The 24-month Professional Development Program provides excellent opportunities for participants to learn and experience all areas of engineering, transportation, and planning. Participants can look forward to exemplary, exciting, and satisfying careers in the Federal Highway Administration . . . As an FHWA employee, you too, can have a career that makes a difference. Transportation professionals in the FHWA work in many areas, including highway design and construction, planning and environment, research and development, highway safety, and transportation management. With the completion of the Interstate Highway System, our emphasis shifts to other responsibilities .
Many new challenges await today's transportation professionals.
The FHWA expects a high level of performance from its transportation professionals, for we have a proud tradition to uphold. In return, we offer the most complete professional development program in the highway transportation field. The Federal Highway Administration is one of the major organizational units of the U.S. Department of Transportation. We work in partnership with State and local transportation agencies, highway associations, and private industry to bring about transportation system improvements through construction, maintenance, transportation planning, technology, and safety enhancements. An international leader in the research and development of innovative highway technologies.