Grady Hillhouse

Hillhouse is a native of Panhandle, Texas, graduating as high school valedictorian in 2006.^[1] He completed an undergraduate degree in geography at Texas State University^[2][3] and master's degree in civil engineering at Texas A&M University in 2012,^[4] before working as a professional dam and levee engineer.^[5][6]

Hillhouse's YouTube channel Practical Engineering began to address what he described as a lack of "infrastructure literacy" among the general public ^[6] after a presentation on engineering to his wife's kindergarten class.^[5][2] Within the channel, he discusses civil engineering, infrastructure, and the constructed environment with demonstrations using homebuilt models.^[7][8] Practical Engineering subsequently received significant professional and subscriber attention, and Hillhouse began working on the channel full-time in 2021 with a professional production team.^[7][3]

In 2022, Hillhouse published Engineering in Plain Sight to identify and explain physical infrastructure in the modern world, with positive reactions from both engineering professionals and general readers.^[9][10][11]

Hillhouse is married, with a child born in 2020,^[8] living and working in San Antonio, Texas.^[5]