UMass-Lowell

Baseball Research Center

The mission of the UMass-Lowell Baseball Research Center is to be a Center of Excellence for the Science and Engineering of Baseball for both experimental and analytical methods. 

Currently, the Center is concentrating on baseball bat performance and durability, and the Center is the official certification center for all NCAA baseball bats and Major League Baseball bats. 

The Center also has complete baseball testing services including, COR testing, pill drop testing, and baseball dissection. 

N E W S

On Television

The Baseball Research Center recently appeared in a new Discovery Channel series called Time Warp.

Sports Engineering Conferences

4th Asia-Pacific Congress on Sports Technology – APCST                  September 21 to 23 - 2009  Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

8th Conference of the International Sports Engineering Association
July 12 to 16 - 2010          Vienna, Austria

TEAMS Academy

Course for High School Students who are accepted to the UML TEAMS Academy Program

Bat Engineering Design

Baseball Dynamic Stiffness Testing Machine

The Baseball Research Center acquired a new baseball testing system for dynamic stiffness. The machine, designed by Automated Design Corporation, will be used to test many properties of the baseball collision utilizing a new ASTM Standard.