Filza Walters

Educational Background

- Engineering Education
- DEI in STEaMs
- Project Based, Active-Collaborative Learning
- Integrated Project Design & Delivery
- Building Energy Efficiency & Decarbonization

- 15 years of academic administrative, teaching, advising, curriculum development and assessment experience – Created and served as founding director of 5-year integrated bachelors-master’s architectural engineering degree, first in Michigan to achieve initial program accreditation
- Recruited, retained, graduated and placed five cohorts of graduates – Maintained 50% women-to-men demographics, 100% placement at or prior to graduation, and secured 500k in endowed scholarships to promote DEI
- Building owners representative for planning, design, and construction for diverse portfolio of academic, research, and critical care facilities at Wayne State, largest urban university in Michigan
- Served in management and engineering positions with increasing responsibilities at multinational architectural engineering firms including SmithGroup and Ghafari Associates – Project Manager, Assistant Project Manager, Lead Mechanical and Systems Design Engineer

• Co-Moderator, Plenary Session 2: Strategies for Harnessing Potential Federal Infrastructure Initiatives, ASCE 2021 National Civil Engineering Department Heads Virtual Conference (2021)
• Topic 1: Sharing Strategies for Effective Teaching, Department Heads Education Pre- & Post COVID: The front line of Administration, Faculty, Students, ASCE National Civil Engineering Department Heads Seminar Series on Department Leadership in a Virtual Environment (2020)
• Webinar: Building Future Engineers: How Community, Corporations, and Local Heroes Make It Happen, NTH Consultants, Ltd., Northville, MI (2016)
• CLIMA Congress, Means, Janice K. and Filza H. Walters, Do High Performance-Labeled Buildings Really Perform at the Promised Levels? ISBN 978-975-6907-14-6, R6-TS77-OP04r, Antalya, Turkey (2011)
• Seminar 36: Opportunities in Developing Metrics for Construction, Successes and Challenges of Sustainable Building Metrics Implementation, ASHRAE Annual Meeting, Louisville, KY (2009)