Athlete Engineering
Certificates
Certificate
College
Bagley College of EngineeringGraduate Coordinator
Dr. Adam Piperakp137@msstate.edu
Overview
Mississippi State University Online has created a first-of-its-kind Athlete Engineering research program from a collaboration between Mississippi State University Athletics, Bagley College of Engineering, the department of Kinesiology, and the school of Human Sciences. This research program uses both laboratory equipment and sport-specific wearable technologies to explore human performance. The flexibility of the Athlete Engineering Certificate allows any Mississippi State Online student and practitioner across the worlds of sports, industry, and military to receive recognition for mastering human factors techniques and technology solutions focused on human performance outcomes as well as the comfort and fit versus effectiveness expectation. The successful completion of the Athlete Engineering Certificate will expand students' foundation and understanding of the utilization of human performance, processes, and analysis methodologies within their fields.The Athlete Engineering Certificate comprises 12 credit hours in different human performance, processes, and analysis fields, all originating out of Industrial & Systems Engineering but in classes that partner with other engineering disciplines and Kinesiology and Human Science experts and faculty. Students will be required to complete 12 credit hours for this certificate. Courses can be chosen from the options below as well as from new special topic courses that will be created specifically for this certificate.
Requirements
This is a graduate only certificate, and all applicants must have already completed a bachelor’s degree to be eligible for admissions. Successful applicants must have a STEM undergraduate degree from an accredited university. Fields such as Science, Math, Engineering, Technology, Information Systems, Kinesiology, and other Health-related subjects would be suitable as a background degree for this certificate program. The Athlete Engineering Certificate is available only at the graduate level and must include all courses at the 6000-level or higher. All students must have completed an undergraduate degree in a STEM or relevant discipline OR students must have completed an undergraduate degree in any discipline and be able to demonstrate relevant work experience. Students must earn a "C" grade or higher in all course work. The director of the Athlete Engineering Certificate will evaluate transcripts and make recommendations for awarding the certificate. Despite the certificate's interdisciplinary nature, the home department for the Athlete Engineering Certificate will be Industrial & Systems Engineering due to the required Human Factors components. No course substitutions will be allowed. All applicants will be reviewed by a certificate committee which will include the institutional contact. The Athlete Engineering Certificate must be completed within two years.
