Engineer F Personal Misconduct Ethics Code Jurisdiction Recognition Failure
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/148#Engineer_F_Personal_Misconduct_Ethics_Code_Jurisdiction_Recognition_Failure
Properties
Instance of
PersonalMisconductEthicsCodeJurisdictionRecognitionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PersonalMisconductEthicsCodeJurisdictionRecognitionObligation
Case context
Engineer F's contractor license revocation arose from non-engineering contracting activity (license-number lending). The Board applied BER Case 75-5 to hold that the Code of Ethics reaches beyond the specific practice of engineering to the whole person, making Engineer F's contractor misconduct subject to ethical scrutiny.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer F
Obligation statement
Engineer F was obligated to recognize that the NSPE Code of Ethics extends its jurisdiction to personal misconduct — including contractor license revocation — that reflects on his integrity and fitness for professional practice, and could not treat the Code as limited to purely technical engineering conduct.
Temporal scope
At the time of the contractor license revocation and subsequently at the time of employment application
Source Evidence
Source text
BER Case 75-5 clearly indicates that the BER must look beyond just the specific practice of engineering to the whole person when addressing ethical issues relating to professional engineers.
Text references
BER Case 75-5 clearly indicates that the BER must look beyond just the specific practice of engineering to the whole person when addressing ethical issues relating to professional engineers.
personal misconduct of the kind indicated in this case is subject to the Code of Ethics and may be dealt with accordingly under the code in addition to whatever action may be appropriate by legal authorities.
the basic purpose of a code of ethics is to so regulate and direct the activities of professional practitioners that the public they serve may have confidence in their integrity, honesty, and decorous behavior.
TTL
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proeth:casecontext "Engineer F's contractor license revocation arose from non-engineering contracting activity (license-number lending). The Board applied BER Case 75-5 to hold that the Code of Ethics reaches beyond the specific practice of engineering to the whole person, making Engineer F's contractor misconduct subject to ethical scrutiny." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
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proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
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proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
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proeth:importance "high" ;
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proeth:obligationclass "Personal Misconduct Ethics Code Jurisdiction Recognition Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer F was obligated to recognize that the NSPE Code of Ethics extends its jurisdiction to personal misconduct — including contractor license revocation — that reflects on his integrity and fitness for professional practice, and could not treat the Code as limited to purely technical engineering conduct." ;
proeth:sourcetext "BER Case 75-5 clearly indicates that the BER must look beyond just the specific practice of engineering to the whole person when addressing ethical issues relating to professional engineers." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of the contractor license revocation and subsequently at the time of employment application" ;
proeth:textreferences "BER Case 75-5 clearly indicates that the BER must look beyond just the specific practice of engineering to the whole person when addressing ethical issues relating to professional engineers.",
"personal misconduct of the kind indicated in this case is subject to the Code of Ethics and may be dealt with accordingly under the code in addition to whatever action may be appropriate by legal authorities.",
"the basic purpose of a code of ethics is to so regulate and direct the activities of professional practitioners that the public they serve may have confidence in their integrity, honesty, and decorous behavior." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 148 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T23:11:08.580419"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
148
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T23:02:49.838777+00:00
First case
148
Generated
2026-02-28T23:02:49.838777+00:00
Attributed to
Case 148 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T23:11:08.580419
Generated by
ProEthica Case 148 Extraction