Raymond P. Lutz

Professor, Operations Management

The University of Texas at Dallas

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ACADEMIC TRAINING

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Iowa State University, 1964
M.B.A., University of New Mexico, 1962
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of New Mexico, 1958

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION

Registered Professional Engineer (By Examination): New Mexico, Oklahoma

AWARDS

Alpha Iota Delta (Decision Sciences)
Alpha Pi Mu (Industrial Engineering)
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow 1969
American Institute of Industrial Engineers
Fellow 1978
Fred C. Crane Distinguished Service Award 1987
Special Honors Award-Utilities Division 1982
American Society for Engineering Education
Eugene L. Grant Award 1970
Pi Tau Sigma (Mechanical Engineering)
Sigma Xi, Member Grade

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ACADEMIC

The University of Texas at Dallas 1973 -

Professor of Operations Management 1973 -
Executive Dean of Graduate Studies and Research 1979 - 1991
Dean, School of Management and Administration, 1975 - 1978
Head, Graduate Program in Management and Administrative Sciences 1973 -1975

The University of Oklahoma 1968 - 1972

Professor and Acting Chairman, School of Industrial Engineering 1972 - 1973
Associate/Professor of Industrial Engineering 1968 - 1972
Director, Library Systems Management Program 1969 - 1972

New Mexico State University 1964 - 1968

Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering 1967 - 1968
Director of the Industrial Engineering Option
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering 1964 – 1967

Iowa State University 1961 - 1963

Graduate Assistant, Industrial Engineering, University of New Mexico 1958 - 1961
Instructor, Mechanical Engineering,

CONSULTING

Industrial
Bath Iron Works
Bell Telephone Laboratory
Electronic Data Systems, Inc.
Kennecott Corporation
Macklanburg-Duncan Company
Republic Steel
Sandia Corporation
Texas Instruments
Small Business
Atlas Lumber Company, Las Cruces, New Mexico
El Paso Livestock Express
First National Bank, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Iowa Malleable Iron Company
Kipp-Rich Banking Group
Manpower, Inc., El Paso, Texas
Taylors, Inc., Dallas, Texas
Tex Manufacturing Company, El Paso, Texas
Governmental
National Science Foundation
U.S. Air Force Logistics Command
U.S. Army Artillery Branch
U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division
U.S. Department of Transportation, NTHSA
U.S. Maritime Administration (13 shipyards through IIE)
U.S. Maritime Administration (12 shipping lines through IIE)
U.S. Postal Service
City of Dallas
City of Oklahoma City
Hennepin County, Minnesota
Los Angeles County, California
State Library of Oklahoma
State of Oklahoma
Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico
Albuquerque Public Schools
Lewis County, Washington, Public Schools
North Carolina State University
Oklahoma City Public Schools
Richardson Independent School District, Texas
Seattle Public Schools
University of Houston - Downtown College
The University of Texas, Permian Basin
University of Tulsa
Non-Profit and Foundations
American Institute of Industrial Engineers
American Library Association
Clark Foundation
Mountain-Plains Library Association
National Society of Professional Engineers
Southwest Law Enforcement Institute
Texas Library Association

LISTINGS

Who's Who in the World
Who's Who in America
Who's Who in Computer Education and Research
Who's Who in Engineering
Who's Who in Finance and Industry
Who's Who in the South and Southwest
Who's Who in Technology Today
American Men of Science
Dictionary of International Biographies

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

American Society for Engineering Education
American Association for the Advancement of Science
INFORMS
Institute of Industrial Engineers
Operations Management Association
Production and Operations Management Society
Sigma Xi

