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College of Engineering


Portrait of Dr. Edward W. Collings

Edward W. Collings

Adjunct Professor

D.Sc., University of Wellington, NZ, 1972

Tel. (614) 688-3701

Office: 398 Watts Hall

collings.2@osu.edu

  • Visiting Professorial Fellow, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW, Australia
  • Advisor to Northwest Institute for Nonferrous Metal Research, Xi 'an, Shaanxi, China
  • Member of International Academy of Electrotechnical Sciences, Russia

 

Dr. Collings has conducted research on the metallurgical, physical, and superconductive properties of metals and alloys, has published more than 220 scientific articles, books, and videotapes, and has presented numerous papers worldwide.

Dr. Collings taught physics at the University of Wellington, New Zealand before joining the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, PA and subsequently Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, OH. In 1995 he joined Ohio State's MSE Department where he established the Laboratories for Applied Superconductivity and Magnetism (LASM). He is the sole author of five books and the co-editor of eleven.

Areas of expertise

  • Microwave electronics at 3 and 10 GHz,
  • Metal and alloy processing techniques including microgravity processing and the development of advanced space-processing techniques,
  • Heat transfer in closed-die forging,
  • Aspects of surface science,
  • Scientific instrumentation,
  • Phase equilibria, transformations, precipitaion, and aging in titanium alloys,
  • Physics of liquid metals and alloys,
  • Solid-solution strengthening,
  • Electrical transport properties,
  • Electron paramagnetic resonance in dilute alloys,
  • Magnetic properties of intermetallic compounds dilute alloys and austenitic stainless steels,
  • Properties of rapidly quenched microcrystalline and amorphous alloys,
  • Low-temperature and high-temperature superconductivity.
Above: Laboratory for the rapid gallium quenching of short research samples of Nb+Al composite wire in the development of a commercial reel-to-reel process for the production of long lengths of Al5Nb3Al superconducting wire for use in the windings of very high field magnets. Close-up of the high vacuum chamber in which a short Nb+Al composite wire is resistively heated to 1800-2200° C and quenched to metastable bcc-phase Nb-25%Al by plunging it into liquid gallium.

Service to the scientific community

  • Member of the Superconducting Materials Committee, TMS;
  • Member, Past Secretary, and Past Chairman of the Committee on Alloy Phases, TMS;
  • Past Member and Past Chairman of the Hume- Rothery Awards Committee, TMS;
  • Past Member, and Past Chairman of the Hume- Rothery Medal and Acta Metallurgica Gold Medal Awards Committee, TMS;
  • Past Member of the Board of the Cryogenic Engineering Conference (CEC);
  • Member and Past Board Chairman of the International Cryogenic Materials Conference Board (ICMC);
  • Chairman of the 1983 ICMC Conference (Colorado Springs, CO);
  • Co-chairman of the 1988 ICMC Conference (Shenyang, China);
  • Co-organizer of the 1992 ICEC/ICMC Conference (Kiev, Ukraine);
  • Co-organizer of the 1994 ICMC Conference (Honolulu, HI);
  • Chairman of the 1995 ICMC Conference (Columbus, OH);
  • Co-chairman of the International Workshop on Critical Currents in Superconductors for Practical Applications (Xi 'an, China, 1997);
  • Co-organizer of High-Tc Symposium for IUMRS-ICAM Meeting (Beijing, China, 1999).
Dr. Michael Sumption and Dr. Florin Buta conducting research in one of the LASM laboratories.