Credit Where Due Is More Than Courtesy

摘要

Situation: an asce technical journal publishes an article on highly effective forensic engineering practices authored by an ASCE member and associate professor at a large state university. Shortly after its publication, ASCE's Committee on Professional Conduct (CPC) receives a complaint from another member, alleging that the author plagiarized the complainant's article on the subject. The complainant, a former colleague of the accused member during the latter's employment at a consulting firm, stated that his own paper on the subject had been written several years earlier for publication in a conference proceedings volume, and he attaches copies of the two papers in support of his claim.