“I haven’t really noticed it
because I’m always focused on
my things.”
Cases of Engineering Honor
Code violation are referred to
the Engineering Honor Council,
a group of 20 student volunteers
who
oversee
Honor
Code
management and investigate all
cases of violations.
“(The
Engineering
Honor
Council) really do serve as
that
peer-to-peer
voice
of
accountability,” Sprague said.
“They also serve as a great voice
of advocacy, so when (students)
see something that may raise
concerns, they have a great
student
body
representative
force that can go and be
advocates for those students
going through a process.”
According to Sprague, 891
violations
were
investigated
under
the
Engineering
Honor Code during the 2018-
2019
academic
year.
The
number
of
violations
have
increased over time because
College of Engineering began
implementing
the
Measure
of Software Similarity cheat
detection system about five
years ago, Sprague said.
“Some students were caught
off guard at the level of detail
that the cheat detection system
was able to capture,” Sprague
said. “Any piece of work that
(students)
turned
into
the
College of Engineering has
real a real potential of being
run through MOSS, this cheat
detection system. It’s going
to be compared against not
only the work of everyone
in their class, but all work
that’s been uploaded in that
system for the past five years,
as well as resources that have
been uploaded up from online
resources.”
Now that more students
are being made aware of how
precise the cheat detection
system can be, Sprague said
they have seen the number of
violations drop dramatically.
During the Fall 2019 semester,
Sprague estimated his team has
received under 100 violations.
Horvitz
said
she
thinks
the Honor Code is a great
component to the College of
Engineering and shows a level
of trust for students. However,
she
thinks
improvements
should be made to the system
for
violation
investigations
to ensure the process is more
up-to-date and runs smoothly.
At the beginning of the
semester, Horvitz said she
sent a message in a group chat
for environmental engineers
asking if anyone had completed
a homework problem. Horvitz
said a person in the group chat
sent back a photo of his work,
and
the
conversation
was
reported by another individual
in the group chat.
Horvitz said she received
an email from the College of
Engineering before Fall Break
about her case, saying it may
take four to eight months to
resolve. Though the incident
occurred before Fall Break in
2019, Horvitz said her case
has not been investigated yet
due to the backlog of cases,
even though she was told by an
advisor that her case would be
found innocent.
“I have to wait an entire
semester
to
be
seen
for
something I’m already deemed
innocent for, although I don’t
have that official innocence,”
Horvitz said. “I should be
deemed
innocent,
our
work looks nothing alike
and I didn’t solicit the
work. The advisor himself
said, ‘You look to be
innocent, your case should
probably
be
wrapped
up
once
you
actually
get
investigated
quite
quickly.’ The only problem
is I have to hold this over
my shoulder for four to
eight months.”
Horvitz said she has
had other friends in the
College
of
Engineering
who have been indicted by
the Honor Code unfairly.
She suggested the College
of Engineering consider
making
updates
to
its
system to make the process
move more quickly, such
as establishing a vetting
process
for
cases
and
creating a separate team
to investigate Computer
Science
classes
since
they generate the most
violations.
“Given the fact that
the policies are so many
decades old and are not
equipped to handle any of the
current
circumstances
and
I think their flexibility for
other people to innocently get
harmed means they need an
update,” Horvitz said. “Their
intent is nice, but their outcome
isn’t.”
Sprague said the majority
of honor code violations come
from coding assignments. He
said the College of Engineering
is currently working on ways to
improve the process of Honor
Code violation investigations.
To resolve cases in a more
timely fashion, Sprague said his
team began offering the option
for an expedited investigation
process
in
March
2019.
Compared to the traditional
process, the expedited process
takes
approximately
three
weeks to resolve.
“Essentially, students have
the opportunity to come in and
then admit responsibility for
an alleged violation,” Sprague
said. “They can also identify
folks that are potentially not
responsible, so their cases can
be dismissed, and we try to
get those wrapped up and as
quickly as possible.”
In addition to the expedited
process, Sprague said his team
employed an intern during
the summer who investigated
cases to help the process move
at a faster pace and to catch up
with backlogged cases.
“We’re dangerously close to
being fully caught up,” Sprague
said. “We have started the final
assignments of investigations
from the Winter 2019 semester,
and we are actively completing
expedited processes for cases
that have been submitted as
recently as a week ago from
this Fall 19.”
As an LSA student, Li said
the only difference he has
seen between the two schools
is how they handle cases
of
academic
dishonesty
—
while
Engineering
students
are
referred
first
to
the
Engineering Honor Council,
LSA
students
are
directly
referred to a dean.
“It doesn’t affect me any
differently than LSA, where
there is no honor code and
you get referred to a dean
(for cheating),” Li said. “I
feel like there’s not much of a
difference.”
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