Professional Disassociation Decision State
Class
7511172b
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProfessionalDisassociationDecisionState
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer must decide whether to continue association with a project or firm after internal escalation efforts have failed to resolve ethical violations, where continued association risks implicating the engineer in fraudulent or dishonest conduct, and where disassociation or external reporting becomes an active ethical obligation.
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Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer must decide whether to continue association with a project or firm after internal escalation efforts have failed to resolve ethical violations, where continued association risks implicating the engineer in fraudulent or dishonest conduct, and where disassociation or external reporting becomes an active ethical obligation.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] State in which a licensed professional engineer has pursued all available internal organizational channels to address a compliance violation — including direct reporting to the responsible superior — and those channels have been exhausted without resolution, requiring the engineer to consider external reporting to regulatory or legal authorities.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Should Firm DBA choose not to correct the discrepancies, Engineer M would need to also confer with the City
TTL
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Ontology
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Content Hash
7511172b8575e685...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
5
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-24T13:48:23.677140+00:00
First Discovered In Case
5
Generated
2026-02-24T13:48:23.677140+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 5 Extraction