1. BME / IHE 6010 Engineering Ethics (Academic Integrity) Dave Kender - April 17, Lecture adapted from Meg Wiltshire’s PowerPoint Presentation

2. Outline
Course Information Syllabus, Schedule, Course Overview
Learning Objectives
Course Rationale
Engineering Ethics
Academic Integrity (Plagiarism)
Guest Speakers - Fall 2014

3. Course Learning Objectives
Define: academic integrity, plagiarism, fair use
Explain the importance of ethics and integrity in engineering and research
Compare and contrast ethical behavior and legal behavior
Express the WSU Academic Integrity Policy
Describe the relationship between the graduate student and their advisor
Locate and use research tools available to WSU graduate students
Explain the thesis and dissertation preparation process

4. Course Rationale
ABET ABET (Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology) mandates that discussions regarding ethics be included in the engineering curriculum
Cheating and plagiarism has become a major problem at many universities
WSU has not been exempt from the problem
There are a variety of reasons for the problem
The best way to avoid problems is to educate students about the problem and clearly identify good and bad practices

5. General Definition of Ethics
The study of the characteristics of morals
The study of the moral choices made by each person in his or her relationships with other persons
Reference: Engineering Ethics by Fleddermann

6. Engineering Ethics
The rules and standards which govern the conduct of engineers in their role as professionals
Engineering ethics are similar to general ethics, but apply to the specific issues which affect engineering professionals
Reference: Engineering Ethics by Fleddermann

7. Ethics in Research
Research misconduct is defined as fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results.
Federal policy on Research Misconduct
Reference: Ethics in Scientific Research by Budinger and Budinger

8. Publication Violations
Faking research data – 0.3%
Plagiarism – 1.4%
Removing data – 6%
Multiple publications of the same data – 4.7%
Inappropriate inclusion of authors – 10%
Changed a study design – 15%
Inadequate record keeping – 27.5%
From 3247 respondents of 8000 surveyed
Reference: Ethics in Scientific Research by Budinger and Budinger

9. Scientific Misconduct
Fabrication is making up data or results and recording or reporting them
Falsification is manipulating research materials, equipment, or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record
Plagiarism is the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results, or words without giving proper credit.
Research misconduct does not include honest error or differences of opinion
Reference: Ethics in Scientific Research by Budinger and Budinger

10. Researcher Unethical Conduct
Cover-up of errors
Misuse of funds
Fabrication of data
Deletion of data without justification
Falsification of data
Making major protocol deviations
Unorthodox manipulation of data during data analysis
Performance of inappropriate statistical analysis
Knowingly performing or participating in unauthorized experiments
Misrepresentation or purposeful exclusion of relevant data from others
Misrepresentation of originality of ideas, writings, software and hardware – plagiarism
Failing to report wrongs when there is a responsibility to do so
Reference: Ethics in Scientific Research by Budinger and Budinger

11. Plagiarism
“The false assumption of ownership, the wrongful act of taking the product of another person’s mind, and presenting it as one’s own.”
Reference: MLA Handbook, Chapter 2, page 46
“An act of theft in which you steal another person’s idea or his or her expression of an idea, and then represent it as your own.”
Reference: Dr. Leo Finkelstein Jr., Pocket Book of Technical Writing

12. Costs of Plagiarism
Viewed as a shameful act, one from a dishonest person
Violates WSU Academic Integrity policy and can result in an “F” for the paper or course, expulsion and revocation of degree
Loss of the opportunity for the student to learn
Loss of pride in the effort to receive a degree
Lowers the value of degrees earned by others

13. Causes of Plagiarism Accidental - Poor note taking/documentation
Belief that minor word changes constitutes your own work
Peer pressure from friends/students/community
Poor time management
Writing in a second language and worrying about grammar

14. You have plagiarized if
Your notes fail to distinguish summary and/or paraphrase
You copy and paste from the web without enclosing in quotes and citing the source
You presented facts without citing where they were found
You repeated or paraphrased another’s work w/o citation
You took another’s unique phrase without citing
You paraphrased someone’s ideas without citing
You bought or obtained a paper written by another and handed it in as your own.
Reference: MLA Handbook, Chapter 2, page 75

15. Writing Assignment #1 www.TurnItIn.com
Due Wednesday, September 3, 2014

16. Finis !

17. Guest Speakers - Fall 2014 Dr. Nathan Klingbeil Dean's Perspectives
Dr. Phani Kidambi Student Success
Dr. Gary Dickstein Student Conduct
Dr. Leo Finkelstein Plagiarism
Dr. Joseph Slater LaTex
Phil Flynn Library Resources
Alysoun Taylor-Hall Thesis / Dissertation Tools
Dave Kender Engineering Ethics