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RESEARCH INTERESTS
Functional Thin Films and Coatings
Nanostructured composites
Environmental materials testing
EDUCATION
Ph.D, Materials Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham AL, 2002.
M.S., Materials Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham AL, 1998.
B.S., Physics, Jackson State University, Jackson MS, 1995.
EXPERIENCE
October 2002 - Current, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Physics, Jackson State University, MS.
May 2002 – August 2002, Visiting faculty, The Pennsylvania State University, Applied Research Laboratory, State College, PA
August 1997 – 2000, Graduate Research Assistant, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
May 1997 - October 1997, Research Assistant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
RECENT PRESENTATIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
W. L. Walters, Development and AFM Characterization of Sputter Deposited Nanostructured Cu-W Alloys, Wroclaw Technical University, Wroclaw, Poland, May 2004.
W. L. Walters, An Innovative Approach to Introducing Nanoscale Science at an Undergraduate Institution, American Society of Chemistry Meeting, Anaheim, CA, March 2004.
W. L. Walters, J.M. Rigsbee, G.M. Janowski, "Microstructural Evolution in Non-Equilibrium Sputter Deposited Copper-Tungsten Alloys", The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, February 2001.
