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A lighter, stronger prosthetic wrist.

Mechanical Engineering Team Lead, Georgia Tech Medical Robotics, Sept 2023 to Dec 2025

Owned electromechanical integration of a trans-radial prosthetic arm across a 17-member team, then redesigned its multi-DOF wrist.

+35%wrist factor of safety
17engineers on the team
Multi-DOFwrist, CAD and dynamic FEA
Lighterwrist mass, same targets met

Inside the arm

Actuation, sensing and structure had to fit inside a forearm-sized shell. Pull the arm apart, then compare the original and redesigned wrist under the same load.

Peak stress, relative100%
Factor of safetybaseline
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Drag to rotate. Simplified geometry and illustrative stress field; team CAD and FEA to come.

Integration

Defined the actuation, sensing and structural interfaces so each sub-team could build to the same envelope.

Wrist redesign

Modeled the multi-DOF wrist in 3D CAD and iterated FEA under dynamic loading to hit torque and range-of-motion targets, raising factor of safety 35% while cutting weight.