Justin C Major
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212 Cellar Lane, Apartment #104
Lafayette, IN
47905
USA
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About My Work
As a graduate student who identifies as low-socioeconomic, I also study other students who identify as low-socioeconomic. I am looking for ways to understand how low-socioeconomic students use aspiration as a mediator between their developments of different identities including engineering identity. I am hoping for my work to push away from singular views of socioeconomic students as deficient, and to instead look at what makes low-socioeconomic students in engineering unique. I hope to use critical perspectives.
Professional Associations
American Society for Engineering Education
American Educational Research Association
National Association for Research in Science Teaching
Purdue Engineering Education
Justin C. Major is a second-year Engineering Education Ph.D student and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Purdue University. Prior to graduate school, he completed Bachelor's degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Secondary Mathematics Education at the University of Nevada, Reno with a focus on K-12 Engineering Education. Justin's research and service focuses on the experiences and attitudinal development of low-socioeconomic students from a critical perspective. Through his work, he hopes he can bring light to the importance of considering socioeconomic status in research on diversity in engineering.