_{⇒ 1960: OCA Founder Member}

_{Professor Meherwan P. Boyce, PhD, P.E., C.Eng (UK), is the managing Partner of The Boyce Consultancy Group, LLC.  He is a Fellow ASME, IMechE(UK) & IDGTE(UK); has 45 years of experience in the field of TurboMachinery in both industry and academia. His industrial experience covers 20 years as Chairman and CEO of Boyce Engineering International Inc., founder of Cogen Technologies Inc., and five years as a designer of compressors and turbines for gas turbines for various gas turbine manufacturers. His academic experience covers a 15 year period, which includes the position of Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University and Founder of the TurboMachinery Laboratories and The TurboMachinery Symposium, which is now in its thirty-eighth year. He is the author of several books such as the Gas Turbine Engineering Handbook (Third Edition, Elsevier), Cogeneration & Combined Cycle Power Plants (Second Edition, ASME Press), and Centrifugal Compressors, A Basic Guide (PennWell Books).  Professor Boyce is a contributor to several Handbooks; his latest contribution is to the Perry’s Chemical Engineering Handbook Seventh and Eight Editions (McGraw Hill) in the areas of Transport and Storage of Fluids, and Gas Turbines. Dr. Boyce has taught over 150 short courses around the world attended by over 3000 students representing over 300 Corporations.  He is chair of ASME PTC 55 Aircraft Gas Turbine Committee which is writing the specifications for the testing of aircraft gas turbines.  He is also a member of the ASME Ethics Review Board.  He is a Consultant to the Aerospace, Petrochemical and Utility Industries globally, and is a much-requested speaker at Universities and Conferences throughout the world.}

_{Dr. Boyce is Past Chairman of the Plant Engineering & Maintenance Division of ASME, the ASME Conferences Committee and the Electric Utilities Committee of the of ASME’s International Gas Turbine Institute}

_{Dr. Boyce was the pioneer of On-Line Condition Based Performance Monitoring.  He has developed models for various types of Power Plants and Petrochemical Complexes.  His programs are being used around the world in Power Plants, Offshore Platforms, and Petrochemical Complexes. He is a consultant for Major Airlines in the area of Engine Selection, Noise and Emissions.}

_{Dr. Boyce has authored more than 150 technical papers and reports on Gas Turbines, Compressors Pumps, Fluid mechanics, and TurboMachinery.  He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (USA) the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (UK)and the Institution of Diesel and Gas Turbine Engineers (UK), and member of the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE), and the National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), and several other professional and honorary societies such as Sigma Xi, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Kappa Phi, and Tau Beta Phi.  He is the recipient of the ASME award for Excellence in Aerodynamics and the Ralph Teetor Award of SAE for enhancement in Research and Teaching.  He is also a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas and a Chartered Engineer in the United Kingdom}

_{In 2002 Dr Boyce was chairman of two major conferences the Advanced Gas Turbine and Condition Monitoring Conference sponsored by DOE and EPRI, and the Gas Turbine Users Associations Conference.}

_{Dr. Boyce is also on the Board of Advisors for the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma; the Board of Advisors for the TurboMachinery Symposium, Texas A& M University; the Industrial Advisory Board of the Department of Computer Science, Southwest Texas State, and the Board of Advisors to the University of Texas Dental Branch.  Dr. Boyce is Chairman of the “Virtuosi of Houston” a Premier Youth Chamber Orchestra, and past President of the Houston Galveston Stavanger Sister Cities Society.  He is President of the Board of Directors of the Trade Winds/Beach Club Condominiums Owners Association in Galveston, Texas, and was also Vice President of the Board of Directors of The Huntingdon Council of Co-Owners, Houston, Texas.  He is also a Founder Director of the World Zoroastrian Chamber of Commerce, and is still Vice President of the World Zoroastrian Organization.  He is the Holder of the Bharat Scout (India’s equivalent to the Eagle Scout) and a Member of the Board of Directors Sam Houston Area Council Boy Scouts of America.}

_{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. in (Aerospace & Mechanical engineering) in 1969 from the University of Oklahoma.}