Susan Rodger
Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Computer Science, Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
- Faculty Area:
- Computer Science Education
- Email:
- rodger at cs.duke.edu
- Office:
- D237 LSRC
- Phone:
- (919) 660-6595
Education
Ph.D., Purdue University, 1989
B.S., North Carolina State University, 1983
Honors & Awards
IEEE Computer Society 2019 Taylor L. Booth Education Award
Duke University Trinity College 2019 David and Janet Vaughn Brooks Distinguished Teaching Award
ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award 2013
Finalist Candidate for NEEDS Premier Award for Excellence in EngineeringEducation Courseware, 2007, for software JFLAP
ACM Distinguished Member, 2006.
Research
Computer science education, interactive and visual tools for teaching, algorithm animation, design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, geometric algorithms, and parallel algorithms.
Selected Publications
- Andrew D. Hilton, Genevieve M. Lipp, and Susan H. Rodger, Translation from Problem to Code in Seven Steps, the First ACM Global Education Conference 2019 (CompEd '19), Chengdu, Sichuan, China, p. 78-84, 2019
- Stephen Cooper, Susan H. Rodger, Wanda Dann, Madeleine Schep, RoxAnn H. Stalvey, Growing a K-12 Community of Practice, Fourty-sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, p. 290-295, Kansas City, Missouri, 2015.
- Susan Rodger, Dwayne Brown, Michael Hoyle, Daniel MacDonald, Michael Marion, Elizabeth Onstwedder, Bella Onwumbiko, and Edwin Ward, Weaving Computing into all Middle School Disciplines, The 19th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2014), p. 207-212 Uppsala, Sweden, 2014.
- Ari Korhonen, Thomas Naps, Charles Boisvert, Pilu Crescenzi, Ville Karavirta, Linda Mannila, Bradley Miller, Briana Morrison, Susan H. Rodger, Rocky Ross, and Clifford A. Shaffer, User Requirements and Design Strategies for Open Source Interactive Computer Science eBooks, Proceedings of the ITiCSE Working Group Reports conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education-working group reports, p. 53-72, Canterbury, United Kingdom, 2013.
- Susan Rodger, Melissa Dalis, Chitra Gadwal, Jenna Hayes, Peggy Li, Liz Liang, Francine Wolfe, and Wenhui Zhang, Integrating Computing into Middle Schools Disciplines Through Projects, Fourty-third SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Raleigh, NC, p. 421-426, 2012.
- Susan H. Rodger and Thomas W. Finley, JFLAP - An Interactive Formal Languages and Automata Package, ISBN 0763738344, Jones and Bartlett, 2006.