Additional Roles: Strategic Initiative Lead, Pulp, Paper, Packaging and Tissue, Renewable Bioproducts Institute, an Interdisciplinary Research Institute at GT; Director, GT Pulp and Paper Engineering Undergraduate Certificate Program and Foundation

In April 2023, Luettgen became the Executive Director of APPTI, a consortium based association with the mission to promote the development of advanced manufacturing technologies for the P&P industry.

He has 25 plus years of industry experience, with Scott Paper and Kimberly-Clark Corp., where he most recently served as head of North American Innovation for the Professional business sector. He has held positions in product development and innovation, capital project management and manufacturing facility leadership.

Luettgen has served on the Georgia Tech Renewable Bioproducts Institute (RBI) Industry Board of Advisors, and as the Chairman of the Board of the Technical Association of the Pulp & Paper Industry (TAPPI) and is a TAPPI Fellow.  He earned his BS degree in Paper Engineering at Western Michigan University (’85), his MS degree at the Institute of Paper Chemistry, Appleton, WI (’87), and his PhD at the Institute of Paper Science and Technology - now RBI@GT (’91).

He rejoined GT in November 2014 as a Professor of the Practice in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, and Associate Director of Pulp, Paper, at RBI. He also serves as the Director of the undergraduate Pulp and Paper Certificate Program, Endowment and Foundation.