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Show NOTES FROM U Of U Instruction of radio technicians in six Utah cities will begin in the immediate future, according in a statement Friday by Dean A. L. Taylor of the Utah School of Mines and Engineering. Sponsored by the United States Office of Education, the classes are a part of the Engineering Science Management Defense program, pro-gram, and will be taught by University Un-iversity instructors and radio experts ex-perts from commercial radio stations sta-tions throughout the state. These classes are electrical engineering courses and are not to be confused confus-ed with vocational or radio service ser-vice work, Dean Taylor points out. Salt Lake City, Logan, Ogaen, Provo, Cedar City, and Price are the cities which will probably receive re-ceive classes, and more than 400 applications for the training have been made. Instruction will consist of 16 weeks of elementary radio work in mathematics, direct and alternating alter-nating current circuits, tubes and tube theory. This prelimary course will be followed by an advanced one of 16 weeks. Classes will be held on three nights a week for three hours a night. Instruction only is texbooks. The Salt Lake City division of the training will be divided into three sections, and will train 96 people. These will b e selected from among 130 qualifying candidates can-didates for the training. Classes will begin an March 4, and will be taught by members of the University mathematics, physics, and engineering faculties, and by technicians from radio stations in the various towns. The purpose of the radio classes Dean Taylor explained, is to create a reserve of technicians a reserve of technicians which' can be called upon for army or civilian radio service. Many applicants are women, the Engineering school head added. add-ed. It is probable that one whole section of the Salt Lake City training will be for women, many of whom are wives of army officers of-ficers stationed at Fort Douglas and at the Salt Lake Airport. |