The Michigan Technological University program in German area studies is described. The program is designed for science and engineering students at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Its components include: a 1-year scientific German sequence, stressing specialized vocabulary, reading skills, use of reference materials, translation into English, and the more difficult linguistic structures characterizing scientific and technical literature of those fields; active exchange programs with German universities; internships in German industry and university research institutes; pre-departure orientation seminar for both work and study abroad to address student concerns, expectations, potential adjustment problems, and cultural issues; a re-entry workshop to help students synthesize their overseas experiences; a doctoral program in manufacturing and German, including dissertation research in a German university and work in an American company both in the United States and in Germany; and a number of certificates reflecting specialized study. (MSE)