Engineer A Self-Certification CD-ROM
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/121#Engineer_A_Self-Certification_CD-ROM
Definition
Engineer A was obligated to refrain from treating the purchase and use of a commercial CD-ROM design tool as a basis for representing competence to perform facilities design and construction services.
Properties
Instance of
Self-CertificationAvoidanceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Self-CertificationAvoidanceObligation
Case context
Engineer A ordered a CD-ROM marketed as enabling anyone to specify, design, and cost out facilities projects, and used that acquisition as the basis for offering professional facilities design services without obtaining substantive education, experience, or qualifications.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.93
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to refrain from treating the purchase and use of a commercial CD-ROM design tool as a basis for representing competence to perform facilities design and construction services.
Temporal scope
At the time of ordering the CD-ROM and representing competence to prospective clients
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
caseContext
complianceStatus
confidence
obligationClass
obligationStatement
temporalScope
textReferences
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer A CD-ROM Self-Certified Competence
obligatedParty
Agent Engineer A
derivedFromPrinciple
Engineer A Self-Certification CD-ROM Facilities Design
Source Evidence
Text references
By ordering and using the CD-ROM, Engineer A in a sense was self-certifying his competency to perform facilities design and construction services without obtaining the substantive education, experience, and qualifications to perform those services in a competent and professional manner
The Board considers such activities completely contrary to the basic ethical principles established in the Code of Ethics
not unlike mail order certifications offered by so called diploma mills whereby individuals self certify their competency based upon a perfunctory review process
Source text
By ordering and using the CD-ROM, Engineer A in a sense was self-certifying his competency to perform facilities design and construction services without obtaining the substantive education, experience, and qualifications to perform those services in a competent and professional manner
TTL
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rdfs:label "Engineer A Self-Certification CD-ROM" ;
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proeth:caseContext "Engineer A ordered a CD-ROM marketed as enabling anyone to specify, design, and cost out facilities projects, and used that acquisition as the basis for offering professional facilities design services without obtaining substantive education, experience, or qualifications." ;
proeth:complianceStatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case121:Engineer_A_Self-Certification_CD-ROM_Facilities_Design ;
proeth:obligatedParty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationClass "Self-Certification Avoidance Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationStatement "Engineer A was obligated to refrain from treating the purchase and use of a commercial CD-ROM design tool as a basis for representing competence to perform facilities design and construction services." ;
proeth:temporalScope "At the time of ordering the CD-ROM and representing competence to prospective clients" ;
proeth:textReferences "By ordering and using the CD-ROM, Engineer A in a sense was self-certifying his competency to perform facilities design and construction services without obtaining the substantive education, experience, and qualifications to perform those services in a competent and professional manner",
"The Board considers such activities completely contrary to the basic ethical principles established in the Code of Ethics",
"not unlike mail order certifications offered by so called diploma mills whereby individuals self certify their competency based upon a perfunctory review process" ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
121
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-04T18:49:10.142160+00:00
First case
121
Generated
2026-06-04T18:49:10.142160+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 121 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 121 Extraction