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Meet our founder Dr. Boyce
Dr. Boyce was truly a unique professional. Beginning in 1962, he spent his entire adult life dedicated to education and the tireless achievement of a superior level of work ethic in everything he ever took on and mainly in all phases of the power generation industry.
He was internationally recognized as the expert authority in Turbomachinery, Aerodynamics, Automotive Engineering, Bio-Engineering, Forensic Engineering, Cogeneration, Environmental Engineering and Fluid Mechanics.
His devotion to educating others in the personal persuit of higher education lead him in a direction of training and instruction to individuals and specialized courses to corporations all over the world.
Dr. Boyce’s short resume Dr. Boyce’s long resume
Turbine and Compressor Design, Operation and Maintenance
Performance and Testing of Combined Cycle Power Plants
Combined Cycle & Cogeneration Plants
2013ASME PTC 55 Gas Turbine Aircraft Engines, Chair of the committee approved as an American National Standard by the ANSI Board of Standards Review on July 29th 2013
2012Combined Cycle Systems for Near Zero Emissions Power Generation, Chapters 1 and 2, February 2012, Woodhead Publishing, UK
2012Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook, Chinese Edition Published in China by Petroleum Industry Press Letter, under special arrangement with Elsevier (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., 2012 (Sole Author)
2011Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition, Elsevier Publisher, December 2011, Butterworth-Heinemann Publisher, First Edition 1985 (Sole Author)
2011Energy & Power Generation Handbook, December 2011 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Chapter 27: Combined Cycle Power Plants
2002Cogeneration and Combined Cycle Power Plants. Second Edition April 2010; First Edition January 2002, New York. ASME Press (Sole Author)
2008Perry’s Chemical Engineering Handbook, Chapter 10, Transport and Storage of Fluids, 8th. Edition, McGraw Hill, 2008
2006The Gas Turbine Handbook US Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy National Energy Technology Laboratory, Axial Flow Compressors Section 2.0, 2006
2003Centrifugal Compressor: A Basic Guide. PennWell Press February 2003 Tulsa OK (Sole Author)
1985Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook. Third Edition, Elsevier Publisher, February 2006, Second Edition, Butterworth-Heinemann Publisher, December 2001, First Edition 1985 (Sole Author)
1997Perry’s Chemical Engineering Handbook. 7th. edition, Chapters10 and 14 on Fluid Machines and Gas Turbines., McGraw Hill: 1997
1997Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook. German Edition, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Germany: 1997 (Sole Author)
1987Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook, 5th Printing. January 1992, Houston: Gulf Publishing, 1987 (Sole Author)
1983TurboMachinery Maintenance Handbook. Houston: Boyce Engineering International, 1983 (Sole Author)
1981Centrifugal Compressor Handbook. Houston: Boyce Engineering International, 1981 (Sole Author)
1981Air Movement and Vacuum Devices. Process Equipment Series. 2 vols. Connecticut: Technomic Publishing, 1981
Honors & Awards
His many honors include being appointed to membership of the following scholarly honorary societies such as Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, and Tau Beta Phi. He is the recipient of the ASME Herb Allen award for Excellence in Aerodynamics and the Ralph Teetor Award of SAE for enhancement in Research and Teaching among others.
His most recent award in 2016 is the Clifford C. Furnas Memorial Award from The State University of New York at Buffalo.
Included are his patents as follows:
Velocity probe for compressor surge control
United States Patent 3,930,742; Meherwan P. Boyce January 6, 1976
Integrated Biomass Energy System
United States Patent 2008/0245052A; Meherwan P. Boyce January 6, 1976
Dr. Boyce received a B.S. (1962) and M.S. (1964) in Mechanical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and the State University of New York respectively, and a Ph.D. (1969) in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma.
