Value engineering, or value analysis, has been used by numerous state highway agencies since the early 1970s, but it has not been widely applied on a smaller scale by local agencies such as counties, municipalities, and townships. The purpose of this project, which was funded under the Rural Technical Assistance Program, is to develop training materials that will support the transfer of the value engineering technique to local highway agencies. In an attempt to ensure that the training materials produced in this project would be appropriate and responsive to local needs, they were developed in a series of four, 1 1/2-day workshop sessions held over a 4-month period. The project team provided instruction in value engineering principles, and two value engineering studies were conducted by nine persons from nine different local highway agencies. The participants' comments and questions about the instructional techniques and training materials were used to develop a new 1 1/2-day seminar for local highway agencies. Several months later, the participants and the researchers met again, in a day-long session, to review the revised materials, including a slide-tape presentation. The experience gained in the workshop proved to be valuable in clarifying for the researchers the needs of local highway personnel and in identifying the limited applicability of previously developed value engineering training materials.