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Bachelor of Science in Homeland Security Program FacultySelected FacultyThe interdisciplinary nature of this degree program means that many faculty from a variety of disciplines participate in teaching the courses that apply toward the B.S. in Homeland Security.The faculty listed here have primary responsibility for the program. 
James D.Ramsay, Ph.D, MA, CSP Prior to arriving at Embry-Riddle, Dr. Ramsay was a professor of health and safety at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, and professor of safety sciences at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. With undergraduate training in biology, chemistry, and German, Dr. Ramsay completed an MA in business, majoring in health services administration from University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1988. His doctoral training is in health services research (a combined program in industrial engineering and preventive medicine) with a doctoral minor in research methods and statistics, also at UW Madison. Publications and research interests include the relationships between environmental health, air, land, food and water resources and homeland security; the economic evaluation of health care and occupational safety programs, and the integration of environmental health, homeland security and occupational safety and health programs. Courses taught include environmental security, fundamentals of emergency management, introduction to homeland security, fundamentals of homeland security systems, business skills for the homeland security professional, senior practicum in homeland security, advanced emergency management, epidemiology, economic evaluation of health and safety programs, safety management, environmental health, fundamentals of industrial hygiene, research methods and statistics.
Robert Raffel, JD Professor Raffel is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law. He was a 10-year member of the Maryland state police force serving as a trooper, a criminal investigator, and finally as a member of the legal counsel unit. In 1985, Raffel joined the U.S. Department of State’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program (ATAP). While there, he developed and presented training in police and aviation security operations to students from a variety of countries. He later left ATAP for a position as a Special Agent with the FAA’s Office of Civil Aviation Security, where he was assigned to FAA Security’s Europe, Africa and Middle East Office in Brussels, Belgium. During his tenure in Belgium, Bob participated in the post-incident investigation of the Pan American Airlines flight 103 tragedy (bomb-caused crash over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988). Following his overseas tour, he was assigned to FAA Headquarters, Office of Foreign Operations, where he developed and managed a foreign airport technical assistance program. He also acted as a subject-matter expert for the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program and worked in several countries, notably in Eastern Europe. Professor Raffel’s foreign experience includes work assignments in Asia and East Asia, the Middle East, Near East, West and Central Africa, Eastern and Central Europe and Central and South America. While at FAA Headquarters, he went on to manage foreign airport assessment activity in various areas of the world and helped develop and produce the FAA’s first Foreign Airport Assessment Course. In 2002, Professor Raffel became senior director of public safety with the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority. As senior director, he conducted management oversight of the Orlando Police Department’s Airport Division, the Airport Rescue Firefighter Department, and the Security Division at Orlando International Airport. He also managed the FAA-FBI Joint Vulnerability Assessment Program after his transfer to Orlando International Airport as the airports’ Federal Security Manager. Professor Raffel's military career includes service in the Marine Corps, the Army Reserve (Special Forces, Transportation Command, Airborne Civil Affairs Battalion) and the Maryland National Guard (Tactical Intelligence Officer). He attained the rank of Colonel.
Daniel A. Cutrer, MAS Professor Cutrer is a retired U. S. Coast Guard officer with more than 30 years as a fixed-wing aviator and five years of experience in the Department of Homeland Security. For the past four years, Mr. Cutrer has served as an Adjunct Instructor for Embry-Riddle’s Worldwide Campus, teaching graduate and undergraduate courses in aviation safety and aviation maintenance management. He also served as the Center Faculty Chair for the new Embry-Riddle Worldwide Elizabeth City (N.C.) Center he opened in 2005. In the fall of 2006, he joined the faculty at the Daytona Beach campus, where he helped develop the homeland security degree program and assists in teaching aviation safety courses. Cutrer began his military aviation career as an enlisted aircraft mechanic for the first six years. After Officer Candidate School, he went to Navy Flight Training at Pensacola, Fla., earning his pilot wings in 1981. Subsequent assignments in the Coast Guard included Aircraft Maintenance Officer, Assistant Engineering Officer, Flight Operations Officer, Aviation Safety Officer, Disaster Preparedness Planning Officer, and Executive Officer. His final assignment in 2005 was as the Commanding Officer of U. S. Coast Guard Aviation Technical Training Center, where the service trains all of its aircraft mechanics, technicians, and rescue swimmers.
Chris Bonner, MA
William Martin, MAS Professor Martin was instrumental in the design of the homeland security degree program. He has taught aviation safety-related courses at Embry-Riddle for more than 35 years. |
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