Academic Misconduct Academic Misconduct Academic misconduct or violation of Engineering Ethics is unacceptable in the practice of engineering. While preparing to be an engineer, you are subject to the College of Engineering rules regarding Academic Misconduct. Academic misconduct includes plagiarism, cheating on examinations or on individual project assignments, fraud, and theft or alteration of other people's work on academic materials to improve your own grades or acquire academic credit. If you are accused of academic misconduct you will be referred for disciplinary action according to the Student Conduct Code of the Washington Administrative Code. If you are found guilty, you are subject to sanctions that range from disciplinary warning to immediate dismissal from the College of Engineering and from the University of Washington.
Dismissal can be and has been applied to first offenses.
The College expects you to behave in a mature manner and to be responsible for your own actions. As long as you give credit to the originator of the material you are not guilty of plagiarism. Turning in a paper from a previous class. Modifying or paraphrasing someone else's ideas or writings and submitting them as your own. Having someone rewrite substantial portions of your paper and submitting the final version as your own.