Goodbye teacher, hello video game

FRUSTRATED BY high costs and the limited reach of lecturing, Professor Walter Voit of the mechanical engineering department in the University of Texas at Dallas spotted an opportunity to hijack a platform already well known among his students. He joined colleagues to develop a modification for Minecraft — a title that has long obsessed gamers of a certain generation — that integrates engineering concepts into the gameplay. In doing so, he has joined a new movement exploring gaming as an academic possibility.