Adit Sanghani

Adit
Sanghani.

I’m a mechanical engineer who notices the small things most people eventually accept, and can’t help thinking about how to improve them.

I pay attention to how systems behave in the real world: how they’re used, how they wear over time, and where friction, mechanical or otherwise, starts to show up. My background in manufacturing and automation keeps me grounded in what’s actually buildable, scalable, and reliable, not just what looks good on paper.

I’m drawn to designing things that work the way people expect them to, whether that’s a physical interface, a piece of infrastructure, or a system behind the scenes, and then refining them until they perform a little better, last a little longer, and fail a little less.

Projects 04 / featured
P/001 · PATENT-PENDING

Leak-Stop System for Data-Center Racks

Patent-pending leak isolation for liquid-cooled data-center racks

2024–25 · Dell × TAMU Read More →
Photo of the smart door lock installed on a real door — slate-blue 3D-printed enclosure mounted between the deadbolt and the door handle, with the lever arm engaged on the latch.
P/002 · IN PROGRESS

Smart Door Lock

Self-hosted residential lock—ESP32, LoRa, servo-driven latch

2026 · Personal Read More →
P/003
▪ Status Coming Soon Project in progress

Glance

Desk display that mirrors your phone—so the phone stays away

2026 · Personal Coming Soon
Water-cooled roller trough assembly on a hot mill line, with red-hot steel bar mid-transit through the gap between the two trough sections.
P/004 · INDUSTRY

Hot Mill Roller Trough

Eliminated unplanned shutdowns on a steel production line by redesigning the part that wears out first

2025 · Industry Read More →
Others Industry & research — most under NDA
Red and white powder-coated AGV guide rails staged next to a seat-carrier conveyor on the Tesla assembly line.
Tesla · AGV Guides
2024 · NDA
Steel-and-red roller conveyor built to transfer pallets between forklifts and AGVs, photographed in the build bay.
Tesla · Forklift ⇌ AGV conveyor
2023–24 · NDA
▪ Status Coming Soon Project in progress
Nucor · Pneumatic retrofit
2025 · NDA
▪ Status Coming Soon Project in progress
Nucor · CV metrology station
2025 · NDA
Electroadhesion droplet rig on an optical table: syringe pump, high-speed camera, light source, and touch-screen substrate.
Electroadhesion droplet rig
2022–23 · Adv. Mat. Tech.
OCT fingertip rig: a 3D-printed cradle holding a tactile sample under an optical coherence tomography microscope.
INVENT Lab · OCT fingertip rig
2023–25 · Research
Capabilities End-to-end product development
§ 01

Define & Design

From concept through detailed design—turning a stated problem into geometry that builds, holds tolerance, and makes sense to the people who use it.

DiscoveryUser interviews, Problem framing.ConceptingSketches, Pugh matrices, Trade studies.ParametricNX, SolidWorks, Onshape, Creo, CATIA.DetailingGD&T, DFMA, Tolerance stacks.

§ 02

Build & Bring-up

Getting a working V0 on the bench fast, then closing the loop—mechanism, sensors, firmware, and the controls glue that makes them behave together.

FabFDM, SLA, CNC, Sheet metal, Weldments.ElectronicsESP32, Embedded C, PCB bring-up.ControlsMATLAB, LabVIEW, Python, Sensors, Motion.AssemblyPrecision assembly, Fixturing.

§ 03

Make & Validate

Process engineering as a daily habit. Designing the test that proves it works, the data that catches drift, and the documentation that lets a vendor build it without asking.

Test designDOE, Drop / cycle, Accelerated life.Process engFMEA, Control plans, Poka-yoke.Quality / dataSPC, Cp/Cpk, GR&R, RCA, 8D, FEA.Standards / supplyISO 9001 / 14001, RFQs, PPAP, Vendor bring-up.

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