Bill Hammack
Chemical engineer and science communicator
Bill Hammack is an American chemical engineer and university professor who explains engineering to everyday audiences as the Engineer Guy. He wrote The Things We Make.
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American Born 1961
About Bill Hammack
Bill Hammack was born in 1961 and is a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is widely known for his Engineer Guy persona, which began with radio commentaries for Illinois Public Media between 1999 and 2005. From 2010 he made a regular series of YouTube videos explaining the engineering behind everyday objects. He has written The Things We Make, along with Fatal Flight, and he is one of the authors of Eight Amazing Engineering Stories. His work has earned recognition from both journalism and engineering groups, including the Science in Society Award from the National Association of Science Writers and the Edwin F. Church Medal.