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Joyce Main

Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1981
Career Development and DiversityEngineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentHigher Education Research StudiesEducation and Military IntegrationGender Diversity and Inequality

Publications

142

Citations

1,229

Est. group size

~3

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

45

Publishing since 1981

Research summary
AI-generated

Joyce Main studies engineering education, focusing on who enters and persists in engineering degree programs and careers, including student veterans, first-generation students, women, and community college transfer students. Her work examines institutional policies, mentoring, and pathways that shape access to and success in engineering education. She also contributes methodological work on qualitative research techniques, including emerging uses of AI for analyzing text data.

Engineering education and student pathwaysDiversity and identity in STEM (veterans, gender, race)Community college transfer and financial aid policyFaculty mentoring and research productivityQualitative research methods, including AI-assisted analysis

Publication output has fluctuated over the past decade with a notable peak in 2020 and again in 2024, suggesting an active but variable rather than steadily increasing pace.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 9.4/year recently
2017: 5 publications172018: 11 publications182019: 10 publications192020: 26 publications26202021: 7 publications212022: 9 publications222023: 14 publications232024: 20 publications242025: 4 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Journal of Engineering Education×17
  • Research in Higher Education×6
  • 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings×5
  • International journal of engineering education×3
  • Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education×3
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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