Growing smarter engineers with FarmVille
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 - 08:01
in Mathematics & Economics
There are no agriculture majors at Missouri University of Science and Technology, but some engineering students on the campus have taken up virtual planting and harvesting through the social networking game FarmVille on Facebook. Unlike millions of other Facebook users, however, they're playing to earn a grade and learn new ways to approach complex engineering problems.