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Board - Engineering Section 1984 -
American Institute of Industrial Engineers
Board of Directors, Dallas Chapter 1977 - 1978
Board of Trustees 1978 - 1980
Director, Conference Program Coordination 1973 - 1978
Director, Engineering Economy Division 1968 - 1970
Director, Systems Engineering Divisions 1970 - 1972
Newsletter Editor, Engineering Economy Division 1966 - 1968
President, Dallas Chapter 1976 - 1977
Society - Industry Advisory Board 1988 - 1990
Societal Issues Task Force 1983
Vice-President, Industry and Management Divisions 1978 - 1980
American Society for Engineering Education
Campus Coordinator, University of Oklahoma 1969 - 1971
Chairman, Engineering Economy Division 1973 - 1974
Newsletter Editor, Engineering Economy Division 1971 - 1972
Vice-Chairman, Engineering Economy Division 1972 - 1973
AMIGOS Bibliographic Council,
Board Of Directors 1984 - 1990
Secretary 1987 - 1988
Treasurer 1988 - 1990
Council of Southern Graduate Schools
Executive Council 1985 - 1988
Budget Committee, Chairman 1985 - 1987
Institute of Certified Engineering Technologists
Sponsor, Dallas Examination 1973 - 1991
Inventors Hall of Fame
Selection Board 1979 - 1981
National Research Council
Shipbuilding Technology Committee 1980 - 1984
Industrial Engineering/Productivity SubCommittee
Chairman 1982 - 1984
Vendor Issues SubCommittee
Chairman 1982 - 1984
Operations Management Association
Board of Directors 1994 - 1997
Sigma Xi
Audit Committee 1997
Awards Committee 1991 - 1993
Board of Directors 1989 -
Executive Committee 1991 - 1995
Capital Fund Drive
Chairman 1992 -
Committee on Qualifications 1984 - 1996
Chairperson 1987 - 1996
Committee on Qualifications and Membership 1996 -
Chairperson 1996 -
Ethics Committee (ad hoc) 1992 - 1993
Finance Committee 1993 -
Founder, President, UT Dallas Club/Chapter 1983 - 1987

COMMUNITY SERVICE

City of Dallas,
Screening Committee, Director of Economic Development 1976
Dallas Classic Guitar Society,
Board of Directors 1993 - 1996
Vice Chair 1994 - 1996
Executive Committee 1994 -
Dallas Opera, Board of Directors 1989 -
Long Range Planning Committee 1989 -
Planning/Finance Task Force 1994 - 1995
Dallas Urban League,
Task Force on Urban Development 1980 - 1982
Handicapped Housing of Dallas, Inc.
President 1982 - 1985
Presbyterian Church, Deacon1966 -
Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas
Institutional Research Board 1987 -
Santa Fe Opera
Board of Directors 1988 - 1995, 1996 -
Executive Committee 1989 - 1992
Vice President 1990 - 1992
Administrative Review Committee 1990 - 1995
Long Range Planning Committee 1992 -
Foundation Board 1992 -
Fund Drive Committee, Chairman 1989 - 1992
National Advisory Board 1987 - 1988
Scoutmaster and Cubmaster 1957 - 1962
Southwest Legal Foundation, Law Enforcement Institute
Board of Directors 1979 -
Chairman 1986 - 1989
Lecturer 1975 - 1990
Sworn Law Enforcement Officer
City Marshall Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, New Mexico 1959 - 1962
Texas Council for Collegiate Education in Business
Public Administration Task Force, Chairman 1976 - 1978
United Cerebral Palsy of Metropolitan Dallas
Board of Directors 1981 - 1989
Treasurer 1986 - 1989
President 1983 - 1984
Vice President 1982 - 1983
Residential Program Committee Chairman 1981 - 1983
United Cerebral Palsy of America
Board of Directors 1983 - 1985

GRADUATE COMMITTEES DIRECTED

DOCTORAL

Miller, Patricia, "Elementary Models Relating Sand Body Interconnection to Hydrodynamic Properties of Heterogeneous Fluvial Aquifers," 1990
Wyman, Bruce Charles, "A Risk Model for Hazardous Material Transportation Spills in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana," 1989
Zhongjun Hao, "Some Simultaneous and Preemptive Scheduling Problems," 1988
Diane McNulty, "Regulation of Television Advertising Directed Toward Children," 1984
Anthony Sullivan, "Performance Design of Online Computer Systems," 1982
Edward Seymour, "A Financial Design Criterion for User / Operational Design Factors in Computer Systems," 1981
Zarrintaj Shaffa, "Staffing Reference Service in University Libraries: A Cost-Effective Model for Administrative Decisions," (Co-Chairman, Texas Woman's University), 1980
Harold Kinne, "The Influence of Format on Decision Parameters: An Experimental Investigation," 1979
Young J. Kim, "A Technical Services Management Information System," 1974
Clark A. Mount-Campbell, "The Application of Capital Market Equilibrium Theory and Mathematical Programming to the Capital Budgeting Problem Under Uncertainty," 1974
Neal K. Kaske, "Effectiveness of Library Operations: A Management Information Systems Approach and Application," (HEW Fellow) 1973
John Corbin, "Criteria for the Evaluation of Manual vs. Computer Based Operations and Technical Service," 1972
Steven D. Meyers, "An Investigation into the Feasibility of Using Multi-Criteria Decision Methods for Planning the Strategic Allocation of Capital Resources to Exploration and Producing Activities in the Domestic Petroleum Industry," (NDEA Fellow) 1972
Edward P. Miller, "A Method to Determine the Effectiveness of Special Library Operations," (HEW Fellow) 1972
Douglas H. Walters, "Short-Term and Long-Term Planning of the Allocation of Educational Resources in the Secondary School System," (NSF Fellow) 1972
Eugene E. Payne, "Investigation and Development of a Computer- Assisted Planning Model for Community Emergency Care Systems," (NDEA Fellow) 1971
B. F. Lyle, "A Study of Bias Caused by the Selection Process," 1969

