Engineering Students' Virtual Learning Challenges during COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown: A Case Study

As a result of the pandemic lockdown, most Faculty, Staff, and students in Nigerian universities were unable to learn online because of irregular power and internet unavailability. As a major concern to the Nigerian Deans of Engineering, a study was commissioned by the Deans to identify the extent of the problem with a view to identifying the research and development areas and proffer an indigenous solution to the problems identified. This paper discusses the results of an online survey administered during the lockdown to a stratified sample size from the over 80,000 engineering students' population in Nigeria. The initial results showed that there is need to develop some form of a cost-effective but modular and mobile integrated boosted internet-ready power system suitable for teaching, learning and research which is always-on both day and night for learning.