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SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 7:30 a.m. Registration. Second Floor, Burke Center 7:30–11:30 a.m. Refreshments. 112 Burke 8:00–11:30 a.m. Senior Presentations (half-hour sessions including Q and A). 11:45 a.m.–12:15 p.m. Keynote Speaker: David Boyce. 180 Burke 12:15–12:30 p.m. Student and Sponsor Award Presentations. 180 Burke Class Pictures Photos to be taken after awards in following order: ME, CSSE, PLET, MET, IE, ECE, ECET, IBE, ISB. Assemble in hallway outside 180 Burke. Reception After the awards, join us in Clark Café for an ice cream celebration!
KEYNOTE SPEAKER David Boyce ’01 President and CEO, Bloom Engineering Company Inc. David Boyce is the president and CEO of Bloom Engineering Company Inc., a world leader in the design and manufacture of high-temperature, low-emissions industrial combustion systems. Headquartered in Pittsburgh since 1934, Bloom Engineering serves global customers in the steel and aluminum markets through subsidiaries in Germany, India, and China. As a student at Penn State Behrend in 1998, Boyce gravitated toward the heat transfer and thermal systems side of mechanical engineering. He was the first co-op student with what was then Aalborg Energy (now John Cockerill), one of the first tenants at the newly built Knowledge Park. After graduating from Behrend with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2001, Boyce worked in various engineering departments with Siemens Energy before rejoining his former colleagues in Erie at Aalborg, which had become CMI Energy. He has held leadership roles in the U.S. and abroad with CMI and Thermal Engineering International. In 2013, he joined Bloom Engineering, leading a number of initiatives to grow and improve the company. In 2024, he guided Bloom Engineering through an acquisition by Wabtec Corporation, and he continues to work to expand the company. In 2013, Boyce received Penn State’s Alumni Achievement Award, which recognizes alumni 35 years of age and younger for their extraordinary professional accomplishments.