Sarah S. Heckman

Teaching Professor
Director of Undergraduate Programs
Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor
Department of Computer Science
North Carolina State University

Contact

Email: sarah_heckman @ ncsu.edu
Phone: 919-515-2042

Summer 2022 Office Hours

From 5/16/2022 to 8/21/2022 excluding University Holidays. Subject to change due to travel or departmental commitments.

• email to make an appointment

For Summer 2022, all office hours will be virtual. Email for the zoom link if you are not enrolled in one of Dr. Heckman’s classes.

Biography

I am an Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor with the Department of Computer Science. I serve as the Director of Undergraduate Programs for the department. I am a three time graduate of the department, and received my Ph.D. in August of 2009 as part of the RealSearch Group. I received the NC State University Outstanding Teacher Award and the Alumni Association Outstanding Teacher Award as a representative of the College of Engineering in Spring 2015. I am a member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at NC State. As a graduate student, I was a three-time recipient of the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship.

My research interests are in the science of software as applied to computing education research (SOS-CER) - specifically software engineering skill transfer and automated feedback.

Students

• Brittany Johnson, 2017 (co-advised with Dr. Emerson Murphy-Hill), Assistant Professor at George Mason University
• Kai Presler-Marshall, 2022 (co-advised with Dr. Kathryn Stolee, Lecturer at Bowdoin College