Laurent Simon
Laurent Simon
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies, Vice Provost for Undergrad Studies
392 Fenster Hall (FENS)
About Me
Laurent Simon is a professor of chemical engineering and the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies.
Education
Ph.D.; Colorado State University; ; 2001
M.S.; Colorado State University; ; 1998
B.S.; New Jersey Institute of Technology; ; 1996
M.S.; Colorado State University; ; 1998
B.S.; New Jersey Institute of Technology; ; 1996
Website
2025 Spring Courses
CHE 701C - MASTERS THESIS
MTEN 492 - RESRCH AND INDPENDENT STUDY II
MTEN 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
PHB 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
PHB 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
PHEN 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
PHEN 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
CHE 701B - MASTERS THESIS
MTEN 491 - RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY I
MTEN 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CHE 706 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
MTEN 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
MTEN 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
PHB 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
PHEN 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CHE 491 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY
CHE 492 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY
CHE 705 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CHE 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CHE 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MTEN 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
PHB 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CHE 700B - MASTERS PROJECT
MTEN 701B - MASTERS THESIS
MTEN 492 - RESRCH AND INDPENDENT STUDY II
MTEN 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
PHB 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
PHB 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
PHEN 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
PHEN 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
CHE 701B - MASTERS THESIS
MTEN 491 - RESEARCH & INDEPENDENT STUDY I
MTEN 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CHE 706 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
MTEN 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
MTEN 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
PHB 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
PHEN 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
CHE 491 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY
CHE 492 - RESEARCH & INDEP STUDY
CHE 705 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
CHE 790A - DOCT DISSERTATION & RES
CHE 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
MTEN 792 - PRE-DOCTORAL RESEARCH
PHB 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
CHE 700B - MASTERS PROJECT
MTEN 701B - MASTERS THESIS
Teaching Interests
-Dissimination of educational materials to enhance chemical engineering curricula with applications in biological engineering
-Development of a set of dynamic educational modules to enhance engineering education in membrane-controlled release
-Development of a set of dynamic educational modules to enhance engineering education in membrane-controlled release
Past Courses
BME 427: BIOTRANSPORT
CHE 210: CHEMCL PROC CALCULATIONS I
CHE 365: TECH PROCESS SIMULATION
CHE 380: INTRO TO BIOTECHNOLOGY
CHE 427: BIOTRANSPORT
CHE 489: PROCESS DYNAMICS AND CONTROL
CHE 624: TRANSPORT PHENOMENA
CHE 626: MATH METHODS IN CHEM ENG
CHE 634: CHEM PROC DYNAMC & CNTRL
CHE 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR
MATH 112: CALCULUS II
PHB 630: PHARM BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING
PHEN 500: PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERNG FUND
PHEN 501: PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERN FUND I
PHEN 501: PHARMACEUTICAL ENGR FUND II
CHE 210: CHEMCL PROC CALCULATIONS I
CHE 365: TECH PROCESS SIMULATION
CHE 380: INTRO TO BIOTECHNOLOGY
CHE 427: BIOTRANSPORT
CHE 489: PROCESS DYNAMICS AND CONTROL
CHE 624: TRANSPORT PHENOMENA
CHE 626: MATH METHODS IN CHEM ENG
CHE 634: CHEM PROC DYNAMC & CNTRL
CHE 791: GRADUATE SEMINAR
MATH 112: CALCULUS II
PHB 630: PHARM BIOPROCESS ENGINEERING
PHEN 500: PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERNG FUND
PHEN 501: PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERN FUND I
PHEN 501: PHARMACEUTICAL ENGR FUND II
Research Interests
- Modeling and Analysis of Transdermal Drug-Delivery Systems
- Numerical and Experimental Approaches to Protein Separation and Purification
- Modeling and Control of Distributed Parameter Systems
- Numerical and Experimental Approaches to Protein Separation and Purification
- Modeling and Control of Distributed Parameter Systems
Journal Article
Roman S. Voronov, Sagnik Basuray, G Obuskovic, Laurent Simon, Robert B. Barat, Ecevit A. Bilgili. 2017. “Statistical analysis of undergraduate chemical engineering curricula of United States of America universities: Trends and observations.” Education for Chemical Engineers, vol. 20, pp. 1-10.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2016. “ The development of a peak-time criterion for designing controlled-release devices.” European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol. 91, pp. 64-73.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2016. “A three-dimensional semi-analytical solution for predicting drug release through the orifice of a spherical device.” International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 509, pp. 477-482.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2016. “On the effusion time of drugs from the open pore of a spherical vesicle.” Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 451, pp. 366-372.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina, Kevin Ita. 2015. “Prediction of in-vivo iontophoretic drug release data from in-vitro experiments - Insights from modeling.” Mathematical Biosciences, vol. 270, pp. 106-114.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2016. “ The development of a peak-time criterion for designing controlled-release devices.” European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol. 91, pp. 64-73.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2016. “A three-dimensional semi-analytical solution for predicting drug release through the orifice of a spherical device.” International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 509, pp. 477-482.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2016. “On the effusion time of drugs from the open pore of a spherical vesicle.” Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, vol. 451, pp. 366-372.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina, Kevin Ita. 2015. “Prediction of in-vivo iontophoretic drug release data from in-vitro experiments - Insights from modeling.” Mathematical Biosciences, vol. 270, pp. 106-114.
