ENGCO Non-Degreed Personnel Engineering Title Misrepresentation Non-Facilitation Obligation Instance
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/56#ENGCO_Non-Degreed_Personnel_Engineering_Title_Misrepresentation_Non-Facilitation_Obligation_Instance
Properties
Instance of
EngineeringTitleMisrepresentationNon-FacilitationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EngineeringTitleMisrepresentationNon-FacilitationObligation
Case context
BER Case 95-10 considered engineering firm ENGCO, which listed key personnel who did not hold engineering degrees with titles including 'Engineer' and 'Design Engineer.' The BER concluded that the profession must not use such titles indiscriminately, even when industry and governmental agencies sometimes do.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
ENGCO Engineering Firm
Obligation statement
ENGCO was obligated to refrain from listing key personnel who did not hold engineering degrees with titles including 'Engineer' and 'Design Engineer,' and to correct this misrepresentation, so that clients and the public were not misled about the qualifications of those individuals.
Temporal scope
Throughout the period during which ENGCO listed non-degreed personnel with engineering titles
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineering Title Misrepresentation by Firms and Agencies
derivedFromPrinciple
Professional Title Integrity Invoked in BER Case 95-10 ENGCO Non-Degreed Personnel
Source Evidence
Source text
BER Case 95-10 considered an engineering firm, ENGCO, that listed key personnel who did not hold engineering degrees with titles including 'Engineer' and 'Design Engineer.'
Text references
Although the industry and governmental agencies sometimes use the term indiscriminently [sic], we in the profession must not.
BER Case 95-10 considered an engineering firm, ENGCO, that listed key personnel who did not hold engineering degrees with titles including 'Engineer' and 'Design Engineer.'
TTL
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case56:ENGCO_Non-Degreed_Personnel_Engineering_Title_Misrepresentation_Non-Facilitation_Obligation_Instance a proeth:EngineeringTitleMisrepresentationNon-FacilitationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "ENGCO Non-Degreed Personnel Engineering Title Misrepresentation Non-Facilitation Obligation Instance" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case56:Engineering_Title_Misrepresentation_by_Firms_and_Agencies ;
proeth:casecontext "BER Case 95-10 considered engineering firm ENGCO, which listed key personnel who did not hold engineering degrees with titles including 'Engineer' and 'Design Engineer.' The BER concluded that the profession must not use such titles indiscriminately, even when industry and governmental agencies sometimes do." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case56:Professional_Title_Integrity_Invoked_in_BER_Case_95-10_ENGCO_Non-Degreed_Personnel ;
proeth:discoveredincase "56" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T20:53:42.123390+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "56" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T20:53:42.123390+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "ENGCO Engineering Firm" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Engineering Title Misrepresentation Non-Facilitation Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "ENGCO was obligated to refrain from listing key personnel who did not hold engineering degrees with titles including 'Engineer' and 'Design Engineer,' and to correct this misrepresentation, so that clients and the public were not misled about the qualifications of those individuals." ;
proeth:sourcetext "BER Case 95-10 considered an engineering firm, ENGCO, that listed key personnel who did not hold engineering degrees with titles including 'Engineer' and 'Design Engineer.'" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the period during which ENGCO listed non-degreed personnel with engineering titles" ;
proeth:textreferences "Although the industry and governmental agencies sometimes use the term indiscriminently [sic], we in the profession must not.",
"BER Case 95-10 considered an engineering firm, ENGCO, that listed key personnel who did not hold engineering degrees with titles including 'Engineer' and 'Design Engineer.'" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 56 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T21:02:03.857579"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 56 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
56
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T20:53:42.123390+00:00
First case
56
Generated
2026-02-25T20:53:42.123390+00:00
Attributed to
Case 56 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T21:02:03.857579
Generated by
ProEthica Case 56 Extraction