Sharon L. Walker is an American environmental engineer whose research concerns the movement of bacteria and nanoparticles through liquid and porous media, and applications to food safety and water quality.
She is dean of the Drexel University College of Engineering, a distinguished professor in the Drexel Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, and executive director of the ELATES leadership training program for women in STEM fields.
Her dissertation, Mechanisms of Bacterial Adhesion to Solid Surfaces in Aquatic Systems, was supervised by Menachem Elimelech.
[5] She was named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering in 2022, "for contributions in particle fate and transport in water treatment and food safety applications, and engineering education leadership".
[7] In 2023, the USC Viterbi School of Engineering gave her their Mark A. Stevens Distinguished Alumni Award.