Bob Ernsting

Title
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Email
Department
Dept of Human Factors, Safety and Social Sciences
College
College of Arts & Sciences

Dr. Ernsting has been an adjunct professor for the College of Business since 2015 and the College of Aviation from 2012 to 2015.

Before 2015, Dr. Ernsting taught graduate-level adjunct courses for six years at George Washington University. The courses taught include Research Methods, Statistical Analysis, Integrated Logistics Management, Global Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Marketing of Technology, Technological Forecasting and Management, Quantitative Models in Systems Engineering, Decision Making with Uncertainty and Knowledge Management.

Dr. Ernsting’s research interest is understanding and managing aging marine civil and logistics infrastructures such as aging ports, harbors, shipyards and dry dock facilities. He has published in several peer-reviewed technical publications and has been invited to present his research on Relative Material Loss (RML) theory at international conferences in Singapore and the Netherlands and domestically at the University of Notre Dame.

  • Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Systems Engineering, George Washington University
  • M. - Master in Engineering: Engineering Management, Old Dominion University
  • HROM 530: Modeling and Decision-Making

Prior to coming to Embry-Riddle, Dr. Ernsting worked in the marine and shipbuilding industry for 33 years in the areas of facilities engineering, construction and maintenance at Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), Virginia. NNS designs and constructs nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines for the US Navy. 

 Dr. Ernsting is a member and co-founder of the Dry Dock Standards Committee for the Coastal, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute (COPRI), a subcommittee for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is also a licensed Professional Engineering, Commonwealth of Virginia.