Plagiarism

Responsible Authorship: A module covering ethical issues that arise in publishing research individually, collaboratively, and as a student in various feilds.
Credit for Engineering Work Research Data: This case raises the question of how best to remedy an honest mistake in crediting the proper source of research information.
Intellectual Property of Engineers in Private Practice: An engineer submits a proposal to a county council, a member of which makes this proposal available to another engineer developing a proposal for a different county project. The second engineer uses the first engineer's information and data without the first engineer's consent.
O, What a Tangled Web We Weave!: A doctoral student decides to change advisors, while reviewing and proofreading his book she discovers he has plagiarized another article.

Relevant Literature on this Topic

Whitbeck, Caroline. 1998. Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research
New York: Cambridge University Press. Other keywords for this article: ethics and prudence; preferences vs. values; negligence; trust, distrust; ambiguity; moral ambiguity; responsibilities, general; professional responsibility; public safety; worker safety; laboratory safety; design process; engineering competence; environmental issues, global; environmental issues, chemical; conflict of interest; ethical codes and guidelines from professional societies; harassment, sexual harassment and aggression; workplace relationships; research misconduct; falsification and fabrication; authorship; human subjects in research; animals in scientific research.