Training & Events Calendar

October 19 - 21, 2026

This conference is an opportunity to learn and share ideas about building and maintaining safe, local roadways. The conference typically showcases around 80 vendors/exhibitors and the target audience is highway superintendents/county engineers, municipal street managers, equipment operators, consulting engineers and elected officials.

October 20, 2026

This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.

October 21, 2026

This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.

October 21, 2026

This event will serve as an opportunity to share results from MnDOT's distance-based fee demonstration and to re-energize the transportation finance conversation, highlighting the role road user charges could play in increasing transportation revenue that is more responsive to affordability concerns of Minnesotans.

October 26, 2026

October 27 - 28, 2026

Now hosted by the University of Minnesota Cold Climate Stormwater Center of Excellence (CCSCoE), the symposium brings together researchers, public agencies, industry leaders, educators, and practitioners to advance innovative, science-based solutions for managing salt use in cold climates.

October 27 - 29, 2026

This hybrid course introduces students to surveying and mapping.

October 28, 2026

This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.

October 29, 2026

This interactive workshop will teach practical, easy-to-understand, and fundamental methods to grow your leadership skills.

November 2, 2026

This course serves as an introduction to AutoCAD software and civil plan development. Students will learn the skills needed to complete simple two-dimensional (2D) drawings, including drawing, modifying, dimensioning, labeling with text, inserting blocks, and plotting to scale.

November 3, 2026

This training covers basic chainsaw safety, including identifying safety features, preventing accidents, correct saw chain sharpening, and head-to-toe safety protection in accordance with OSHA standards.

November 4, 2026

This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.

November 5, 2026

November 6, 2026

November 10, 2026

This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.

November 10, 2026

Want to take a deeper dive into changes within the MN MUTCD, 11th Edition (MN MUTCD)? MnDOT will host a series of free webinars covering key updates found in Part 1 and Chapters 2A, 2B, and 2C of the manual.

November 12, 2026

This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.

November 17, 2026

This course explores the fundamentals of delivering public works maintenance and operations services.

November 19 - 20, 2026

The American Public Works Association Minnesota Chapter (APWA-MN) Fall Conference is an annual two-day event focused on technical education.

November 30, 2026

This six-week course serves as a baseline mathematics course for civil technicians, inspectors, and surveyors. It will cover practical mathematical principles used by civil technicians in the field.

February 3, 2027March 24, 2027

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February 3, 2027February 11, 2027

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March 24 - 25, 2027

July 19 - 21, 2027

This conference brings together representatives from federal, state, and local transportation agencies, tribal agencies, rural and metropolitan planning organizations, public transit agencies, academia, and private industry to explore the evolving opportunities and challenges shaping mobility and infrastructure in rural and tribal communities.