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Proper attribution is a matter of service for civil engineers
(Photo by Nick Fewings on Unsplash) By Tara Hoke Scenario A complaint is forwarded to the editor of an ASCE technical journal about a paper recently published in the journal. The complainant states that the paper’s author, a civil engineering professor at …