暖通空调行业非常担心学术机构忽视了暖通空调教育。1986年2月，在国家科学基金会、全国专业工程师协会、ASHRAE等的赞助下，召开了暖通空调系统研究需求研讨会。与会者确定的主要需求包括改善美国大学的暖通空调教育，提高工业界和学术界之间的合作水平，更新设计数据库，开发机械系统尺寸和性能评估的新方法，将计算机应用于暖通空调系统设计，在动态系统行为方面为控制系统提供更多的研究支持，并鼓励设计和使用用于建筑控制的专家系统。 作者已经意识到上述问题，并采取措施缓解其中一些问题。本文部分报道了这些努力以及作者在暖通空调教育方面的经验。引文:研讨会，ASHRAE交易，1988年，第94卷，pt。2、渥太华

There is great concern in the HVAC industry that HVAC education has been neglected at academic institutions. A workshop on research needs in HVAC systems was held in February 1986 under the sponsorship of the National Science Foundation, The National Society for Professional Engineers, ASHRAE, and others. The major needs identified by the participants included improving HVAC education in the nation’s universities, increasing the level of cooperation between industry and academia, updating design data bases, developing new methods for sizing and performance evaluation of mechanical systems, integrating computer usage in HVAC systems design, providing more research support for control systems in dynamic systems behavior, and encouraging the design and use of expert systems for building control.The authors have realized the problems mentioned above and have undertaken steps to alleviate some of them. This paper reports in part on these efforts as well as on the authors’ experiences regarding HVAC education.