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Because many of the Georgia Institute of Technology students taking business German come from the sciences and engineering, the business language textbook used has been supplemented with more technologically oriented instructional materials. Highly technical texts are too advanced at the second year language learning stage, so one teacher selected materials in three areas offering the potential for combining business and technology content: energy and the environment; car manufacture; and computers. Each topic-area package contains 20-25 pages of material from scientific journals, textbooks, newspapers, and/or industry literature, and exercises developed by the teacher. The materials are introduced in the second and third quarters of the three-quarter business German sequence. While all four language skill areas (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) are targeted, listening skills are less emphasized due to lack of aural material. The package on car manufacture is included. (MSE)

Data are presented on labor market conditions for science and engineering graduates based on responses of 255 firms to mail and telephone surveys conducted in late fall of 1981. Highlights presented in table, chart, and text indicate: (1) definite and likely shortages were concentrated in the computer and engineering fields; (2) chemical, industrial, mechanical engineering and earth sciences reported a general balance between supply and demand; (3) fields in which job applicants were in excess of needs included physics, mathematics, chemistry, and civil engineering; (4) employer perceptions of shortages of Ph.D.'s were not consistent with those at the lower degree levels; (5) reported shortages were concentrated in industries having experienced overall employment growth in 1981; (6) at each degree level a greater proportion of employers reported shortages for engineering graduates then for science graduates; (7) large firms on the average sought proportionately more new workers than did medium-sized firms; and (8) 43 percent of the employers reporting shortages felt that these were attributable to rapid growth of their industry, while about 2 percent attributed their shortages to competition from other industries. (Author/JN)

Data presented in this report are derived from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) fall 1980 Survey of Graduate Science Students and Postdoctorates, covering 9,930 graduate science and engineering (S/E) departments in 633 doctorate- and master's-granting institutions. Highlights of the survey indicate that: (1) graduate enrollment in S/E exceeded 383,000 in fall 1980, a growth of 3 percent over fall 1979; (2) the total number of graduate students enrolled in engineering grew between 1979 and 1980 at about twice the rate of those in science fields as a whole; (3) 3 percent 1979-80 increase in full-time S/E graduates at doctorate-granting institutions was primarily fueled by the growing number of women enrolled in graduate S/E courses; (4) the number of foreign students enrolled full-time in doctorate-granting institutions increased by 9 percent between 1979 and 1980; (5) of the 231,000 S/E graduate students enrolled full-time, those holding research and teaching assistantships increased by 5 percent over 1979; and (6) federal agencies supported about 22 percent of all full-time S/E students in 1980, the same proportion as in 1979. (Author/JN)