Peter C. Collins named fellow of Alpha Sigma Mu
Author: Cyclone Engineering
Peter C. Collins, professor of materials science and engineering and The Stanley Chair in Interdisciplinary Engineering, has been named a fellow of the Alpha Sigma Mu, an international professional society for the field of materials science and engineering.
The fellow designation recognizes Collins for his record of significant accomplishments and contributions to the materials science and engineering profession – and for his service to Alpha Sigma Mu.
Collins will be honored at the ASM IMAT 2025 event in October.
About Peter C. Collins:
Collins’ experiences and interests involve the practical and theoretical treatments of microstructure-property relationships, with an extension into composition-microstructure-property relationships derived for complex multi-phase, multi-component engineering alloys.
He has extensive experience in participating in large industrial programs, has conducted studies into novel metal matrix composites, and has significant research experience with additive manufacturing techniques, and combinatorial materials science.
In recent years, Collins and his group have been actively involved in developing and building new types of instrumentation and experiments. These include developing the first 3D SRAS (spatially resolved acoustic spectroscopy) microscope, bicombinatorial techniques, reduced-cost wire-fed metal AM systems, and other techniques aimed at characterizing defects in additive manufactured materials.
Prior to joining Iowa State in 2015, Collins served as a faculty member and undergraduate coordinator in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of North Texas.
Collins has also spent time standing up a not-for-profit 501-3(c) manufacturing laboratory, and he regularly engages with both industry and the government.
Collins is a highly active member of TMS, past chairman of the ICME committee, incoming secretary of the Titanium committee, and a member of the Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division.
Collins received his undergraduate degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla, now known as Missouri University of Science and Technology, and his MS and PhD from The Ohio State University in materials science and engineering.