.NC STATE UNIVERSITY.
Department of Physics
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....Robert A. Egler ....Senior Lecturer .....Office: .......Fox
Labs 236 ....... ......Joined NC State Physics: .. |
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Assistant Department Head, Physics, 1993 – 2008
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Department Ombudsman (Mediator for student – faculty conflicts)
My duties are primarily Instruction and Administration
Classes Taught:
- College Physics I and II - PY211 / PY212
- Computational Astronomy - PY126
- Spherical Astronomy
(PY499- Senior Special Topics Course, and occasional extension course)
- Solar System Astronomy - PY124
- Celestial Navigation (occasional extension course)
Areas of Professional Interest:
Applied
Positional Astronomy – Applications of astronomy to maritime and
spacecraft navigation.
.................. Principle projects include
Navstar / Global Positioning System (GPS),
...................and the Space Surveillance
and Tracking System (SSTS).
.......... Historical Astronomy - Astronomy and astrology in medieval Europe (AD 800 to 1400).
Professional and Scholarly Societies:
- American
Astronautical Society (AAS)
- Institute of
Navigation (ION)
- U.S. Naval
Institute (USNI)
- Also a
member of the Oxford University Alumni
Society (click
HERE for
a cool virtual tour of Oxford)
Positions before joining NC State Physics:
- Member of the Technical
Staff, The Aerospace Corporation
Navigation Analysis Section: Satellite Navigation Department. - Research Assistant,
Astrophysics Group
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh
Under Dr. Frank Briggs (Now at Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Netherlands) - Student Assistant, Allegheny Observatory
University of Pittsburgh - Fire Fighter (professional, full-time):
Engine 1 / Ladder
1
Wilkinsburg Borough, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Publications:
My duties now are primarily administration and instruction. I have about two dozen papers and a couple lab manuals and short textbooks published. Some representative publications are:
“Measuring the Heavens: Astronomical Instruments before the
Telescope”
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of
Vol. 100 (2006) p 37
“Customized calculation of
navigational and astronomical ephemerides: Applied spherical astronomy”
J. Royal Astro. Soc. Canada, Robert A. Egler
Vol. 99 (2005) p 165
"Oblitus Astrologia: Astronomical Progress in Medieval Europe"
J. Royal Astro. Soc. Canada, Robert A. Egler
Vol. 98 (2004) p 277
"Astronomical events recorded in the medieval Anglo-Saxon
Chronicles"
J. Royal Astro. Soc. Canada, Robert A. Egler
Vol. 96 (2002), p 184
"Temperature Dependence of Sextant Index Error"
Journal of the Institute of Navigation, Robert A. Egler
Vol. 42 (1995), No. 3, p 531
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