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, ASTM and MLB COR testing, pill drop testing, and baseball dissection. 

N E W S

Baseball as America Museum of Science Exhibit

The Baseball Research Center contributed to a temporary exhibit at the Boston Museum of Science that includes Hall of Fame artifacts and a bat lab that includes hands-on science exhibits on pitching, hitting, and the equipment used in the game.

Exhibit runs through Sept. 1

On Television

The Baseball Research Center recently appeared on a PBS series called WIRED SCIENCE and will appear this fall in a new Discovery Channel series called Time Warp.

TEAMS Academy

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

Bat Engineering Design

UML Design Camp

As part of Design Camp 2008, DC High Tech, a program for sophomores and juniors in area high schools, the composites lab and baseball lab will help each student develop, produce, and test their own fiberglass composite baseball bat. See photos from previous years.

New Baseball Dynamic Stiffness Testing Machine

The Baseball Research Center recently 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.