Engineering Explained
Engineering Explained is just a YouTube channel, but I’ve dedicated nearly the past 15 years of my life to it. I wanted it to be a place for anyone to learn about the fascinating world of automotive engineering. When I created the channel as an undergrad pursuing a degree in mechanical engineering, it was only meant to be a bullet point on my resume. I was hopeful it’d help land a job in the car space, yet after two years working professionally as an engineer in the forklift world, I left to go all in on YouTube. That was 2014, three years into developing the channel.
From the beginning, my tool has been a whiteboard — the perfect substrate for learning and teaching. The channel hit one million subscribers in 2016, and my life hasn’t been the same ever since.
Curiosity and a few dry-erase markers have leant me the chance to drive ridiculous cars, travel the world, rub shoulders with legends of the automotive world, find my name inside the car magazines I grew up idolizing, and put my bad jokes on full public display. But hands down, the biggest highlight has been the opportunity to chat with the best and brightest automotive engineers in the business. Conversing with nerds, in other words, and trickling their endless knowledge to my whiteboard, and then to the masses.
Cars are the most complex consumer product, which is what makes them so interesting.
