Publications

Dissertation

"More than income: Socioeconomic inequality, trauma, and the pathways of low-income undergraduate engineering students"

Funding: National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (DGE- 133486)

Advisor: Dr. Allison Godwin

Committee: Dr. Alice Pawley, Dr. Matthew Ohland,
Dr. Paul Dean, (Ohio-Weslayan University), Dr. Kelly Cross (University of Nevada, Reno)


Journal Publications




Perkins, H., Ge, J., Scheidt, M., Major, J. C., Chen, J, Berger, E., Godwin, A. (2021). Well-being supports and barriers for engineering student belonging. International Journal of Community Well-Being, 1-32.


Godwin, A., Benedict, B., Rohde, J., Thielmeyer, A., Perkins, H., Major, J. C.,
Clements, H. R., Chen, Z. (2021)
New epistemological perspectives on quantitative methods: An example using topological data analysis.
Studies in Engineering Education, 2(1), 16-34.


Ge, J., Major, J. C., Berger, E., Loui, M., Froiland, J., Jenson, K., Godwin, A. (2021).
A theory of engineering thriving to redefine student success. Studies in Engineering Education, 2(2), 19-41.

Major, J. C. (2020). To cross the picket line, or join it: Facing engineering education’s role in the socioeconomic exploitation of marginalized peoples to further a discipline [Guest Editorial]. Journal of Engineering Education 109(2), pp. 1-7.

Major, J. C., Carberry, A., Kirn, A., (2020). Revisiting a measure of engineering design self-efficacy. International Journal of Engineering Education, 36(2), pp. 1-13.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Publications