COVID-19 Wake-Up Call: Technology-Based Electromagnetic Education Revisited

The teaching of electromagnetics courses faced significant challenges during the COVID-19 epidemic era. Convergence to online and virtual teaching, added significant difficulties in motivating students and ineffectively explaining and demonstrating this what is considered abstract and highly mathematical subject. Our team at the University of Hawaii quickly resorted to the CAEME software and extensively used available multimedia models, virtual labs demos, and simulation software to help with teaching in this completely virtual teaching modality. We also developed “Virtual Organization” website, to help students share their simulation results and discuss issues and bottle necks in learning the presented material. This paper highlights some of these ongoing activities and provide a brief assessment on the viability of the adopted approach.