Low stipends for graduate fellowships. poor salaries for university professors. and obsolete laboratory equipment are turning Ameri. can science and engineering graduates to private industry which offers high pay and stateoftheart equipment with which to work. The result46 percent of our engineering Ph. D.s in the United States in 1980 were foreigners and twothirds of those were here on temporary visas. It is estimated that 10 to 15 percent of the total number of engineering faculty positions in the United States are currently unfilled. Using electrical engineer. ing as an example. we had 490 fewer masters degrees in electrical engineering awarded in 1980 than in 1970. and 356 fewer Ph.