About our President
Retired Brig. Gen. Timothy E. Trainor, Ph.D., formerly served as dean and chief academic officer at the United States Military Academy before retiring after a 33-year career with the Army. Trainor graduated with a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Military Academy in 1983, has an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke, and a doctorate in industrial engineering from North Carolina State University.
As an engineer officer in the U.S. Army, Trainor served in operational assignments around the world including Germany, Honduras, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Fort Riley, Kansas and Sarajevo, Bosnia. He deployed to Basrah, Iraq in the summer of 2007 and worked with the U.K.-led Provincial Reconstruction Team in helping the provincial Iraqi leaders improve their infrastructure revitalization plans.
Trainor is a fellow of the American Society of Engineering Management, and was named the Engineering Manager of the Year for 2011 by the society. He is a past president of Epsilon Mu Eta, the national Engineering Management Honor Society. Trainor taught courses in engineering management, systems engineering and decision analysis.
He is married to Colonel (Retired) Donna Brazil, Ph.D., who led the psychology program at West Point until 2013 and now provides educational services in leadership development. Their daughter, Captain Cory Trainor, is an engineer in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division. Son, Captain Dan Trainor, a helicopter pilot, is currently serving in the Multi-National Observer Force on the Sinai Peninsula. Their youngest son, First Lieutenant Zach Trainor is an infantry officer in the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado.