Assistant Professor
Address: P.O. Box 17660 Jackson, MS 39217
Phone:(601) 979-7012
email: wilbur.walters@jsums.edu
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.