Megh R. Goyal is an engineer and professor in

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, and a Methodist pastor. He has been called the father of

irrigation Irrigation (also referred to as watering) is the practice of applying controlled amounts of water to land to help grow crops, landscape plants, and lawns. Irrigation has been a key aspect of agriculture for over 5,000 years and has been devel ...

engineering in Puerto Rico.

Education

Goyal earned his high school diploma from Prem Sabha High School in

Sangrur Sangrur is a city in Sangrur district of the Indian state of Punjab, India. It is the headquarters of Sangrur District. Geography Sangrur is located at . It has an average elevation of 237 metres (778 feet). Climate Health s ...

; B.Sc. degree in

Agricultural Engineering Agricultural engineering, also known as agricultural and biosystems engineering, is the field of study and application of engineering science and designs principles for agriculture purposes, combining the various disciplines of mechanical, civil, ...

from

Punjab Agricultural University The Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) is a public funded agricultural university located in Ludhiana district of Punjab. It is a state agricultural university in India. It was established in 1962 and is the nation's third-oldest agricultur ...

Ludhiana Ludhiana ( ) is the most populous and the largest city in the Indian state of Punjab. The city has an estimated population of 1,618,879 2011 census and distributed over , making Ludhiana the most densely populated urban centre in the state. I ...

- India; M.Sc. degree (1977) and Ph.D. (1979) from

Ohio State University The Ohio State University, commonly called Ohio State or OSU, is a public land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio. A member of the University System of Ohio, it has been ranked by major institutional rankings among the best publ ...

, Columbus, Ohio; and Master of Divinity (2001) from Puerto Rico Evangelical Seminary,

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– Puerto Rico.

Career

Goyal has worked as a soil conservation inspector, research assistant and lecturer at

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, research associate at the

, and research agricultural engineer at the

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of University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Campus. He was the first agricultural engineer to receive a professional license in agricultural engineering in 1971, from the

Institution of Engineers (India) The Institution of Engineers (India) is the national organization of engineers in India. It has more than one million members in 15 engineering disciplines in 125 centers or chapters in India and overseas; it is the world's largest multi-disci ...

, and in 1986, from College of Engineers & Surveyors of Puerto Rico. For his pioneering work on

micro-irrigation Micro-irrigation, also called Micro-spray,localized, low-volume, low-flow, or trickle irrigation, is an irrigation method with lower water pressure and flow than a traditional sprinkler system. Low-volume irrigation is used in agriculture for r ...

, he is known as a "Drip Irrigation Man" in Puerto Rico. Goyal is currently a retired professor of agricultural engineering and

biomedical engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...

at the College of Engineering of the University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez Campus and senior editor-in-chief for Apple Academic Press. Goyal has authored journal articles and text books such as: "Introduction to Agriclimatology", ''Management of Drip/trickle or Micro Irrigation'', and ''Biofluid Dynamics of Human Body Systems'' On 16 September 2005, Goyal was named "Father of Irrigation Engineering in Puerto Rico for the 20th Century" by the

ASABE The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) is an international professional society devoted to agricultural and biological engineering. It was founded in December 1907 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison as the Ame ...

– Puerto Rico Section, for his pioneer work on irrigation,

evapotranspiration Evapotranspiration (ET) is the combined processes by which water moves from the earth’s surface into the atmosphere. It covers both water evaporation (movement of water to the air directly from soil, canopies, and water bodies) and transpi ...

climatology Climatology (from Greek , ''klima'', "place, zone"; and , ''-logia'') or climate science is the scientific study of Earth's climate, typically defined as weather conditions averaged over a period of at least 30 years. This modern field of study ...

, and soil and water engineering.

Personal life

Goyal was born in

Punjab Punjab (; Punjabi: پنجاب ; ਪੰਜਾਬ ; ; also romanised as ''Panjāb'' or ''Panj-Āb'') is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the northern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising a ...

in India. His late parents were natives of Punjab State. Goyal was married to Subhadra Goyal who was a

Methodist Methodism, also called the Methodist movement, is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity whose origins, doctrine and practice derive from the life and teachings of John Wesley. George Whitefield and John's ...

pastor in Rincon, Puerto Rico. They have three children.

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Megh R Goyal
Faculty Member at University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez {{DEFAULTSORT:Goyal, Megh R Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Indian irrigation engineers 21st-century American engineers Engineers from Punjab, India

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