Responsible Charge Integrity Invoked for Engineer B Full Design Accountability
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/173#Responsible_Charge_Integrity_Invoked_for_Engineer_B_Full_Design_Accountability
Properties
Instance of
ResponsibleChargeIntegrityandSealAuthorityPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ResponsibleChargeIntegrityandSealAuthorityPrinciple
Applied to
Engineer B's sealing and responsibility acknowledgment practices on the modified subdivision plan set
Balancing with
Holistic Design Responsibility Upon Fundamental Modification Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer B's failure to acknowledge responsibility for the full design through notations on the drawings — and his attempt to limit responsibility only to discrete changes — violated the principle that a professional seal certifies the engineer's responsible charge over the certified work, which cannot be artificially fragmented when fundamental modifications affect the whole design
Confidence
0.89
Importance
high
Interpretation
Responsible charge cannot be selectively invoked for only those portions of a design that the engineer personally modified when those modifications fundamentally affect the integrity of the whole design
Invoked by
NSPE Board of Ethical Review
Tension resolution
The Board found Engineer B's failure to acknowledge full design responsibility through notations on the drawings to be an independent ethical concern, suggesting a lack of recognition of the interconnected impact of his modifications
Source Evidence
Source text
We are troubled by Engineer B's failure to acknowledge responsibility for the full design by notations on the drawings.
Text references
In addition, we are troubled by Engineer B's failure to acknowledge responsibility for the full design by notations on the drawings. (See Section III.9.)
This suggests a lack of recognition on the part of Engineer B that his modifications in the design might have a significant impact upon the efficacy and integrity of the entire project design.
TTL
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proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer B's failure to acknowledge responsibility for the full design through notations on the drawings — and his attempt to limit responsibility only to discrete changes — violated the principle that a professional seal certifies the engineer's responsible charge over the certified work, which cannot be artificially fragmented when fundamental modifications affect the whole design" ;
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proeth:discoveredincase "173" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
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proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T14:28:53.714541+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Responsible charge cannot be selectively invoked for only those portions of a design that the engineer personally modified when those modifications fundamentally affect the integrity of the whole design" ;
proeth:invokedby "NSPE Board of Ethical Review" ;
proeth:principleclass "Responsible Charge Integrity and Seal Authority Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "We are troubled by Engineer B's failure to acknowledge responsibility for the full design by notations on the drawings." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The Board found Engineer B's failure to acknowledge full design responsibility through notations on the drawings to be an independent ethical concern, suggesting a lack of recognition of the interconnected impact of his modifications" ;
proeth:textreferences "In addition, we are troubled by Engineer B's failure to acknowledge responsibility for the full design by notations on the drawings. (See Section III.9.)",
"This suggests a lack of recognition on the part of Engineer B that his modifications in the design might have a significant impact upon the efficacy and integrity of the entire project design." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 173 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T14:41:54.508128"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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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
2026-03-01T14:41:54.508128
Generated by
ProEthica Case 173 Extraction