that time. Based on his efforts at Stanford, Gibbons was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, which he utilized at Cambridge University to work on grain boundaries in magnetic materials. Academic career After completing his work at Cambridge, Gibbons was considering several job opportunities when John Linvill again interceded. Linvill convinced Gibbons to consider a hybrid position where he would work 50% at Shockley Semiconductor in order to learn semiconductor fabrication techniques from William Shockley and the other 50% as an assistant professor at Stanford, setting up a laboratory to fabricate semiconductors and teaching the techniques to Stanford Ph.D. students. On August 1, 1957, Gibbons joined the Stanford faculty and began his work with Shockley. Six months later, Gibbons' lab at Stanford produced its first silicon device. After presenting a conference paper on their results, the Stanford semiconductor fabrication lab became the cornerstone upon which John Linvill and Stanford built a solid-state electronics laboratory and attracted to Stanford some of the leading people in the burgeoning field of semiconductors, including persons such as Gerald Pearson and John Moll. Stanford named Gibbons as a professor of Electrical Engineering in 1964 and dean of the School of Engineering in 1984, a position which he held until June 1996. In 1995, Gibbons was appointed as special counsel to the Stanford University President and Provost for Industry Relations at Stanford University. Gibbons also contributed to the Stanford Instructional Television Network; he invented a widely used Tutored Video Instruction that is used at Stanford University and in other places. This video network is to extend the education for engineers. Gibbon's Tutored video instruction has been used to educate the children of migrant farm workers and to help at-risk teens with their anger problems. He founded SERA Learning Technologies which utilizes this technology for that aim. Industry leadership He served on the Board of Directors of: SRI International Raychem Cisco System Lockheed-Martin He also served on committees advising the Presidential Science Advisor in the Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Clinton administrations. Awards and honors Gibbons has received many awards and was elected a member of the American Academy or Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and as a Fellow of the IEEE. He was awarded the IEEE Jack A. Morton Award in 1980 for his outstanding contributions in the field of solid-state devices. He was awarded the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr.