Nearly 200 Georgia Tech students under investigation for honor code violation

ATLANTA - Georgia Tech officials said Tuesday that a special software program designed by professors to detect cheating in students&#39; homework assignments turned up 186 possible violators last fall. <br> <br> The students -- who were enrolled last fall in either ``Introduction to Computing&#39;&#39; or ``Object Oriented Programming&#39;&#39; -- will be investigated by the Dean of Students office staff. <br> <br> Tech spokesman Bob Harty said ``Introduction to Computing&#39;&#39; is a core class for all students, while the second class is required for all computer science students. <br> <br> Almost 1,700 students were enrolled in the two courses in the fall. <br> <br> Kurt Eislet, director of undergraduate education in the College of Computing, said the students were told before taking the class that the cheater-detection software would be used, but either didn&#39;t believe the program existed or thought they could beat the system. <br> <br> Harty said the students could face expulsion but most likely would be given failing grades in the classes.

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