Dual-Role Government-Private Consulting Engineer
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Dual-RoleGovernment-PrivateConsultingEngineer
Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer simultaneously holds a government employment position and performs private consulting work in a related or overlapping domain, bearing obligations to avoid conflicts of interest between the two roles, to act as a faithful agent to both employers, to avoid use of public resources for private work, and to refrain from leveraging governmental authority or relationships to benefit private clients or vice versa.
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Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer simultaneously holds a government employment position and performs private consulting work in a related or overlapping domain, bearing obligations to avoid conflicts of interest between the two roles, to act as a faithful agent to both employers, to avoid use of public resources for private work, and to refrain from leveraging governmental authority or relationships to benefit private clients or vice versa.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] A licensed professional engineering role in which a private-practice engineer serves simultaneously as a part-time municipal engineer and as a private consultant eligible to perform design work for the same municipality, bearing heightened obligations to avoid divided loyalties, disclose conflicts of interest, and ensure advisory judgments are not influenced by the prospect of private design commissions.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer A served as a traffic engineer for the State Department of Transportation
TTL
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rdfs:comment "A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer simultaneously holds a government employment position and performs private consulting work in a related or overlapping domain, bearing obligations to avoid conflicts of interest between the two roles, to act as a faithful agent to both employers, to avoid use of public resources for private work, and to refrain from leveraging governmental authority or relationships to benefit private clients or vice versa." ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EmployerRelationshipRole> .
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Ontology
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Content Hash
f48cc012d376edaf...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
129
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-27T19:34:43.817300+00:00
First Discovered In Case
129
Generated
2026-02-27T19:34:43.817300+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 129 Extraction