Engineering Specification

Amar Malhi

Incoming Mechanical Engineering Student at USC

I turn rough ideas into real hardware: robotics, prosthetics, CAD/FEA, and the systems that make them work.

A bit of the work

Projects

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Project Director · SolidWorks
Prosthetic Arm R&D
≤100 ms sEMG target · ~1.2 kgf measured · sub-$500 prototype
Jan — May 2026
Lead Mechanical Design · Fusion 360
Toyota EDDC Forklift Attachment
FoS 5.10 Ti trade · 12,500 lb FEA · ITA carriage classes
Jan — Apr 2025
Mechanical Engineering & Payload Integration · Siemens NX
NASA L'SPACE · R.E.D. Rover
312-page PDR · ~85.9 kg mechanical · Cerberus Fossae
May — Aug 2025

Experience

AT3 Advanced Technology Technician Trainee
Micro Nano Technology Education Center
TAP3D modules: helium leak check / Rate-of-Rise vacuum recovery, Clean Room & Bunny Suit Practices, Applied Pneumatics, Applied Electrical, Intro to Semiconductor Manufacturing
Jul 2026 — Present

Writing

2026 · 6 min · Robotics · Manipulation
The Contact Problem
Perception and planning got fast. Physical contact did not. When we imagine the machines of the future, we often picture them moving cleanly through air. The harder question is what happens when they have to touch us, and the rest of the world, and come away unbroken.