Original Engineer Seal Integrity Right Invoked for Engineer A Upon Discharge
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/173#Original_Engineer_Seal_Integrity_Right_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Upon_Discharge
Properties
Instance of
OriginalEngineerSealIntegrityRightUponDischarge
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#OriginalEngineerSealIntegrityRightUponDischarge
Applied to
Engineer A's sealed subdivision plans after discharge and transfer to Engineer B
Balancing with
Client Loyalty
Successor Engineer Sealed Plan Alteration Without Attribution Prohibition
Concrete expression
Engineer A, having been discharged after completing and sealing a full set of subdivision plans, retained a professional interest in ensuring that the sealed plans were not used in ways that misrepresented his professional conclusions — an interest that persisted through the client's transfer of the sealed plans to Engineer B and Engineer B's subsequent modifications without proper attribution or seal supersession
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Interpretation
Discharge does not extinguish the original engineer's professional connection to sealed work; the seal continues to represent a public certification of the engineer's judgment, and that certification is compromised when the sealed documents are materially altered without proper attribution
Invoked by
NSPE Board of Ethical Review
Tension resolution
The Board acknowledged Engineer A's continuing connection to the work despite discharge, using this as a basis for finding Engineer B's conduct troubling and for recommending consultation as the professionally wise course
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A still maintained a connection with the work which he had performed by virtue of the fact that the client passed along Engineer A's work product to Engineer B.
Text references
In addition, the facts indicate that Engineer B took those plans and made certain modifications in those plans.
While it is true that Engineer A had been 'discharged' by the client, Engineer A still maintained a connection with the work which he had performed by virtue of the fact that the client passed along Engineer A's work product to Engineer B.
TTL
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case173:Original_Engineer_Seal_Integrity_Right_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_Upon_Discharge a proeth:OriginalEngineerSealIntegrityRightUponDischarge,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Original Engineer Seal Integrity Right Invoked for Engineer A Upon Discharge" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's sealed subdivision plans after discharge and transfer to Engineer B" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Client Loyalty",
"Successor Engineer Sealed Plan Alteration Without Attribution Prohibition" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A, having been discharged after completing and sealing a full set of subdivision plans, retained a professional interest in ensuring that the sealed plans were not used in ways that misrepresented his professional conclusions — an interest that persisted through the client's transfer of the sealed plans to Engineer B and Engineer B's subsequent modifications without proper attribution or seal supersession" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "173" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T14:28:53.714541+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "173" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T14:28:53.714541+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Discharge does not extinguish the original engineer's professional connection to sealed work; the seal continues to represent a public certification of the engineer's judgment, and that certification is compromised when the sealed documents are materially altered without proper attribution" ;
proeth:invokedby "NSPE Board of Ethical Review" ;
proeth:principleclass "Original Engineer Seal Integrity Right Upon Discharge" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A still maintained a connection with the work which he had performed by virtue of the fact that the client passed along Engineer A's work product to Engineer B." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The Board acknowledged Engineer A's continuing connection to the work despite discharge, using this as a basis for finding Engineer B's conduct troubling and for recommending consultation as the professionally wise course" ;
proeth:textreferences "In addition, the facts indicate that Engineer B took those plans and made certain modifications in those plans.",
"While it is true that Engineer A had been 'discharged' by the client, Engineer A still maintained a connection with the work which he had performed by virtue of the fact that the client passed along Engineer A's work product to Engineer B." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 173 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T14:41:54.508853"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 173 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
173
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T14:28:53.714541+00:00
First case
173
Generated
2026-03-01T14:28:53.714541+00:00
Attributed to
Case 173 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T14:41:54.508853
Generated by
ProEthica Case 173 Extraction