Ed WaltonDr. Edward Walton has been professor of chemistry here at "Cal Poly" for over ten years having come from teaching at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
Dr. Walton spent a year at the Lawrence Hall of Science, at University of California, Berkeley, (1985-86) working as statewide pre-college program coordinator for the MESA (Math Engineering, Science Achievement) Program. At Cal Poly he teaches general college chemistry, senior (advanced) inorganic chemistry, Consumer chemistry and this chemical science course. In addition, Dr. Walton has teaches the course in "methods for teaching science" for in the department of education. He teaches science teaching for the Claremont Graduate School's teacher Program.
Dr. Walton has served on national science education committees...a review committee for the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAPE) in Science, the Educational Testing Service's Committee for the SAT II Chemistry Examination, and the National Academy of Sciences' working group to develop the National Science Education Standards. He has directed the a summer institute for elementary school teachers, and during three recent summers he worked with area high school chemistry teachers and middle school science teachers in the Institute for Chemical Education to enhance the teaching of chemistry. Dr. Walton has served as Commander, US. Navy and taught in San Diego, and has done training in Japan and Italy.
Dr. Walton is originally from Montgomery, Alabama where his father taught history at the local college and his mother was a sixth grade teacher. He graduated from Howard University in Washington DC., went to Oregon, and then to the University of Maryland where he received his Ph. D. degree in chemistry in 1979.
