HONESTY &

INTEGRITY

TRUTHFULNESS
- centers on meeting responsibilities about truth
Dishonest Engineering causes:
financial loses
injuries
death

TRUSTWORTHINESS
- centers on meeting responsibilities about trust
Engineering, like all professions, is based on
exercising expertise within fiduciary (trust) relationships to
provide safe and useful products. Untruthfulness and
untrustworthiness undermine expertise by corrupting
professional judgments and communications. They also
undermine the trust of the public, employers and others
who must rely on engineers expertise.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Academic dishonesty among students takes several forms:
Cheating: intentionally violating the rules of fair play in any academic
exercise, for example, by
using crib notes or
copying from another student during a test.
Fabrication: intentionally falsifying or inventing information, for example,
by faking the results of
an experiment.
Plagiarism: intentionally or negligently submitting others work as ones
own, for example, by quoting the words of others without using quotation
marks and citing the source.
Facilitating academic dishonesty: intentionally helping other students to
engage in academic dishonesty, for example, by loaning them your work.

misrepresentation: intentionally giving false information to an instructor, for

example, by lying about why one missed a test.
Failure to contribute to a collaborative project: failing to do ones fair
share on a joint project.
Sabotage: intentionally preventing others from doing their work, for
example, by disrupting their lab experiment.
Theft: stealing, for example, stealing library books or other
students property.

RESEARCH INTEGRITY
Integrity in research is about promoting excellence (high quality) in pursuing
truth, and this positive emphasis on excellence should be kept paramount in
thinking about honesty in research.
Charles Babbage distinguished four types of deception and fraud in research:
Forging- is deception intended to establish ones reputation as a researcher
hoaxing- is deception intended to last only for a while and then to be
uncovered or disclosed
Trimming- is selectively omitting bits of outlying dataresults that depart
furthest from the mean
cooking- refer to all kinds of selective reporting of results

BIAS & SELF DECEPTION

One form of self-deception is motivated irrationalitythat is,
unreasonable belief that is motivated by allowing ones judgment to be
biased by wishes, hopes, self-esteem and fears.