Publications

  1. Main, J. B., Griffith, A., Xu, X. & Dukes, A. M. (2022). Choosing an engineering discipline: A conceptual model of student pathways into engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 111(1): 40-64. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20429
  2. Main, J.B., Wang, Y. , & Tan, L. (2021). Preparing industry leaders: The role of doctoral education and early career management training in the leadership trajectories of female STEM PhDs. Research in Higher Education. DOI: 10.1007/s11162-021-09655
  3. Griffith, A.L. & Main, J.B. (2021). The role of the teaching assistant: Female role models in the classroom. Economics of Education Review, 85. doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102179
  4. Main, J.B., Wang, Y. & Tan, L. (2021). The career outlook of engineering PhDs: Influence of postdoctoral research positions on the attainment of tenure track faculty positions and academic salaries. Journal of Engineering Education, 110(4): 977-1002. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20416
  5. Wang, Y.  & Main, J.B. (2021). The influence of postdoctoral training on the attainment of faculty careers and academic salaries in the social sciences versus STEM fields. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 12(3): 384-402. DOI: 10.1108/SGPE-04-2020-0025
  6. Mondisa, J. & Main, J.B. (2021). Mentors’ Perceptions of their African-American Undergraduate Protégés’ Needs and Challenges. Journal of Negro Education, 90(2): 195-210. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7709/jnegroeducation.90.2.0195
  7. Tan, L., Main, J.B., & Darolia, R. (2021). Using random forest analysis to identify student demographic and high school-level factors that predict college engineering major choice. Journal of Engineering Education, 110(3): 572-593. 10.1002/jee.20393.
  8. Camacho, M.M., Lord, S.M., Mobley, C., Main, J.B. & Brawner, C.E. (2021). Transitions of student military veterans into engineering education. Social Sciences, 10(6):228. 10.3390/socsci10060228
  9. McGee, E., Main, J.B., Cox, M.F., Miles, M.L. (2021). An intersectional approach to investigating persistence among women of color tenure-track engineering faculty. Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 27(1): 57-84. 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.2020035632
  10. Main, J.B., Johnson, B., & Wang, Y. (2021). Gatekeepers of engineering workforce diversity: The academic and employment returns to student participation in voluntary cooperative education programs. Research in Higher Education, 62: 448-477. 10.1007/s11162-020-09596-7.
  11. Main, J.B., Tan, L., Cox, M.F. & McGee, E. (2020). The correlation between undergraduate student diversity and the representation of women of color faculty in engineering. Journal of Engineering Education, 109(4): 843-864. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20361
  12. Main, J.B. & Wang, Y. (2020). Intercultural competency among engineering graduate students. Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, 11(2): 181-196. https://doi.org/10.1108/SGPE-06-2019-0058
  13. Darolia, R., Koedel, C., Main, J.B., Ndashimye, J.F. & Yan, J. (2020). High school course access and postsecondary STEM enrollment and attainment. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 42(1): 22-45. https://doi.org/10.3102/0162373719876923
  14. Main, J.B., Johnson, B., Ramirez, N., Ebrahiminejad, H., Ohland, M.W. & Groll, E. (2020). A Case for Disaggregating Engineering Disciplines in Engineering Education Research: The Relationship between Co-Op Participation and Student Academic Outcomes. International Journal of Engineering Education, 36(1A): 170-185.
  15. Main, J.B., Smith, K.A., Fentiman, A. & Watson, K. (2019). Guest Editorial: The Next Morrill Act for the 21st Century. Journal of Engineering Education, 108(2): 152-155. https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20256
  16. Main, J.B. & Griffith, A. (2019). From SIGNALS to success: The effects of an online advising system on course grades. Education Economics, 27(6):608-623. 10.1080/09645292.2019.1674248
  17. Mobley, C., Brawner, C., Lord, S., Main, J.B. & Camacho, M. (2019). Digging deep: Qualitative research methods for eliciting narratives and counter-narratives from student veterans. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 32(10): 1210-1228. 10.1080/09518398.2019.1659440
  18. Main, J.B., Prenovitz, S., and Ehrenberg, R. (2019). In pursuit of a tenure-track faculty position: Career progression and satisfaction of humanities and social sciences doctorates. The Review of Higher Education, 42(4): 1309-1336. 10.1353/rhe.2019.0067
  19. Griffith, A. & Main, J.B. (2019). First impressions in the classroom: How do class characteristics affect student grades and majors? Economics of Education Review, 69: 125-137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2019.02.001
  20. Main, J.B., Camacho, M., Mobley, C., Brawner, C., Lord, S. & Kesim, H. (2019). Technically and tactically proficient: How military leadership training and experiences are enacted in engineering education. International Journal of Engineering Education, 35(2): 446-457.
  21. Mobley, C., Main, J.B., Brawner, C., Camacho, M. & Lord, S. (2019). Pride and Promise: Identity Salience and Enactment of First-Generation Student Veterans in Engineering. International Journal of Engineering Education, 35(1A): 35-49.
  22. Main, J.B. (2018). Kanter’s Theory of Proportions: Organizational demography and PhD completion in science and engineering departments. Research in Higher Education, 59(8): 1059-1073. DOI: 10.1007/s11162-018-9499-x
  23. Main, J.B. & Schimpf, C. (2017). The underrepresentation of women in computing fields: A synthesis of literature using a life course perspective. IEEE Transactions on Education, 60(4): 296-304. 10.1109/TE.2017.2704060
  24. Ramirez, N., Smith, S., Smith, C., Berg, T., Strubel B., Ohland, M. & Main, J.B. (2016). From interest to decision: A comparative exploration of student attitudes and pathways to co-op programs in the United States and the United Kingdom. International Journal of Engineering Education: 32(5A): 1867-1878.
  25. Main, J.B., Mumford, K. & Ohland, M.W. (2015). Examining the influence of engineering students’ course grades on major choice and major switching behavior. International Journal of Engineering Education 31(6A): 1468-1475.
  26. Main, J.B. (2014). Gender homophily, Ph.D. completion, and time to degree in the humanities and humanistic social sciences. The Review of Higher Education 37(3): 349-375. 10.1353/rhe.2014.0019
  27. Main, J.B. & Ost, B. (2014). The impact of grades on student effort, course selection, and major choice: A regression-discontinuity analysis. Journal of Economic Education 45(1): 25-35. https://doi.org/10.1080/00220485.2014.859953
  28. Ehrenberg, R.G., Jakubson G.H., Martin, M.L., Main, J.B. & Eisenberg, T. (2012). Diversifying the faculty across gender lines: Do trustees and administrators matter? Economics of Education Review 31(1): 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2011.10.003
  29. McGowan, C.P., Duarte, H.A., Main, J.B., and A.A. Biewener. (2006). Effects of load carrying on metabolic cost and hindlimb dynamics in guinea fowl (Numida meleagris). Journal of Applied Physiology 101:1060-1069.