Shane Walker, Ph.D., P.E.

Education

• Ph.D. - Civil Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
• M.S. - Environmental & Water Resources Engineering, University of Texas at Austin
• B.S. - Civil Engineering, Texas Tech University

Responsibilities

• Director, Water and the Environment Research (WATER) Center
• Director, Texas Produced Water Consortium (TxPWC)

State(s) in which registered

• Professional Engineer (P.E.), State of Texas

Bio

Shane grew up on a cotton farm east of Lubbock and worked at a regional water treatment plant in high school, observing first-hand the importance of water for land and people.  Shane studied civil engineering in undergrad and focused on hydrology and hydraulics for his master’s thesis studies.  When you step back and look at the globe, it is mostly blue, but almost all of that water is too salty to drink.  Inspired by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 6 to help the billions of people around the world who need clean and safe water, Shane studied desalination for his dissertation research.  Shane was a professor at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) and eventually Director of the Center for Inland Desalination Systems (CIDS).  Now a professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Construction Engineering at Texas Tech University, Shane serves as the Director of the Water and the Environment Research (WATER) Center and Director of the Texas Produced Water Consortium (TxPWC).  Shane teaches courses in the fields of water and wastewater treatment (especially physical/chemical treatment processes), and his research focuses on advanced drinking water treatment, especially high recovery inland desalination, potable reuse, and beneficial use of desalinated produced water.