ECE alumni Donald Bitzer (BSEE 55, MSEE 56, PhD 60), Gene Slottow (PhD 64), and Robert Willson (PhD 66) w[ere] inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame on May 1 at the United States Patent and Trademark Office headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. Bitzer, Slottow, and Willson are being recognized for their invention of the flat-panel plasma display, the forerunner of high-definition (HD) flat-panel television monitor.
