Introduction to Heat Transfer
MIT's introduction to conduction, convection, and radiation, covering the fundamental laws governing how thermal energy moves through and between systems. The course builds the mathematical models engineers use to analyze steady-state and transient heat transfer problems, then applies them to design questions such as sizing heat exchangers or predicting temperature distributions in solid bodies. Materials include lecture notes, problem sets with solutions, and exams drawn from MIT's mechanical engineering curriculum, published through MIT OpenCourseWare under a Creative Commons license. The emphasis throughout is on translating physical principles into solvable models and then into engineering judgment, the same problem-solving sequence used in real heat transfer system design. No enrollment or certificate is offered; the course is a self-study resource of MIT's actual undergraduate materials, free to access and download.