Top Autoracing Safety Engineer Tackles Football
Posted on November 18th, 2015 by Mary Lord
He revolutionized safety in auto racing following the death of legendary racer Dale Earnhardt in 2001. Now Dean Sicking, a professor of engineering at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, is tackling football helmets in an effort to reduce brain injuries at every level of the sport.
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Tags: concussions, crash dummies, Dean Sicking, football helmet, impact, NFL, UAB, University of Alabama
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