Centre staff
Nick Hamilton
Senior sports engineer
Phone 0114 225 2566
Email n.hamilton@shu.ac.uk
Nick Hamilton is a senior research fellow within the Centre for Sports Engineering Research working as a senior sports engineer. Nick joined the group in 1999 as a research engineer specializing in the development of sports products. He has worked with many regional, national and international companies consulting on sports product design, analysis and manufacture and is lead designer of the creative and consultancy team.
Nick has developed a wide variety of products for a diverse range of sporting companies from ice skates to carbon fibre time trial bikes, golf clubs to hang glider components. Currently he manages a very large consultancy project for Golphysics Ltd involving several members of the group and external consultants. The project aims to draw together many areas of golf research in to a world leading product.
Background
- First in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Swansea
- Sports equipment designer for the Sports SET Network
- Senior sports engineer for SportsPulse
- ISPO ACA winner for Disability Sports
- Lead designer of the creative and consultancy team
Skills
- Project management
- Equipment design and analysis
- 3D CAD design and surfacing
- Rig design
- Routes to manufacture
- Prototyping
Research interests
- Surface measurement
- Golf equipment design and analysis
- Mountain biking
Selected publications
Hamilton, N.D.R. and Senior, T. (2006) 'Development of equipment to compare novel ice skate blade materials', Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Engineering of Sport, Munich, Germany, 3, 129-134. ISBN 0-387-34680-5.
Hart, J.H, Curtis D., Hamilton, N.D.R and Haake, S.J. (2004) 'Scanning large geometries for use in computational fluid dynamic analysis', Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport, UC Davis, California, (Eds. Hubbard, M., Mehta, R.D. and Pallis. J.), pp 601-607, ISBN 0-9547861-0-6.
Hamilton, N.D.R. and Haake, S.J. (2004) 'The rolling resistance of wheelchairs', Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport, UC Davis, California, Vol. 2, pp 117-122, ISBN 0-9547861-1-4.
