HVACR has HEART

As a high school technology teacher, Karen Bogoski has coached over a thousand students through the challenges of engineering projects, but this summer, she was the one tackling a project, and her coaches were University of Maryland (UMD) engineering students. She worked at UMD’s College Park campus through four weeks of hot and steamy weather, while many other teachers were enjoying time off. But the muggy days only helped motivate her. Guided by a team of students from UMD's A. James Clar

From discovering novel ways to purify and reuse chemicals to creating sensors that will make cooling systems safer and more cost-efficient, teams of researchers have been working together this summer to modernize a sector many take for granted: the heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration industry. Indeed, HVACR is essential to every aspect of modern life. To move it forward, two professors from Ivy Tech, a community college with 45 locations in Indiana, spent a large part of

Johnson County Community College professors worked at a KU engineering lab this summer to deepen their knowledge of the principles underlying heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) If your AC unit goes out in the middle of the summer, you call a repair company. The technician’s job is to fix the problem as soon as possible, so you can be comfortable. No theoretical conversation required. But this summer, two professors from Johnson County Community College’s Heat