Dr. Lawrence Stout

Adjunct Faculty

B.A., Economics and Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
M.S., Electrical Engineering, Kansas State University
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University

Dr. Stout is currently a technical manager at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, MD. He has been there since 2008 and manages a variety of optical, opto-electronic, and photonic basic and applied research and development programs.

Prior to that, Dr. Stout was an electrical engineer faculty member in the College of Engineering at Idaho State University (ISU) in Pocatello, ID. At ISU he taught 17 different undergraduate and graduate engineering courses including many core electrical engineering courses and a number of electives including 2 courses on engineering statistics. His research interests at ISU included wireless communications and sensors, solar cells, distributed systems, and signal and image processing.

Dr. Stout also has worked in the semiconductor industry as a quality and reliability engineer and
manager, at The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory as a systems engineer, and spent 5 years on active duty as a U.S. Army officer.

At UMBC, Dr. Stout is interested in quality and reliability engineering and management, lean principles, and associated statistical methods.