Engineer W Formative Mentorship Ethical Integrity Shadyvale Intern D
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/58#Engineer_W_Formative_Mentorship_Ethical_Integrity_Shadyvale_Intern_D
Properties
Instance of
FormativeMentorshipEthicalIntegrityObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FormativeMentorshipEthicalIntegrityObligation
Case context
Engineer W directed Engineer Intern D — a young engineer at the beginning of a professional career — to revise a policy-compliant design in a manner that would covertly divert $700,000 of DOT funds, thereby imparting a formatively harmful lesson about professional ethics.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer W
Obligation statement
Engineer W was obligated, as a senior DOT engineer supervising Engineer Intern D at the outset of the intern's professional career, to model ethical compliance with DOT policy and to refrain from directing the intern to participate in a covert policy-violating design revision — recognizing that such direction would teach the intern that secretly diverting public funds is an acceptable professional practice.
Temporal scope
Throughout the supervisory relationship and specifically at the time of the policy-violating directive
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer Intern D Professional Formation
Source Evidence
Source text
The matter is particularly poignant when it is realized how formational the lesson will be to Engineer Intern D, a young engineer about to begin a professional career.
Text references
Is secretly diverting $700,000 of state DOT funds to benefit an impoverished village the best version of how projects are done? No.
The matter is particularly poignant when it is realized how formational the lesson will be to Engineer Intern D, a young engineer about to begin a professional career.
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer W Formative Mentorship Ethical Integrity Shadyvale Intern D" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case58:Engineer_Intern_D_Professional_Formation ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer W directed Engineer Intern D — a young engineer at the beginning of a professional career — to revise a policy-compliant design in a manner that would covertly divert $700,000 of DOT funds, thereby imparting a formatively harmful lesson about professional ethics." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case58:Formative_Professional_Mentorship_Integrity_Obligation_Applied_to_Engineer_W_and_Intern_D ;
proeth:discoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer W" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Formative Mentorship Ethical Integrity Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer W was obligated, as a senior DOT engineer supervising Engineer Intern D at the outset of the intern's professional career, to model ethical compliance with DOT policy and to refrain from directing the intern to participate in a covert policy-violating design revision — recognizing that such direction would teach the intern that secretly diverting public funds is an acceptable professional practice." ;
proeth:sourcetext "The matter is particularly poignant when it is realized how formational the lesson will be to Engineer Intern D, a young engineer about to begin a professional career." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the supervisory relationship and specifically at the time of the policy-violating directive" ;
proeth:textreferences "Is secretly diverting $700,000 of state DOT funds to benefit an impoverished village the best version of how projects are done? No.",
"The matter is particularly poignant when it is realized how formational the lesson will be to Engineer Intern D, a young engineer about to begin a professional career." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 58 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T22:07:12.212465"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 58 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
58
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00
First case
58
Generated
2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00
Attributed to
Case 58 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T22:07:12.212465
Generated by
ProEthica Case 58 Extraction