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<blockquote data-quote="Cam" data-source="post: 386652" data-attributes="member: 568"><p>Nobody is paying them to do so. Research costs a lot of money and somebody has to have a question big enough they want answered to bankroll it. In academia, only about 10% of your submitted proposals ever actually get funded. It's tough. We can't justify using a supercomputer for on field analytics when the people paying for keeping that computer running want to know how exactly their new military weapon blasts through body armor. Now, if you want to get more small-scale with students in Senior Design competitions, it's more likely to happen but it again comes down to money. My team's project and most everyone else I know was funded by a company or organization hoping to find the best solution to their problem. In my case, the costs for the projects added up, but they were happy to pay for it since it got them closer to developing a certain pediatric medical device.</p><p></p><p>That being said, there are some people doing athletic related things, but not quite where you're talking about. Dr. Michelle LaPlaca in the BME department at GT worked on a system for <a href="http://www.news.gatech.edu/2014/11/13/nfl-honors-georgia-tech-emory-team-brain-injury-detection-system" target="_blank">identifying brain injuries and was honored by the NFL</a> for doing so. It appears from the article that the NFL, GE, and Under Armour wanted to hold a competition to assign funding for better identifying brain injuries (obviously a large issue these days). Now, if Under Armour wanted to know how their new shirts were impacting performance and were willing to give up a couple million to answer that, then we might see some development on our campus. But they may want to keep that information internal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cam, post: 386652, member: 568"] Nobody is paying them to do so. Research costs a lot of money and somebody has to have a question big enough they want answered to bankroll it. In academia, only about 10% of your submitted proposals ever actually get funded. It's tough. We can't justify using a supercomputer for on field analytics when the people paying for keeping that computer running want to know how exactly their new military weapon blasts through body armor. Now, if you want to get more small-scale with students in Senior Design competitions, it's more likely to happen but it again comes down to money. My team's project and most everyone else I know was funded by a company or organization hoping to find the best solution to their problem. In my case, the costs for the projects added up, but they were happy to pay for it since it got them closer to developing a certain pediatric medical device. That being said, there are some people doing athletic related things, but not quite where you're talking about. Dr. Michelle LaPlaca in the BME department at GT worked on a system for [URL='http://www.news.gatech.edu/2014/11/13/nfl-honors-georgia-tech-emory-team-brain-injury-detection-system']identifying brain injuries and was honored by the NFL[/URL] for doing so. It appears from the article that the NFL, GE, and Under Armour wanted to hold a competition to assign funding for better identifying brain injuries (obviously a large issue these days). Now, if Under Armour wanted to know how their new shirts were impacting performance and were willing to give up a couple million to answer that, then we might see some development on our campus. But they may want to keep that information internal. [/QUOTE]
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