Along with Calvin Swift, his friend and colleague for many years, he founded Quadrant Engineering, Inc., which specializes in the design and manufacture of microwave and millimeter wave systems for remote-sensing applications. Professor McIntosh was an experimentalist with a passion for the practical aspects of electrical engineering, but also with a broad and deep understancling of the theory that underlies ob- servable phenomena. He wisely imparted this philosophy to his graduate students. The success of his students is testimony to the success that Bob McIntosh had as an electrical engineer and educator. Other professors might do something similar, but I was impressed that Bob would also stay in the dorms right along with his students.
Many engineers serve their particular professional society in some manner during their careers.
Bob McIntosh clid more than might be expected. He was also well known within the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and the International Union of Radio Science, and was known for his leadership in establishing particularly close ties between his university and the microwave industry. The many honors Bob McIntosh was accorded throughout his illustrious career need not be detailed here.