The role of games in a model company

摘要

Professional engineers should be capable of developing innovative and holistic solutions. This constitutes an important challenge to the future engineering education. In a joint project between engineering schools in Denmark a Model Company is being developed to be available on the internet. Various pedagogical means will be employed in connection with using the Model Company. In particular the paper will focus on the potential role of games for stimulating creative, holistic thinking. To illustrate we shall present a proposed game for creative development of a production concept and outline ideas for two games to demonstrate the virtues and limitations of next generation manufacturing. This will point to new areas of applying games with the prospect of preparing engineeringstudents for the challenges of the professional engineer.