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Khalid is a Lecturer at UC Berkeley, teaching courses in the Global Poverty & Practice (GPP) program, Political Economy, and the College of Engineering. He received his PhD in 2010 from Berkeley in Civil and Environmental Engineering, where his research focused on pathogen removal in natural water and wastewater treatment systems. While completing this research, Khalid was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to work on water and wastewater treatment systems in Morocco. During this time, he began studying the complex role that engineering expertise plays in the politics of international development and poverty alleviation. His current research focuses on engineering pedagogy, the political economy of household water treatment, and the ecological-engineering of water and sanitation systems.
In 2013 Khalid was selected as a Chancellor’s Public Scholar to create and teach an innovative interdisciplinary engineering course that combines community-engaged scholarship with classroom learning to train future engineers to engage with the social and political roots of their technical work. In recognition of his work on this unique course and of his teaching in the GPP program, Khalid was awarded the 2014 Chancellor’s Award for Public Service for Service-Learning Leadership. More recently, in 2015-16, Khalid was selected to be a UC Berkeley Lecturer’s Teaching Fellow.
In addition to his teaching and research, Khalid has remained engaged with engineering practice, working on a number consulting projects related to water, sanitation, and poverty, both internationally and domestically. He also serves as Chair on the Board of Directors for the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water and serves on the Board of Directors for International Water Partners.
Education
PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
Dissertation: Sunlight-Mediated Inactivation Mechanisms of Enteroccocus faecalis and Escherichia coli in Waste Stabilization Ponds
MSE in Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California at Berkeley
BSE in Mechanical Engineering
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Links
Engineering Social Justice
http://issuu.com/shawnm/docs/beng-spring2014/16
Video: Can Experts Solve Poverty?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jqEj8XUPlk