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September 1964 Radio-Electronics
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Wax nostalgic about and learn from the history of early electronics.
See articles from Radio-Electronics,
published 1930-1988. All copyrights hereby acknowledged.
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This 1964 CREI
(Capitol Radio Engineering Institute) advertisement in Radio-Electronics
magazine served to alert electronics professionals that the Space Age was
rapidly transforming their industry. Automation and advanced aerospace
technologies were eliminating routine jobs while increasing demand for
specialists in cutting-edge fields like space data systems, spacecraft tracking,
and aerospace radar engineering. The ad emphasized that outdated skills could
render workers obsolete, but those who upgraded their knowledge through CREI's
home study programs could secure high-demand careers. Founded in 1927, CREI (now
Capitol Technology University) was an accredited home-study institution that
collaborated with NASA and private aerospace firms to design its curricula. Its
Space Electronics Programs were developed with input from government and
industry experts, offering flexible, mail-order education for electronics
technicians with a high school diploma. The ad urged readers to request a free
book detailing CREI's courses, framing continued education as the only way to
survive the industry's upheaval.
Capitol Radio Engineering Institute
 As electronics move ahead in the space age ... will you be left behind?
CREI
The Space and Automation Are Changing the Electronics Industry.
Jobs Are Fewer, Hiring Requirements Tougher. There is Virtually No Demand for Men
with Ordinary Qualifications. But Men with Specialized Knowledge of New and Expanding
Areas of Electronics Are Still in Short Supply.
Because you work in electronics, you know the cold, hard facts about employment
opportunities in this field today. Many men are unemployed or will soon lose their
jobs because the electronics they know is out-of-date and they have failed to learn
enough about new developments to pull their weight on the job. Other men are unemployed
because the routine jobs they held have been eliminated by the new automated manufacturing
techniques of the space age.
Yet, at the same time that many men are being let go, leading companies are searching
for men with specialized knowledge of new and expanding areas of electronics.
Will the Space Age End Your Career in Electronics? Or Will it Open Up
New Opportunities for You?
That depends on whether or not you supplement your education in electronics with
the new knowledge required by employers today. If you don't, you can forget about
your career in electronics. Guiding space vehicles demands knowledge that didn't
exist when you went to school - and is almost impossible to acquire on the job.
And, even if you work for .a company that is not directly involved in space, it
is probably already using techniques developed in the space program.
If you bring your education up to space age standards, you can look forward to
a rewarding and exciting career as a sought-after specialist in one of the new and
advanced areas of electronics.
CREI Can Help you Move into the Space Age
CREI offers you Home Study Programs planned to help you protect your future in
electronics by updating your education to space age requirements.
CREI's Programs in Space Electronics enable you to study at home, on your own
schedule - through methods developed in more than 37 years of experience in education
through home study.
Long and painstaking effort has been devoted to the preparation of these programs.
CREI faculty members visited 14 government and private technical organizations in
the space effort to determine exactly what knowledge of electronics they want in
men they employ. Engineers and scientists from some of these organizations have
been retained as consultants to supply the technical material for these programs.
Photographs courtesy of National Aeronautics & Space Administration
Protect your future through the new CREI Programs in Space Electronics
Equip yourself to meet current employment opportunities by acquiring specialized
knowledge in one of these fields:
Space Data Systems - Includes multi-channel recording, analog
to digital conversion systems, data acquisition and processing.
Spacecraft Tracking and Control - Includes such areas of space
technology as orbit calculation and prediction, inertial guidance, electromagnetic
wave generation, space surveillance and environment.
Aerospace Radar Engineering - Includes specialized knowledge
of surveillance radar antennas, receivers, components and microwave equipment used
in space applications.
• These are the first extension programs developed specifically to help
men in electronics apply their experience to the space effort.
• Content of programs developed to meet employment requirements as determined
by consulting government and private organizations in the space field.
• Text material prepared with the help of engineers and scientists from
leading space-oriented organizations. You Are Eligible for These Programs if You
Work in Electronics and Have a High School Education
Free Book Gives Full Information. Tear Out and Airmail Postpaid Card
or Write,
CREI DEPT.1409B, 3224 Sixteenth St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20010
Founded 1927
The Capitol Radio Engineering Institute
Accredited Member of the National Home Study Council
Dept. 1409B, 3224 Sixteenth St., N. W. Washington, D.C. 20010
Please send me FREE book describing CREI Home Study Programs including new Programs
in Space Electronics. I am employed in electronics and have a high school education.
Name _______________________________________________ Age ______
Address, _____________________________________________________
City _______________________________ State _________ Zip Code ______
Employed by ___________________________________________________
Type of present work _____________________________________________
Check: _ Home Study _ Residence School _ G.I. Bill
CREI Offers You Up-to-Date Education in Every Important Electronic Specialty
Electronic Engineering Technology
Communications
Aeronautical and Navigational
Television
Servomechanisms and Computers
Nuclear Instrumentation
Radar
Nuclear Engineering Technology
Mathematics
Plus Three New Programs in Space Electronics
Space Data Systems
Spacecraft Tracking and Control
Aerospace Radar Engineering
Free Book Gives Complete Information. Tear Out and Mail Postpaid Card
for Your Copy Today.
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