Video Game in Mechanical Engineering Education
June 29, 2010 by thub
Filed under Engineering
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
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
Add NIU to my list of colleges i want to visit!!!
@Mackenziecanvideo Send me an email. I’d be happy to send you publications and screen shots.
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.
I love APPLIED science!!! If you give someone a reason to learn everything they’ll do much better.
Hmmm,I’m taking numerical methods right now for mech eng.
It used matlab a lot (for labs). But if anyone is interested, its mostly about REAL WORLD mathematics, where you rarely have a nice function (or any function) and must try and “guess” other points on it using approximation (points on a graph represents something else in the real world).
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
haha
Steve’s Developers song is awesome
We are all a bunch of freaks
coolzhot listen to the prof whose voice over is on the video in NIU there are 2 classes for the Computational methods in Engineering course where you can learn different computational analysis methods for applications in the engineering field but what he has done is create an object oriented programming optional class where you can apply direction programing and get outputs while at the same time having fun doing it. ME is hard enough so making it interesting is wassup unless u hate video games.
I think the syllabus is COOL!!! Good use of simulation, good use of design principles and great!!
mechanical engineering u fuck tard not “mechanical design”
Now I wish I went to UWM instead of just MATC for my Associates degree in Mechanical Design
My classes start in fall and just by seeing this I think I will FAIL!!!
lol, fucking brilliant
fucking brilliant
That course sounds a lot more complicated than the one I TA’d for where I go.
HAHAHA xD
5:19 lol
in my uni, numerical method is not a course. it’s just 1 chap of the engineering mathematics course. and it’s sure damn tedious. =/
Well maybe not at numerical class, but you will”failed” at language HA HA HA, just kidding. But seriously this is a cool video!
this is soo cool!!
im into mechanical, software and some civil
where do u go?
N I U this is k2 ?