Bill Hammack

engineerguy Bill Hammack is a chemical engineering professor at the University of Illinois, and his channel is the one most likely to change how you see an ordinary object. His best-known video takes apart the aluminum beverage can, showing how much design and manufacturing cleverness hides in something you crush and throw away. Other videos range from everyday product design to the engineering of the Titanic, explained with the patience of a good lecturer. In 2020 he received the Hoover Medal, an award for engineers' service to humanity, in recognition of this kind of public explanation. Choose it when you want short, carefully made videos that reward rewatching.