Bachelor of Science - Simulation Science, Games, and Animation

Program Description

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Simulation Science, Games, and Animation is a project-based program that aims to transform students into multidisciplinary developers and designers. The program uniquely equips students to anticipate, create, and construct software and immersive experiences to solve complex problems and aid in the mastery of challenging expertise.

The program emphasizes industry-standard approaches, combining technical and creative problem-solving skills and critical thinking. From these experiences, students can design real-time interactive systems from the ground up; build game systems to employ artificial intelligence, code, and content designed to generate compelling interactive models and virtual environments. Students design data-driven simulations for user-centered and multi-user training, management, scientific research, and concept exploration.

This degree enables graduates to design and build interactive technologies underlying simulations for use in industrial enterprise, aviation, entertainment, serious games, military science, and new growth areas of spatial computing. The curriculum combines aspects of computer science, software engineering, game design, animation, world building, interactive media, simulation, mathematics, physics, and data visualization.

Graduates of this major can expect to find flexible options and rewarding career opportunities. Employment opportunities are possible in the established global entertainment industries, such as game design, game development, and also for a vast array of other areas, such as military and intelligence communities, high-tech manufacturing, aviation, and healthcare.