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Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2015. “ Three-dimensional analyses of a perforated cylindrical drug delivery device.” International Journal of Pharmaceutics, vol. 481, pp. 64-70.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2015. “Modelling of dissolving microneedles for transdermal drug delivery: theoretical and experimental aspects.” European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol. 68, pp. 137-143.
Jose Ferreira, Paula de Oliveira, Pascoal da Silva, Laurent Simon. 2014. “Molecular transport in viscoelastic materials: mechanistic properties and chemical affinities.” SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, vol. 74, pp. 1598–1614.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina, Rebecca Kuntz Willits. 2014. “The dynamics of shrinking and expanding drug-loaded microspheres: A semi-empirical approach.” European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol. 58, pp. 55-62.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2014. “A First-order time constant estimation for nonlinear diffusion problems.” Chemical Engineering Communications, vol. 201, pp. 719-736.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2013. “ Two-dimensional transport analysis of transdermal drug absorption with a non-perfect sink boundary condition at the skin-capillary interface.” Mathematical Biosciences, vol. 244, pp. 58-67.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2012. “Two-dimensional solution and analysis of a cylindrical matrix device with a circular release area.” Chemical Engineering Communications, vol. 200, pp. 115-138.
Laurent Simon. 2012. “Graphical process design tools for iontophoretic transdermal drug-delivery devices.” Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 107, pp. 447-455.
Laurent Simon, Beshoy Abdelmalek. 2012. “Design of skin penetration enhancers using replacement methods for the selection of the molecular descriptors.” Pharmaceutics, vol. 4, pp. 343-353.
Ran Wei, Laurent Simon, Lawrence Hu, Bozena Michniak-Kohn. 2012. “Effects of iontophoresis and chemical enhancers on the transport of lidocaine and nicotine across the oral mucosa.” Pharmaceutical Research, vol. 29, pp. 961-971.
Kwang S Kim, Laurent Simon. 2012. “Application of a dissolution-diffusion model to the release of 5-fluorouracil from polymer microspheres.” Chemical Engineering Communications.
J. A. Ferreira, Paula de Oliveira, P. M. Silva, Laurent Simon. 2011. “Flux tracking in drug delivery.” Applied Mathematical Modelling, vol. 35, no. 10, pp. 4684-4696.
Laurent Simon. 2011. “A computational procedure for assessing the dynamic performance of diffusion-controlled transdermal delivery systems.” Pharmaceutics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 485-496.
Kwang S Kim, Laurent Simon. 2011. “Modeling and design of transdermal drug delivery patches containing an external heating device.” Computers & Chemical Engineering, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1152-1163.
Kwang S Kim, Laurent Simon. 2011. “Transport mechanisms in oral transmucosal drug delivery: Implications for pain management.” Mathematical Biosciences, vol. 229, no. 1, pp. 93-100.
Laurent Simon, Kumud Kanneganti, Kwang Seok Kim. 2010. “ Drug transport and pharmacokinetics for Chemical Engineers.” Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 262-266.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2015. “Modelling of dissolving microneedles for transdermal drug delivery: theoretical and experimental aspects.” European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol. 68, pp. 137-143.
