Carlos Bertha is the President and Owner of Bertha Education & Engineering Services, Inc., a company that focuses on engineering ethics education. In 2024, Carlos retired as a Tenured Professor of Philosophy at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, Florida, in 1989. After working at the Savannah District Corps of Engineers for 5 years, he returned to USF, this time to study philosophy. He started teaching at USAFA in the year 2000, and taught Ethics, Comparative Religion, Philosophy of Science, and other electives.
Carlos continues his research efforts, which focus on engineering ethics, particularly on ethics pedagogy: how to teach ethics to an engineer audience. He co-authored “Engineering Ethics: Real World Case Studies” (ASCE Press, 2017) with Drs. Steve Starrett and Amy Lara and has presented at numerous ASCE and academic conferences on topics ranging from case study methodology to professional obligations of engineers. Carlos retired from the US Army Reserve in 2019, having achieved the rank of Colonel. He served a combat tour with the US Army Corps of Engineers in Gardez, Afghanistan. Carlos was an instructor for the Command and General Staff Officers Course, focusing on organizational leadership, joint doctrine, and professional ethics. His last assignment was as Deputy Commander of the Army EPLO Group, under the 76th Operational Response Command in Salt Lake City, Utah. He currently teaches ethics as an adjunct professor at St Petersburg College and lives in Clearwater, FL.
