Olga Menagarishvili

Olga Menagarishvili (Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) directs the Charles E. Gearing Program in Engineering Communication. Begun in 1998 and funded by the Mundy family, this endowed program implements a model of engineering education that directly links communication strategies with course content. It does so by meaningfully integrating written, oral, visual, electronic, and nonverbal communication into the engineering curriculum.

In 2012-2016, Olga was a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech, where she co-created and taught in-person, hybrid, and online technical communication courses for Computer Science undergraduates (https://sites.gatech.edu/csjuniordesigncapstone/). Since she began her teaching career in 1999, she has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in scientific, technical, and professional communication at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities and at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Prior to coming back to Georgia Tech in 2025, Olga was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Technical Communication and Interaction Design at Metro State University (St. Paul), where she also directed the Learner Experience Design graduate program and created and coordinated the Technical Communication Industry Advisory Board/Student Mentorship Program. She has recently published in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Programmatic Perspectives, Ibérica, and ILCEA.