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Dr. Justin C. Major (they/them)
Dr. Justin C. Major (they/them)
Email: majorj@rowan.edu
Personal Website: www.justincmajor.com
Rowan: https://engineering.rowan.edu/faculty_staff/listing/justin-major.html
Office Phone: (856) 256-5776
Address: Engineering Hall 127,
401 N. Campus Drive,
Glassboro, NJ, 08106
Dr. Justin C. Major (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Experiential Engineering Education at Rowan University where he leads ASPIRE Lab (Advancing Student Pathways through Inequality Research in Engineering). Justin’s research focuses on low-income students, engineering belonging, and adverse childhood experiences, and connects these topics to broader understandings of student success in engineering. Justin is a previous NSF Graduate Research Fellow and has won over a dozen awards for research, service, and activism, including the 2020 ASEE ERM Division Best Diversity Paper for his work on test anxiety. As a previous homeless and food-insecure student, Justin is eager to challenge and change engineering education to be a pathway for socioeconomic mobility and broader systemic improvement rather than an additional barrier.
Positions:
Assistant Professor; Experiential Engineering Education; Rowan University
Faculty Fellow; Division of Student Access & Pathways; Rowan University
Associate Editor; Journal of Women & Minorities in Science & Engineering
Education:
Ph.D., Engineering Education, Purdue University (2022)
Certificate of Inclusive Excellence, Purdue University (2021)
M.S., Aeronautics & Astronautics, Purdue University (2021)
B.S., Secondary Education (Mathematics), University of Nevada, Reno (2017)
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno (2017)
Professional Memberships:
American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Honors and Awards:
Frances S. Johnson Junior Faculty Innovation Teaching Award (2025)
Fellow; Learning Analytics for STEM Education Research (2025)
Fellow; Engineering Unleashed (2024)
Scholar; National Science Foundation (NSF) Institute in Critical Quantitative, Computational, and Mixed Methodologies (ICQCM; 2024)
Outstanding Graduate Student Service Scholarship & Award; Purdue University, College of Engineering (2022)
Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship; Purdue University (2022)
American Society for Engineering Education Educational Research and Methods Division Best Diversity Paper (2020)
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2017)
Henry Albert Senior Public Service Award; University of Nevada, Reno (2017)
Graduate Researchers
Graduate Researchers
Narjes Khorsandi Koujel
she/her
Ph.D. Student
Engineering Education
Rowan University
Research Interests:
Iranian Women's Experiences in Engineering
Fatemeh Mirmahdi
she/her
Ph.D. Student
Engineering Education
Rowan University
Research Interests:
Mental Health
Machine Learning
Sowmya Panuganti
she/her
Ph.D. Candidate
Engineering Education
Purdue University
Research Interests:
Mental Health
Organizational Issues
Ash Quadd
they/them
Ph.D. Student
Engineering Education
Rowan University
Research Interests:
LGBTQ+ Experiences in Engineering
Identity Negotiation
Undergraduate Researchers
Undergraduate Researchers
Gregory Burgess
he/him
Undergraduate
Electrical & Computing Engineering
Rowan University
Research Interests:
Mental Health
Michael Galicia Sandre
he/him
Undergraduate
Electrical & Computing Engineering
Rowan University
Research Interests:
Low-income Students
Maria Maione
she/her
Undergraduate
Electrical & Computing Engineering
Rowan University
Research Interests:
Assistive Technology
Abi Rhodes
she/her
Undergraduate
Mechanical Engineering
Rowan University
Research Interests:
Childhood Trauma
Mental Health
Erwin Wambi
he/him
Undergraduate
Computing & Informatics
Rowan University
Research Interests:
Technology for Social Justice
ASPIRE Alumni
ASPIRE Alumni
Martha Lucia Morales Cano, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Intentions of attrition of Colombian women in engineering: A quantitative analysis of organizational, career, and identity factors
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