Unlicensed Intern Responsible Charge Delegation State
Class
ddc8a882
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#UnlicensedInternResponsibleChargeDelegationState
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer, while remaining nominally responsible, has effectively transferred substantive engineering design authority and decision-making to an engineer intern or graduate engineer who lacks the licensure, experience, and independent judgment required to exercise responsible charge — with the licensed engineer affixing their seal to the resulting work product without meaningful review — thereby creating a structural violation of responsible charge requirements and exposing the public to the risk of defective engineering.
Properties
Subclass of
Definition
State in which a licensed professional engineer, while remaining nominally responsible, has effectively transferred substantive engineering design authority and decision-making to an engineer intern or graduate engineer who lacks the licensure, experience, and independent judgment required to exercise responsible charge — with the licensed engineer affixing their seal to the resulting work product without meaningful review — thereby creating a structural violation of responsible charge requirements and exposing the public to the risk of defective engineering.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] State in which a licensed professional engineer has affixed their seal or signature to plans or documents without having maintained responsible charge as defined by licensure law — specifically, without being actively engaged in the engineering process from conception to completion, without providing supervisory direction and control over the design development process, and without conducting an experience-based quality assurance review — resulting in a violation of professional licensure obligations.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer B delegated practically all design work to Engineer Intern C, a graduate engineer employee with about two years' experience
TTL
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
ddc8a88219b6bdf9...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
16
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-25T02:44:07.719333+00:00
First Discovered In Case
16
Generated
2026-02-25T02:44:07.719333+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 16 Extraction