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Grady Hillhouse is a licensed civil engineer who spent nearly ten years in private practice working on a wide variety of infrastructure projects with a focus on dams, hydraulic structures, and riverbank restorations. He is widely known for his educational video series Practical Engineering and is the author of Engineering in Plain Sight. He holds degrees from Texas State University and Texas A&M University and lives with his family in Texas.

Books by Grady Hillhouse

Disasters by Design

An illustrated guide to history’s greatest disasters and how they shaped the field of engineering, from the creator of the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering

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Engineering in Plain Sight

Engineering in Plain Sight is a beautifully illustrated field guide with accessible explanations to nearly every part of the constructed world around us.

Author Grady Hillhouse is the creator behind the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering (over 3 million subscribers!) and this book is essentially 50 new episodes crammed between two covers.

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