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

IBM Faculty Award, 2008

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 Rodger, Melissa Dalis, Chitra Gadwal, Jenna Hayes, Peggy Li, Liz Liang, Francine Wolfe, and Wenhui Zhang. "Integrating Computing into Middle Schools' Disciplines Through Projects." 43rd SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 2012, (to appear).

Stephen Cooper, Wanda Dann, Dan Lewis, Pam Lawhead, Susan Rodger, Madeleine Schep, and RoxAnn Stalvey. "A Pre-College Professional Development Program." 16th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2011), Darmstadt, Germany, p. 188-192. 2011.

Susan H. Rodger, Maggie Bashford, Lana Dyck, Jenna Hayes, Liz Liang, Deborah Nelson, and Henry Qin. "Enhancing K-12 Education with Alice Programming Adventures." 15th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE 2010), Ankara, Turkey, p.234-238, 2010.

Susan H. Rodger, Eric Wiebe, Kyung Min Lee, Chris Morgan, Kareem Omar, and Jonathan Su. "Increasing Engagement in Automata Theory with JFLAP." 40th 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." 40th 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.

Extended List of Publications

Publications by Susan Rodger