Pathway to a New Engineering Education Paradigm: The COVID-19 Factor

A lot has changed over the last two years in how engineering faculty teach and their students learn. Engineering educators were contemplating imminent changes 2019/2020 when COVID pandemic struck. The discussion was almost decades old. Social, economic, developmental factors coupled with advances technology paved way for more mult idisciplinary engineering. Engineers have been tackling new problems to solve sophisticated systems design. Globalization meant that they should acquire certain personal, social, cultural skills. They be aware of impac t work on society environment. Experiential learning, project-based lear ning, research-based learning became themes a education paradigm, signs which emerging horizon. Changes philosophy, disciplines, pedagogy under discussion. demand these varied, however, terms motivation, scope, scale, implementation from one country another.