People often look at a map of campus and chuckle at the fact that the engineering campus is right next to the athletic facilities; there is just something ironic about pairing the stereotypical geeks and jocks. But perhaps our school's planners knew the strong connections between these two and placed them there on purpose. Engineering, whether it be for safety, speed, or strength, plays a large part in athletics. There are the materials designed for safe football helmets or water-repellant swimsuits, the statics and dynamics behind wrestling moves, and the resistance and hydrodynamics of a crew boat. Just like there are specifications for how to build a distillation column, there are specifications for the layout of a basketball court, basketball size, hoop size and hoop height. And before this year's Super Bowl, Fox subjected everyone to a rocky, yet humorous, explanation of how Newton's Laws apply to football.
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