Preliminary Inferential Analysis of the Perception of Industrial Engineering and Administration Students About their Performance in Caring for the Environment Post-COVID (extended study)

Abstract

Secondary to living the COVID-19 pandemic first reported in Wuhan China on December 31, 2019, there was a phenomenon that changed the lifestyle of the population worldwide as well as, for example, the increase in mental illness and violence domestica in addition to the deaths charged by the health contingency generated by the spread of a new coronavirus (SAR-COV2) through trade and globalization. The objective of this research is to detect the perception of Industrial Engineering and Administration students about their performance in caring for the post-COVID-19 environment, so an inferential, non-experimental, and transversal methodology is followed. The results that support that the respondents care about issues related to the environment. Therefore, it is important to educate and create awareness in society at different levels about caring for the environment and promote research in universities into new alternatives to protect natural resources, thus prolonging the life of ecosystems, in the face of the problem currently living.