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John B. Heywood (engineer)
British mechanical engineer
John B. Heywood is a British mechanical engineer known for his work on automotive engine research, for authoring a number of field-defining textbooks on the internal combustion engine, and as the director of the Sloan Automotive Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Heywood was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1998 for the prediction of emissions and efficiencies of spark-ignition engines and contributions to national policies on motor emissions.
Early life and education
Heywood grew up in the United Kingdom in an academic family,[1] the child of a mechanical engineer father, Harold Heywood, and a metallurgist mother, Frances Heywood.
After graduating from Cambridge University with a BA, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1960 to study at MIT for a master's degree in 1962, and completed a PhD in mechanical engineering in 1965.[1]
Career
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