Robert Scott Steedman (born 10 September 1958) is a British engineer, former academic, TV presenter and standards expert.
He read civil and structural engineering at Manchester University (UMIST) gaining a BSc Hons (1st Class) in 1980.
He continued his research at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and was awarded a PhD degree in 1984 for his work on the effects of earthquakes on retaining walls.
His research focus was geotechnical earthquake engineering, studying problems of liquefaction and soil-structure interaction using the centrifuge facility[2] in the Department of Engineering to build and test scale models of walls, dams, levees and foundations using simulated earthquake shaking under high acceleration fields.
Steedman was elected a fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in 2001 and served as a vice president from 2005 to 2009.