Dispositional and situational influences on organizational behavior were examined with reference to the job redesign literature, particularly the research of Staw and Ross (1985). Dispositional and situational influence was assessed through investigation of the stability of job attitudes and affect among young professional engineers experiencing situational change arising from (a) change from university studies to full-time employment and (b) change of employer. Although correlational analyses suggested attitude and affect stability, t test results indicated attitude and affect ^stability. The inconsistency of these findings are discussed, and methodological problems in research in this area are noted.

This investigation consisted of a questionnaire survey of the graduate selection methods used by 536 organizations in the U.K. The use of application forms for pre‐selection purposes was widespread, although only a minority of organizations appeared to have approached this task in a systematic way. While references were also widely used, they were often taken up very late in the selection process, and only a minority of organizations sought specific information about job related abilities from referees. Interviews were universally used, both on their own, and as a component of an assessment centre. A total of 44 per cent of organizations used assessment centres as part of graduate recruitment. For most of those organizations using assessment centres, the interview was reported as being the most important component of the centre in determining final selection decisions. Most organizations provided some training for their selectors but this was typically general in nature, rather than being specific to graduate recruitment. The results are discussed in terms of their implications, both for practical application, and for future research.

Abstract. The Dainton enhanced engineering courses were designed to produce engineers who would be better prepared for careers in manufacturing management than their counterparts from conventional engineering programmes. As part of a large scale evaluation of these courses, the views of 167 students and 220 graduates of the programmes were compared with those of a control group of 353 students from conventional engineering courses. Respondents were asked for their opinions of 19 course elements in terms of the amount of time devoted to each as a preparation for a career as a professional engineer in industry.In general, enhanced students viewed their courses more favourably than students from conventional courses. Thus, over half of the conventional students criticised their courses for a lack of business and management material, compared with less than one in five enhanced students. There were few differences between the two groups in their views about the technical content of their courses. Criticisms about insufficient time being devoted to CADCAM, Engineering Practice, and Engineering Applications were common in students from both types of course. The views of enhanced graduates, who had up to five years' work experience post graduation, were similar to those of the undergraduates. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for engineering education in general.

Previous research has distinguished between professional engineers who have a managerial career oriencation and those who have a technical orientation. One of the aims of' the Dainton enhanced engineering courses was to produce engineers who are managerially, rather than technically, oriented. As part of a large-scale evaluation of these courses, the career orientations of 744 students and 220 graduates from these programmes were com-

Abstract-Channelization in multi-standard Software-Defined Radio base stations presents a significant challenge. In this paper, two different channelization structures designed for a multi-standard SDR base station are studied. As a basis for comparing their computational efficiency and reconfigurability, both are applied to a specific case study of a TETRA and TEDS standards base station. Uniform narrow band spectrum division followed by channel recombination demonstrates greater flexibility than a non-uniform parallel spectrum division alternative. However, computational advantages between both structures depend on the channel allocation patterns considered.