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Graduate deplored by lecturer for plagiarism
A doctorate graduate from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) has been deplored by one of his former lecturers for allegedly submitting a plagiarized dissertation that he also presented at an academic seminar in China
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doctorate graduate from the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) has been deplored by one of his former lecturers for allegedly submitting a plagiarized dissertation that he also presented at an academic seminar in China.
ITB Electrical Engineering and Informatics School (STEI) lecturer Carmadi Machbub said he could not help feel disappointed with his former student, Mochammad Zuliansyah.
“I’m very disappointed because an important part of a dissertation is upholding and building on the faculty’s credibility and dignity,” Carmadi said at his office Monday.
Zuliansyah allegedly presented a plagiarized dissertation at the Institute of Electronics Engineers seminar in Chengdu, China, in 2008.
At the seminar, he presented a paper titled “Topological Relations for 3D Spatial Analysis”.
The seminar organizers judged that Zuliansyah’s paper was a copy of Siyka Zlatanov’s paper titled “On 3D Topological Relationships”, which was delivered at the same seminar in 2000.
Zuliansyah’s dissertation partly earned him his doctorate.
At that time, he was under the counsel of a supporting team made up of Suhono Supangkat, Yoga Priyana and Carmadi Machbub.
Carmadi said that Zuliansyah had not once mentioned Siyka Zlatanova as a source in his dissertation and paper.
The ITB learned that the presentation was plagiarized when it was contacted by the seminar organizing committee based in Singapore, not long after the seminar was held.
Supangkat, Priyana and Carmadi then reported the matter to the faculty’s dean, Adang Suwandi Ahmadi, who said that the crime was the first of its kind at ITB.
His school has set up a team to look into the matter and will later provide a course of action against Zuliansyah.
“As a school dean, I will review the enrollment for post graduate and doctoral students and also continue to monitor the process of research assessment,” he said.
.... the crime was the first of its kind at ITB.
