Originally Posted by
Duragrouch
So a class called "Fluid Dynamics and Heat", might not convey the full measure of the class content, to folks in HR. In the past couple decades, schools have gotten hyper-sensitive to job-placement rates, so they started talking to employers more.
You're really reaching on this one. Heat transfer is proper terminology -- it appears in the title of virtually every textbook on the subject and in the title of college courses
because it's proper terminology. Your idea that the term is used for the benefit of job recruiters is laughable.