selected publications
Appelhans, Sarah, and Ryan Hearty. “Report on the Workshop, ‘Engineering Interventions: Interdisciplinary Engagements with Engineers’, 12–13 November 2024.” Engineering Studies 17, no. 2 (2025): 136–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2025.2517574.
Hearty, Ryan. Review of Race and the Greening of Atlanta: Inequality, Democracy, and Environmental Politics in an Ascendant Metropolis, by Christopher C. Sellers. H-Environment, June 12, 2025. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=61541.
Tonn, Jenna, Brit Shields, Ryan Hearty, and Adelheid Voskuhl. “Pedagogical Choices for Navigating and Teaching Sociotechnical Landscapes in Engineering Education.” Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Montreal, Canada. Proceedings of the 2025 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, ASEE, June 2025. https://peer.asee.org/pedagogical-choices-for-navigating-and-teaching-sociotechnical-landscapes-in-engineering-education.
De Pree, Thomas, and Ryan Hearty. “Engineering Studies.” In Encyclopedia of Science & Technology Studies, edited by Ulrike Felt and Alan Irwin. Edward Elgar, 2024.
Hearty, Ryan. Review of Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society, by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick. H-Sci-Med-Tech, November 9, 2024. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=60969.
Hilliard, Amanda Dawn, and Ryan Hearty. “Empowering Engineers: Enhancing Communication Skills through a Technical Communication Lab.” Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, OR. Proceedings of the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, ASEE, June 23, 2024. https://peer.asee.org/empowering-engineers-enhancing-communication-skills-through-a-technical-communication-lab.
Hearty, Ryan. “Visualizing Pollution: Representations of Biological Data in Water Pollution Control in the United States, 1948–1962.” Berichte Zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte 46, no. 2–3 (September 2023): 206–32. https://doi.org/10.1002/bewi.202200049.
Pell, Hannah, Ryan Hearty, and David Allard. “Why Did the Three Mile Island Unit 1 Reactor Close?” Physics Today 75, no. 6 (June 2022): 46–52. https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.5020.
Hearty, Ryan. “Redefining Boundaries: Ruth Myrtle Patrick’s Ecological Program at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1947–1975.” Journal of the History of Biology 53, no. 4 (December 2020): 587–630. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-020-09622-5. Awarded the 2022 Everett Mendelsohn Prize.
selected engineering reports
Angert, Matthew P., Brian M. Bubnash, Ryan J. Hearty, Michael B. O’Neill, Sharon X. Ling, Daniel E. Matlin, and Sheng Cheng. “Advancements in Hardware Design for the Frontier Radio Used for the Solar Probe Plus Mission.” In 2017 IEEE Aerospace Conference. Big Sky, MT, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2017.7943790.