William (Bill) S. Hammack (born 1961) is an American

chemical engineer In the field of engineering, a chemical engineer is a professional, equipped with the knowledge of chemical engineering, who works principally in the chemical industry to convert basic raw materials into a variety of products and deals with the ...

, and Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...

. Hammack earned his BS in Chemical Engineering in 1984 from

Michigan Technological University Michigan Technological University (Michigan Tech, MTU, or simply Tech) is a public research university in Houghton, Michigan, founded in 1885 as the Michigan Mining School, the first post-secondary institution in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. ...

. Hammack is well known for his ventures in

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as the persona ''Engineer Guy'': between 1999 and 2005 he produced radio commentaries for

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, and starting in 2010, he produced a regular series of videos on

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explaining the engineering of everyday objects. He's also one of the authors of the book ''Eight Amazing Engineering Stories''.

Awards

In 2002, Hammack was awarded the Edwin F. Church Medal. In 2019, he was awarded with the

Carl Sagan Award for Public Appreciation of Science The Carl Sagan Award for Public Understanding of Science is an award presented by the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) to individuals who have become “concurrently accomplished as researchers and/or educators, and as widely recogn ...

. In 2022, Hammack was elected to the

National Academy of Engineering The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Engineering is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy ...

References

External links

Engineer Guy website

Engineer Guy YouTube Channel
1961 births Living people American chemical engineers University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Jefferson Science Fellows Fellows of the American Physical Society {{US-engineer-stub