EE4902 Academic Honesty Page

ECE4902 Academic Honesty Policy:

Any work you present as your own should represent your understanding of the material.

Following are examples of acceptable and unacceptable actions under this policy. This listing is not exhaustive; if you have an academic honesty question, please see Prof. McNeill.

Exams
Acceptable	Unacceptable
Looking at exams and exam solutions from previous offerings of the course.	Collaboration of any kind during exam
Using calculator or other digital assistant to perform numerical calculations.	Using calculator or other digital assistant to access stored formulas or notes, or to access any other resource or collaboration during exam.

Exams: will be completely closed book; notes (other than a note page which may be provided with the exam) and/or collaboration of any kind are not allowed.

Prelab / Lab Work / Writeups

Acceptable
Unacceptable

Discussing the prelab with someone else to gain a better understanding. Copying material from someone else's prelab and presenting it as your own.

Partners dividing tasks in lab; for example, one person makes measurements and the other records data.
One person does all the work; the other lab partner never shows up or makes minimal contribution.

Putting someone else's name on a lab writeup when they made no contribution

Checking with another lab group or sample data on the web to see if your data makes sense.
Using other data or writeup in place of your own.

Looking at lab reports from previous offerings of the course to get an idea of the report format or content. Using material from previous reports (data, discussions, etc.) and presenting it as your own.

Problem Sets

Acceptable
Unacceptable

Discussing a homework problem with someone else to gain a better understanding Copying material from someone else's solution and handing it in as your own

Looking at a similar problem from solutions of previous problem sets to get an idea of how to approach the problem Copying a solution from a previous set, and handing it in as your own

Prelab / Lab Work / Writeups
Acceptable	Unacceptable
Discussing the prelab with someone else to gain a better understanding.	Copying material from someone else's prelab and presenting it as your own.
Partners dividing tasks in lab; for example, one person makes measurements and the other records data.	One person does all the work; the other lab partner never shows up or makes minimal contribution.
	Putting someone else's name on a lab writeup when they made no contribution
Checking with another lab group or sample data on the web to see if your data makes sense.	Using other data or writeup in place of your own.
Looking at lab reports from previous offerings of the course to get an idea of the report format or content.	Using material from previous reports (data, discussions, etc.) and presenting it as your own.

Problem Sets
Acceptable	Unacceptable
Discussing a homework problem with someone else to gain a better understanding	Copying material from someone else's solution and handing it in as your own
Looking at a similar problem from solutions of previous problem sets to get an idea of how to approach the problem	Copying a solution from a previous set, and handing it in as your own