A side view of an anvil at the Steaming Kettle Ranch.

Engineering Projects

Plagiarism Adjudication

Client: IEEE Oregon

After authors identified a possible case of plagiarism in the proceedings of PICMET 2009, Steaming Kettle participated the Author Misconduct Committee.

Activities included:

  • Reviewing all related documents, most importantly, the two papers in question.
  • Completing an analysis of the paper content: the two 4500-word papers differed by less than 3%.
  • Formulating recommendations on how to handle the situation.