Educational guidelines for the improvement of virtual teaching in engineering

The teaching of engineering has always had a series of difficulties among students, especially due to the didactic strategies used or rather, not used, focusing training on theoretical and methodological aspects that often generate a great dropout and academic failure. The appearance of the COVID-19 pandemic has added one more factor that makes this teaching-learning process difficult and that is the virtualization of classes and evaluations, due to the confinement of the entire population, with the consequent problems generated. Furthermore, in many institutions it is planned to continue with this modality, although partially, beyond the end of the pandemic, for different reasons of infrastructure and costs. In this sense, it is important to know what didactic aspects can be taken into account and applied, in order to improve the skills of engineering students. In this study, the impressions of a sample of professors of the specialty of Industrial Engineering of a Peruvian private university have been collected and, based on the results and works previously developed by other researchers, a series of recommendations or guidelines are proposed to improve the teaching-learning process in virtual teaching within an engineering specialty. It should be noted that two of the most relevant aspects to work on in this case would be motivation and evaluation, according to what was expressed by the teachers of the specialty. © 2022 Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions. All rights reserved.