 – Human Factors in Engineering
  • ME 55300 – Product & Process Design
  • ME 57700 – Human Motion Kinetics
  • MSE 52400 – Mechanical Behavior of Polymers
  • MSE 60000 – Materials Engineering Fundamentals

3. Core Courses in Applied Mathematics

Choose 3 credit hours of applied math courses from these recommended options:

  • ME 53900 - Introduction to Scientific Machine Learning
  • MA 51100 - Linear Algebra
  • MA 52700 - Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Physicists I
  • MA 52800 - Advanced Mathematics for Engineers and Physicists II

...or any course from the approved applied math course listing

4. Technical Electives

You need to take 6 credit hours of technical elective courses. They must be technical and quantitative in content. These can be:

  • Graduate level ME lecture courses. Recommended course: ME 54655
  • Approved non-ME courses. Recommended courses: BME 540, 595 (Wearable Sensors in Healthcare)
  • Up to two ME 59700 - Independent Study (3 credit hours for each course, a total of 6 credit hours for two courses) related to sports engineering. Independent study projects are not automatically established in the semester course listing. It is your responsibility to find a ME professor who is willing to supervise your independent project for one semester. Please check the Registration page for how to set up an independent study course.
     

Apply online today!

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