AliMdaihly

Rotated through key hospital departments — Biomedical, Emergency, ICU, Operating Theater, Radiology, and NICU — assisting the biomedical team with inspecting, troubleshooting, and performing preventive and corrective maintenance on monitoring, diagnostic, and therapeutic medical equipment. Gained hands-on experience in installation, calibration, safety testing, incident-reporting procedures, and quality control of medical equipment. Completed as the GEP Medizintechnik Praktikum with Brünstlmedizin Healthcare (Munich).

Developed automation and mechanical-engineering solutions to reduce manual labor across the company's farm and carob-processing operations. Designed a solar tent dryer for carob and a PLC-based zone smart-irrigation system for the 15-hectare organic farm, and created an automation concept for the factory's processing line. Also evaluated seed-separation technologies, assessed new processing equipment, and proposed weeding-robot and agricultural-drone programs — delivering a phased, cost-justified automation roadmap.

Completed a Power and Control training program in the Mechanical Department's Operation & Maintenance division. Took part in daily maintenance — monitoring, inspection, and testing of gas and steam turbines, condensers, pumps, and firefighting systems — and worked across chlorination, desalination, and demineralization operations, plus filter cleaning, leak repair, and lubrication of machines and winches.

Working on the mechanical design of a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft with internal airflow paths. My work focuses on the air-routing layout and the tilting mechanism for the electric ducted fan (EDF) casings, integrating the propulsion housings and their mechanical interfaces into the aircraft design.

• Contributed to locomotion development for the Unitree Go1 quadruped robot within AUB's Vertically Integrated Projects program. Worked on gait planning, balance, and stability by designing and adjusting Bézier-curve-based foot trajectories to control leg motion, improve step coordination, and achieve smoother walking — running and modifying the locomotion framework at both high- and low-level control layers on real robotic hardware.

• My current research asks whether a Unitree Go1 can suppress liquid sloshing through its gait alone — no stabilizing platform and no liquid sensing at run time. I trained a reinforcement-learning policy using a pendulum model of the liquid to shape the reward, while the deployed controller relies only on proprioception and foot contacts. In simulation, it cut mean liquid tilt by 35–55% across flat, rough, and 10° ramp terrain, supported by two-phase CFD. Hardware transfer is ongoing: the policy does not yet walk reliably on the real robot.

Simulation comparisons · baseline and slosh-aware locomotion

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Contributed to the study and preliminary development of a Borehole Thermal Energy Storage (BTES) system for building heating. Analyzed international BTES case studies (Meyrin, Switzerland and Kerava, Finland), conducted on-site measurements of the proposed AUB drilling area, mapped physical obstacles such as trees and underground services, and built a basic 3D SolidWorks model of the building and borehole field. Also investigated methods for producing tight U-bends in copper heat-exchanger tubes, analyzed sunlight direction, and calculated a suitable solar-panel tilt angle.

Delivered academic support to engineering students across multiple courses. Led large-group review sessions (50+ students) for MECH 201 (CAD Design) and provided one-on-one tutoring in MECH 310 (Thermodynamics), helping students strengthen their grasp of core thermodynamic concepts and analysis.

Served as a primary point of contact between students and the department, assisting with course registration, capacity requests, scheduling, and graduation requirements, and directing inquiries to the appropriate faculty or staff for clear, timely communication.