Video Gaming at Bourns College of Engineering
Promotional Video
CS 134
Winter, 2008
Prof. Victor Zordan
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2008 UCR Teaching Innovation Award Winner
The UCR Academy of Distinguished Teaching has selected Dr. Victor
Zordan for this year's
Innovative Teaching Award.
Assistant Professor Victor Zordan, Department of Computer Science and
Engineering,
is being honored for the design and implementation of his
innovative Engineering course, CS 134, Video Game Development and
Design. In this course the students are divided into teams and
actually design and construct their own video game. Moreover, the
course is coordinated with graduate courses offered in Music and
English that focus on digital media. The Music Graduate students,
whose course was in Digital Music Composition, worked with the
engineering students to produce sound effects and the muscial score
for the games developed by the
teams, while the English graduate students, whose course was in
Critical Theory, provided feedback and assisted with
conceptualization. The result was a unique interdisciplinary
experience for all participants and invaluable hands-on training in
one of the hottest areas in computer science and engineering.