With London, UK, preparing to host the 2012 Olympics, sports and sporting innovation is very much on the minds of the city's leaders, athletes and general population. With this in mind, the London Metropolitan Polymer Centre, UK, has launched a new undergraduate degree programme in Sports Product Design this September. The three-year full-time BSc is intended to give students the skills and knowledge to design sports products of the future, from golf clubs to surfboards. 'In the Polymer Centre, we carry out considerable work for manufacturers, some of whose products are sports and leisure related,' says course leader Dr Mathew Philip, 'It was becoming clear that product designers were looking for a deeper understanding of materials selection and manufacturing processes, and materials science courses did not seem to inspire young people in sufficient numbers.
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