Dr. Lutz is a full professor of Operations Management and Production Management for the School of Management.  He joined The University of Texas at Dallas in January, 1973 to develop a program in Management Science. Starting with a Masters program, he hired the faculty and developed the curricula, including doctoral programs in Management Science and Masters and doctoral programs in International Management. His next challenge came in the development of an undergraduate program and the hiring of faculty for the upper level undergraduate expansion in 1975, when he became the first Dean of the School of Management. He then assumed the position of the Executive Dean of Graduate Studies and Research for the University in 1979. During this time, he developed policies to increase the effectiveness of the individual graduate programs while the student body increased ten-fold and worked to increase the outside research funding by a factor of seven. He also developed the proposal and the original curriculum for the School of Engineering. Following this assignment, he returned to the faculty of the School of Management, teaching Operations Strategy in the Masters program and in the Executive Education programs as well as a course on Information Acquisition and Management.