Hillary Hart

Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering

The University of Texas at Austin

1 University Station C1786

Austin, Texas  78712-1084

(512) 471-4635

EDUCATION

CURRENT AND PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS

CURRENT COURSES

Engineering Communication (CE 333T)

           Upper-division undergraduate required course in CAEE department.  Taught every semester.

Advanced Technical Communication for Engineers (CE 389C)

           Graduate course for College of Engineering students. Taught once/year

Technology and the Global Community (FS 118)

           Freshman course for university students. Taught once/year.

SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS

Nominating Committee (elected), Society for Technical Communication, 2004

Associate Fellow, Society for Technical Communication, 2003

Distinguished Chapter Service Award, Society for Technical Communication, 1998

Faculty Excellence Award, Graduate Engineering Council, University of Texas, 1997

Excellence in Engineering Teaching, College of Engineering, University of Texas, 1995

Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Bryn Mawr College, 1978-1979

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Developing and evaluating Web-Based Instructional Materials
• Engineering Ethics, especially pedagogical approaches to teaching
• Environmental and Risk Communication, especially development of strategies (rhetorical and otherwise) to ensure productive, interactive communication among engineers, regulators, industry, and the public on environmental issues.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books, Chapters of Books; Editor of Books

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

Hart, H. 1997.  “Ph.D. Programs that Work,” Chapter One in Technical Communication: Academic Programs that Work, Michael Keene, ed. Society for Technical Communication, Washington, DC. 

Hart, H., Executive Editor.  CII Education Modules (10 vols.), The Construction Industry Institute, Austin, TX, 1992-1994

Refereed Archival Journal Publications

Hart, H. and Conklin, J., (2006) “Toward a Meaningful Model for Technical Communication,” Technical Communication. Vol. 53, no. 4, pp. 395-415 (winner of Distinguished Technical Communication Award, 2007).

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

Hart, H. and Glick-Smith, J.  “Training in Technical Communication: Ideas for a Partnership between the Academy and the Workplace,” Technical Communication, Vol. 41 (no. 3), August 1994, pp. 369-405.

Refereed Conference Proceedings

Hart, H. and Moore, C., 2007. “Developing Curriculum on Research Ethics for Engineers: Gathering the Data.”  Proceedings of the ASEE Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 27.

Hart, H., 2005. “Making the Process the Content: Connecting Engineering Students to the Real Real World.”  Proceedings of the IPCC Conference, Limerick, Ireland, July 12.

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

Hart, H. and Randall, D. “Whose Words Can we Trust?: PRiME’s Modules for Teaching and Assessing Undergraduate Learning in Information Ethics,” Proceedings of the 2005 ASEE Annual Conference, Portland, OR, June 2005. Accepted.

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. and Moore, C.  “Developing Instructional Modules for Engineering Ethics,” Proceedings of the 2002 ASEE Annual Conference, Montreal, Canada, June 2002.

Hart, H.; Armbruster, D.; and Pearce, J.  “Science, Intellectual Property, and the Web.” STC 49th Annual Conference Proceedings, May 2002, Adobe Acrobat, 1 CD-ROM.

Hart, H., “Communicating about Environmental Risk with Stakeholders.” STC 48th Annual Conference Proceedings, 2001, Adobe Acrobat, 1 CD-ROM.

Hart, H. "Building an Articulate Engineer: A Laboratory Approach," Proceedings of  National Forum on Education and Continuing Development for Civil Engineer, ASCE, April 17-20, 1990, pp. 987-993.

Technical Reports

Hart, H., 1999.  “Report of Research on Communicating about Risk with Stakeholders.” BP Oil Co.

GRANTS AND CONTRACTS (dollar amounts are my portion)

CURRENT MEMBERSHIPS IN PROFESSIONAL AND HONORARY SOCIETIES

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (International Professional Communication)

American Society of Engineering Education

Association of Teachers of Technical Writing

Council for Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication

Society of Technical Communication (committee chair)          

VITA          

An Associate Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, Dr. Hillary Hart has been since 1987 a Sr. Lecturer in the Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) at The University of Texas at Austin.  She created and runs the CAEE program in Technical Communication, teaching over 150 undergraduate and 25 graduate engineering students yearly. In 1996, Dr. Hart inaugurated a new graduate course, never before taught at UT, called Advanced Technical Communication for Engineers (CE 389C).  The course is designed to help graduate students from all over the College write, publish, and disseminate their research work and results in many different forms. 

Her research interests include development and evaluation of web-based instructional materials, engineering ethics, and environmental and risk communication. She has conducted risk-communication research for BP-Amoco Corp. and for the Amarillo National Resource Center for Plutonium. Dr. Hart has been a research fellow with the Construction Industry Institute and a senior research associate with the Center for Research in Water Resources. She is currently a co-PI on a grant to produce web-based educational modules on engineering ethics, suitable for inclusion in any engineering undergraduate course. She also conducts short courses and workshops for a diverse selection of clients, including public agencies (the Texas Water Development Board) and corporations (Object Reservoir, Inc.).

Dr. Hart is an active member of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) at the local and international levels.  She served as President of the Austin chapter in 1992, and managed the STC international committee on Academic Program Development for two years (1993-95) and the Special Interest Group on Environmental Health and Safety Communication for six years (1998-2004).  In 1998, she received the Distinguished Chapter Service Award from STC, and in 2003 she was made an Associate Fellow.