Our undergraduate program in Biomechanics will teach you to create work and life environments that improve human health and performance. Our students can work hands-on with specialized equipment each day, analyzing the body’s movements and identifying ways the body is not working efficiently.
This knowledge is useful in a wide array of situations. For example, biomechanists test an athlete’s ability to generate torque because weakness at a particular point may increase the risk of injury.
You will learn to identify modifications in technique or adjustments to training that can reduce the injury risk. Biomechanics students apply physics and mathematics to human body movement. Biomechanics majors are research-oriented and application-based, and our students become well-equipped in the study of ergonomics and human performance.
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Students obtain onsite, top-level, relevant experience in state-of-the-art biomechanics research facilities.
With a variety of available professional settings, biomechanics students enter a profession full of growth and opportunity.
Faculty in the biomechanics program are accomplished professionals and researchers.
- Sport performance centers / Sport medicine clinics
- Industrial and commercial settings
- Legal and insurance
- Hospitals
- Private practice
- Military
- Biomedical engineering
- Research and development
