Academic Honesty

• Please respect the SFU intellectual honesty policies and code of student conduct
  • If have not already ready these policies your should do so Intellectual Honesty and Student conduct
• Submitted deliverables should be your own work.
  • Be sure to provide proper citations, and do not misrepresent the work of others as your own
• You may be given a minimum penalty of zero credit for a deliverable if:
  • A part of the deliverable is substantially identical to the that of another group of students
  • A part of the deliverable is substantially copied from a know source and that source is not properly acknowledged
• More severe penalties may be invoked for serious (more extensive copying ) or repeated violations of intellectual honesty.

Important Points Regarding Academic Honesty

• There is an abundance of material (often including answers to standard problems in textbooks) available on the Web and from other sources. Please note these points:
  • The real value of preparing a deliverable is the experience you gain applying the concepts you are learning
  • You are acquiring important skills that will be examined on the midterm and final exams by preparing the deliverable
  • You should know how to apply all the concepts used in the project if you wish to do well on the examinations
  • If you simply copy material from the Web or other sources, or even if you let your teammates do the work without understanding what they are doing, you will not acquire the experience needed to apply the concepts learned in the course
  • If you do not learn how to apply the concepts you will do poorly on the examinations
  • If you do not achieve a 50% average on the weighted average of your midterm and final exams the highest grade you can receive, regardless of your performance on your project, is a D.
  • If you can find answers on the Web or from other sources, the instructor and TA can also find them