Non-Engineer Principal Report Falsification Direction State
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Non-EngineerPrincipalReportFalsificationDirectionState
Definition
State in which a principal or supervisor of an engineering firm who does not hold a professional engineering license explicitly directs a licensed engineer to alter the technical conclusions of a sealed professional report to favor the client's financial interest — without any factual or technical basis for the requested change — and, upon the engineer's refusal, takes unilateral action to submit the reports in an altered form, thereby engaging in the unauthorized practice of engineering and suborning professional fraud.
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State in which a principal or supervisor of an engineering firm who does not hold a professional engineering license explicitly directs a licensed engineer to alter the technical conclusions of a sealed professional report to favor the client's financial interest — without any factual or technical basis for the requested change — and, upon the engineer's refusal, takes unilateral action to submit the reports in an altered form, thereby engaging in the unauthorized practice of engineering and suborning professional fraud.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Supervisor B, one of the principals of XYZ Engineering and not a professional engineer, reviews the reports and asks Engineer A to make changes to some of the reports
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rdfs:comment "State in which a principal or supervisor of an engineering firm who does not hold a professional engineering license explicitly directs a licensed engineer to alter the technical conclusions of a sealed professional report to favor the client's financial interest — without any factual or technical basis for the requested change — and, upon the engineer's refusal, takes unilateral action to submit the reports in an altered form, thereby engaging in the unauthorized practice of engineering and suborning professional fraud." ;
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Content Hash
d6ec3579ba948785...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
111
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-28T00:05:50.540035+00:00
First Discovered In Case
111
Generated
2026-02-28T00:05:50.540035+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 111 Extraction