Researcher

Robert Cloutier is the Systems Engineering Program Chair at the University of South Alabama. Previously, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology. Rob has over 20 years experience in systems engineering & architecting, software engineering, and project management in both commercial and defense industries. Dr. Cloutier’s research interests include concept of operations, system architecting, model based systems engineering, complex patterns for systems engineering, and visualizing socio-technical systems.

Rob spent twelve years working for Boeing in Philadelphia primarily as a lead avionics engineer and an enterprise architect. During his seven years at Lockheed Martin he was a lead software engineer, and a system architect on a number of efforts and proposals. As the lead software engineer and lead process engineer, he was part of the leadership team that worked with the Navy to move the Aegis combat system to an object oriented software product, using an iterative development process.

Rob belongs to the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), IEEE and ACM. Rob received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and also holds an M.B.A. from Eastern University, and a B.S. in Physical Science from the United States Naval Academy. Finally, he and his wife raise puppies for The Seeing Eye to serve as guide dogs to the blind.