Rules for laboratory work
The head of the Department of Physics has decided that the following rules should apply for lab work in undergraduate education.
- Every student must read the lab instruction before coming to the lab.
- All equipment should be handled carefully to minimize wear and the risk of accidents.
- When several students collaborate with a lab assignment, each student must be able to report the findings of the group. Thus, it is possible that some students in a lab group will pass while other students will fail a particular assignment.
- A student that arrives more than 15 minutes late to a lab session has no right to start the lab work at that occasion. A new time to complete the assignment should be agreed upon together with the supervisor. If possible, a new time can be found at a later occasion in the same lab period. In other cases the student has to wait until the next time the same lab assignment is scheduled. The same rules apply when a student has not made the necessary preparations before coming to the lab.
- No food may be eaten in the lab.
Templates
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