Goodrich was active in transportation, planning, and engineering administration. Early in his career he was a
civil engineer for the
United States Navy for four years. In 1905 he was the eighth recipient of the
American Society of Civil Engineers' Collingwood Prize, awarded to young engineers (under age 35) who make contributions to engineering knowledge. From 1910 until 1916 he was a consulting engineer to the
Manhattan Department of Public Works. Later in his career he worked as a consultant in private practice and he drafted city plans for
Huangpu and
Nanking, China, and port facility plans for Huangpu and for
Bogota, Colombia. He was a planning consultant for the cities of
Cincinnati, Ohio,
Norfolk, Virginia,
Newark, New Jersey,
Springfield, Massachusetts, and
New Haven, Connecticut. In 1930, he was a founding member of the Institute of Traffic Engineers (now the
Institute of Transportation Engineers) and from 1930 to 1932 he served as the organization's first president. In 1951 he was the president of the American Institute of Consulting Engineers. ==Head coaching record==