Gary Behm
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
Gary Behm
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs
Education
AAS, BS, Rochester Institute of Technology; MS, Lehigh University
Bio
Gary Behm is a senior tenured faculty member who has been recognized for his excellence in teaching, research and scholarship. He recently served as director of RIT/NTID’s Center on Access Technology Innovation Laboratory, and as an engineering lead for the faculty, researchers and students in the conceptualization, design, development, building and testing of engineering solutions that address the need of accessibility of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals primarily in the postsecondary educational environment.
He earned an associate degree in electromechanical technology and bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering technology at RIT/NTID, and a master’s degree in manufacturing systems engineering at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Gary has more than 30 years of professional engineering leadership experience, and prior to coming back to RIT/NTID, he worked for IBM in various locations throughout the country, serving as an engineer, project leader and project manager. He then moved into the IBM Faculty Loan program and served as a visiting scholar, lecturer, advisor and tutor in our Engineering Studies Department.
Gary holds 15 patents, including, among others, one for methods and systems for early warning detection of emergency vehicles, another for an apparatus and method for enhancing field of vision of the visually impaired, one for method and apparatus for a tactile haptic device to guide in real-time obstacle avoidance, another for apparatus and method for sensing of three-dimensional environmental information, and another for method and system for reducing the variation in film thickness on a plurality of semiconductor wafers having multiple deposition paths in a semiconductor manufacturing process.
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In the News
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October 4, 2022
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RIT/NTID and Environmental Protection Agency renew partnership
Deaf and hard-of-hearing RIT/NTID students will continue to benefit from enhanced educational and career opportunities in the environmental sciences, thanks to the extension of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the college and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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April 28, 2022
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Project IRIS makes smartphones more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing people
The limitations of telecommunication relay services are being addressed with the development of a new program that explores how to make deaf and hard-of-hearing users’ experiences with cellular devices truly equal to those of hearing users.
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June 23, 2021
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RIT/NTID names Jill Bradbury chair of performing arts department
The Department of Performing Arts at NTID has named Jill Bradbury as chairperson and professor. Prior to her role, Bradbury was a member of the English department faculty at Gallaudet University. She also taught at RIT/NTID in both the Department of Liberal Studies and Department of Cultural and Creative Studies.
