The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering adheres to the
academic integrity policies set forth by Carnegie Mellon University and
by the College of Engineering. ECE students should review fully and
carefully Carnegie Mellon University's policies regarding Cheating
and Plagiarism; Undergraduate Academic Discipline;
and Graduate Academic Discipline. ECE graduate student should
further review the Penalties for Graduate Student Academic Integrity
Violations in CIT outlined in the CIT Policy on Graduate Student
Academic Integrity Violations. In addition to the above university and
college-level policies, it is ECE's policy that an ECE graduate student
may not drop a course in which a disciplinary action is assessed or
pending without the course instructor's explicit approval. Further, an
ECE course instructor may set his/her own course-specific academic
integrity policies that do not conflict with university and
college-level policies; course-specific policies should be made
available to the students in writing in the first week of class.
This policy applies, in all respects, to this course.
Carnegie Mellon University's Policy on Cheating and Plagiarism (http://www.cmu.edu/policies/documents/Cheating.html) states the following,
Students at Carnegie Mellon are engaged in preparation for professional
activity of the highest standards. Each profession constrains its
members with both ethical responsibilities and disciplinary limits. To
assure the validity of the learning experience a university establishes
clear standards for student work.
In any presentation, creative, artistic, or research, it is the ethical
responsibility of each student to identify the conceptual sources of
the work submitted. Failure to do so is dishonest and is the basis for
a charge of cheating or plagiarism, which is subject to disciplinary
action.
Cheating includes but is not necessarily limited to:
- Plagiarism, explained below.
- Submission of work that is not the student's own for papers, assignments or exams.
- Submission or use of falsified data.
- Theft of or unauthorized access to an exam.
- Use of an alternate, stand-in or proxy during an examination.
- Use of unauthorized material including textbooks, notes or
computer programs in the preparation of an assignment or during an
examination.
- Supplying or communicating in any way unauthorized information to
another student for the preparation of an assignment or during an
examination.
- Collaboration in the preparation of an assignment. Unless
specifically permitted or required by the instructor, collaboration
will usually be viewed by the university as cheating. Each student,
therefore, is responsible for understanding the policies of the
department offering any course as they refer to the amount of help and
collaboration permitted in preparation of assignments.
- Submission of the same work for credit in two courses without obtaining the permission of the instructors beforehand.
Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to, failure to indicate
the source with quotation marks or footnotes where appropriate if any
of the following are reproduced in the work submitted by a student:
- A phrase, written or musical.
- A graphic element.
- A proof.
- Specific language.
- An idea derived from the work, published or unpublished, of another person.