John R. Clymer is an American systems engineer, and professor of electrical engineering and systems engineering at California State University, Fullerton.
Education
Clymer received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Iowa State University in 1964 and 1966 respectively. In 1971, he received a Doctor of Philosophy in electrical engineering from Arizona State University. His Doctor of Philosophy dissertation developed and applied Context Sensitive Systems (Computer Software Systems) theory to explicitly represent and assist understanding complex, non-linear distributed adaptive systems
Career
In addition, Clymer is a Fellow of the Orange County, California Engineering Council. Was 1992 Section Chair for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers of Orange County. And was a Hughes Faculty Research Award recipient from 1989-1990.
In education
He has been teaching since 1977.
At CSUF, Doctor Clymer is a founding-member and principal investigator for the Applied Research Center for Systems Science. In addition, Clymer teaches Systems Engineering courses through the University of California Irvine Extension, and he is on the board of CSUF Extension Systems Engineering Certificate Program.
He has developed advanced graduate-level courses in systems engineering. He has published 60 papers and four books covering intelligent evolutionary systems, systems design and evaluation methodology, simulation, optimization, fuzzy control, and machine learning.
His latest book is Simulation-Based Engineering of Complex Systems.
In systems engineering
As a practitioner, Clymer is an expert in systems design, analysis and evaluation, and optimization. Clymer is currently a systems engineering consultant for FORELL Enterprises. In addition to his current position at FORELL, Clymer has consulted (from 1984 to present) for Raytheon, the United States. Navy, and Rockwell International (now The Boeing Company).
Prior to that, from 1966 through 1984, Doctor Clymer was a systems engineer for General Electric and United States. Navy Fleet Analysis Center (FLTAC).
At FLTAC, Doctor Clymer led the team that developed a closed-loop missile test system. Clymer also has two United States. patents: (1) Combined Discrete-Event and Continuous Model Simulation and Analysis Tool and (2) Guidance System.
In research
As a researcher, Clymer is internationally known in the general area of simulation-based systems engineering. Clymer developed the OpEM graphical language based on parallel processing language concepts and mathematical linguistics.
Models based on the OpEM graphical language have been successfully used for 30+ years in industry, government, and academia to perform operational modeling of complex systems
Over the years, Doctor Clymer and his project teams have developed models that include United States. Navy destroyers, battle groups, and the Trident Submarine.
Membership
He has been a member of INCOSE since its beginning, and was named INCOSE Fellow this year at Instruction Section 2008.