Engineer B Out-of-Competence Footing Design Obligation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/121#Engineer_B_Out-of-Competence_Footing_Design_Obligation
Definition
Engineer B, a chemical engineer with no apparent training in foundation design, was obligated to refrain from designing structural footings for an industrial facility, a domain outside the engineer's competence.
Properties
Instance of
CompetenceBoundaryObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompetenceBoundaryObligation
Case context
Engineer B was separately retained by a construction contractor on a design/build industrial facility project to design structural footings. Engineer B's degree and background was in chemical engineering with no apparent subsequent training in foundation design.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Obligation statement
Engineer B, a chemical engineer with no apparent training in foundation design, was obligated to refrain from designing structural footings for an industrial facility, a domain outside the engineer's competence.
Temporal scope
At the time of accepting and performing the footing design assignment
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
caseContext
complianceStatus
confidence
obligationClass
obligationStatement
temporalScope
textReferences
Relationships
obligatedParty
Agent Engineer B
derivedFromPrinciple
Engineer B Competence Boundary Footing Design
Source Evidence
Text references
Engineer B's degree and background was in chemical engineering. Engineer A had been unable to establish that Engineer B had any apparent subsequent training in foundation design
the Board decided that it would be unethical for Engineer B to perform the design of the structural footings as part of the facility
Source text
Engineer B's degree and background was in chemical engineering. Engineer A had been unable to establish that Engineer B had any apparent subsequent training in foundation design
TTL
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proeth:temporalScope "At the time of accepting and performing the footing design assignment" ;
proeth:textReferences "Engineer B's degree and background was in chemical engineering. Engineer A had been unable to establish that Engineer B had any apparent subsequent training in foundation design",
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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