Roger Grice was chosen by the Rensselaer Alumni Association to receive the 2010 Teaching Award.
Rensselaer's Games & Simulation Arts Program
Yesterday, games used to mean playtime. Not anymore.
Game Design Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Today, interactive technology helps shape how young people learn, drives national defense strategies via computer simulations, assists training efforts in physical fitness, biomedicine, and anti-terrorism to name just a few of the practical applications of games and simulation arts. Rensselaer's undergraduate degree program prepares students to capitalize on-and successfully navigate-the explosive growth in the continually-evolving games phenomenon.
Rensselaer's GSAS program helps you acquire a comprehensive understanding of interactive digital media, a balance of disciplinary competencies, and the mastery of a self-defined set of inter-related disciplinary challenges. As a student, you will gain an understanding of games from the broadest range of possible perspectives and play an active role in research and education in disciplines ranging from the visual and aural aspects of new media in the electronic arts, cognition and artificial intelligence in cognitive science, digital graphics and software development in computer science, experimental game design in psychology, human computer interaction and computer graphics in communication and the arts.
At Rensselaer, your education will equip you with the design, technical, communication, and leadership skills needed to enter this exciting field and make an instant impact. Rensselaer's approach to games studies combines theory and practice, along with a strong emphasis on collaborative, interdisciplinary teamwork.
More information about the undergraduate program in GSASJoe Cassavaugh '79 was the chief designer and programmer for iWIN's "Mah Jong Quest," an animated version of the classic tile game. He also was a member of the team that designed iWIN's "Jewel Quest," which was the No. 1 downloadable game last summer.