Susan H. Rodger is an American

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known for work in computer science education including developing the software JFLAP for over twenty years. JFLAP is educational software for visualizing and interacting with formal languages and automata. Rodger is also known for peer-led team learning in computer science and integrating computing into middle schools and high schools with

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. She is also currently serving on the board of CRA-W and was chair of ACM

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from 2013 to 2016.

Biography

Rodger was born in

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. She received a B.S. in

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and a B.S. in

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from

North Carolina State University North Carolina State University (NC State, North Carolina State, NC State University, or NCSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. Founded in 1887 and p ...

in 1983. She received a

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from

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in 1985 and a Ph.D. in

from

in 1989. She immediately joined the Department of Computer Science at

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (; RPI) is a private university, private research university in Troy, New York, United States. It is the oldest technological university in the English-speaking world and the Western Hemisphere. It was establishe ...

as an assistant professor. In 1994 she moved to

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

as an

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of the Practice of

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. She was promoted to

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of the practice of

in 1997 and to

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of the practice in 2008.

Awards

2006: Rodger was named an ACM Distinguished Member.
2007: Finalist in the NEEDS Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware (for the software JFLAP).
2014: ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award.
2019: IEEE Computer Society Taylor L. Booth Education Award.
2019: David and Janet Vaughan Brooks Award Duke Announcement: https://today.duke.edu/2019/04/trinity-awards-honor-10-innovative-teaching-advising-leadership
2023: SIGCSE Award for Outstanding Contribution to Computer Science Education

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External links

* Duke University
Susan H. Rodger, Department of Computer Science
* Duke University
Susan H. Rodger, Department of Computer Science
* Susan H. Rodger

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