MASTERS

Floyd E. Davis, Jr., "Minimizing Interaction Cost in the Assignment of Activities to Facilities When the Operation or Some Groups Conflict," 1971
H. R. Bumpas, "Definition and Measurement of Under-Development in National
Economies," 1970
Gerald D. Calver, "Development of a Variable Power Function Mathematical Model," 1968
Mark P. Miller, "Capital Density Determination Through Analog Computation," 1968
Roger D. McDaniel, "Solution of Certain Traveling Salesman Problems by Means of Subgroups and Dynamic Programming," 1968
Clark A. Mount-Campbell, "A Stochastic Optimum Seeking Technique," 1968
Jackie L. Thompson, "An Operational Management Game for University
Administrators," 1968
Kenneth Simpson Wynn, "Computerized Inventory Control for Public School Food Service," 1968
William Perigard, "Economics of Reliability Analysis," 1967
Phillip L. Roether, "Application of Dynamic Programming to Several Capital Budgeting Problems," 1967
Eugene F. LeBorne, Jr., "An Analysis of the Forecasting and Scheduling Techniques Utilized to Program Potential Range Users at White Sands Missile Range," 1966

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS AND EDITORIAL POSITIONS

Editor, INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT 1984 - 1988
Editorial Board, THE ENGINEERING ECONOMIST 1975 - 1977
Editorial Board, INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING 1974 - 1975
Editorial Board, Chairman, INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT 1988 - 1993
Editor, Contributor, PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT in MARINE CARGO HANDLING, U.S. Maritime Commission, July, 1982.
Contributor to HANDBOOK OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Chapter 9.3, "Engineering Economy," 1980
Contributor to HANDBOOK OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, 2nd Edition, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., Chapter 50, "Discounted Cash Flow Techniques," 1992
Contributor to ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Chapter on "Industrial Cost Control," 1980, 1989
Editor, THE ENGINEERING ECONOMIST, 1973-1977
Associate Editor, Manuscripts, 1971-1973
Editor, EVALUATIONS IN AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE: TECHNOLOGY AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT, Proceedings, ASEE-AIIE Summer Symposium, 1974, American Institute of Industrial Engineers
Contributor to 1777 REVIEW PROBLEMS, International Textbook, Inc., Chapter 10, "Engineering Economy," and Chapter l6, "Industrial Engineering," 1967

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Comparable Worth: An Unnecessary Concept, INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT, Vol. 27, No. 6, 1985
Productive Capitalism: Observations of Martin T. Tveit, INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT, Vol. 26, No. 6, 1984
Reconciling Engineering Economy Feasibility Studies with Corporate Goals, THE ENGINEERING ECONOMIST, Vol, 23, No. 4, 1978
A Time-Shared Interactive System for Class Scheduling, COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION, Vol. 1, with Devine and Kumin, 1976
A Generalized System of Prognosis Curves to Facilitate Utilization of the Survival Rate Criterion, with E. E. Payne, May-June 1974, OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Scheduling Activities Among Conflicting Facilities to Minimize Conflict Cost," MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING, Vol. 6, July 1974, with Devine and Davis
Quantitative Planning Through the Use of the Master Schedule, PLANNING AND CHANGE, 1973, with D. Walters
An Application of Operations Research to School Desegregation, MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, Vol. 19, No. 4, 1972, with Devine, Kumin and Smith
A Unique Program in Library Education, SPECIAL LIBRARIES, September 1971, with E. P. Miller
Costing Information Services, BULLETIN OF THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, April 1971
The Effect of Selection Errors in Cost Estimation, AIIE TRANSACTIONS, Vol. II, No. 3, (September 1970) with B. F. Lyle
Estimation Deviations: The Effect Upon the Benefit-Cost Ratio, THE ENGINEERING ECONOMIST, Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall 1970, with H.A. Cowles

