Drexel Engineering Dean
Sharon L. Walker, PhD,
has been elected vice chair of the
Engineering Deans Council
(EDC) of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Dean Sharon Walker
The council is a consortium of deans from all the engineering colleges
affiliated with ASEE, representing more than 90 percent of all US
Engineering Deans. The EDC’s goals include advocating and providing a
vision for engineering education and research; serving as a resource to
its constituents and the public at large; and articulating and
influencing US public policy on engineering education and research.
Walker has previously served on the council as a director.
“Drexel Engineering has long been a leader in engineering education,
and I am exceedingly proud to continue that tradition by serving on
this esteemed committee,” Walker said. “I am especially excited to work
with chair Kenneth Ball, a two-time Drexel alumnus who is now Dean of
George Mason’s Volgenau School of Engineering.”
In addition to her position as Dean of the College of Engineering,
Walker is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Civil,
Architectural and Environmental Engineering and Executive Director of
ELATES at Drexel
. She also holds courtesy faculty appointments as professor of Chemical
and Biological Engineering, as well as Distinguished Professor in the
Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science in the
College of Arts and Sciences. She holds a PhD in Environmental
Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering, both from Yale, and a BS
in Environmental Engineering from the University of Southern
California.
Dr. Walker is a two-time winner of the Fulbright Fellowship, for which
she visited Ben Gurion University of the Negev in Israel from 2009-10;
received an NSF Career Award in 2010; and held an ELATES fellowship
from 2014-15. She is a Fellow of the Association of Environmental
Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), the American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the American Institute for
Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She is an active member of
the American Chemical Society, the American Institute of Chemical
Engineers, the Association of Women in Science, the Society of Women
Engineers, and the Chi Epsilon, Tau Beta Pi, and Golden Key honor
societies. Walker’s previous service includes election to the roles of
vice chair (2015) and chair (2017) of the prestigious Environmental
Nanotechnology Gordon Research Conference, as well as an official with
AEESP and with the American Chemical Society’s Colloid and Surface
Science Division.