Case Study: Lafayette College achieves career-ready, hands-on construction project management training with Trimble Prolog On-Campus Program

Lafayette College Utilizes the Prolog® On-Campus Program to Create Realistic Project Management Simulations that Better Prepare Students for Careers in Construction

Lafayette College, a liberal arts institution with engineering programs taught by Associate Professor David Veshosky, needed to better prepare civil engineering and construction management students for industry expectations. Recruiters from large construction firms reported that Prolog was an industry-standard project-management tool—more widely used than the software Lafayette had been teaching—so the challenge was to give students realistic, hands-on experience with the right technology and project workflows (change orders, RFIs, scheduling) without heavy IT overhead.

Lafayette joined Meridian’s Prolog On‑Campus University Program and used ProjectTalk, a web-hosted version of Prolog, to incorporate detailed group-based project simulations into coursework. The easy deployment, instructor resources and sample projects let Veshosky integrate Prolog assignments quickly; students practiced real-world tasks like documenting RFIs and change orders, gained résumé-ready software skills, and graduated better prepared for employers—while faculty could assign more realistic, complex problems and the college strengthened its career outcomes.

Lafayette College

David Veshosky

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Lafayette College