INVITED ARTICLES AND PROCEEDINGS

Uncertainty in Justifying Capital Expenditures," IIE/MHI Symposia Proceedings, Cincinnati, San Diego, February 1984
The Effect of Corporate Environments on Capital Expenditure Analysis" and "Capital Expenditure Analysis for the 1980s," Proceedings, Industrial Engineering Managers Conference, Atlanta, March 1983
Capital Budgeting for Material Handling Systems", Proceedings, MHI/IIE Symposia, Philadelphia, Phoenix, February 1983.
Methodology for Defining Corporate Goals and Objectives," Proceedings, Materials Handling Institute Symposium, Chicago, September 1980
Improving Manufacturing Productivity in Shipbuilding," Proceedings, Research and Engineering for Automation and Productivity in Shipbuilding, IIT Research Institute, Chicago, October 1980
Tell the Boss - In His Terms," INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING, Vol. 10, No. 7, July 1978. High-Technology Companies Don't Act the Way Professors Say They Do, NEW ENGINEER, December 1977
Errors in Cost Estimation, Proceedings, 1970 Annual Conference, American Institute of Industrial Engineers Taking the Heat Off the School Lunchroom, Proceedings, 1968
Annual Conference, American Institute of Industrial Engineers Book Review, DECISION RULES FOR INVENTORY MANAGEMENT by Robert G. Brown, TECHNOMETRICS, May 1968.
The Critical Path to Curriculum Development," SCHOOL BOARDS, September 1966 with H. W. Handy

MAJOR CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (Invited or Refereed)

