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Hillary
Hart Distinguished Sr. Lecturer Engineering Communication 301 E Dean Keeton St. Stop C1786 |
EDUCATION
PhD, English, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1981
MS,
Anglo-Irish Literature, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 1974
Summary of Skills and Experience
TEACHING
A
Distinguished Sr. Lecturer, Dr. Hillary Hart has been a full-time
faculty member since 1987 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 Engineering Communication, teaching over
150 undergraduate engineering students yearly. She has also developed and
taught several graduate courses for engineering, women’s studies, and
environmental graduate students. In 2013, as director of the Program for
Excellence in Engineering Communication (PEEC), she inaugurated a series of
workshops on writing and presenting for engineering graduate students. In its
first two years, this program trained 148 engineering graduate students.
RESEARCH
Hillary’s research interests
include environmental and risk communication, the social impact of technology,
and engineering ethics (especially research ethics). Her objective in pursuing
research in Environmental Risk Communication is the development of strategies
(rhetorical and otherwise) to ensure productive, interactive communication
among engineers, regulators, industry, and the public on environmental issues.
Her work in engineering ethics has focused mainly on developing educational
modules to teach engineering ethics to undergraduates and research ethics to
graduate students.
Research Projects: Hillary has participated in many
funded research projects at UT Austin. She is currently a
co-PI on a 2-year National Science Foundation grant to educate
undergraduates in nanotechnology. She has been a research fellow with the
Construction Industry Institute and a senior research associate with the Center
for Research in Water Resources.
SERVICE
In addition to teaching and
research, Hillary has focused in recent years on serving the University
community, especially as a leader in faculty governance. She has served on the UT Faculty Council for five years,
including as Chair in 2013-14 (the first non-tenure-track faculty member to be
elected to this position) and currently as Secretary. She was also the
president of the international Society
for Technical Communication (STC) in 2011-2012,
and currently serves on the Boards of the Women’s
Athletics Council, the Gender Equity
Council, and the University
Cooperative Society. Hillary also works to establish the value of technical
communication to business development and the public interest for industry,
non-profits, and public agencies, leading development of a Body of Knowledge
for STC.
More Details
SELECTED
PUBLICATIONS (past 8 years)
Hart, H, and Baehr, C. (November 2013), co-editors, special issue of Technical Communication,
Introduction: “Sustainable Practices for Developing a Body of Knowledge.” Vol. 60
No. 4: 259-266.
Hart, H. (2012) “Crossing the Not-So-Great
Divide: Academics as Technical-Communication Practitioners.” Programmatic Perspectives, 4(1),
March 2012. Keynote address.
Alfredo, K. and Hart, H. (2011) “The
University and the Responsible Conduct of Research: Who is Responsible for What?” Science and
Engineering Ethics, 17:447–457.
Hart, H. (October, 2012) “Envisioning Sustainable Community
Decision-Making.” Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE
International Professional Communication Conference (refereed).
Hart, H, and Conklin,
J. (2011) “Toward a Meaningful Model of Technical Communication,” in Qualitative Research in Technical Communication,
eds. Conklin, J. and Hayhoe, G., Chapter 5, pp. 112-144, Routledge: NY, NY.
Hart, H. 2008. Engineering
Communication, second edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 218
pages.
CURRENT
SPONSORED RESEARCH PROJECTS:
NUE:
Sustainable Nanotechnology Education for Undergraduate Engineering Students
Sponsor:
National Science Foundation
PIs:
N. Saleh, H. Hart, M. J. Kirisits, B. Korgel
Period:
10/1/2014- 9/30/2016
PAST SPONSORED
PROJECTS (past 10 years)
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PI: H. Hart |
“Proposal for a Pilot
Program
for
Excellence in Engineering Communication (PEEC)”
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Cockrell School of Engineering/Braden Endowment |
$117,102 |
6/1/2013- 5/30/2015 |
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Co-PIs: H. Hart, S. Nichols, C.
Moore |
“The
Foundations of Research Ethics for Engineers” |
NSF |
$225,000 ($75,000) |
1/07-12/09 |
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Co-PIs: R. Corsi, J. Siegel |
“Indoor Environment” IGERT |
NSF |
$2,868,490 ($9,375) |
6/06-5/07 |
CURRENT
TEACHING
Engineering
Communication (CE 333T)
Required
undergraduate course in CAEE department.
Taught every semester since 1987. Carries a Writing Flag and an Ethics
and Leadership Flag.
Engineering Graduate Student Workshops -- offered through the Program for Excellence in
Engineering Communication (PEEC)
Managing the Writing Process
Delivering Effective Research Talks
Research Ethics at the University
Writing the Literature Review
PAST TEACHING
Gender, Technology, and
Information (GRS
390J /WGS 393) – co-instructor:
Phillip Doty
Graduate
course for university students interested in exploring the intersection of
studies of gender and of technology and how attitudes about gender structure
our information technologies, 2006 and 2010.
Foundations III: Feminist Research Methods (WGS 392/ INF 386G)
The
third core course in the WGS Masters program. Spring
2009.
Indoor Environment
Technical Exchange (CE 297) –
Co-instructor: Kerry Kinney
Professional
development and community-engagement required course for IGERT trainees in the
Indoor Environmental Science and Engineering doctoral program. Taught
once/semester Fall 2007, Fall 2008.
Advanced Technical Communication for Engineers (CE
389C)
Graduate
course for College of Engineering students. 2003-2007.
Technology and the Global Community (FS 118) -- co-instructor: Mary Lynn Rice-Lively
Freshman
course for University students. Taught once/year, 2001-2005
Faculty Workshops (past 6 years)
·
What Can We Learn from the Survey of Engineering Ethical
Development (SEED)? CEU credit.
· Research Ethics at the
University: Who is Responsible for What? CEU credit.
CURRENT SERVICE
CAEE Department: Curriculum Committee, 2010-present
School of Engineering: Program for Excellence in Engineering Education
(Director)
University of Texas: Secretary of the General Faculty and Faculty Council,
Women’s Athletics Council, Faculty Council Executive Committee, University
Faculty Gender Equity Council, Faculty Advisory Committee on Budgets, Faculty
Rules and Governance Committee,
University Co-operative
Society (Board member).
ACADEMIC COMMUNITY
Professional Communication Society,
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Chair, ProComm
2016 Conference: http://pcs.ieee.org/procomm2016/.
·
Board
of Reviewers, IEEE
Transactions on Professional Communication.
AFFILIATIONS
·
Association of
Teachers of Technical Writing
·
Council for
Programs in Technical and Scientific Communication
SERVICE (past 5 years)
Society for
Technical Communication – international professional association
Director, Body of Knowledge Task Force, 2012-2015
Member of Executive Committee, 2009-2013
President, 2011-2012 (Vice-President,
2010-2011)
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
- Civitatis Award, University of Texas at Austin, awarded
March 2015.
- President’s Award, Society for Technical Communication, awarded in
Philadelphia, PA, June 2008. Cited for “your wisdom, strength of
character, and commitment to ensuring that STC members from various
backgrounds work as partners.”
- Fellow, Society of Technical Communication, awarded in
Philadelphia, PA, June 2008. Cited for “your vision in building
communication bridges between the academic and practitioner communities.”
- Distinguished
Technical Communication Award,
Frank R. Smith Outstanding Journal Article in Technical Communication, 2007