Jose Ferreira, Paula de Oliveira, Pascoal da Silva, Laurent Simon. 2014. “Molecular transport in viscoelastic materials: mechanistic properties and chemical affinities.” SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, vol. 74, pp. 1598–1614.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina, Rebecca Kuntz Willits. 2014. “The dynamics of shrinking and expanding drug-loaded microspheres: A semi-empirical approach.” European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol. 58, pp. 55-62.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2014. “A First-order time constant estimation for nonlinear diffusion problems.” Chemical Engineering Communications, vol. 201, pp. 719-736.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2013. “ Two-dimensional transport analysis of transdermal drug absorption with a non-perfect sink boundary condition at the skin-capillary interface.” Mathematical Biosciences, vol. 244, pp. 58-67.
Laurent Simon, Juan Ospina. 2012. “Two-dimensional solution and analysis of a cylindrical matrix device with a circular release area.” Chemical Engineering Communications, vol. 200, pp. 115-138.
Laurent Simon. 2012. “Graphical process design tools for iontophoretic transdermal drug-delivery devices.” Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, vol. 107, pp. 447-455.
Laurent Simon, Beshoy Abdelmalek. 2012. “Design of skin penetration enhancers using replacement methods for the selection of the molecular descriptors.” Pharmaceutics, vol. 4, pp. 343-353.
Ran Wei, Laurent Simon, Lawrence Hu, Bozena Michniak-Kohn. 2012. “Effects of iontophoresis and chemical enhancers on the transport of lidocaine and nicotine across the oral mucosa.” Pharmaceutical Research, vol. 29, pp. 961-971.
Kwang S Kim, Laurent Simon. 2012. “Application of a dissolution-diffusion model to the release of 5-fluorouracil from polymer microspheres.” Chemical Engineering Communications.
J. A. Ferreira, Paula de Oliveira, P. M. Silva, Laurent Simon. 2011. “Flux tracking in drug delivery.” Applied Mathematical Modelling, vol. 35, no. 10, pp. 4684-4696.
Laurent Simon. 2011. “A computational procedure for assessing the dynamic performance of diffusion-controlled transdermal delivery systems.” Pharmaceutics, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 485-496.
Kwang S Kim, Laurent Simon. 2011. “Modeling and design of transdermal drug delivery patches containing an external heating device.” Computers & Chemical Engineering, vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1152-1163.
Kwang S Kim, Laurent Simon. 2011. “Transport mechanisms in oral transmucosal drug delivery: Implications for pain management.” Mathematical Biosciences, vol. 229, no. 1, pp. 93-100.
Laurent Simon, Kumud Kanneganti, Kwang Seok Kim. 2010. “ Drug transport and pharmacokinetics for Chemical Engineers.” Chemical Engineering Education, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 262-266.
COLLAPSE
Chapter
Laurent Simon. 2016. “Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology.” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.
Kwang S Kim, Laurent Simon. 2011. “Optimal Control of Heat-Assisted Transdermal Drug-Delivery Systems .” In Samuel P. Werther (Eds.), New York, USA: Nova Publishers, 2011.
Laurent Simon. 2009. “Distributed parameter estimation of dermal absorption of chemicals using a physiologically inspired boundary condition. In: Skin Anatomy and Physiology Research Developments.” In L. F. Bukowskiy (Eds.), New York, USA: Nova Publishers, 2009.
Kwang S Kim, Laurent Simon. 2011. “Optimal Control of Heat-Assisted Transdermal Drug-Delivery Systems .” In Samuel P. Werther (Eds.), New York, USA: Nova Publishers, 2011.
Laurent Simon. 2009. “Distributed parameter estimation of dermal absorption of chemicals using a physiologically inspired boundary condition. In: Skin Anatomy and Physiology Research Developments.” In L. F. Bukowskiy (Eds.), New York, USA: Nova Publishers, 2009.
Book
Laurent Simon. 2013. “Control of Biological and Drug-Delivery Systems for Chemical, Biomedical, and Pharmaceutical Engineering..” Hoboken, New Jersey, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013. ISBN 0470903236.