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Parsaoran Hutapea

  • College of Engineering

    • Mechanical Engineering

      • Professor

      • Director, Nanoscale Instrumentation Center

Biography

Dr. Parsaoran Hutapea is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Temple University and a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). He received BS (1995), MS (1997), and PhD (2000) all in Aerospace Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. His research focus is on the mechanics and design of medical devices. His research has been supported by private, state, and federal agencies. His current research is supported by the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation to study the mechanics of surgical needle-tissue (soft materials) interaction. Dr. Hutapea is the Director of the Composites Laboratory (https://sites.temple.edu/hutapea/).

Labs: Composites Laboratory

Google Scholar: Google Scholar

ResearchGate: ResearchGate

Research Interests

  • Applied Mechanics
  • Mechanics of Materials
  • Design of Medical Devices

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

ENGR 2331

Engineering Statics

Undergraduate

ENGR 2333

Mechanics of Solids

Undergraduate

MEE 4311

Mechanics of Composite Materials

Undergraduate

MEE 5312

Mechanics of Composite Materials

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Patel, K.I. & Hutapea, P. (2024). Study of Tissue Damage Induced by Insertion of Composite-Coated Needle. Medical Engineering and Physics, 123. Elsevier. doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2023.104094.

  • Al-Safadi, S. & Hutapea, P. (2023). A study on modeling the deflection of surgical needle during insertion into multilayer tissues. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 146, 106071-106071. Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2023.106071.

  • Acharya, S.R., Kim, D., & Hutapea, P. (2023). Steering Control Improvement of Active Surgical Needle using Mosquito Proboscis-inspired Cannula. Journal of Engineering and Science in Medical Diagnostics and Therapy, 6(4), 041101-041101. ASME. doi: 10.1115/1.4063200.

  • Acharya, S.R. & Hutapea, P. (2023). An Experimental Study on the Mechanics and Control of SMA-actuated Bioinspired Needle. Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 18(6), 1-13. IOP Publishing Ltd. doi: 10.1088/1748-3190/acfb65.

  • Patel, K. & Hutapea, P. (2023). Experimental and Analytical Study on Insertion Force of Composite-coated Needle in Soft Tissue Material. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine, 237(9), 1061-1071. Sage Publishing. doi: 10.1177/09544119231191910.

  • Acharya, S.R. & Hutapea, P. (2023). Design and Evaluation of SMA-actuated Active Needle Using Finite Element Analysis and Deflection Tracking Control in Soft Tissues. The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 19(5), e2554-e2554. Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/rcs.2554.

  • Gidde, S.T.R., Islam, S., Kim, A., & Hutapea, P. (2023). Experimental study of mosquito-inspired needle to minimize insertion force and tissue deformation. Proc Inst Mech Eng H, 237(1), 113-123. England. 10.1177/09544119221137133

  • Gidde, S.T.R., Acharya, S.R., Kandel, S., Pleshko, N., & Hutapea, P. (2022). Assessment of tissue damage from mosquito-inspired surgical needle. Minimally Invasive Therapy & Allied Technologies, 1-10. doi: 10.1080/13645706.2022.2051718.

  • Hutapea, P. (2022). What are engineers learning from insects? doi: 10.33424/futurum230.

  • Patel, K.I., Zhu, L., Ren, F., & Hutapea, P. (2021). Effect of composite coating on insertion mechanics of needle structure in soft materials. Medical Engineering & Physics, 95, 104-110. Elsevier BV. doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2021.07.008.

  • Seo, W.H., Hutapea, P., & Loh, B.G. (2021). Predicting length of hospital stay in infants with acute bronchiolitis using machine-learning algorithms. Acta Paediatr, 110(3), 961-962. Norway. 10.1111/apa.15633

  • Islam, S., Shah, V., Gidde, S., Hutapea, P., Song, S., Picone, J., & Kim, A. (2020). A Machine Learning Enabled Wireless Intracranial Brain Deformation Sensing System. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 67(12), 3521-3530. United States. 10.1109/TBME.2020.2990071

  • Gidde, S.T.R., Ciuciu, A., Devaravar, N., Doracio, R., Kianzad, K., & Hutapea, P. (2020). Effect of vibration on insertion force and deflection of bioinspired needle in tissues. Bioinspir Biomim, 15(5), 054001. England. 10.1088/1748-3190/ab9341