Education for engineers in times of pandemic

Abstract

In this work, a bibliographical analysis of the educational situation at the time of the pandemic and its projections for the new times of the digital age is carried out. For this, academic documents from different sources of information are analyzed, mainly from recognized scientific journals. The results of the research show that university education for engineering programs was sufficiently affected by the physical distancing of universities, and the needs in technical areas were not adequately covered. These observations lead us to think that programs in the areas of technology and engineering, where laboratory practices are of great importance, should be transformed into a vision focused on industry 4.0 and where technical applications can be handled remotely.