Georgene Geary retired from the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) in 2014, where she had spent most of her full career involved in all aspects of transportation and transportation research, including more than a decade as the State Materials and Research Engineer. She started both her consultant business (GGfGA Engineering, LLC) and her doctorate program in 2015. Her doctoral thesis developed an asset management methodology for concrete pavements using new high speed 3D laser technology tools. Her consultancy firm works for the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and also performs varied research involving the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board. Geary has been a licensed Professional Engineer in Georgia since 1991.
Dr. Geary is the Principal Engineer/Owner of GGfGA Engineering, LLC, a consulting company specializing in transportation infrastructure research. She has been involved in research related to safety, materials, pavements, construction quality assurance and contracting. As a prior practitioner she has a keen interest in assisting with the practical, implementable aspects of transportation infrastructure research.
| PhD | Georgia Institute of Technology | 2019 |
| MSCE | Georgia Institute of Technology | 1999 |
| BSCE | University of Illinois (Champaign-Urbana) | 1985 |
Dr. Geary currently is focusing on Capstone Design but has taught classes at Georgia Tech related to transportation planning and design (including safety and intersection design), asset management, engineering economics, engineering optimization, basic probability theory and developing students’ awareness of the effects of infrastructure on quality of life.
- Lead Advisor for Peachtree Corners Circle Displaced Left Intersection/MPLS 1st place CEE EXPO Award Team (Fall 2025)
- Group Chair for the Transportation Infrastructure Group of the National Academies Transportation Research Board (April 2025-Current)
- Section Chair for the Construction Section of the National Academies Transportation Research Board (April 2020-April 2025)
- AASHTO Committee on Materials and Pavements, Emeritus Award (2023)
- Handling Editor for the Transportation Research Record (2019 – Current)
- National Science Foundation Fellow (May 2016 – May 2019)
- GT Center for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Tech to Teaching Certificate (April 2019)
- Geary, Georgene and Desna Bergold. 2025. State DOT Certification Programs for Materials Sampling and Testing Personnel. NCHRP Synthesis Report 638. Transportation Research Board. Washington, D.C.
- Geary, Georgene M, and M. Manser. 2022. Motorcycle Safety Noteworthy Practices: Infrastructure and Engineering. FHWA-SA-22-032.
- Geary, G. M., Dixon, K., Aspelin, K., & Manser, M. (2021). Addressing the Motorcyclist Advisory Council Recommendations: Synthesis on Roadway Geometry, Pavement Design, and Pavement Construction and Maintenance Practices. FHWA-SA-21-090.
- Geary, G. M. (2021). Updates to AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design Software Affecting Concrete Pavements: A Synthesis of the Changes to the Software Related to Concrete Pavements. InTrans Project 15-532. Ames. IA.
- Geary, G. M., & Tsai, Y. (2021). A 3D Slab-Based Methodology to Predict End of Life for Concrete Pavements. International Journal of Pavement Engineering, 23(14), 4966-4976. https://doi.org/10.1080/10298436.2021.1990286
- Geary, G. M., & Tsai, Y. (2021). Jointed Plain Concrete (JPC) Pavement Variability and Method to Complement JPC Design with 3D Pavement Data. Transportation Research Record: Vol 2675, Issue 8: pp. 332-344. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0361198121997820
- Geary, G. M. (2019). A Spatial and Temporal 3D Slab-Based Methodology for Optimized Concrete Pavement Asset Management [PhD, Georgia Institute of Technology]. Atlanta, GA. https://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/64055
- Geary, G., Tsai, Y.C., Wu, Y. (2018) “An Area-Based Faulting Measurement Method using 3D Pavement Data.” Transportation Research Record. Washington, D.C. DOI:10.1177/0361198118759951
- Geary, G. M. (2018). User Review of the AASHTO 'Guide for the Local Calibration of the Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide'. NCHRP 20-07/ Task 422. Transportation Research Board.