Ministry of Education investigates plagiarism of president of Wuhan University of Technology.
Yesterday, Wang Xing (a pseudonym), an undergraduate who just graduated from Wuhan University of Technology, sadly revised the QQ personality signature. "President Zhou is still the beloved president on my diploma …"
The President Zhou she mentioned is Zhou Zude, the president of Wuhan University of Technology, who is 64 years old; In May this year, he was just announced by China Academy of Sciences as an effective candidate for co-election as an academician. Yesterday, a news that he and doctoral student Xie Ming were suspected of plagiarizing their papers was disclosed by the media and quickly spread wildly on the Internet, causing a shock in Wuhan and even the whole country.
Member of academic Committee
"Stupid and bold plagiarism"
On December 18th, 2008, the second national academic conference on intelligent manufacturing was held in Shantou University. Before the conference, the organizing committee received three papers with Zhou Zude as the first author. At the initial evaluation of the Academic Committee, everyone gave a high evaluation of his paper "Diesel Generation Using Doubly Fed Induction Machines" as the first author, and was initially awarded the first prize.
Chen Dingfang, a member of the academic committee of the conference and a professor at the School of Logistics of Wuhan University of Technology, said in an interview yesterday that if the control is not strict, this article may win the first prize of the conference paper and be published in the top core journal of the machinery industry, Journal of China Machinery Industry.
The problem lies in the routine verification. In order to approve the absolute originality of the paper, the academic Committee will select the paper-search on the Internet. As a result, it was found that "just a search on Baidu found almost the same title of a paper".
Chen introduced that the paper with almost the same name found on the Internet was completed by five scientists from Magellan University in Chile and was published in March 2008. "We only have a’ wind, (wind)! ”。
The judges found that all the formulas and diagrams in the two articles are exactly the same, and even the first eight references have not been changed at all. "This is stupid and bold plagiarism!" Chen Dingfang said that the judges at the scene were "shocked".
The reporter sent an e-mail to the plagiarized professor Robert Cadinas yesterday. By 8 o’clock last night, he had not given a reply.
On the evening of 17th, Chen Dingfang found Zhou Zude’s secretary, hoping to inform me of this "trouble" news as soon as possible, but he was unable to contact last week.
The next day, on the day of the conference, Zhou Zude was the third speaker. Fortunately, the content of his speech was not the "problematic" article. After the report, Chen Dingfang and Li Bin, a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, one of the presidents of the conference, found Zhou Zude together and raised the issue of plagiarism. Zhou Zude’s first reaction was, "I didn’t pass the exam properly", and claimed that the thesis had been checked by two other professors in our school.
Dr. Xie Ming
"Injured by distorted reports by the media"
About five months after the academic conference, Zhou Zude was announced by China Academy of Sciences as an effective candidate for co-election as an academician.
At this time, people began to report on the Internet, including a doctor from Peking University. A teacher of Wuhan University told reporters yesterday that this matter has already been discussed in a small scale on some academic websites and forums. Soon, the reporter of China Youth Daily received a report email.
Yesterday, the reporter contacted Zhang Guo, a reporter from China Youth Daily who first exposed the matter in the media. He told this reporter, "The people I interviewed asked for strict confidentiality and did not want to contact the media again."
The reporter then contacted Xie Ming, a doctoral student of Zude last week. In this paper suspected of plagiarism, he was the second author and was just awarded a doctorate by Wuhan University of Technology in June this year.
It is reported that he has arranged to stay in school after graduation as an excellent doctoral student and has signed a contract for staying in school. Later, the student failed to stay in school because of the above-mentioned events and the academic fraud reported by the professors concerned.
The reporter called Xie Ming yesterday and heard a child crying. The reporter explained his intention, but he couldn’t hear the voice of the other party clearly. The phone lasted for a minute or two, and the other party hung up and never answered the phone again.
Later, Xie Minglai texted, "I have been hurt by the distorted report of China Youth Daily. Now I don’t trust the media, and this matter has its own public opinion."
Earlier, he posted on Tianya Forum: In August 2008, I submitted three papers to the Organizing Committee of NCIM‘, the second national academic conference on intelligent manufacturing, and all of them received employment notices. When looking for a tutor (research group) to apply for the publication fee, finalize the paper (including the determination of the author of the paper) and prepare to formally submit the paper, it failed to pass the examination. Therefore, I didn’t pay the conference registration fee (paper publishing fee), which should be regarded as giving up publishing automatically; And on the day of the meeting, the application for withdrawal was formally submitted to the conference. All my papers did not enter the CD-ROM version (official version) of conference proceedings published by NCIM‘2008.
Xie Ming also said in his post that he was punished for this (although my paper was not published). However, nearly a year has passed, but it was taken out by people with ulterior motives for vicious speculation, which deeply hurt Professor Zhou Zude. Here, he deeply apologized and will make his mentor and Wuhan University of Technology proud of him with his lifelong efforts.
All parties involved avoided talking about it.
The reporter tried to know more, but all the parties involved were dodging and avoiding talking about it.
The reporter called Zhou Zude, but no one answered. After contacting his secretary, Feng Li, the other party said that he was on a business trip in other places, and he didn’t know this matter yet, so he would give a reply after asking clearly. A vice-principal of the school said, "Don’t ask me about it. It has nothing to do with me. I can’t hide."
Academician Xiong Youlun of Huazhong University of Science and Technology is the honorary chairman of this academic conference. According to China Youth Daily, it was under the leadership of this academician of China Academy of Sciences that the organizing committee decided to inform the author about the plagiarism of the paper.
70-year-old Xiong Youlun enjoys high prestige and academic rigor in the field of mechanical manufacturing. The reporter dialed his home phone, and his wife answered the phone. When explaining the intention of the interview and involving Zhou Zude’s plagiarism, Mrs. Xiong said: "Many people are looking for him for this matter. He doesn’t know about it. Don’t look for him again. He has gone on a business trip."
The China Youth Daily mentioned by the reporter interviewed Academician Xiong Youlun, and his wife said that the report was inaccurate. Then the reporter called Academician Xiong’s mobile phone to show that it was turned off.
Professor Huang Xinhan, director of the Intelligent Robot Professional Committee of China Artificial Intelligence Society and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, told the reporter that something really happened at the meeting. He introduced that Chen Dingfang of the Academic Committee and Academician Xiong Youlun had found Zhou Zude together and asked Zhou about this "somewhat problematic" article.
The school said: The Ministry of Education has been involved in the investigation.
Teachers and students of Wuhan University of Technology were shocked after the exposure of Zhou Zude’s alleged plagiarism. Many people left messages on the Internet, "My first reaction was shock when I saw this news, and then I felt bad." A graduate who asked not to be named told reporters that he was embarrassed to go back to school in the future.
But more students doubt it, and I think there should be something hidden in it. I really hope the truth can be revealed to the world …
A freshman teacher from Wuhan University of Technology told the reporter that this happened for half a year, and the background of the report was complicated.
The relevant person in charge of the school told the reporter that the school was discussing countermeasures yesterday morning and put forward suggestions to the principal Zhou Zude, hoping to make an appropriate response to the outside world.
At 5 o’clock in the afternoon yesterday, the reporter was informed that the school had reported the matter to the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Education had officially intervened in the investigation.
The reporter then called the Information Office of the Ministry of Education. When he answered the phone, the man said that the leader was discussing the specific situation, but he was not very clear about it. When the reporter further wanted to get in touch with his leader, he said that the leader was absent, and if he wanted to interview the matter further, he could send an interview letter. (Reporter Li Jia Xiong Linhui Qu Lingyun)
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