Learning Library

The YES Learning Library provides educators with resources to refresh and improve their engineering education pedagogy. The library includes video from classrooms, student work artifacts, reflection questions, and more, to give educators a multimodal, online learning experience. Select one of the topics below to get started!

The YES Approach

Developing high-quality educational materials is an intentional process. Three decades of research and development by the YES team inform our model for engineering learning.

Explore the design principles for each of the four dimensions of our framework below.

Authentic Engineering Practices

YES units engage students in engineering practices—patterned behaviors that lead to the creation of engineering knowledge and products. Research conducted by the YES team has identified 16 common engineering practices.

Socially Engaged Engineering

Asset-Based Pedagogies

Engineering Identity

Engineering Design Process

Engineers use a structured, iterative process to solve problems. YES organizes students’ work with an age-appropriate, cyclical, engineering design process. Naming design phases helps students understand the goal of the activity.

This is not a rigid process. As students engineer, they move back and forth between phases. After proceeding through the basic phases, learners improve their design by repeating the cycle.