The trouble with hvac engineering education. (part 2)
Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News, October, 1989 by Olivieri, Joseph B.
The trouble with hvac engineering education
We keep speaking of hvac education as a single discipline, but it is not. Hvac people perform research, design hardware, and design, install, and service equipment and systems. (System design might better be called application engineering.) No one program can train a person to do all these things.
The traditional mechanical engineering program does an outstanding job of training students to perform research and design hardware. It may do this without one course in hvac. The typical mechanical engineering program does not prepare one for application or, as it is often called, consulting engineering.
Several years ago, I placed one of my M.E. graduates in a local architectural-engineering firm.
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