John Trimble, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Systems and Computer Science


Howard University
School of Engineering, 2300 6 St, N.W.
Washington, DC 20059
Telephone: (202) 806-4822
Fax: (202) 806-4531
[email protected]

Education

Skills And Research Interest

  • Data Communications: network management, network simulation
  • 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
  • Software Costing models
  • Curriculum development in simulation and systems thinking

Current Research and Awards

  • GTE/UNCF Summer Science Program Faculty Research Award (funded for three years 1994, 1995, 1996)
  • Research and engineering apprenticeship program (REAP) Award (funded by The Academy of Applied Science) 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996
  • Argonne Summer Faculty Research Award (Decision & Information Sciences (DIS) Argonne National Labs) 1996
  • Simulation Models in Software Engineering (funded by Howard University Faculty Research Grant) 1996-97

Professional Affiliations

  • IEEE Computer Society, 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)