Empowering students with engineering literacy and problem-solving through interactive virtual reality games

As radical and transformative technological revolution significantly changes the way of science and engineering practice, bringing these changes into engineering classroom becomes a need. This paper presents such a conduct that designs a virtual reality (VR) theme-based game system as a replacement of traditional laboratory activities in two fundamental electrical and computer engineering courses: digital design and circuit analysis. The goal is to strengthen students´ engineering literacy and problem-solving skills since the lack of effective reading and problem-solving strategies in our students poses significant barriers to their learning. With digital design and circuit analysis as the themes and engineers solving real-life problems as the scenes, the games immerse students in actual engineering design challenges where a selection of metacognitive reading and problem-solving strategies are unfolded.