Akshata Balghare

Title
Assistant Professor
Email
Department
Humanities and Communication Department
College
College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Technical writing, user experience, health communication  
Akshata Balghare
Akshata Balghare is an Assistant Professor of Engineering Writing who primarily teaches senior capstone students. Her pedagogy emphasizes the principles and impact of effective technical communication in the context of engineering design projects.
  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Tech Communication and Rhetoric, Texas Tech University
  • M.Tech. - Master of Technology in English Technical and Professional Writing, Auburn University Main Campus
  • COM 420: Adv Technical Communication I
  • COM 430: Adv Technical Communication II
  • COM 221: Technical Report Writing

Rea, A., Balghare, A. (2024). Cultivating Empathic Engineering Design through UX Pedagogy: Challenges and Insights. Communication Design Quarterly, 12(3), pp. 5-19.

Balghare, A. J (2023). Exploring healthcare communication gaps between US universities and their international students: A technical communication approach. Communication Design Quarterly, 11(1), pp. 19-31.

Balghare, A. J. (2023). Healthcare Communication as a Social Justice Issue: Strategies for Technical Communicators to Intervene. Present Tense, 9(3). 

Dr. Akshata Balghare is an advisory board member for the Undergraduate Research Institute at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Prescott campus. Prior to joining Embry-Riddle, she taught technical writing as a graduate instructor at Texas Tech University and first-year writing at Auburn University. During her time at Auburn, she also served as an Editorial Assistant for the International Journal of Acoustics and Vibration. In addition, she worked as an Associate Editor at Cactus Communications in India, where she edited engineering research papers for authors around the world.