Paul Gestwicki and Fu-Shing Sun have received $5,000 for their proposal to generate an immersion course centered around "Computer Game Design and Development." Their proposal was funded as part of the Enhanced Provost's Initiative for Immersion.

The first stage of this effort was underway before the funding notice was received. They are team teaching a pair of courses, one a colloqium for honor's college students that are not computer science majors and one a seminar for computer science majors. The in each course will form teams and be paired up with a team in the other course. The teams will each pursue a different game design and development project with members of the different courses being primarily responsibile for different aspects of the design and devlopment process.

The next stages of development will be to take lessons learned from this stage and design and develop a course to be offerred on a more regular basis that will incorporate game design and development as a means of teaching design and develpment aspects of software engineering.