BER Case 94-8 Chemical Engineer Foundation Design Incompetence
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/12#BER_Case_94-8_Chemical_Engineer_Foundation_Design_Incompetence
Properties
Instance of
Domain-SpecificIncompetencewithGeneralLicensureState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Domain-SpecificIncompetencewithGeneralLicensureState
Active period
From request to perform foundation design through Board determination
Affected parties
Chemical engineer
Construction workers and facility users
Industrial facility client
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Subject
Chemical engineer's competence relative to structural foundation design
Terminated by
Board determination that performing the design would be unethical
Triggering event
Chemical engineer asked to provide foundation design for industrial facility outside their domain of competence
Urgency level
high
Source Evidence
Source text
a professional engineer with a degree and background in chemical engineering was asked to provide a foundation design for an industrial facility
Text references
BER Case 94-8 provided an extreme example of incompetence
a professional engineer with a degree and background in chemical engineering was asked to provide a foundation design for an industrial facility
it would be unethical for the engineer to perform the design of the structural footings as part of the facility
TTL
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proeth:activeperiod "From request to perform foundation design through Board determination" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Chemical engineer",
"Construction workers and facility users",
"Industrial facility client" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "12" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-24T19:48:00.422063+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "12" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-24T19:48:00.422063+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "a professional engineer with a degree and background in chemical engineering was asked to provide a foundation design for an industrial facility" ;
proeth:stateclass "Domain-Specific Incompetence with General Licensure State" ;
proeth:subject "Chemical engineer's competence relative to structural foundation design" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Board determination that performing the design would be unethical" ;
proeth:textreferences "BER Case 94-8 provided an extreme example of incompetence",
"a professional engineer with a degree and background in chemical engineering was asked to provide a foundation design for an industrial facility",
"it would be unethical for the engineer to perform the design of the structural footings as part of the facility" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Chemical engineer asked to provide foundation design for industrial facility outside their domain of competence" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "high" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 12 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-24T20:03:54.183307"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
12
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-24T19:48:00.422063+00:00
First case
12
Generated
2026-02-24T19:48:00.422063+00:00
Attributed to
Case 12 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-24T20:03:54.183307
Generated by
ProEthica Case 12 Extraction