BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ONDr. Charles Ghilani is a Professor of Engineering in the B.S. Surveying Engineering and A.S. Surveying Technology programs at Penn State. He holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a B.S. degree in mathematics and education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He has been involved in education since 1974; teaching at various levels from elementary through graduate school.
Dr. Ghilani has received numerous awards including: a Campus Innovation Award (1991) and Professional Development Award (1994), P.S.L.S. presidential commendation in 1990, Outstanding Club Advisor in 1992, a Distinguished Service Award from the Pennsylvania Society of Land Surveyors in 1995, an American Congress on Surveying and Mapping (ACSM) fellowship (1999), and the Earle J. Fennell Award (2001) for outstanding service in surveying and mapping education from ACSM. He is a member of the graduate faculty at Penn State and University of Maine.
Dr. Ghilani is a member of the American Congress of Surveying and Mapping, the American
Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, the Wisconsin Society of Land Surveyors, and the Pennsylvania Society of Land
Surveyors. Dr. Ghilani has authored several professional publications, including Adjustment Computations: Statistics and Least Squares in Surveying and GIS,
5th Edition,
and Elementary Surveying: An Introduction to Geomatics, 13th Edition.
| Elementary Surveying: An Introduction to Geomatics, 13/E | Adjustment Computations: Spatial Data Analysis, 4/E | ||
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Charles D Ghilani Instructor's Manual available to educators from Pearson Prentice Hall. |
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Charles D Ghilani Paul R Wolf ISBN: 978-0-470-46491-5 Solutions manual available to educators from Wiley. Contact your Wiley representative. |
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Dr. Ghilani has developed Internet courses for his students, and professionals. In the Summer of 1997, he offered his first course on the Internet to program students working at home. He now has a sequence of courses for Internet delivery. The courses are aimed at providing students with the basic knowledge in the areas of statistics, least squares adjustments, geodesy, and GNSS methods and theory. The courses offered are SUR 241, SUR 262, SUR 341, SUR 351, SUR 441, and SUR 455. You can find out more about these courses by going to our Academics page. He has added video lessons to SUR 351 and 262. In time he hopes to have video lessons for all courses.
Hobbies
Recently published books, papers and presentations:
Ghilani, C. D. 2010. "20 Years and Still Waiting." Pennsylvania Surveyor, FALL/WINTER, (4). https://www.psls.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/FallWinterSurveyor-2010-low-res.pdf
Ghilani, C. D. 2010. "Developing Research Skills in an Undergraduate Program." Surveying and Land Information Science, 70(2), 7.
Ghilani, C. D. 2010. "Transformation of Coordinates - Part II." Pennsylvania Surveyor. Summer/Fall (3). https://www.psls.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Summer-Fall-2010-pdf-low-res.pdf
Ghilani, C. D. 2010. "Transformation of Coordinates - Part I." Pennsylvania Surveyor. Spring 2010(2). https://www.psls.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SpringJune2010WebB.pdf
Ghilani, C. D. 2010. "Geodetic Observations." Pennsylvania Surveyor (Winter/Spring), (1). https://www.psls.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Surveyor-Final-2010-low-res.pdf
Ghilani, C. D. 2010. "Data Analysis." Manual of Geospatial Science and Technology, 2nd Ed. (ed. John Bossler). CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Group.
Ghilani, C. D. 2009. "Defining Surfaces." Pennsylvania Surveyor (Fall/Winter), (4). https://www.psls.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/PASurveyorFallWinter2009Web.pdf
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