)Relationships Beliefs around the right way for people to relate to each other within engineeringRelationship to the Environment How engineering education interacts with broader systems (i.e., university, higher education, engineering profession, national context)MethodsThis paper presents a single pilot case study, where a mechanical engineering department is acase and students are subunits of that case [13]. We draw on hour-long interviews with threemechanical engineering students at a U.S. university in the mid-Atlantic region. This universityshifted all courses online in March 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic