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{{Short description|American systems engineer}}
{{Infobox person
| name = John R. Clymer
| image =
| image_size =
| caption = Dr. Clymer advising at CSUF
| birth_date = {{birth date|1941|12|9|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Marion, Iowa|Marion]], [[Iowa]], [[United States|USA]]
| occupation = [[Systems Engineering]] advisor/fellow
}}

'''John R. Clymer''' (born 1941) is an American [[systems engineer]], and professor of electrical engineering and systems engineering at [[California State University, Fullerton]] (CSUF).<ref name="Gar07">[http://www.incose-la.org/news/40-la-chapter/281-our-new-incose-fellows-from-the-la-chapter.html Our New INCOSE Fellows from the LA Chapter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222112615/http://www.incose-la.org/news/40-la-chapter/281-our-new-incose-fellows-from-the-la-chapter.html |date=2012-02-22 }} Article by: Jose S. Garcia, Jr., Member, INCOSE-LA BoD and Systems Engineer at the Boeing Company, 2007-08.</ref>

== Biography ==
Clymer received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E.E. from [[Iowa State University]] in 1964 and 1966 respectively. In 1971, he received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from [[Arizona State University]]. His Ph.D. dissertation developed and applied Context Sensitive Systems (CSS) theory to explicitly represent and assist understanding complex, non-linear distributed adaptive systems.<ref name="Gar07"/>

In addition, Clymer is a Fellow of the Orange County, California Engineering Council; was 1992 Section Chair for [[IEEE]] of Orange County; and was a Hughes Faculty Research Award recipient from 1989-1990. He has been a member of [[INCOSE]] since its beginning, and was named INCOSE Fellow this year at IS 2008.<ref name="Gar07"/>

=== In education ===
He has been teaching since 1977. At CSUF, Dr. 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 [[UC Irvine]] Extension, and he is on the board of CSUF Extension Systems Engineering Certificate Program.<ref name="Gar07"/>

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 international recognition was achieved through extensive participation in INCOSE; in the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Systems, Man, Cybernetics Society (SMC); and the Military Operations Research Society (MORS). His latest book is Simulation-Based Engineering of Complex Systems.<ref name="Gar07"/>

=== 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 [[U.S. Navy]], and [[Rockwell International]] (now [[The Boeing Company]]). Prior to that, from 1966 through 1984, Dr. Clymer was a systems engineer for [[General Electric]] and U.S. Navy Fleet Analysis Center (FLTAC). At FLTAC, Dr. Clymer led the team that developed a closed-loop missile test system.<ref name="Gar07"/>

Clymer also has two U.S. 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, Dr. Clymer and his project teams have developed models that include [[U.S. Navy]] destroyers, battle groups, and the Trident Submarine.<ref name="Gar07"/>

==References==
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==Further reading==
*{{Cite journal
| last =Clymer
| first =John R.
| title =Simulation Based Engineering of Complex Systems Using EXTEND+MFG+OpEMCSS
| publisher= Winter Simulation Conference
| year = 2002
| location =San Diego, Ca}}
*{{Cite journal
| last =Clymer
| first =John R.
|author2=Victor Harrison
| title =Simulation od Air Traffic Control at a VFR airport Using EXTEND+MFG+OpEMCSS
| publisher= Digital Avionics Systems Conference
| year = 2002}}
*{{Cite journal
| last =Clymer
| first =John R.
|author2=Associates
| title = Optimization of Simulated Effectiveness using Evolutionary Algorithms
| publisher = Society of Computer Simulation V.73 number 6
| year =1999
| pages =334–340}}

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120222112615/http://www.incose-la.org/news/40-la-chapter/281-our-new-incose-fellows-from-the-la-chapter.html "Our New INCOSE Fellows from the LA Chapter"] at INCOSE LA 2008.
* [http://jclymer.ecs.fullerton.edu/biograph.htm John R. Clymer] at ecs.fullerton.edu.

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