Prior to his January 2018 retirement, John F. Wager held the Michael and Judith Gaulke Endowed Chair in the School of EECS at Oregon State University. He is lead author of a book entitled Transparent Electronics. Transparent electronics technology developed in his group at OSU was licensed to Hewlett-Packard Company, which continued advanced joint-development with his group. This technology is finding emerging, high-value applications in flat-panel display thin-film transistor backplanes. Wager is an IEEE, NAI, and SID fellow.