Marjorie Zielke

Marjorie A. Zielke, PhD, is an assistant professor of Arts and Technology and Associate Director of the Institute for Interactive Arts and Engineering at UT Dallas.

Dr. Zielke is the UT Dallas principal investigator on several serious game projects oriented toward professional training in both the military culture and medical sectors to include the First Person Cultural Trainer (FPCT), sponsored by TRADOC G2 Intelligence Support Activity; An Interactive Respiratory Training Game for Undergraduate Nursing Students, sponsored by the Transforming Undergraduate Education (TUE) program at UT Systems through the UT Arlington College of Nursing (UTACON); and the Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Program sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Administration through UTACON.

Dr. Zielke is also the site principal investigator on CommQuest, an interactive educational game to enhance Physician/Nurse communication sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) through collaboration with UT Arlington College of Nursing and Baylor Health Care System.

Several of Dr. Zielke's project have won national and international awards. FPCT won the government category in the Serious Games Competition at the Interservice/Interindustry Training and Simulation Conference (IITSEC) in 2011. FPCT also won first place in the "Innovations in Department of Defense Gaming" competition at the GameTech 2011 Conference in Orlando, Florida. In addition, FPCT won the cross function award from the National Training and Simulation Association (NTSA) in January 2010 and was also a finalist for the Governor's Cup at IITSEC in Orlando, Florida in 2009.

Also, Dr. Zielke along with Dr. Judy LeFlore from the University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing won first place in January 2011 at the 11th International Meeting on Simulation in Healthcare (IMSH) in the category of Emerging and Innovative Technologies & Methods.

Dr. Zielke has several years of management experience in elearning and ebusiness development. She teaches classes --through face-to-face online and blended formats -- in cyberpsychology, virtual humans and synthetic societies, interactive project management, and transformational technology development.