=== Plagiarism and academic integrity ===

Acording to [[https://upb.ro/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/4-Regulament-privind-organizarea-si-desfasurare-a-procesului-de-%C3%AEnv%C4%83%C5%A3%C4%83m%C3%A2nt-universitar-de-licenta-in-UPB.pdf|UPB rules for diploma studies]] (article **51.** points **d.** and **i.**), students are required to uphold the rules for academic integrity described in [[https://upb.ro/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Carta_UPB_2019.pdf|The UPB charter]]. Of these we explicitly mention article 45, point **13) a.** which states that **plagiarism is a severe misconduct** from professional and scientific activity.

**Any attempt to plagiarise, during lecture, lab, homework or exam** will be sanctioned with **losing all semester points**, and, in severe cases, with **written warnings** or **expelling proposition** addressed to the Faculty's Executive Board.

Plagiarism is defined as taking:
  * **written answers**
  * **written materials**, **code** or parts of them

from the **Internet**, **other colleagues**, **other sources**, and presenting them, in any context, as **original work**.

Examples of most common instances of plagiarism:
  * **using Internet resources** to answer lecture questions
  * **using Internet resources** to obtain answers which are not your own, during tests or lab assignments
  * **taking code or parts of code from the Internet** or **other colleagues** and submitting it as your own.
  * **writing joint solutions to code assignments** (coding assignments should always be written **alone** and **individually**). Discussing assignment solutions and ideas, without sharing code, is permitted and encouraged.