Responsible Charge Engineer
Class
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ResponsibleChargeEngineer
Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which the practitioner bears formal responsible charge over a project or work product, meaning they must be actively engaged in the engineering process from conception to completion, personally make or directly supervise all engineering decisions, and cannot satisfy this obligation by reviewing completed documents after the fact without involvement in design and development.
Inherited from EngineerRole
A professional role involving engineering practice and responsibilities. Occupational archetype head for all engineer specializations and extracted engineer-role leaves.
Properties
Subclass of
Confidence
0.88
Role category
provider_client
Match Confidence
0.72
Match Reasoning
Responsible Charge Engineer is a specialization of Engineer Role, distinguished by the formal licensure-law concept of responsible charge, which imposes active engagement and supervisory control obligations beyond general engineering practice. No existing extracted class captures this specific licensure-based accountability framing.
Matched Ontology Label
Engineer Role
Matches Existing
true
Source Evidence
Text references
Engineer A did not maintain responsible charge in violation of licensure law
Engineer A, as the engineer in Responsible Charge of the project, is required to provide an experienced-based quality assurance review
NSPE defines 'Responsible Charge' in NSPE Position Statement No. 10-1778 as 'being actively engaged in the engineering process, from conception to completion.'
Source text
Engineer A did not maintain responsible charge in violation of licensure law
Used in cases 1
Case ontologies that instantiate this class. Computed from each individual's type, so the list stays current as cases are extracted. The originating case is shown under Extraction details.
Case 7TTL
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proeth:ResponsibleChargeEngineer a owl:Class ;
rdfs:label "Responsible Charge Engineer" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:roleCategory "provider_client" ;
proeth:textReferences "Engineer A did not maintain responsible charge in violation of licensure law",
"Engineer A, as the engineer in Responsible Charge of the project, is required to provide an experienced-based quality assurance review",
"NSPE defines 'Responsible Charge' in NSPE Position Statement No. 10-1778 as 'being actively engaged in the engineering process, from conception to completion.'" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 7 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 1 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-03T14:00:40.742585+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 7 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.72 ;
proeth-prov:matchReasoning "Responsible Charge Engineer is a specialization of Engineer Role, distinguished by the formal licensure-law concept of responsible charge, which imposes active engagement and supervisory control obligations beyond general engineering practice. No existing extracted class captures this specific licensure-based accountability framing." ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyClass proeth:EngineerRole ;
proeth-prov:matchedOntologyLabel "Engineer Role" ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting true ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "Engineer A did not maintain responsible charge in violation of licensure law" ;
rdfs:comment "A licensed professional engineering role in which the practitioner bears formal responsible charge over a project or work product, meaning they must be actively engaged in the engineering process from conception to completion, personally make or directly supervise all engineering decisions, and cannot satisfy this obligation by reviewing completed documents after the fact without involvement in design and development." ;
rdfs:subClassOf proeth:EngineerRole,
proeth:ProviderClientRole ;
skos:definition "A licensed professional engineering role in which the practitioner bears formal responsible charge over a project or work product, meaning they must be actively engaged in the engineering process from conception to completion, personally make or directly supervise all engineering decisions, and cannot satisfy this obligation by reviewing completed documents after the fact without involvement in design and development." ;
skos:scopeNote "[EngineerRole] A professional role involving engineering practice and responsibilities. Occupational archetype head for all engineer specializations and extracted engineer-role leaves." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-03T14:00:40.742585+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 7 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
7
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-03T14:00:40.742585+00:00
First case
7
Generated
2026-06-03T14:00:40.742585+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 7 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']