During World War I and his enrollment at Princeton Creese enlisted in the Army and served as Second Lieutenant in the artillery division.
[1] After the war ended Creese went back to Princeton for post graduate work and earned and his master's degree in 1920.
He was named a Knight of the Order of Vasa in Sweden in 1928 the year that he was appointed the Vice-President and Treasurer of Stevens Institute of Technology located in Hoboken, New Jersey, where he worked until 1945.
The period immediately following the war saw a surge in students at Drexel, resulting in a need for more buildings for classes and laboratories.
Drexel had been continuously updating their facilities, but the post war years demanded an even bigger dedication to increasing the amount of space on campus for student use.
One of the changes involved cooperative education which began to be included in the curriculum of more departments and was more connected to academic study.
During Creese's administration Drexel aimed to be a school similar to MIT, with an emphasis on technology, but also a strong humanities department in the undergraduate division.
[4] In 1956 Creese went to visit the Soviet Union, as part of an educational mission, solidifying his belief in the importance of the engineering program at Drexel.
While Creese's trip to the Soviet Union reinforced his belief in the need to strengthen the School of Engineering, the entire college benefited from the increased focus on research and education.
The Middle States Association and the Engineering Council for Professional Development made accreditation visits to Drexel in 1953 and 1962, respectively.
Creese was on a panel for the Department of Defense and their Reserve Officers' Training Corps Program (ROTC) in 1950.