Work in Progress: Influence of COVD-19 in Cultural Dimensions in Civil Engineering Students in

This study focuses on exploring how civil engineering students perceive the dimensions of culture proposed by Hofstede and how the Covid-19 pandemic altered these cultural dimensions. Hofstede proposes five measurable dimensions which are individualism, power distance, uncertainty avoidance, masculinity, and long-term orientation. Data were collected from 139 civil engineering students 39 in the year 2020 and 100 in the year 2022 to separate into pre- and post-Covid-19groups and make comparisons with each other. The groups are Ecuadorian civil engineering students at Universidad San Francisco de Quito, a private liberal arts university considered to be the best university in Ecuador. The survey was translated into Spanish to better understand the users. The results supply relevant information about how students perceive aspects of culture and differences that were created by Covid-19.