Dean Walker Elected to Leadership Positions Among Engineering Deans

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). The council is a consortium of deans from all the engineering colleges affiliated with ASEE, representing more than 90 percent of all U.S. 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 U.S. 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.”

Additionally, Dean Walker was recently elected to the College of Fellows for the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). The College of Fellows is comprised of the top two percent of medical and biological engineers in the country. Members include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Presidential Medal of Science, and the Presidential Medal of Technology and Innovation.