Games for science and engineering education

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 30-35

  Mayo, Merrilea J ^a  

^a NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VIDEO GAMES;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION; TEACHING; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

ANIMATION;

EID: 34547271675     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1272516.1272536     Document Type: Article

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