E-mail: hart@mail.utexas.edu

A.B., New York University, 1968
M.Litt., Trinity College, Dublin, 1973
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College, 1981

Dr. Hart teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in technical communication, a multi-disciplinary field that uses the insights of cognitive psychology, rhetorical theory, visual design, and organizational communication for the benefit of all technical professionals who must communicate with a wide variety of audiences. Her research interests include research ethics, environmental communication, and risk communication. Environmental communication develops strategies (rhetorical and otherwise) to ensure productive, interactive communication among engineers, regulators, industry, and the public on environmental issues, especially those involving risk. Dr. Hart also investigates ethical issues as they arrive in the research process, from data collection to publication, and strategies for integrating ethics into engineering curricula. For more information, see Dr. Hart's home page.

Representative Publications

Moore, C., Hart, H., Randall, D., and Nichols, S. (2006) “PRiME: Integrating Professional Responsibility into the Engineering Curriculum,” Science and Engineering Ethics . Volume 12, no. 2, pp. 273-289.

Hart, H., 2005. Introduction to Engineering Communication, Prentice-Hall; Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Hart, H. and Randall, D. 2005. “Designing Challenge-Based Ethics Instruction for Undergraduate Engineers,” Proceedings of the IPCC Conference (CD-ROM), Limerick, Ireland, July.

Hart, H. and Conklin, J. 2004. "Making a Meaningful Model for Technical Communication." Proceedings, International Professional Communication Conference (IEEE) (Minneapolis, MN) September 2004.

Hart, H., "Report of Research on Communicating about Risk with Stakeholders." Technical Report produced for BP-Amoco, April 1999.