UMass-Lowell

Baseball Research Center

The mission of the UMass-Lowell Baseball Research Center is to be a Center of Excellence for the Science and Engineering of Baseball for both experimental and analytical methods. 

Currently, the Center is concentrating on baseball bat performance and durability, and the Center is the official certification center for all NCAA baseball bats and Major League Baseball bats. 

The Center also has complete baseball testing services including, ASTM and MLB COR testing, pill drop testing, and baseball dissection. 

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On Television

The Baseball Research Center recently appeared on a PBS series called WIRED SCIENCE and  the National Geographic Channel in a segment titled "Science of Summer".

TEAMS Academy

New Course for High School Students who are accepted to the UML TEAMS Academy Program

Bat Engineering Design

UML Design Camp

As part of Design Camp 2008, DC High Tech, a program for sophomores and juniors in area high schools, the composites lab and baseball lab will help each student develop, produce, and test their own fiberglass composite baseball bat. See photos from previous years.

New Baseball Dynamic Stiffness Testing Machine

The Baseball Research Center recently acquired a new baseball bat testing system for dynamic stiffness. The machine, designed by Automated Design Corporation, will be used to test many properties of the baseball collision.

2008 Engineering of Sport Conference

Every two years the International Sports Engineering Association sponsors a conference to give a venue for the presentation of papers on the science and engineering of sports.  The 2008 conference will be in Biarritz, France, June 2-6.  See the conference website for details.