Focus on Manufacturing, Operations Management Association, Forum 1997, April 1997
Changing Complexities of Japanese Management, Southwestern Law Enforcement Institute, May 1996
The Pattern of Research Investments and Rarnings Among High Technology Firms, INFORMS, Washington, D.C., May 1996
Impact of Outsourcing on Manufacturing Strategy in the Semiconductor Industry, Operations Management Association Annual Meeting, Santa Cruz, California, April 1996.
A Decision Support Model for Economic Evaluation of Telecommunication Services Based on New Satellite Systems, 4th International Conference on Telecommunication Systems Modeling and Analysis, March 1996 with Bordestski and Wierschem
Changing Funding Sources and Accountability for Research and Development, Baylor Dental School, February 1996.
The Master of Science in Technology Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, ORSA/TIMS, Detroit, Mich., October, 1994.
Remote User Demands on the Electronic Library, Eighth Texas Conference on Library Automation, Houston, Texas, February, 1991
Applications of Operations Management Techniques to Fund Raising, Operations Management Symposium, University of North Carolina, May, 1991.
Inauguration of Degree Programs in Engineering at The University of Texas at Dallas, ASEE Gulf-Southwest Section, Dallas, Tx, Mar. 1986.
Allocating Capital in Uncertain Times, International Materials Management Society, Boston, Mass., Nov. 1984.
Capital Expenditure Feasibility for Distribution Management, Keynote, National Association of Distribution Managers, Rochester, New York, April 1984
New Uncertainties in Determining Capital Expenditure Feasibility, MHI/IIE Symposium, Cincinnati, February, 1982.
Improving Employee Productivity in Utilities, Edison Electric Institute, Kansas City, August 1982.
Increasing Productivity Through Cost Reduction in Shipyards, American Society for Engineering Education, College Station, Texas, June 1982.
Cargo Handling Productivity, Keynote, Cargo Handling Cooperative Program, U.S. Maritime Commission, Los Angeles, March 1982.
Planning for Change, Cargo Handling Cooperative Program, U.S.Maritime Commission, Los Angeles, March 1982.
Improving Shipbuilding Productivity Through Industrial Engineering, REAPS
Symposium, Philadelphia, October 1980
Defining Corporate Goals and Objectives, Materials Handling Symposium, Chicago, September 1980
Computer Generated Queries of a Management Information System, E.L. Grant Lecture, American Society for Engineering Education, Amherst, Massachusetts, June 1980
Measuring Engineering Productivity, ORSA/TIMS Spring Conference, Washington, D. C., May 1980
Managing Library Resources in an Uncertain Future, Oklahoma Library Association, Keynote, Tulsa, Oklahoma, March 1980
Cost Plus Pricing-Liquidating America's Industries, Regional Industrial Engineering Conference, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, February 1980 Being an Effective Colleague, American Library Association, National Conference, Dallas, Texas, June 1979
Project Reappraisal: Neglected and Necessary, ORSA/TIMS Spring Conference, New Orleans, May 1979
Selling Industrial Engineering to Management, Toronto AIIE Seminar, October 1978 Capital Budgeting in High Technology Industries, 29th Annual Conference, American Institute of Industrial Engineers, Toronto, May 1978
Reconciling of Engineering Economy Feasibility Studies with Corporate Goals, American Society for Engineering Education, National Meeting, Grand Forks, North Dakota, June 1977.
Eugene L. Grant Lecture, Communicating with Management, AIIE/MHI Conference, Chicago, April 1976
Measuring Discrimination Resulting from Methods of Electing City Council Representatives, ORSA/TIMS Fall Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, November 1975
Goal Programming, AIIE National System Engineering Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 1974
Library Management: Betting on the Future, Keynote, Mountain-Plains Library
Association, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, October 1974
New Directions for Library Management, Seminar for Library Directors, Mountain-Plains Library Association, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, October 1974
Solving Problems in the Public Sector, AIDS National Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 1974
Management of Library Systems, Keynote, Hawaii State Library Management
Conference, April 1974
Short and Long Term Planning of the Allocation of Educational Resources in a Secondary School System, Invited paper for ORSA 44th National Conference,
November 1973, San Diego, California, with D. H. Walters
Operations Research Success-Political Failure: A School Desegregation Study," Invited paper for ORSA 44th National Conference, November 1973, San Diego, California, with M. D. Devine, J. H. Kumin, W. R. Smith
Application of GERT to a Municipal Court System, Invited paper for ORSA 44th National Conference, November 1973, San Diego, California, with J. Metcalf
Identifying Management Objectives, Keynote, Texas Library Association, September 1973, Dallas, Texas
Organizational Styles, American Library Association, Middle Management Workshop, Keynote, June 1973, Las Vegas, Nevada
Identifying Measures of Effectiveness, Invited paper for ORSA/TIMS/AIIE Conference, November 1972, Atlantic City, New Jersey
A System Study Failure: A Case Study, Invited paper for AIIE/SENCO 1972 Conference, October 1972, Columbus, Ohio
An Interdisciplinary Program in Library Systems Management, Invited paper for ASEE Annual Conference, June 1972, Lubbock, Texas
A Cost-Effectiveness Study of First Level Supervisory Training the U. S. Postal Service, Invited paper, Spring ORSA meeting, New Orleans, 1972, with John Seaberg
Scheduling Activities Among Confliction Facilities to Minimize Conflict Cost, Spring ORSA meeting, New Orleans 1972, with F.E. Davis and M.D. Devine
Quantitative Planning Through the Use of the Master Schedule,1971 Annual Meeting, International Society for Educational Planners, and Institute for State Educational Planners, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 1971, with Doug Walters
Community Emergency Case System Planning Model, Joint AIIE Hospital Administrators Conference, Denver, Colorado, February, 1971, with E. E. Payne
An Economic Model for Selecting a Reliability Analysis Method, presented at the ORSA meeting with A. W. Perigard, San Francisco, California, May 1968
Benefit-Cost Ratio Deviations, presented at Regional AAAS Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, 1967

OTHER PRESENTATIONS

Simultaneously Processing Jobs on Identical Machines, with Hao, Zhonjun and Chandrasekaran, R., ORSA/TIMS Spring Conference, Washington, D.C., April 1988
Scheduling N Jobs with Release Time and Deadline Constraints on a Single Machine to Minimize Late Jobs, with Hao, Zhonjun and Chandrasekaran, R., ORSA/TIMS Fall Conference, St. Louis, Mo., October 1987
Two Polynomial Algorithms of Scheduling N Jobs with Release Time and Deadline Constraints, with Hao, Zhonjun and Chandrasekaran, R., ORSA/TIMS Fall Conference, St. Louis, Mo., October 1987
Peremptive Scheduling of N Jobs with Arbitrary Deadlines on M Identical Machines to Minimize the Sum of Completion Times, with Hao, Zhonjun and Chandrasekaran, R., ORSA/TIMS Fall Conference, St. Louis, Mo., October 1987

RESEARCH REPORTS

Productivity Improvements in U.S. Naval Shipbuilding, National Academy Press,Washington, D.C., 1982
Improving Shipbuilding Productivity Through Industrial Engineering, American Institute of Industrial Engineers, Atlanta, August 1980
Effect of Selective Enforcement on Alcohol-Related Vehicle Accidents in Oklahoma City, U. S. Dept. of Transportation, Series 1969-1974
Evaluation of the Oklahoma Postal Training Operations, Delivery Services, Management Supervisory Training Program, U.S. Postal Service, OPTO, February 1971
Interactive Master Scheduling Program, Oklahoma City Public Schools, copyright October 1970
A Proposed Cost Analysis Procedure for the Educational Research Information Centers, ERIC Bulletin, New Mexico State University, June 1967, with R. W. Beckstead
Scientific Development and Technological Change in New Mexico, NMSU Research Bulletin #33, 1965

