Acording to UPB rules for diploma studies (article 51. points d. and i.), students are required to uphold the rules for academic integrity described in 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.