Meg Pirkle

  • Vanderbilt University

    Q&A with Meg Pirkle, BE’89

    Previously director of GDOT’s Permits and Operations Division, Pirkle spent part of last year implementing task force recommendations after the January 2014 Atlanta “Snowpocalypse” that stranded thousands of commuters for eight hours or more on iced-over interstates—roads that are notorious for traffic snarls even in the best of times. Read More

    Mar 23, 2015

  • Vanderbilt University

    Meg Bryson Pirkle, BE’89, to help Atlanta prepare for the next snowpocalypse

    Meg Bryson Pirkle, BE’89, is the first female chief engineer for Georgia’s transportation department. In the following Q&A, she explains her role in implementing a task force’s recommendations after the January 2014 Atlanta “Snowpocalypse,” her time at Vanderbilt, and being a woman in a male-dominated profession. Read More

    Jan 5, 2015