SPONSORED RESEARCH and FUNDED ACTIVITIES

Graduate Professional Opportunities Program Fellowships
1979-1980, $31,200; 1980-1981 $33,600; 1981-1982 $117,000;
1982-1983 $140,000: 1983-1984 $200,000; 1984-1985 $126,000;
1985-1986 $92,400: 1986-1987 $81,200; 1987-1988 $77,400;
1988-1989 $96,000; 1989-1990 $112,000; 1990-1991 $112,000;
1991-1992 $16,000.
Executive Briefing on Industrial Engineering in Shipbuilding, Department of Commerce, Maritime Administration through Bath Iron Works, Inc., Subcontract through Institute of Industrial Engineers, 1980, $100,000
Feasibility of Establishing a National Center for Community and Economic Development - U. S. Department of Commerce, 1976, $10,000
Dean's Fund, School of Management and Administration 1976-1978, $100,000
C. J. Thomson Fund for Social System Research, 1973-1974, $23,000
Evaluation of Alcohol Safety Action Program, Oklahoma City Department of Transportation 1971 - 1974, $350,000
Analysis of Automated Mail Sorting, U. S. Postal Service, $1,000, 1974
Cluster Plan Implementation, Oklahoma City Public Schools, 1970, $50,000
Library Systems Management, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1970- 1971 $50,000; 1971-1972 $45,000
Evaluation of OPTO/DSM Training, U. S. Postal Service, with Dean Robert Ohm, Professor John Seaberg, College of Education, $150,000
Development of Maintenance Training, U. S. Postal Service, The School of Industrial Engineering, $2,000
Stochastic Time Series Analysis, National Science Foundation, 1965-1967, $22,000, Impact of Technology on New Mexico, New Mexico Department of Development, 1965, $10,000

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

The University of Texas at Dallas

Committee on Committees 1992 - 1995
Commencement Committee 1982 - 1992, Chairman 1982 - 1984
Committee on Educational Policy 1977 - 1992
Presidential Search Committee 1981 - 1982
Secretary of the Faculty 1979*
Academic Council 1979 - 1980
Faculty Senate 1979 - 1980
Committee on Qualifications 1979*, 1993 - 1995
Faculty Standing and Conduct Committee 1978 - 1979, Chairman 1979
Research Committee 1978 - 1992
Council of Teacher Education 1977 - 1988
TAGER Engineering Committee 1973 - 1978
Self Study Finance Committee, Chairman 1975 - 1977
Self Study Steering Committee 1975 - 1977
Teaching Effectiveness Committee, Chairman, 1975 - 1977
American Assembly, "Capital Formation in the Southwest" 1976
Public Utilities Conference, Director 1976 - 1979
Admissions Committee 1973 - 1974
Computer Committee 1973 - 1974
Library Committee 1973 - 1976, Chairman 1974 - 1975
Faculty Handbook Committee, Chairman 1974 - 1975
North Texas Regional Computer Center User's Committee 1973 - 1979, Chairman 1974 - 1975
Director Search Committee 1973 - 1974

*Resigned upon appointment as Dean of Graduate Studies

Coordinating Board of Texas Colleges and Universities
Committee on Foreign Students 1982 - 1983
Committee on the Future of Graduate Education 1982 - 1983
Council of Graduate Schools
Long Range Planning Committee 1982 - 1985
Council of Southern Graduate Schools
Chairman, Budget Committee 1984 - 1986

University of Oklahoma

Faculty Senate - Committee on Committees 1971 - 1973
Dean's Search Committee (Engineering) 1969 - 1970
Vice-President of Operations Search Committee 1970 - 1971
Minority Studies Committee 1970
Ecology Coordination Committee 1969 - 1970
Educational Administrators Certification Committee 1969 - 1973
Class Scheduling Committee 1971 - 1973
Library Committee (Engineering) 1971 - 1973
Dean's Advisory Committee (Engineering) 1971 - 1973
Systems Committee (Engineering) 1969 - 1970
Faculty Sponsor, Alpha Pi Mu (I. E. Honorary) 1969 - 1972