Elecosoft Offers No-Cost Academic Licenses for Asta Powerproject

DENVER, Colo. — When construction management students at Colorado State University students return to campus this semester, they’ll be preparing for a future in a competitive and ever-changing industry.

Assistant professor Mary Nobe explains that today’s construction “training is ultimately about preparing students for a workforce that increasingly demands management track employees understand not just construction but also technology and its role in making informed decisions.”

Nobe co-teaches a Construction Project Scheduling and Cost Control class (CON 461) that uses the same Asta Powerproject software used by more than 100,000 schedulers. The software evolved with the construction industry over the last 30 years to become the most intuitive tool for building CPM schedules, updating them and making sound managerial decisions based on real-time progress data.

CSU students learn about lag, lead, float, critical path methodology and how to build a CPM schedule in Asta Powerproject. They also learn how that schedule can help reduce risk.

“We show students how to use the schedule for documentation,” says Nobe. “It’s not just so they can show how it went wrong but also how they were able to fix it. It facilitates honest discussion around project progress.”

Elecosoft, maker of Asta Powerproject, provides free academic licenses to CSU so all construction students can install the fully functional version of the scheduling software on their own laptops or desktop computers. The academic licensing program for Asta Powerproject is an important part of the company’s commitment to the industry, says Jason Ruddle, managing director for Elecosoft.

Free academic licensing is available for all accredited colleges and universities in the U.S.

For more info, visit http://www.elecosoft.com/software/asta-powerproject-home/education-software-licences.