Third paper on 'Engineering Education' containing substantial plagiarized material.
"THE OTHER NEW YORK CRASHES: THEIR USE IN A CDIO PROGRAM", Patrick H. Oosthuizen, Vice-Chair, ﻿Senate of Queen's University,﻿ and Chair of the ﻿﻿Board of the Faculty of Applied Science ., Proceedings of the 3rd International CDIO Conference, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, June 11-14, 2007.
The author argues that "some discussion of engineering ethics should be incorporated throughout an engineering program". But large sections of his paper are lifted from various online sources including an article by Brian Kates in Boston Globe without acknowledgement. The author has repackaged the lifted materials as his own work (see below). This is the third paper from the vice-chair of Senate with substantial plagiarized material (see other posts, below). The case is becoming more like the story of Chris Spence, Toronto school board director who plagiarized multiple articles.
Data Fabrication: The author has constructed Figure 2 of his article (below, right) by taking information from another source (National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)) without giving any reference to the original source and without mentioning the original NTSB graph (below, left). Data appear to be altered. The author claims that time was "measured" in seconds. In reality, there is no data to construct the last part of the flight profile. According to NTSB report, "FDR and CVR stopped recording at 0150:36.64 and 0150:38.47, respectively."
Figure 3 in the article (below, right) is coming from an online newshour special report - pbs.org.
Boeing 747-100 jetliner, TWA's flight 800, took-off from JFK airport on its way to Paris, France.
“On the evening of July 17th, 1996, shortly after the sun had set, but while the sky was still light, a Boeing 747-131 jetliner, TWA's flight 800, was taking off from JFK airport on its way to Paris, France. On board were 230 people. "
Everything is the same except that " --" has been replaced by "-".
“At about 8:45pm Flight 800 was over the Atlantic Ocean when it received clearance to initiate its climb to cruise altitude. At this point the plane exploded without any warning. Thousands of pounds of kerosene, dumped from the center and wing tanks, vaporized and ignited, creating a fireball seen all along the coastline of Long Island. "
“Under the orange glow of the fireball, sections of the 747 tumbled into the ocean. So completely had the plane broken up that weather radar confused the expanding bubble of debris for a cloud."
............and many more paragraphs from other sources .
Travel expenses incurred to present plagiarized papers in different locations are not among the eligible expenses listed by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
*According to the University Secretariat, Senate is "responsible for determining all matters of academic character affecting the University as a whole, including student discipline. It shares responsibility with the Board of Trustees for appointing the Principal."