Computer Science - Duke University

Susan Rodger

Professor of the Practice of Computer Science

Faculty Group: Computer Science Education

Email	rodger at cs.duke.edu
Office	D237 LSRC
Phone	(919) 660-6595
Fax	(919) 660-6519
Web page	http://www.cs.duke.edu/~rodger

Education

Ph.D., Purdue University, 1989
B.S., North Carolina State University, 1983

Honors & Awards

Finalist Candidate for NEEDS Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware, 2007, for software JFLAP.

ACM Distinguished Member, 2006.

Rensselaer Distinguished Teaching Fellowship, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1994.

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

Susan H. Rodger, Jenna Hayes, Gaetjens Lezin, Henry Qin, Deborah Nelson, Ruth Tucker, Mercedes Lopez, Stephen Cooper, Wanda Dann and Don Slater, Engaging Middle School Teachers and Students with Alice in a Diverse Set of Subjects, Fourtieth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2009, p. 271-275.
Susan H. Rodger, Eric Wiebe, Kyung Min Lee, Chris Morgan, Kareem Omar, and Jonathan Su, Increasing Engagement in Automata Theory with JFLAP, Fourtieth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2009, p. 403-407.
Susan Horwitz, Susan Rodger, Maureen Biggers, David Binkley, C. Kolin Frantz, Dawn Gundermann, Susanne Hambrusch, Steven Huss-Lederman, Ethan Munson, Barbara Ryder, and Monica Sweat, Using Peer-Led Team Learning to Increase Participation and Success of Under-Represented Groups in Introductory Computer Science, Fourtieth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2009, p. 163-167.
Susan Rodger and Thomas Finley, JFLAP - An Interactive Formal Languages and Automata Package, ISBN 0763738344, Jones and Bartlett, 2006.
Casey Alt, Owen Astrachan, Jeffrey Forbes, Richard Lucic, and Susan Rodger, "Social Networks Generate Interest in Computer Science," Thirty-seventh SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2006 (p. 438-442)
Ayonike Akingbade, Thomas Finley, Diana Jackson, Pretesh Patel and Susan H. Rodger, "JAWAA: Easy Web-Based Animation from CS 0 to Advanced CS Courses," Thirty-fourth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, p. 162-166, 2003.

Extended List of Publications

Publications by Susan Rodger