Engineer B Responsible Charge Active Supervision Violation Instance
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/16#Engineer_B_Responsible_Charge_Active_Supervision_Violation_Instance
Properties
Instance of
ResponsibleChargeActiveSupervisionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ResponsibleChargeActiveSupervisionObligation
Case context
Engineer B, impaired by stroke, delegated all substantive structural design work to Engineer Intern C and signed and sealed the resulting drawings with little to no review, in direct violation of NSPE's Responsible Charge position statement and NSPE Code II.2.b.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.97
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer B
Obligation statement
Engineer B was obligated to be actively engaged in the engineering process from conception to completion and to personally make or directly supervise all engineering decisions, and was prohibited from signing and sealing drawings prepared entirely by Engineer Intern C without genuine involvement in design development and with little to no review.
Temporal scope
Throughout the period following Engineer B's stroke during which he continued to sign and seal structural drawings
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer B delegated practically all design work to Engineer Intern C, a graduate engineer employee with about two years' experience. The way they operated was, Engineer Intern C would perform the structural design and develop the construction drawings, and Engineer B would sign and seal the drawings with little to no review.
Text references
Engineer B delegated practically all design work to Engineer Intern C, a graduate engineer employee with about two years' experience. The way they operated was, Engineer Intern C would perform the structural design and develop the construction drawings, and Engineer B would sign and seal the drawings with little to no review.
Engineer B's actions were in violation of NSPE's Position Statement No. 10-1778: Responsible Charge which states: 'Reviewing drawings or documents after preparation without involvement in the design and development process does not satisfy the definition of Responsible Charge.'
TTL
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case16:Engineer_B_Responsible_Charge_Active_Supervision_Violation_Instance a proeth:ResponsibleChargeActiveSupervisionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer B Responsible Charge Active Supervision Violation Instance" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case16:Engineer_B_Impaired_Practice_Cessation_Violation_Instance ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case16:Engineer_B_Insufficient_Responsible_Charge,
case16:Engineer_B_Post-Stroke_Cognitive_Impairment_Concealment,
case16:Engineer_B_Structural_Design_Error_-_Deficient_Design_Harm_Materialized ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer B, impaired by stroke, delegated all substantive structural design work to Engineer Intern C and signed and sealed the resulting drawings with little to no review, in direct violation of NSPE's Responsible Charge position statement and NSPE Code II.2.b." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.97" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case16:Licensure_Integrity_Violated_By_Engineer_B_Practice_Arrangement,
case16:Responsible_Charge_Engagement_Violated_By_Engineer_B ;
proeth:discoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "16" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer B" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Responsible Charge Active Supervision Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer B was obligated to be actively engaged in the engineering process from conception to completion and to personally make or directly supervise all engineering decisions, and was prohibited from signing and sealing drawings prepared entirely by Engineer Intern C without genuine involvement in design development and with little to no review." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer B delegated practically all design work to Engineer Intern C, a graduate engineer employee with about two years' experience. The way they operated was, Engineer Intern C would perform the structural design and develop the construction drawings, and Engineer B would sign and seal the drawings with little to no review." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the period following Engineer B's stroke during which he continued to sign and seal structural drawings" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer B delegated practically all design work to Engineer Intern C, a graduate engineer employee with about two years' experience. The way they operated was, Engineer Intern C would perform the structural design and develop the construction drawings, and Engineer B would sign and seal the drawings with little to no review.",
"Engineer B's actions were in violation of NSPE's Position Statement No. 10-1778: Responsible Charge which states: 'Reviewing drawings or documents after preparation without involvement in the design and development process does not satisfy the definition of Responsible Charge.'" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 16 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T12:12:21.728734"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 16 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
16
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00
First case
16
Generated
2026-02-25T12:02:21.309464+00:00
Attributed to
Case 16 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T12:12:21.728734
Generated by
ProEthica Case 16 Extraction