McIntire earned a bachelor degree in chemical engineering and a concurrent master's of science from Cornell University in 1966.
He earned the master of arts in 1968 and doctorate in 1970 at Princeton University.
[1] McIntire began his teaching career at Rice University in 1970,[2] where he was later named E.D.
[3] While on the faculty at Rice, he was elected a 1992 fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering,[4] served as president of the AIMBE between 1997 and 1998,[5] was elected a 1998 fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,[3] and a 2001 member of the United States National Academy of Engineering.
[6] He moved to the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University in 2003 as Wallace Coulter Chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, jointly run by the two schools.