John Trimble's Profile
Name:
John Trimble Contact
Office:
2038C Downing Hall
Phone:
202-806-4822
Email:
trimble@scs.howard.edu
Faculty Details
Rank:
Associate Professor
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 University, Evanston IL., Science Engineering, BS 1971
Speciality:
System Dynamics
Expert Systems
Software Engineering
Modeling and Simulation
Knowledge Management
Curriculum development in simulation and systems thinking
Research:
System Dynamics philosophy, teaching tools, knowledge acquisition .
Knowledge acquisition, instructional expert systems
Software quality assurance, life cycle models.
Discrete and continuous simulation models, Stella, Extend, Arena
Knowledge Management
socially relevant computing: e-governance; persuasion, visualization and HCI
Appropriate Technology: research, practice and policy
Subjects Taught:
Software Engineering, Modeling and Simlulation, Systems Management Analysis, Expert Systems, Computer Science II, Human Computer Interaction.