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    Dec 08, 2025  
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Sports Technology Minor

Location(s): University of Maine


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OVERVIEW OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Minimum number of credits required to graduate: 22

Minimum Grade requirements for courses to count toward major: C- 

Other requirements:  A minimum of 12 credit hours must be completed at the University of Maine.

Contact Information: Michael Mason, Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, 350 EEDC, 207.581.2344; michael.mason@maine.edu


The Sports Technology minor provides students with an understanding of the broad interdisciplinary skills necessary to develop sports related technology solutions from conception to market readiness, through a combination of core innovation and topical content and project based learning. The minor, offered jointly by Innovation Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, combines thematic courses familiarizing students with relevant background in health and physiology, business and communication, data and analysis, with principles and methods used in the practice of innovation. The minor culminates in a year-long multidisciplinary project based experience, where student teams work with stakeholders to develop real world innovative solutions in the sports technology sector.

Required Core Innovation Courses - 7 credits


Elective Courses - 9 credits


Courses must be selected, one from each of 3 thematic areas, from the approved list of electives. These thematic areas include: Health and Physiology, Business and Communication, and Data and Computation.

Project Requirements - 6 credits


Courses must be taken over at least two semesters. These 6 credits can be satisfied utilizing major degrees specific opportunities (i.e. directed research, independent study, thesis, Honors Thesis, special design projects, field experience), where allowed, but must be pre-approved by both the program coordinator and academic advisor or relevant instructor in the affiliated major.

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