Viennese Sports Technology students share know-how

This week, the top sports grounds of the BUT Sports Activities Centre are used by Austrian students of Sports Technology from UAS Technikum Wien. As part of their annual projects, they measure the technical aspects of sports technologies that they have designed themselves.

The sports oval is an ideal platform for evaluating the effect of a cooling vest on athletes on hot summer days. A student of the Sport technology programme of the Vienna UAS, hung with sensory components in a special vest with water capsules, runs fully along the outer path of the oval. In the shadows near the stands, meanwhile, her two classmates bow their heads to an acquisition device that senses temperatures in the runner's ear and body. At first glance, this is what the measurement of one of the year projects looks like, on which Viennese students have been working all year and are testing it in the final in Brno. There are several similar student groups at CESA sports venues these days.

Students share know-how within the study program Sports Technology | Autor: Oto Janoušek

"That's cool," the leader of a small group of students praises the sports background who are watching with tension the cyclist's passage on wooden prisms. It measures the transmission of wheel frame shocks to the handlebar grip, which are coated with a special damping compound. The acquisition unit based on the Arduino platform bounces in the wheel pocket and the engineer's favourite silver tape helps to fix the connectors in place. Students explain that the material of the handlebar grip affects the level of comfort of the rider and the subjective feeling of safety; therefore, upon arrival, the helper will park at a quarter of the paper with the drawn scale and draw in it a degree of felt comfort and a degree of subjective perception of security.

The third group of students concentrates around the athlete with special glasses. "We measure the fogging effect of glasses in different environmental conditions," foreign students explain. With a respirator on his face, the examiner in the interior has no need for fog on the glasses. In the exterior, the situation is already more demanding and due to fogging, the student being measured has to complete several rounds of intensive running on an oval. Meanwhile, in the shadow of the stands, the fourth group is preparing a special system to assess the traction of the soles of sports shoes on various types of surfaces. In addition to electronics, you can also see a piece of rope connecting the athlete's foot with a force gauge.

Students of the Fachhochschule Technikum Wien at the BUT sports ground | Autor: Oto Janoušek

Students of the Fachhochschule Technikum Wien will work on their projects under the leadership of the study programme guarantor Marcus Eckelt until Friday, June 25, 2021. As part of the project finalization, they will share their know-how with cooperating CESA BUT academicians, who will implement the experience from the international cooperation while teaching the bachelor students of the Sports technology programme, which CESA teaches in cooperation with the BUT Faculty of Electrical Engineering.


Source: CESA
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BUT Centre of Sports Activities Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication

Responsibility: Mgr. Marta Vaňková