John Trimble, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

School of Engineering, 2300 6 St, N.W.
Washington, DC 20059

Telephone: (202) 806-4822

Fax: (202) 806-4531

[email protected]

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Ph.D. 1992
Portland State University, Portland, Or. System Science Department, Ph.D. coursework 1980-1982
Univ. of Cal. Berkeley CA., Operations Research, MS 1980
Stanford Univ., Palo Alto Ca., Computer Science, MS 1973
Northwestern University, Evanston IL., Science Engineering, BS 1971

System Dynamics: philosophy, teaching tools, knowledge acquisition
Expert Systems: knowledge acquisition, instructional expert systems.
Software Engineering: software quality assurance, life cycle models.
Modeling and Simulation: discrete and continuous models, Stella, Extend, Analytica, Arena
Knowledge Management
Curriculum development in simulation and systems thinking
Appropriate Technology System Dynamics: philosophy, teaching tools, knowledge acquisition

"Workshops on Intelligent Internet Development" Academic Excellence Award, Howard Univeristy, June 2002-03
"NSCORT - Purdue/Howard/Alabama A&M", NASA/JSL, Oct.2002-07, Purdue is the Lead institution
"NASA/HBCU Renewable Energy and Technology Utilization Project", June 2002-03
"Information Technology Enhancement: An international development partnership between the Mississippi consortium for International Development, Howard University and University of Mauritius", funded by United Negro College Fund Special Programs (UNCFSP), May 2002-04
"ITR/SOC+IM: Sustainable and Generalized Technologies to Support Collaboration in Science" NSF grant 2000-05, University of Michigan is the Lead institution
"Expanding Partnerships for Institutional Capacity Building Between the University of Western Cape and Howard University", UNCF/IDP Linkage Grant, 2000-02

IEEE Computer Society (IEEE)
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM),
SIGART, SIGSOFT, SIGSIM, American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI),
System Dynamics Society,
National Technical Association (NTA),
Association of Computer and Information Science/Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions (ADMI)