The purpose of the following ethical guidelines are to encourage fairness and a better learning environment.

The department expects each student to:

1. give credit to and declare(by citation), any work that is not their own (e.g. parts of the report that is copied/pasted from the Internet, design or construction performed by another person, etc.);
2. not receive unpermitted aid for the project design, construction, report or presentation;
3. not assign credit for work to another student in the group, and not take credit for work done by another student in the group;
4. actively encourage others as well as themselves to uphold the spirit of the above guidelines.

For more on Ethics, visit the department's Engineering Ethics course webpage.

Special note on plagiarism:
All project reports are checked for plagiarism using iThenticate. Reports found to contain a significant amount of duplicated and unattributed content will be rejected resulting in a substantial loss of score.
Please ask your supervisor to check your project draft with iThenticate well before the draft deadline. Your supervisor will advise you on which parts of the report should be rewritten.