This report looks at how 123 engineering faculty drawn from major engineering programs at research universities predominantly in the USA but also in Canada, the UK, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand – experienced online teaching - -and how they view online teachings’ future in engineering education. The report gives detailed data on who taught online, how much, and what they thought of the quality of the online classes vs. in-person classes. Respondents also relate just how much that they would like to teach online in the future and what they think the online teaching policies of their engineering programs will be irrespective of their own wishes.  They also pinpoint the types of classes they think are best taught online and those that are more difficult or even impossible to teach online.  The report also looks at the services that instructors used – library services, information technology department services, for example – and quantify the use of some of these service pre, during, and post pandemic. Respondents also comment on the possible new engineering courses and programs that might be developed given the greater familiarity with online teaching.

In addition the report quantifies the amount of time spent in developing online courses, and the continuing path of such costs in the near future.

Just a few of the report’s many findings are that:

• 56.1% of respondents used Zoom in all of their classes during the first year of the pandemic.
• Female faculty spent much more time than male faculty in developing their first online class.
• In general, older faculty were more interested than younger faculty in continuing to teach online classes post pandemic.
• Faculty in civil engineering were much more likely than those in other fields of engineering to believe that the quality of their online classes was much better than that of their in-person classes.

Data in the 74-page report is broken out by many variables related to the individual survey participants and their institutions including but not limited to country, gender, engineering field of specialization and age of respondent, and engineering school ranking,  public or private school status, and overall student enrollment size of the affiliated engineering program. A PDF edition of this report is currently available directly from Primary Research Group for $119.00; a print edition at the same price will be available for shipment on  July 25th, 2021,  and can be ordered now.  Site licenses are also available.

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