AbstractScience and engineering labor market trends to the year 2000 are calcualted using various sources, to assess the opposing forces. If present trends continue there will be a shortage of trained engineers which cannot be filled by the natural increases in numbers of women and minority students obtaining degrees. Possible market adjustments include the injection of foreign talent, a policy decision to increase the numbers of women and minority students and the recapture and retraining of those engineers no longer in the field.