Another Cut - and- Paste, Plagiarized Paper on 'Engineering Education' Authored by the Vice-Chair of Senate, Queen's University, Canada
Patrick Oosthuizen and Jane T. Paul, "TEACHING THE HISTORY OF ENGINEERING: REASONS AND POSSIBLE APPROACHES", Proceedings of the 3rd International CDIO Conference, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 11-14, 2007.
The vice-chair argues in the paper that "engineering history" should be included in a CDIO program to "demonstrate the importance of ethics in engineering, to provide examples that demonstrate how difficult it is in some situations to know what is the most ethical solution to the problem at hand ..."
Big chunks of this paper are lifted from source 1 and source 2 without acknowledgement. In some cases, paragraphs have been cosmetically altered.
Examples of text lifted are shown below (emphases added). It seems that the author has pulled material from a number of sources and repackaged them as his own work:
Patrick Oosthuizen : "It is now quite widely accepted that the words 'ingenuity' and 'engineering' in English and 'ingéniosité' and 'ingénierie' in French are linked to the same Latin word-root and that the verb 'to engineer' means 'to be ingenious.' ”
Original text (Source 1): “It has been pretty well agreed that the words 'ingenuity' and 'engineering' in English and 'ingéniosité' and 'ingénierie' in French are linked to the same Latin word-root and that the verb 'to engineer' means 'to be ingenious.' ”
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Patrick Oosthuizen :“In prehistoric times, men and women had to be ingenious in order to survive hunger, enemies,climate and, later, the tyranny of distance. So there have always been 'engineers' around, many of whom were involved in activities associated with hunting, farming, fishing, fighting, implement and tool-making, transportation and many other things. Many of these activities are not today be associated with engineering.”
Original text (Source 2): “In prehistoric times, men and women had to be ingenious in order to survive hunger, enemies, climate and, later, the tyranny of distance. So there have always been 'engineers' around, many of whom were involved in activities we would not associate with engineering today but, rather, with hunting, farming, fishing, fighting, implement- and tool-making, transportation and many other things.[
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Patrick Oosthuizen :“From around 3000 BC, the pace of development quickened. After the development of simple tools in earlier times came the development of wedges, wheels and levers, the use of animals to carry and draw loads and of fire to work metals, the digging of irrigation canals, and open-pit mining.”
Original text (Source 1): “From around 3000 BC, the pace of development quickened. After simple tools came the development of wedges, wheels and levers, the use of animals to carry and draw loads and of fire to work metals, the digging of irrigation canals, and open-pit mining.”
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Patrick Oosthuizen : “Geographically, these and many other developments took place in and around the Mediterranean, in the Middle East and in Asia Minor. Pyramids were erected in the Nile Valley.”
Original text (Source 1): “Geographically, these and many other developments took place in and around the Mediterranean, in the Middle East and in Asia Minor. Pyramids were erected in the Nile Valley. "
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Patrick Oosthuizen : “The Greeks - the inventors - made significant contributions in the 1000 years that straddled the BC-AD divide. They produced the screw, the ratchet, the water wheel and Hero's turbine. The Romans - the improvers and adapters - built fortifications, roads, aqueducts, water distribution systems and public buildings across the territories and cities they controlled.”
Original text (Source 2):“The Greeks - the inventors - made significant contributions in the 1000 years that straddled the BC-AD divide. They produced the screw, the ratchet, the water wheel and the aeolipile, better known as Hero's turbine. The Romans - the improvers and adapters - did likewise, building fortifications, roads, aqueducts, water distribution systems and public buildings across the territories and cities they controlled.”
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Patrick Oosthuizen : “In the same time period the Chinese have been credited with the development of the wheelbarrow, the rotary fan, the sternpost rudder that guided their bamboo rafts and, later, their junks. They also began making paper from vegetable fibres and developed and used gunpowder.”
Original text (Source 2): “At the other end of the world, the Chinese have been credited with the development of the wheelbarrow, the rotary fan, the sternpost rudder that guided their bamboo rafts and, later, their junks. They also began making paper from vegetable fibres - and gunpowder.[2]
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Patrick Oosthuizen : “The so-called 'Dark Ages' (roughly, 500 to 1500 AD) that followed still produced some things that were ingenious. For example, there was the development of the mechanical clock, of methods of printing, and of the technique for the production of heavy iron casting that could be used to manufacture articles such as guns, church bells and machinery.”
Original text (Source 2): “The so-called 'Dark Ages' (roughly, 500 to 1500 AD) that followed still produced some things that were ingenious. For example, there was the development of the mechanical clock and the art of printing. There was the technique of heavy iron casting that could be applied to products for war, religion and industry - for guns, church bells and machinery.”
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Patrick Oosthuizen : “These 'Dark Ages' were followed by the Renaissance of the 16th century, which the engineer/inventor/artist Leonardo DaVinci dominated. However, it was a period in which society was strongly influenced by engineering activities such as the building of cathedrals and other large buildings and the building of castles and other fortifications for military purposes.”
Original text (Source 2): “These 'Dark Ages' were followed by the Renaissance of the 16th century, which the engineer/inventor/artist Leonardo Da Vinci dominated. But this whole period came under the influence of the architect/engineer, who built cathedrals and other large buildings, and the military engineer who built castles and other fortifications.[2]
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Patrick Oosthuizen : “During the hundred year period between 1750 and 1850, the so-called Industrial Revolution in Western Europe dominated the evolution of engineering. It was significantly influenced by the development of steam engines; by the development of screw-cutting and other machine tools that allowed the mass production of industrial goods; and by the development of a new system of transportation, the railways. This period also saw the beginnings, most notably in France, of a system for a formal engineering education and the development of a new profession, that of civil engineering, in which 'civil' essentially meant 'non-military.' ”
Original text (Source 1):“During the century between 1750 to 1850, the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe dominated the evolution of engineering. It was significantly influenced by Savery, Newcomen, Watt and Trevithick and their steam engines; by Whitworth and the development of screw-cutting and other machine tools, machinery for the mass production of industrial goods; and in the new system of transportation - the railways - by Stephenson, Brunel and others. It also saw the beginnings of formal engineering education - notably in France - and the development of a new profession, that of civil engineering, in which 'civil' essentially means 'non-military.' ”
The federal framework for the responsible conduct of research lists plagiarism as a breach of the rules governing federally funded research. The framework defines ' plagiarism' as " Presenting and using another's published or unpublished work, including theories, concepts, data, source material, methodologies or findings, including graphs and images, as one's own, without appropriate referencing and, if required, without permission."
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