Centre staff
Professor Steve Haake
Head of sports engineering
Phone 0114 225 2429
E-mail s.j.haake@shu.ac.uk
Professor Steve Haake is director of the Centre for Sports Engineering Research at Sheffield Hallam University, which employs around 35 staff and researchers.
Originally gaining a first in physics at Leeds University he lectured for 15 years in mechanical engineering and founded the International Sports Engineering Association, the journal Sports Engineering and the International Conference on the Engineering of Sport (of which the first two were held in Sheffield).
He has edited nine books, given over a dozen international keynotes and contributed to over 160 journal and conference papers on sports engineering. He is a member of the Technical Commission of the International Tennis Federation advising on the effect of equipment design on the rule of tennis, and is a consultant to Adidas. He was awarded an EPSRC Senior Media Fellowship in 2010 which he will use to promote the public understanding of science during the London 2012 Olympics. He appears regularly on BBC radio.
Background
- professor of sports engineering and head of the Centre for Sports Engineering Research
- founding editor of the Sports Engineering Journal (1998-2004), founding chairman of the International Sports Engineering Association (1998-2004) and organised both the first and second International Conferences on Sports Engineering in Sheffield in 1996 and 1998
- has been part of the organising and scientific committee for six other international conferences
- over 50 national and international invited presentations
- technical consultant to the International Tennis Federation
- published extensively in the field with three books and over 150 publications
Skills
- mechanics of solids
- aerodynamics
- analytical modelling
- project management
Research interests
- physics of tennis
- history of technology of sport
- traction of studded footwear
- modelling of injury and its prevention
- modelling of performance
Selected publications since 2001
Carre M.J., James, D.M. and Haake S.J. (2006). Hybrid methods for assessing the performance of sports surfaces during ball impacts, Proceedings of IMechE, Vol. 220, Pt. L:J, Materials, Design and Applications, pp 31-39.
Haake S.J., Goodwill S.R. and Carre M.J. (2006). 'A new measure of roughness for defining the aerodynamic of sports balls', Proceedings of the IMechE Journal of Mechanicals Engineering Science, Vol. 221. Pt. C, pp 789-806.
Kirk R.F., Carre M.J., Haake S.J. and Manson G. (2006). Modelling traction of studded footwear on sports surfaces using neural networks, Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on The Engineering of Sport, Munich, Germany, (eds. E.F. Mortiz and S.J. Haake), Vol. 3, pp 403-408, ISBN 0-387-31773-2.
Haake S.J., Carre M.J. and Goodwill S.R. (2005). 'Oblique impact of thick walled pressurised spheres as used in tennis', Proceedings of the IMechE Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, Vol. 219, Pt. C, pp 1179-1189.
Haake S.J. and Goodwill, S.R. (2003). The dynamic impact characteristics of tennis balls with tennis rackets, Journal of Sports Sciences, Vol. 21, pp 839-850.
