Dr. Goldberg's first career was in Chemical Engineering, having received a Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Cooper Union and a Masters degree in Chemical Engineering from Brooklyn Polytechnic University. Dr. Goldberg's chemical engineering work included jobs in a TNT manufacturing plant, in a pharmaceutical plant, and in a gaseous diffusion plant for the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee during World War II.

He subsequently received a Ph.D in mathematical economics and statistics from the New School of Social Research, with a thesis analyzing income distributions and their relationship to the onset of the Great Depression. He then worked for Shell Development Company for 27 years performing economic evaluations of exploration plays and production ventures.

Dr. Goldberg left Shell in 1983 to teach graduate and undergraduate courses in Engineering Economics in the Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Houston, and during this time, developed many of the ideas that became the basis for his general methods for economic optimization. He was brought back to Shell in 2003 in order to help in the economic evaluation of a multi-tens of billion of dollars oil shale project.

With his wife Charlotte of 58 years, he is also co-author of 4 children and 4 wonderful grandchildren.

©Bernard Goldberg, 2007