About the Professor
Sharon L. Walker
John Babbage Chair in Environmental Engineering
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering
Associated Faculty Member, Department of Bioengineering
Member of the Center for Plant Cell Biology, UCR Institute for Integrative Genome Biology (IIGB)
Bourns B355
Riverside, CA 92521
Phone: 951-827-6094
Fax: 951-827-5696
Brief Biography:
Sharon Walker received her Ph.D. in Environmental
Engineering, from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Yale
University in 2004. She earned her M.S. in Chemical and Environmental
Engineering from Yale in 2000 and two Bachelor of Science degrees from
the University of Southern California in Environmental Engineering and
Environmental Studies in 1998. She is a member of the American
Chemical Society (ACS), American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), American Society of Microbiology (ASM),
Association for Environmental Engineering and Science Professors
(AEESP), American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Association of Women in
Science (AWIS), and Society of
Women Engineers (SWE). She is also a member of Chi Epsilon and Tau
Beta Pi. She is currently a faculty advisor to the UC Riverside Alpha
Beta chapter of Tau Beta Pi and campus chapter of SWE. She was awarded the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency STAR Fellowship and the National Water Research
Institute Graduate Fellowship. She has worked as a project/research
assistant at USC Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies, and as
assistant to the managing editor of the Journal of Engineering
Mechanics and Dynamics at USC's School of Engineering.
Courses taught:
ENVE 142 – Water Quality Engineering
ENVE 171 – Introduction to Environmental Engineering
CEE 158 - Professional Development for Chemical and Environmental Engineers
CEE 225 – Physical and Chemical Separation Processes
CEE 264 – Special Topics in Microbial Fate and Transport in Aquatic Environments