Upcoming Events and Opportunities

WTS Southwest Idaho is now accepting 2026 scholarship applications!

The WTS Southwest Idaho Chapter is now accepting applications for the $3,000 Leadership Scholarship and $3,000 Memorial Scholarship through November 30, 2026. These scholarships are awarded to women pursuing graduate or undergraduate studies in the transportation field. Please spread the word to any worthy candidates you know!

Don't forget to support transportation on the November 3 ballots!

Grim & Ghastly Tales of Downtown Boise

Step into the shadows for a night of eerie stories, strange history, and downtown Boise’s darker side.

You’re invited to a delightfully spooky Grim Walking Tour through downtown Boise, led by Mark Iverson of IdaHistory, a historian ready to uncover the city’s odd, unsettling, and unforgettable past. From a mysterious cat roundup to a scandalous love triangle, this evening walk promises curious tales, dark twists, and just the right amount of goosebumps.

Date: Thursday, October 29th

Time: 7:23 p.m.

Meeting Location: Idaho State Historic Preservation Office, 210 W. Main Street, Boise

Distance: Approximately 2 miles

Duration: Approximately 2 hours

Corporate Partner Highlights

WSP USA is one of the nation’s leading professional services firms, delivering engineering, planning, environmental, and advisory solutions that help communities thrive. With deep expertise across transportation, water, climate resilience, energy, power, buildings, and environmental services, WSP supports clients in shaping infrastructure that is safe, sustainable, and future ready.

Following the successful integration of POWER Engineers into our organization, WSP has significantly expanded its presence in Idaho, now with more than 1,000 professionals statewide and approximately 700 based in Boise. This growth positions Idaho as one of WSP’s largest talent hubs in the country and strengthens our ability to serve the Northwest with robust multidisciplinary teams.

Our Idaho offices—anchored in Boise with additional presence across the state—support a wide range of clients and partners including the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD), Ada County Highway District (ACHD), Valley Regional Transit (VRT), Local Highway Technical Assistance Council (LHTAC), and numerous city, county, and private sector organizations. We contribute to transformative programs such as ITD’s Spalding and Arrow Bridge projects and deliver planning, design, environmental, and advisory services that support the safe and efficient movement of people and goods throughout the region.

WSP’s expanded Idaho team delivers capabilities spanning:

• Transportation planning and engineering
• Transit and multimodal systems
• Traffic operations and safety
• Major program delivery and program management
• Water resources and hydrology
• Climate resilience and sustainability
• Power and energy systems
• Environmental compliance and permitting
• Buildings, healthcare, and industrial facilities
• Advisory, funding strategy, and stakeholder engagement

With Idaho’s rapidly growing communities facing increasing infrastructure needs, WSP is committed to serving as a collaborative partner to agencies across the state. Our hybrid supported Boise office fosters connection, innovation, and multidisciplinary teamwork, allowing us to deploy the right expertise quickly and efficiently.

As active supporters of WTS and women in transportation, we are deeply committed to advancing leadership, representation, and career opportunities for women across all parts of our organization. With a growing, diverse Idaho workforce and a strong national network of transportation professionals, WSP looks forward to continuing our partnership with WTS and contributing to a more resilient, equitable, and inclusive future for Idaho’s transportation system.

AECOM is recognized as an industry leader in providing quality and innovative services and solutions for public agencies throughout the USA. Our Meridian office has been delivering successful transportation engineering/planning projects for ITD and local clients in Idaho since 1987. AECOM and our predecessor companies (URS, Washington Group International and MK Centennial) focused on delivering transportation projects for ITD, with well over 150 Federal-aid projects completed during that time.

Joe Samer manages projects from our Meridian office and has worked with ITD on projects throughout the State of Idaho and served as the Utility Discipline Lead for Connecting Idaho Partners and the GARVEE program. Joe has worked on utility projects in Idaho and Oregon for Idaho Power as well as PG&E in California. He currently sits on the Big Payette Lake Water Quality and Stormwater Advisory Boards in Valley County and is the Chair of the ACEC Energy Committee. Joe has been a volunteer for Bogus Basin and the Albertsons Boise Open for over 15 years.

AECOM has been a proud supporter of WTS and its mission of advancing women in transportation. Joe has been active in WTS since coming to AECOM in 2019 and is currently the Programs Committee Co-Chair. AECOM’s former Office Manager, Dave Butzier, has been a vital member of WTS for 25 years and has held numerous leadership positions within the organization. 

Interested in becoming a WTS Southwest Idaho corporate partner? Contact committee chair McKenna Roan