Perception of Professors and Undergraduate Students of Engineering at the University of Brasilia (UnB) on Emergency Remote Learning Period in the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Due to the social isolation promoted in Brazil to reduce the number of coronavirus cases (Covid-19), local authorities of Brasilia suspended face-to-face activities. In-person courses of educational institutions were redesigned for the remote format. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the perception of the Emergency Remote Learning Period (ERLP) from the perspective of undergraduate students and professors of the Civil and Environmental Engineering degrees of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENC) of the University of Brasilia (UnB), through the application of questionnaires and data analysis. The secondary objectives are to identify the teaching methodologies and strategies, the platforms most used by professors, and the courses in the remote format with the highest student approval. A group of undergraduate students from Civil and Environmental Engineering degrees of UnB conducted this research in the course Project Management and Multidisciplinary Teams. The research was divided into four steps: technical literature review, data survey, data analysis, and discussion of results. In general, the students consider themselves adapted to the professors' methodologies. The evaluation criteria used are consistent, despite the overload of activities. It was necessary to redesign activities from the professors' perspective, which required effort since many professors had little or no experience with online classes. The most used methodology was direct instruction, also applied in the in-person format; the most used evaluation criteria were assignments, seminars, and class participation; the platform most used in the ERLP is Microsoft Teams, made available by the institution. The results contribute to a critical review of the emergency teaching model in the Covid-19 pandemic in Engineering Education and improve future applications