An engineering professor at the University of Regina has been accused of plagiarizing a student’s work and trying to publish it in an academic journal in a case the university is declining to talk about.
Former student Shahryar Ali Khan, now a petroleum engineer in Calgary, laid a complaint with the university but says officials haven’t told him what, if anything, they’re going to do about it.
Khan said he learned something was wrong in the summer of 2008, when he submitted a paper for publication in the Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology.
It was based on the research he did for his Master’s thesis at the University of Regina, a document titled “A Simulation Study of Water-Coning Using Downhole Water Sink Technology.”
Khan got a surprising response — the journal staff said his submission closely resembled another paper received six months earlier, one that bore the same title.
The earlier paper, which was never published, listed his academic supervisor — associate professor Ezeddin Shirif — and three other people as authors. …