Originally Posted by
tomato coupe
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.
I'm just relating what the prof said, as he pointed to the title of the textbook, which was "Fluid Dynamics and Heat Transfer".
Looking now, that other class is no longer Lumped Parameter Linear Systems, but now Signals and Systems.