Honorary Member since 2013

Charles (Charlie) Greer is a graduate of the University of Illinois with B.S. and M.S. degrees in Civil Engineering.  He is a registered professional in Georgia and Florida. During his over 41 years of experience, he worked on a broad range of civil engineering projects around the world.  As Senior Vice President, Director of Engineering, and Director of Quality Assurance for Law Engineering, MACTEC, and AMEC E&I, he was responsible for the development and implementation of engineering and quality procedures as well as project management processes.  He designed and evaluated numerous concrete pavements along with construction issues. His first runway (9L-27R in Atlanta in 1974) where served as lead engineer for inspection and testing is still in service. It is a main departure concrete runway with an estimated 8 million departures so far in its 50-year life.
He taught project management procedures to more than 500 engineers in the company during his career.  When Georgia Tech initiated a Masters’ Degree Program in Facilities Management, he developed and taught the inaugural course entitled Maintenance Management of Built Assets.  He was Law’s senior technical reviewer for the firm’s Engineer of Record services on the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse Relocation.  This project was awarded the ASCE’s Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award for 2000. From 1974-2015 he also was involved with all phases of construction at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the busiest airport in the world in terms of passengers.  He helped develop ATL’s Pavement Management Program starting in 1984. He was instrumental in extending the life of the 2 main departure runways (concrete) far beyond their 20-year design lives. This saved ATL an estimated 100 million dollars in capital construction costs. He provided consulting services for projects at the airport that include an 18-foot diameter tunnel under an active concrete runway and taxiway, construction of the underground people mover system, the airfield pavement management program, and many others.
His awards include the C. C. Wiley Award at the U of I (1972), Engineer of the Year in Georgia by GSPE (1987), Honorary Member of the International Society for Concrete
Pavements (2013), and Lifetime Achievement Award in Engineering by GSPE (2021). He also received the 2017 ASCE Robert Horonjeff Award for his contributions to
aviation engineering.  He has taught “Case Histories in Infrastructure Engineering” for the CEE Department at the U of I in the summer sessions since 2016. He received the Teacher Excellent Rating for his teaching of CEE 498CH in the summer sessions of 2016 and 2022.