Saturday, September 29, 2012

Promoting Academic Integrity: Prof Somerset Syracuse U

In Statics and Dynamics, the one Mechanical Engineering class we had to take was MEE 225 first semester sophomore year in the Fall of 1982.  Our  professor, James Somerset, programmed his computer to generate unique exams for each student.  There were 25 problems and you had to match them with answers in a 36 answer grid -- there were 11 extra answers.  We all got our own data.  For example, a _A__kg car is traveling at __B_m/s.  We also got different As and Bs.
This promoted academic integrity as there was absolutely no way to cheat as we were all doing different problems!!

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