Engineer A Technology Substitution CD-ROM Design
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/121#Engineer_A_Technology_Substitution_CD-ROM_Design
Definition
Engineer A used a CD-ROM design tool as a substitute for the engineering judgment, education, and experience required to perform facilities design, rather than as an aid to be evaluated by a qualified practitioner.
Properties
Instance of
TechnologySubstitutionProhibitionPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#TechnologySubstitutionProhibitionPrinciple
Applied to
CD-ROM-generated facilities design outputs
Balancing with
Competence Boundary Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A used a CD-ROM design tool as a substitute for the engineering judgment, education, and experience required to perform facilities design, rather than as an aid to be evaluated by a qualified practitioner.
Confidence
0.92
Interpretation
The Board explicitly stated that technology must never be a replacement or substitute for engineering judgment. A CD-ROM that generates design outputs cannot supply the foundational knowledge needed to evaluate those outputs critically.
Tension resolution
The technology substitution prohibition and competence boundary principle converge: the tool cannot remedy the competence gap, and using the tool in place of competence violates both principles simultaneously.
Match Confidence
0.95
Match Reasoning
Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Technology Substitution Prohibition Principle'
Matched Ontology Label
Technology Substitution Prohibition Principle
Matches Existing
true
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
Professional engineering cannot be reduced to an activity whereby practitioners rely upon computers and technical information instead of time-tested professional experience and engineering judgment.
it is the Board's position that technology has an important place in the practice of engineering, but it must never be a replacement of a substitute for engineering judgment
Source text
it is the Board's position that technology has an important place in the practice of engineering, but it must never be a replacement of a substitute for engineering judgment.
TTL
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case121:Engineer_A_Technology_Substitution_CD-ROM_Design a proeth:TechnologySubstitutionProhibitionPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Technology Substitution CD-ROM Design" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case121:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "CD-ROM-generated facilities design outputs" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Competence Boundary Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A used a CD-ROM design tool as a substitute for the engineering judgment, education, and experience required to perform facilities design, rather than as an aid to be evaluated by a qualified practitioner." ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:interpretation "The Board explicitly stated that technology must never be a replacement or substitute for engineering judgment. A CD-ROM that generates design outputs cannot supply the foundational knowledge needed to evaluate those outputs critically." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A" ;
proeth:principleClass "Technology Substitution Prohibition Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "The technology substitution prohibition and competence boundary principle converge: the tool cannot remedy the competence gap, and using the tool in place of competence violates both principles simultaneously." ;
proeth:textReferences "Professional engineering cannot be reduced to an activity whereby practitioners rely upon computers and technical information instead of time-tested professional experience and engineering judgment.",
"it is the Board's position that technology has an important place in the practice of engineering, but it must never be a replacement of a substitute for engineering judgment" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 121 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T18:48:00.517540+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 121 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.95 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Individual typed as existing ontology class 'Technology Substitution Prohibition Principle'" ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass proeth:TechnologySubstitutionProhibitionPrinciple ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Technology Substitution Prohibition Principle" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "it is the Board's position that technology has an important place in the practice of engineering, but it must never be a replacement of a substitute for engineering judgment." ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A used a CD-ROM design tool as a substitute for the engineering judgment, education, and experience required to perform facilities design, rather than as an aid to be evaluated by a qualified practitioner." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A used a CD-ROM design tool as a substitute for the engineering judgment, education, and experience required to perform facilities design, rather than as an aid to be evaluated by a qualified practitioner." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T18:48:00.517540+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 121 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 121 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
121
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-04T18:48:00.517540+00:00
First case
121
Generated
2026-06-04T18:48:00.517540+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 121 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 121 Extraction