Intern Ethical Culpability Despite Unlicensed Status Constraint
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b231bd01
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#InternEthicalCulpabilityDespiteUnlicensedStatusConstraint
Definition
Ethical constraint establishing that an engineer intern who knowingly cooperates with an impaired or non-supervising licensed engineer to continue delivering engineering services — despite full awareness of the licensee's incapacity — bears independent ethical culpability under the professional code of ethics, even though the intern's unlicensed status may shield them from legal censure under the State Engineering Practice Act, prohibiting the intern from treating the absence of licensure as an absence of ethical obligation.
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Ethical constraint establishing that an engineer intern who knowingly cooperates with an impaired or non-supervising licensed engineer to continue delivering engineering services — despite full awareness of the licensee's incapacity — bears independent ethical culpability under the professional code of ethics, even though the intern's unlicensed status may shield them from legal censure under the State Engineering Practice Act, prohibiting the intern from treating the absence of licensure as an absence of ethical obligation.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] Ethical and regulatory constraint requiring that an engineer intern or subordinate who is fully aware that a supervising licensed engineer is medically impaired and incapable of exercising genuine responsible charge must refuse to participate in arrangements whereby the intern performs substantive engineering design work that will be sealed by the impaired licensee without adequate review — prohibiting the intern from knowingly serving as the de facto unlicensed engineer of record under the fiction of licensed supervision, and requiring the intern to seek correction through appropriate authorities when such arrangements are imposed, as established by BER Case 15-2 and NSPE Code provisions governing intern conduct.
Source Evidence
Source Text
While this might keep Engineer Intern C from legal censure per the State Engineering Practice Act, it does not absolve Engineer Intern C of ethical responsibility.
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Ontology
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Content Hash
b231bd014c11c3bc...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
16
Discovered In Pass
2
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-25T03:40:43.032418+00:00
First Discovered In Case
16
Generated
2026-02-25T03:40:43.032418+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 16 Extraction