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aircraft through a hurricane) and from collecting and analyzing the data to determining what new understanding has been acquired. The success of his students is testimony to the success that Bob McIntosh had as an electrical engineer and educator.

Professor McIntosh would sometimes load up his van with his graduate students and drive them to an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) conference and spend several days with them, introducing them to the world of electrical engineering. 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 did more than might be expected. He was one of the few who had the honor of being elected as president of two IEEE societies: the Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society in 1984 and the Antennas and Propagation Society in 1985. He was the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation from 1989 to 1992, associate editor of Radio Science, the chair of international conferences, and editor of special issues of journals. 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. He was a productive and influential engineering researcher, a tireless contributor to his profession and his community, and, perhaps most important of all, he touched the lives of many people with his leadership, teaching, vision, and friendship.