
Profiles
Dr Keri Collins
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics (Faculty of Science and Engineering)
Biography
Biography
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Admissions tutor (Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology)
Qualifications
PhD in Mechanical Engineering: The Effects of Asymmetry on Oscillatory Propulsion, 2012, University of Bath
MEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering with French, 2004, University of Bath
Key publications
Teaching
Teaching
Teaching interests
From 2020 (revised programmes)
MECH121 - Team Engineering (Lecturer and module leader)
MARN339 - Marine Engineering (Lecturer and module leader)
MARN526 - Introduction to marine renewable energy (Interim lecturer)
Supervision of project students for MEng Civil and Coastal Engineering and BEng and BSc Mechanical Engineering (and associated pathways)
(PRCE308/PRCE310/PRCE507/PRME304/PRME307/PRME306)
Previous years
Lecturing on:
MECH230 - Engineering science 2
Laboratory sessions and coursework marking:
MAR528(MAR504) - Mechanics of MRE structures
MARN203(MARN201) - Stability and hydrodynamics
Tutoring/supervising and marking DSGN313 - Engineering Design and computational methods
Available for MATLAB tutoring
Research
Research
Research interests
Other research
From 2015 to 2018, I was principally involved in the WETFEET project. This was a Horizon 2020-funded project to accelerate wave energy by considering four key "breakthroughs". The Plymouth part of the work was the creation and subsequent testing of two arrays of oscillating water columns. My involvement spanned model design and build, experimentation, data analysis and programming, daily budget management, wider project management, co-supervision of a PhD student and reporting.
I have reviewed journal articles and conference papers for Energies, Energy, EWTEC, Intl J Green Energy, ISOPE and JMarSci.
Research degrees awarded to supervised students
- Gunay Gazaloglu - current student - second supervisor
- Qi Ye - in corrections - member of supervisory team
- Daming Wang, Use of complex environmental data for realistic wave tank testing of Wave Energy Converters, 2022, PhD - member of supervisory team
- Ben Howey, A Physical and Numerical Study of an Interconnected Wave Energy Array, 2020, PhD - member of supervisory team
Publications
Publications
Key publications
Key publications are highlighted
JournalsPersonal
Personal
Conferences organised
Other academic activities
Founder member and project manager for the human-powered submarine project: PULSE (Plymouth University Leg-powered Submarine Engineering).
At the eISR 2014, our submarine, Mayflower, came 3rd overall and became the fastest human-powered submarine built by any UK team. We also won the prize for Reliability. In 2015, we went to the USA to compete but sadly we couldn't repeat our success.
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/plymouth-university-dive-deep-to-break-human-powered-submarine-record
Additional information
I have been lucky enough to give science-based talks to the general public at festivals around the UK:
2017, Port Eliot Festival, Cornwall: Invited talk on wave energy and the WETFEET project
2012, Secret Garden Party, Cambs: As part of Guerilla Science gave a talk about biomimetics, fish swimming research and human-powered submarines
2011, Bestival, IoW: As part of Guerilla Science gave a talk about biomimetics, fish swimming research and human-powered submarines
Former Member of the RINA/IMarEST young members' group for Devon and Cornwall
STEM ambassador
SECAM Fire Marshal
SECAM Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee member
SECAM Marketing and Recruitment comittee member
Faculty Strategy group member
Personal tutor
Placement tutor
Admissions tutor