Confidentiality-Directed Successor Design Engineer
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6360aa72
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Confidentiality-DirectedSuccessorDesignEngineer
Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is retained by a client to review and ultimately replace an incumbent engineer's design work, under a client instruction to conceal the new engagement from the incumbent, bearing obligations to disclose the relationship to the incumbent engineer despite client confidentiality direction, to conduct an objective technical review, and to avoid using the confidentiality instruction as a means of gaining unfair competitive advantage.
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Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is retained by a client to review and ultimately replace an incumbent engineer's design work, under a client instruction to conceal the new engagement from the incumbent, bearing obligations to disclose the relationship to the incumbent engineer despite client confidentiality direction, to conduct an objective technical review, and to avoid using the confidentiality instruction as a means of gaining unfair competitive advantage.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer conducts a peer review of another engineer's design work under a contractual confidentiality agreement, bearing obligations to maintain confidentiality of review findings while retaining overriding obligations to notify the original design engineer of the review, discuss concerns directly with that engineer, and report public safety violations to appropriate authorities when collegial resolution fails.
Source Evidence
Source Text
franchiser specifically tells Engineer B not to disclose to Engineer A, Engineer B's relationship with franchiser
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rdfs:comment "A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer is retained by a client to review and ultimately replace an incumbent engineer's design work, under a client instruction to conceal the new engagement from the incumbent, bearing obligations to disclose the relationship to the incumbent engineer despite client confidentiality direction, to conduct an objective technical review, and to avoid using the confidentiality instruction as a means of gaining unfair competitive advantage." ;
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Content Hash
6360aa721f6bf0af...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
126
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-03-01T10:10:01.127360+00:00
First Discovered In Case
126
Generated
2026-03-01T10:10:01.127360+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 126 Extraction