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The Outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Social Impact on Education: Were Engineering Teachers Ready to Teach Online? Revilla Cuesta, Víctor Skaf Revenga, Marta Varona Arnaiz, Juan Manuel Ortega López, Vanesa COVID-19 pandemic Social science Social activities Human behaviors Empathy Face-to-face teaching Online teaching Engineering courses Student's perception Teacher support Ingeniería civil Educación Sociología Civil engineering Education Sociology The major impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are still affecting all social dimensions. Its specific impact on education is extensive and quite evident in the adaptation from Face-to-Face (F2F) teaching to online methodologies throughout the first wave of the pandemic and the strict rules on lockdown. As lesson formats changed radically, the relevance of evaluating student on-line learning processes in university degrees throughout this period became clear. For this purpose, the perceptions of engineering students towards five specific course units forming part of engineering degree courses at the University of Burgos, Spain, were evaluated to assess the quality of the online teaching they received. Comparisons were also drawn with their perceptions of the F2F teaching of the course units prior to the outbreak of the pandemic. According to the students’ perceptions, the teachers possessed the technical knowledge, the social skills, and the personal capabilities (empathy and understanding of the at times troubled situation of each student) for a very abrupt adaptation of their courses to an online methodology. The shortcomings of the online teaching were related to its particularities and each teacher’s personality traits. Overall, engineering teachers appeared well prepared for a situation of these characteristics and, if similar online teaching scenarios were ever repeated, the quality of engineering teaching appears to be guaranteed. This research was funded through the following entities and grants: Spanish Ministry MCI, AEI, EU, and ERDF, grant FPU17/03374; the Junta de Castilla y León and ERDF, grant BU119P17 awarded to research group UIC-231; Youth Employment Initiative (JCyL) and ESF, grant UBU05B_1274; and the University of Burgos through grant Y135 GI awarded to the SUCONS group. 2023-11-15T09:05:00Z 2023-11-15T09:05:00Z 2021-02 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion http://hdl.handle.net/10259/8013 10.3390/ijerph18042127 1660-4601 eng International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021, V. 18, n. 4, 2127 https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042127 Atribución 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess MDPI