Dr Simon Smith

• BEng (First Class Hons), Loughborough University
• PhD (Civil Engineering), University of Edinburgh

• Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (FICE)
• Chartered Engineer (Registered with the Engineering Council)

I have been teaching at University of Edinburgh for nearly three decades and in that time have contributed project management and risk management material to the School of Mathematics and University of Edinburgh Business School. In recent years I have focussed solely on Civil and Environmental Engineering and cover the following topics:

• Civil Engineering Construction As a Construction Engineer by profession and past experience I am passionate about the physical delivery of civil engineering projects. I have been lucky enough to experience the tremendous satisfaction of literally getting ones hands dirty in the creation of large pieces of infrastructure. And I try to bring that to the classroom. This subject will from 2025 be delivered to our Second Year students (having been part of the third year for a long time) and contains two critical modules: Health and Safety in Construction (planning and undertaking construction with all hazards understood and managed); and Temporary Works (those parts of construction that allow the 'permanent' works to be built).
• Engineering Project Management I am one of the few academics in this school who has real world experience of the delivery of Engineering projects; specifically the delivery of large infrastructure. Together with my colleague Dr Frédéric Bosché we cover this School wide course taken by both 4th & 5th year UG students and MSc students. The course considers the key aspects of how an engineering project - whether that be a very large infrastructure project or an IT project or a chemical engineering plant, for example - is taken through its lifecycle from conception to use and decommissioning. 
• Research Methods for Engineers Taught as a sister course to our UG Thesis and MSc Dissertation projects, this course considers not just 'how to' do a research project and write up its report (its Thesis or Dissertation - there are no real differences); but also the methodological aspects of doing robust research. I present my Three-Stage model of research: Framing; Doing; Making-sense, as well as considering the communication, dissemination, ethics and publishing aspects of engineering research.

• Management of Construction Safety Risk
• Construction Management
• Earthworks and earthmoving control
• Cyclic construction process management and estimation
• Scheduling of in-situ concreting operations