Aviation Science Department

Faculty and Staff

Mike Farley has been a BSC Aviation professor for ten years.  He also graduated from the program with a double major.  He has worked at seven different airports and is active in freshmen advising activities.

There were a few short side roads ....a managerial role with an International Corporation; R&D work at the Boeing Aircraft Company, B-767, etcetera.....but, overall, in the 25-plus years since Prof. Abers first received his Commercial Pilot’s License, his time has been rather equally spent between professional flying and lecturing at the college level. The bulk of his flight time is logged under his Airline Transport Pilot rating; whereas his teaching experience ranges from a small private aviation college -where he also served administratively as Dean- to large university settings (such as The Center for Aerospace Sciences at UND). In addition to his tenure at our BSC School of Business, Professor Abers has taught Computer Technology at two of our other Commonwealth State Colleges and Universities. Reflecting on his eleven years of teaching, plus an equal amount of professional flying time, he has often been heard to say that the best of all his "many years" have been the last eight....at Bridgewater State College.

Greg Bongiorno has been with BSC Aviation since September 2008. He is also a 1995 graduate of the BSC Aviation program and has been flying for various air charter operators and airlines for the last 14 years. Greg also brings in real world experience to the BSC Aviation program as a Captain and Line Check Airman, on the EMB 145, for American Eagle Airlines.