Engineer Intern C Subordinate Complicity Prohibition Violation Instance
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/16#Engineer_Intern_C_Subordinate_Complicity_Prohibition_Violation_Instance
Properties
Instance of
SubordinateComplicityProhibitioninImpairedSupervision
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#SubordinateComplicityProhibitioninImpairedSupervision
Case context
Engineer Intern C, fully aware of Engineer B's impaired condition following his stroke, cooperated in an arrangement to perform all substantive structural engineering design and prepare construction drawings, which Engineer B then signed and sealed with little to no review. This arrangement resulted in serious structural failures.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer Intern C
Obligation statement
Engineer Intern C was obligated to refrain from cooperating in an arrangement whereby the impaired Engineer B signed and sealed structural drawings that Engineer Intern C had prepared without adequate supervision, and was obligated to report the arrangement to appropriate authorities including the state engineering licensure board.
Temporal scope
Throughout the period during which Engineer Intern C performed unsupervised structural design work under Engineer B's impaired oversight
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer Intern C Unlicensed Responsible Charge Delegation
derivedFromPrinciple
Subordinate Complicity Prohibition Violated By Engineer Intern C
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer Intern C (who was fully aware of Engineer B's impaired condition) 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 Intern C (who was fully aware of Engineer B's impaired condition) 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 Intern C is ethically culpable through violation of Section II.1.e, Section II.1.f, and Section III.8.a of the Code of Ethics.
Engineer Intern C's complicity in helping Engineer B to continue work was unethical.
TTL
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case16:Engineer_Intern_C_Subordinate_Complicity_Prohibition_Violation_Instance a proeth:SubordinateComplicityProhibitioninImpairedSupervision,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer Intern C Subordinate Complicity Prohibition Violation Instance" ;
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proeth:casecontext "Engineer Intern C, fully aware of Engineer B's impaired condition following his stroke, cooperated in an arrangement to perform all substantive structural engineering design and prepare construction drawings, which Engineer B then signed and sealed with little to no review. This arrangement resulted in serious structural failures." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
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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 Intern C" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Subordinate Complicity Prohibition in Impaired Supervision" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer Intern C was obligated to refrain from cooperating in an arrangement whereby the impaired Engineer B signed and sealed structural drawings that Engineer Intern C had prepared without adequate supervision, and was obligated to report the arrangement to appropriate authorities including the state engineering licensure board." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer Intern C (who was fully aware of Engineer B's impaired condition) 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 during which Engineer Intern C performed unsupervised structural design work under Engineer B's impaired oversight" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer Intern C (who was fully aware of Engineer B's impaired condition) 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 Intern C is ethically culpable through violation of Section II.1.e, Section II.1.f, and Section III.8.a of the Code of Ethics.",
"Engineer Intern C's complicity in helping Engineer B to continue work was unethical." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 16 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T12:12:21.729072"^^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
2026-02-25T12:12:21.729072
Generated by
ProEthica Case 16 Extraction