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Idaho Transportation Department’s Sablan earns state’s first AASHTO fellowship

Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) State Design/Traffic Services Engineer Kevin Sablan has been given a 2016 American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Fellowship, the first for the state in the program’s 15-year history.

Beginning March 28, Sablan will spend a year in Washington, D.C., working on enginnering and transportation policy issues. He has been with ITD since 1999.

“I’ve a lot of work to do here (at ITD) which is my only reservation about this, but it appears to be a great opportunity and a great benefit to the department, not to mention professionally for myself,” Sablan says.

According to AASHTO, potential activities for the fellowship position include: