Video Game in Mechanical Engineering Education

At Northern Illinois University, students are learning principles of mechanical engineering by playing video games. For more info, visit www.ceet.niu.edu/faculty/coller
-- Brianno Coller

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• mechanical
• engineering
• video
• game
• torcs
• education
• computation
• serious
• programming

[bdcoller]

Yes, math is important..... But guess what? Math can be learned. If you want to do it, you can.

[Mackenziecanvideo]

Hey. I'm doing a project on serious games (whether they are useful pedagogically, and why they aren't used more, etc). I read a recent paper of yours. The link to this didn't work, I had to get to it in google. Anyhow. I want to cite you, but I don't know how to... I don't know when your wrote that paper really. I figure it was 2009. Also I want to use a screen shot of this but I would know how to cite that either.

[bdcoller]

@Mackenziecanvideo Send me an email. I'd be happy to send you publications and screen shots.

[5233484]

5:19 lol

[Rametesaima]

This is what engineering education should be about ... having fun with science and mathematics to inspire and trigger one's creative juices. Sure mathematically intensive courses that emphasize deep reading of text is important, however, to enjoy the fruits of your labor like these students have is of a whole different class of awesome :)

[iLOVENATURE2011]

very inspiring and cool video for aspiring social engineers... =)

[86abou]

hey. i am super interest in mechanical engineering. by seeing this video even gave me more motivation. i also heard people saying that you have to be good at math in order to accomplish mechanical engineering, sis that true?

[Ray2809]

thats pure onreel!! 

[zeboy90]

k now say that beginning part in english haha

[hfdpayner]

this looks excellent, im beginning my Beng in september but i struggle with maths, just need to practice more it would be much more inspiring and interesting if i was using some system like this though

[MyRoomStudio1]

Add NIU to my list of colleges i want to visit!!!