Hillary Hart
Distinguished Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow
Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering
Phone: (512) 471-4635
Fax: (512) 471-5870
Email: hart@mail.utexas.edu
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A Fellow of the Society for Technical Communication, Dr. Hillary Hart earned
her Ph.D. in English literature from Bryn Mawr College in 1981. She joined
the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin in 1987. She created and directs
the civil engineering program in technical communication.
Dr. Hart researches environmental communication, technical communication in the
workplace, and engineering research ethics. She develops strategies that
foster productive, interactive communication among engineers, regulators,
industry and the public on environmental issues, especially those involving
risk. Hart also investigates strategies for integrating ethics into engineering
curricula. She is currently a co-principal investigator on a two-year National
Science Foundation project to develop teaching modules on research ethics for
graduate engineering courses. Her research is this area seeks to develop realistic
guidelines for the engineering research community on topics such as plagiarism,
which have different practices in the sciences and engineering than they do in
the humanities.
Research interests:
- Environmental risk communication
- Engineering ethics
- Technical communication