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Wow, lots of responses here. Sorry I haven't been back in a while. I guess I didn't mention that I'm a non traditional student, working on my second career. Often family life gets in the way of my online endeavors, not to mention trying to keep up with school and a job at the same time. Thank you for the suggestions, and the knowledge sharing, and the words of encouragement. I asked this question because, wayyyyy back in the day when I started working in IT and was going to college for that, we used server simulators in conjunction with projects to develop or own networks/lan/wans etc. Likewise when doing security stuff or programming, often our instructors attempted to utilize games or fun simulations as learning tools. Which was why I thought Kerbal might show up at some point in my AE pursuit, perhaps as a first year rudimentary team building project. Although I'll probably check out Orbiter and Microsoft Space Simulator. I look forward to getting to KU for AE core classes. Right now I'm chugging away at gen eds at my local community college, but I have a set path and general idea when I'll be there. I'm also thinking of going right for my Masters, possibly in Mechanical Engineering, or perhaps Astro physics. It was my IT career working at JSC that convinced me to go back and actually work for NASA doing the real thing.

I'm about a year into my undergrad work at a local community college, and will soon be transferring to a University to do my core classes in AE. Was wondering if any other AE students or actual engineers play this? I can't help but think that this might give me a leg up later on, and I wouldn't be terribly surprised if I see this or something like it in a classroom setting. Share your thoughts and let me know how you feel about the game. This might be a great place for us to learn from our peers.