Policies

Here's a video on some basic rules and etiquette students should follow while in class: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH6KUUwmZ7s

General Expectations & Rules

• Attendance: Phone must be in correct phone cubby to be marked present

• Passes: You may take a pass from in front of your teacher's desk in the office. You will be timed

• Start of Class: When you arrive into the Lab, you should not wait on teacher instructions. You should arrive and start working as soon as you're able

• Clean-Up Time: When there are 10 minutes left in class, a blow horn with sound 3 times over the music. This is the indication that you must start cleaning up your area (more details in next section)

  • 1. If the area is not clean by the end of the class, you will be told to stay until done cleaning and will not be given a pass to your next class

    2. If you think it will take longer than 10 minutes to clean, you should start cleaning earlier

• Proper Shop Attire: While in the machine shop of the lab, specifically, the following items are required to be done/worn even just to step into the doors

  • 1. Required: Safety Glasses/Side Shields, Close-toed Shoes, Long hair tied back/in a bun, clothing strands tucked in (i.e. hoodie strings)

    2. Prohibited: Personal Headphones, Sandals/Exposed-toe Shoes, Loose Clothing/Jewelry/Hair

• Food/Drink: No food is allowed in the Lab, unless otherwise stated (i.e. for a special event). No disposable water bottles are allowed in the Lab, and you will be asked to transfer those components into a re-usable bottle, or be drained and properly recycled.

• Feedback: We value your feedback regarding anything in the Engineering Lab. If you have feedback on your class curriculum, concern about another student, a positive shout-out for someone doing something great, or any random feedback related to Engineering, please use the Anonymous Feedback Form to let us know!

Cleaning Procedure

During clean-up time, you must clean up all of your active workstations even if you are in the middle of your project. If you are working on a project, you must have a locker and receive a lock from one of the Instructors. All of your unique, project-specific materials must be put into your locker and your locker must be locked before you leave.

• General tools are NOT ALLOWED to be stored inside of lockers (you are likely not the only one that needs that tool)

• All general tools MUST be put away into the Black Toolbox, located just inside the Machine Shop area

• All work surfaces MUST be cleaned before leaving the class

• Any project-specific materials left out at the end of each class/day will be thrown into the "Red Bins of Shame" marked "Current Week"

  • • At the end of every week, those items will be moved to the "Last Chance" bin for the owner of those parts to retrieve the following week

    • Any items still in the "Last Chance" bin by the end of the following week will be placed as a free up-for-grabs item for anyone in class to take/use, or will be thrown away into the trash.