Laboratory Fraud
Students who misrepresent their own work on laboratory projects commit laboratory fraud. Examples include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Submitting one’s laboratory project to an outside laboratory for analysis;
- Submitting one’s laboratory project to another student for analysis;
- Submitting a laboratory report of an experiment performed by other persons;
- Misrepresenting the date or amount of time spent on an experiment or other laboratory activities;
- Submitting a copy of another person’s computer program or project as one’s own work; or
- Submitting a copy of a commercially available computer program as one’s own work.