  The COVID-19 pandemic significantly disrupted the educational sector. Faced
with this life-threatening pandemic, educators had to swiftly pivot to an
alternate form of course delivery without severely impacting the quality of the
educational experience. Following the transition to online learning, educators
had to grapple with a host of challenges. With interrupted face-to-face
delivery, limited access to state-of-the-art labs, barriers with educational
technologies, challenges of academic integrity, and obstacles with remote
teamwork and student participation, creative solutions were urgently needed. In
this chapter, we provide a rationale for a variety of course delivery models at
different stages of the pandemic and highlight the approaches we took to
overcome some of the pressing challenges of remote education. We also discuss
how we ensured that hands-on learning remains an integral part of engineering
curricula, and we argue that some of the applied changes during the pandemic
will likely serve as a catalyst for modernizing education.
