Absence and Lateness Policies

Questions or concerns regarding absence and lateness should be directed to the section recitation instructors. In general, please reach out to the engineering professor, writing professor, and recitation TA attached to your section as far ahead as possible of a lateness of absence . If one person is contacted, the writing professor for example, make sure you CC the rest (engineering professor and TA). For long-term accommodations, please contact the NYU Moses Center for Accessibility.

Excused Absences

NYU Tandon Student Advocacy <advocacy.tandonstudentlife@nyu.edu> provides a channel for students to request accommodations for a variety of reasons. EG1004 uses the Student Advocate to verify excused absences.

Lab Absence Policy

If you miss a lab, you will have to make up the lab on your own during an Open Lab session. The Open Lab hours can be found on the EG Website.

In order to make up the lab in Open Lab, you will need to get permission to do so from the faculty member in charge of your section. To do this, log in to your eg.poly.edu account. On the left, click Makeup Lab, and fill out the necessary information. After the form as been submitted, the Professor and Recitation TA will be notified of your request and can take action. Make-up lab request forms are to be completed within two weeks of the missed lab session.

Once the form is approved, you may go to any Open Lab session while the form is valid. Supply the Open Lab TA with your name and they will be able to confirm your eligibility to make up the lab.

If your request is not APPROVED, the Open Lab TA will not permit you to make up the lab!

Makeup Lab Requests must be submitted no more than two weeks after the sections performs the Lab.

Makeup labs should be completed in Open Lab. You should complete the makeup lab individually.

Many of the labs are competitions and have bonus points awarded based on how your team places. If you're making up a lab in the Open Lab, you are not eligible for these bonus points.

Once your makeup lab is complete, you will have one week to submit your presentation and lab report to the EG Website. As the presentation will be graded outside of recitation, your presentation must include a voice-over or speaker notes what would be covered while presenting, but is not on the slide.

Note that your faculty member is not required to give you an authorization for Open Lab. The faculty member will probably also want to discuss with you what's wrong since you are missing a significant portion of the course experience.

Lab Lateness and Absence

Students must be on-time for each lab session. Students will not be admitted more than 15 minutes after the lab has begun. To address a lateness of 15 minutes or more, or absence from a lab session entirely, students can complete a makeup lab.

To make up a missed lab, fill out a makeup lab request on the course website within two weeks of the missed session. To do this, log in to your eg.poly.edu account. On the left, click Makeup Lab, and fill out the necessary information. After the form has been submitted, the Professor and Recitation TA will review the request.

If the form is approved, visit Open Lab while the form is valid. A TA will confirm the approval and provide assistance. Note that students who complete makeup labs are ineligible for competition extra credit points, and that students whose makeup team lab reports must complete the report and presentation individually.

The makeup presentation and report must be submitted to the EG website within one week of completing the lab. As the presentation will be graded outside of recitation, your presentation must include speaker notes of what would be covered while presenting.

Recitation Absence Policy

If you miss a recitation, your partners will have to give the presentation without you. This puts a heavy burden on them, so you should only miss a recitation when there is a compelling reason to do so. In addition, you should notify your teammates of your absence ahead of time if at all possible. You should also notify your faculty member and recitation TA of your absence ahead of time if at all possible.

If you are excused from the recitation by your faculty member, you will receive the same presentation grade as your teammates. If you are not excused, you will receive a zero for any coursework performed that day, whether they be such things as lab presentations or milestone presentations.

Recitation Lateness Policy

If you are late for a recitation, it is at the faculty member's discretion whether or not to allow you to be admitted to the recitation. If you missed your team's presentation, it will be equivalent to not having been at the recitation, as described in the Absence Policy. If you are more than 10 minutes late for the recitation, the faculty member will not allow you to be admitted except in truly exceptional circumstances, and it will be equivalent to having missed the recitation, as described in the Absence Policy. If you are admitted late to a recitation, you will receive a penalty on your presentation grade.

Lecture Policies

If you miss a lecture, there is no way to make it up. The TAs will take attendance by scanning your ID during the first five minutes of the lecture; thereafter, you may enter the lecture but you will not get any credit for attending the lecture. This way you will receive the handout for that lecture so that you can prepare for the upcoming quiz on the lecture material during the next lab session. It is the student's responsibility to make sure that their ID is scanned.

Course Registration Issues

Occasionally, students cannot be present starting on the first day of class. They may not be able to register, or they may be overseas when the course starts. We will make every effort to accommodate these students and help them to complete the course successfully.

If you miss any lectures, you should see your TAs or faculty member and get a copy of the slides that were presented at the lectures. These slides contain valuable material, and you will find it rewarding to review them. The name of the presenter is also on the first slide, and they would welcome any questions you might have.

For the labs, you must complete all the labs in order to complete the course. There are no excused labs. The way to complete these labs is to go to the Open Lab and complete your work there if you need to. For the labs that use software that's already on your laptop, you can do the lab on your own, or in the Computer Lab. However, most of the labs require access to EG1004 lab equipment, and you will probably have to use the Open Lab time to complete your work. You should agree with your faculty member on the due date for the lab report when you get your EG1004 Open Lab Authorization Form. Any lateness will be measured from that date. Similarly, you will have to do your lab presentations at a date that you and your faculty member agree on. Any lateness from that date will count as a zero for that presentation.

Since the workload for most students only increases as the term progresses, you and your faculty member should come up with a plan to make up work as quickly as possible so that you're back on schedule with a normal workload as early in the term as possible.

If you join the course after teams have been formed for the semester-long design project, your faculty member will either have you join a team that already exists as an additional member, or split up an existing team into two teams, with you joining one of these teams. This decision is the faculty member's responsibility.