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Board 141: Engineering Identity as a Predictor of Undergraduate Students’ Persistence in Engineering
Author(s) -
Debra A. Major,
Seterra D. Burleson,
Xiaoxiao Hu,
Kristi Shryock
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
2019 asee annual conference and exposition proceedings
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.18260/1-2--32256
Subject(s) - graduation (instrument) , identity (music) , persistence (discontinuity) , engineering education , sample (material) , engineering design process , psychology , mathematics education , engineering , engineering management , mechanical engineering , geotechnical engineering , chromatography , acoustics , chemistry , physics
Debra A. Major, Professor & Eminent Scholar at Old Dominion University (ODU), earned her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Michigan State University. Her research focuses on broadening participation in STEM. She is particularly interested in barriers encountered by women and ethnic minorities in college and in the workforce. Her work has received continuous funding from the National Science Foundation for over 15 years, and she has led numerous multidisciplinary and multi-institutional research teams. Dr. Major is fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Society for the Psychology of Women. She is presently serving as Associate Dean in the College of Sciences at ODU.

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