Perception of the undergraduate student about utility of numerical modelling techniques as a didactic resource for scientific research in Civil Engineering

Teaching-learning in civil engineering research courses is a challenge and even more in the current context of the Covid 19 pandemic, taking into account that laboratories and field works are not available. Nevertheless, it is also an opportunity to optimize the use of didactic and technological resources that enable the students to use approaches to study different kinds of engineering problems as well as contributing to their development as researchers. This study allowed to collect, through a validated questionnaire, the perception of 148 students who were in the last year in the Civil Engineering career at the Universidad Privada del Norte, and the results revealed that 61% of them were "in agreement" with the usefulness of numerical modelling techniques as a teaching resource for research.