Engineer Intern PE Exam Failure Non-Disclosure
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/60#Engineer_Intern_PE_Exam_Failure_Non-Disclosure
Properties
Instance of
CredentialDisclosureMateriality
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CredentialDisclosureMateriality
Applied to
Pre-employment disclosure to prospective employer
Balancing with
Honesty
Transparency
Concrete expression
An Engineer Intern did not disclose two prior PE exam failures to a prospective employer who knew the intern had not yet passed the exam and offered employment on that basis, and the BER found the omission non-material and therefore not unethical.
Confidence
0.92
Importance
medium
Interpretation
The employer's decision to hire with full knowledge that the PE had not been passed rendered the number of prior failures immaterial to the employment decision.
Invoked by
Engineer Intern PE Exam Candidate
Tension resolution
The BER concluded that because the employer was not relying on the exam history in making the hiring decision, the omission did not rise to an unethical material misrepresentation.
Source Evidence
Source text
In light of the employer's decision to offer employment with the full knowledge that the Engineer Intern had not passed the PE exam, the BER concluded that the omission was not material and, therefore, not unethical.
Text references
Engineer Intern explained to a prospective employer the intention to take the PE exam in the coming weeks, but was not asked and did not disclose two previous failures to pass the PE exam
In light of the employer's decision to offer employment with the full knowledge that the Engineer Intern had not passed the PE exam, the BER concluded that the omission was not material and, therefore, not unethical.
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer Intern PE Exam Failure Non-Disclosure" ;
proeth:appliedto "Pre-employment disclosure to prospective employer" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Honesty",
"Transparency" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "An Engineer Intern did not disclose two prior PE exam failures to a prospective employer who knew the intern had not yet passed the exam and offered employment on that basis, and the BER found the omission non-material and therefore not unethical." ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "60" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-05-27T19:43:21.746484+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "60" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-05-27T19:43:21.746484+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:interpretation "The employer's decision to hire with full knowledge that the PE had not been passed rendered the number of prior failures immaterial to the employment decision." ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer Intern PE Exam Candidate" ;
proeth:principleclass "Credential Disclosure Materiality" ;
proeth:sourcetext "In light of the employer's decision to offer employment with the full knowledge that the Engineer Intern had not passed the PE exam, the BER concluded that the omission was not material and, therefore, not unethical." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The BER concluded that because the employer was not relying on the exam history in making the hiring decision, the omission did not rise to an unethical material misrepresentation." ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer Intern explained to a prospective employer the intention to take the PE exam in the coming weeks, but was not asked and did not disclose two previous failures to pass the PE exam",
"In light of the employer's decision to offer employment with the full knowledge that the Engineer Intern had not passed the PE exam, the BER concluded that the omission was not material and, therefore, not unethical." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 60 Extraction" ;
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prov:wasAttributedTo "claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
60
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-05-27T19:43:21.746484+00:00
First case
60
Generated
2026-05-27T19:43:21.746484+00:00
Attributed to
Case 60 Extraction
Generated
2026-05-27T20:10:55.509508
Attributed to
claude-sonnet-4-6
Generated by
ProEthica Case 60 Extraction