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

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 Univ., Evanston IL., Science Engineering, BS 1971

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

Current Research and Awards

Intelligent Computer Aided Instruction Using Expert Systems, (funded by boeing Computer Services, 1993)
The teacher Model in Instructional Expert Systems,(funded by Boeing Computer Services, 1994)
Expert Systems as Instructional Aids (MRI Planning Grant funded by National Science Foundation, 1994)
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
Technology and society: Science and Engineering with a Human Focus. (funded by the Georgia Space Grant Consortium 1996)
Argonne Summer Faculty Research Award (Decision & Information Sciences (DIS) Argonne National Labs) 1996

Professional Affiliations

IEEE Computer Society, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), SIGART, SIGADA, 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)