Detection and prevention of plagiarism in electrical engineering education

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2009

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Gol, O.
Machotka, J.
Nedic, Z.
Nafalski, A.

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ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Conference Proceedings, 2009

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2009 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition "Incorporating Diversity and Globalization in Engineering Education" (14 Jun 2009 - 17 Jun 2009 : Austin, US)

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In recent times, plagiarism has attracted unprecedented attention in higher education. It is generally agreed that the advent of the Internet with the ease of access it provides to sources of information has contributed to the proliferation of the practice of plagiarism. Plagiarism has become a global problem, encouraging alliances of higher education institutions around the world, creating incentives for the development and use of highly specialised and costly software platforms in combating the phenomenon. Until recently it would have been considered inconceivable for students of electrical engineering to resort to plagiarism. Yet, it seems hard to deny that there is a disturbing trend indicating that plagiarism is on the increase. Examples range from the use of circuit designs to adopting computational code without giving any credit whatsoever to the source.

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Copyright 2009 American Society for Engineering Education

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