Originally Posted by
Duragrouch
He was not in the physics department. He was in the engineering school and later became chair of that department.
Regardless, the department that he was in clearly had no qualms about using the term in the title of the course.
IIRC, I think the point he was trying to make, is that if you have a temperature differential, you will automatically have heat, i.e., the transfer of thermal energy.
Again, you and your professor are using a definition of heat that is not the widely accepted definition. Heat is generally defined as a form of energy, and that energy can be transferred from one location to another when a difference in temperature exists. That transfer of heat is called ... heat transfer.