[cls59]

No kidding. If a team of Doctors, Lawyers or Professional Engineers (Civil, Mechanical, etc.) had been involved in a ethics disaster of similar scale, those people would be in danger of loosing the ability to continue practicing at a professional level.

[maxerickson]

There is almost certainly a PE that is responsible for the emissions systems in these cars.

That doesn't mean they are going to be the only person at the company that is responsible, but they signed off on it and are responsible for it in the context you speak of.