The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Keri's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Keri
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering
Admissions tutor (Mechanical Engineering and Marine Technology)
Dr Keri Collins is trying to make the world a better place, one academic year at a time. Her research has taken her down the path of physical modelling for experimentation, particularly with marine renewable energy devices, and she enjoys the engineering challenges of creating scale models for research applications.
Supervised Research Degrees
- Chris Pass - currrent student - acting DoS
- Oscar Best - current student - second supervisor
- Gunay Gazaloglu - current student - second supervisor
- Qi Ye, Structural analysis and design of semi-submersible platform for floating offshore wind turbines. 2023, PhD, 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
Teaching
From 2020 (revised programmes)
ENGR107 - Engineering Design (Lecturer and Module Leader)
ENGR108 - Engineering Practice and Experimental Techniques (Lecturer)
MECH237 - Thermo-fluids (laboratory leader)
MAR526 - Introduction to marine renewable energy (guest lecturer, tbc)
MECH549 - Medical Engineering and Biomechanics (guest lecturer)
PRME310 - Engineering Honours project (project supervisor)
2018/2019 & 2019/2020
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
Contact Keri
+44 1752 586149
keri.collins@plymouth.ac.uk
