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Robert Mark Brooks' Dedication to Engineering, Education, and Humanitarian Service

Dr. Brooks earned three commendation letters from U.S. Presidents Donald Trump, Barack Obama, and Bill Clinton



    PHILADELPHIA, PA, August 31, 2018 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dr. Brooks has been working as an associate professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Temple University in Philadelphia since 1996. Prior to pursuing an education, Mr. Brooks immigrated to the United States in 1986. One of his papers, "Removal of Lead from Contaminated Water," which has been down loaded over eleven thousand (exactly 11,156) times by readers at 157 institutions in 59 countries, making it the largest downloaded research paper ever recorded on the planet.

Dr. Brooks' area of the research is engineering materials. In a subarea of his research Dr. Brooks has been collaborating with chemical engineering researchers. The focus has been on the materials and processes for the generation and storage of clean energy. This unique research combination contributed significantly for the benefit of the society. Dr. Brooks published 10 international peer reviewed journal papers in this category. This is the world's highest record of international prestigious papers with the largest Journal Impact factor of 25.7 in the civil and chemical engineering collaborated research area.

Dr. Brooks forged over a dozen unbroken strong chains of memberships of professional organizations covering the full spectrum of human activities (humanities, science, engineering, and technology) leading to a colossal two centuries of membership service ranging from professional member through senior member to fellow grade member and life member. The following are examples of such organizations: American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the International Society of Automation, World History Association, and Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World. In 2007, Dr. Brooks was the vice chair of the Committee on Dissemination of Failure Information of the Council on Forensic Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Professional organizations lead the professions for the prosperity and safety of humanity. Membership works as the life blood for the success of these organizations. Dr. Brooks achieved the following prestigious awards for recruiting the most professional members: "The Most Valuable Player" award in 2016 and 2017 from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and one award from the International Association for the Bridge and Structural Engineers in 2017. Additionally he won four ASEE national awards as shown below: (1) for recruiting the most new professional members, 2008-09, (2) for obtaining the highest percentage of faculty membership, 2008-09; and (3) the Outstanding Campus Representative for Zone 1, 2008-09 (this is the highest award at the society level), and (4) for recruiting the most new professional members, 2016-17. Recruiting the highest number of members once for a global professional organization is a triumphant event for any man. Dr. Brooks' winning of the 6 international awards from three global organizations is the highest record in the known history of all professional societies.

Being of help to humanity beyond dedicating oneself for the cause of engineering is the most noteworthy concern for becoming a noble engineer. When the key words "dedication engineering humanitarian service," are googled, Dr. Brooks' name shows up as the first choice among the 7.6 billion people on the planet. In the midst of myriad entrants into Google every nanosecond, it's a staggering record that Dr. Brooks has been on top of Google's global list of more than 6 million results at any search time since 2017.

Dr. Brooks is the founding Captain of the Home Fire Preparation Campaign (HFPC) of the American Red Cross (ARC), South Eastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) Chapter, Philadelphia. During the past three years the tradition of the legacy of Dr. Brooks' motivation generated tremendous inspiration for more than 120 students to actively participate and gain invaluable experience in the preparation of saving the lives of the students' fellow citizens from home fires, the number one urban disaster of humanity. He achieved this as the Captain of the ARC with the help of the ARC, SEPA Chapter, Philadelphia.

Dr. Brooks' efforts helped the Temple University (TU) students to distinguish themselves from their peers elsewhere in the country in serving effectively their fellow citizens. In the US university history, the TU student performance ranks the highest representing a track record of years of service from a wide variety of classes. This was made possible due to the outstanding commitment and support of Dr. Brooks' sincere efforts.

Dr. Brooks has earned commendation letters from President Trump, President Obama, and President Clinton. These three commendation letters contain over 40 superlative qualifiers describing the specifics of his performance on humanitarian service, education, and transportation engineering covering a period of three decades. Published records do not find any other person recognized by three presidents of the world's most powerful country, or empires since the dawn of humanity.

The awesome touchiness of the three POTUS intensely radiating across their scores of superlative commendations reflecting the large degree of value, quality, scope, and quantity of Dr. Brooks' works is noteworthy. For example, President Clinton wrote, "Your knowledge and compassion in all of your efforts set a standard of personal excellence to which we can all aspire." President Trump stated, "on behalf of our Nation, I offer my sincere gratitude for your excellent service." President Obama expressed, "You are helping inspire new generations of scientists and innovators, and our country will be stronger for it."

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