IEEE Region 9 Initiatives: Supporting Engineering Education During COVID-19 Times

Work in Progress: Influence of COVD-19 in Cultural Dimensions in Civil Engineering Students in

“…With the appearance of the Covid-19 virus at the end of 2019 in the city of Wuhan -China [25], countries were forced to seek alternatives to prevent the spread of the virus and to protect the health of each of its inhabitants, several measures were applied in all institutions including educational institutions, which were forced to migrate their faceto-face educational model to an online or remote model to protect the health of their students and proliferate the teaching and learning process [26]. Covid-19 has been the biggest challenge that educational systems have faced in recent years [10], [11], although technology offered tools that allow continuous communication during this process of isolation [26], the abrupt migration overnight from the traditional system to the remote system, generated little preparation time and training for student and teacher in the new digital technologies, and even though according to studies students have a greater acceptance of new technologies, student participation in online learning remains unexplored [27]. In addition to these challenges, research shows that online education was quite hampered by network problems, energy, inaccessibility, and unavailability [28], factors that in the reality of Latin America were more noticeable.…”

“…Understanding the divisions of culture in engineering education gives us the ability to understand how students interact with their fellow students and authority figures such as professors or deans, how they learn and understand within their respective discipline, how they develop the necessary skills to apply in their careers, and how they operate across disciplinary boundaries [9]. However, these skills that are sought to be understood may be affected due to factors external to the academic responsibility on the part of educational institutions [10]. In recent years the pandemic Covid-19, has revolutionized many aspects of the world at large, among these, education [11].…”

Board 44A: Work in Progress: Unannounced Frequent Examinations to contribute student learning and building academic integrity

“…Academic integrity refers to the expectation that everyone who belongs to the academic community acts according to universal standards demonstrating responsibility, honesty and sincerity against unethical actions such as plagiarism and cheating [18]- [20]. "Plagiarism as an act of submitting a document that belongs partially or completely to somebody else without due reference" [21].…”

Board 2: WIP: Mind-mapping to Improve Architecture Students’ Skills in Navigating Hands-on and Lecture-based Pedagogies

“…In fact, it is considered that the work of creating texts and skills of synthesis, conceptualization, among others, are necessary for a mastery and familiarity of the content studied. "Questioning, summarizing, clarifying and predicting are all phases of the learning process that students need to pursue despite challenges, exemplifying what it means to master academic work" [5], [14]. Similarly, the skills of discipline and willingness to work academically are also vital in college students.…”