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

2025 Fall Courses
CHE 701C - MASTERS THESIS

MTEN 492 - RESRCH AND INDPENDENT STUDY II

MTEN 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT

PHEN 701C - MASTER'S THESIS

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

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

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
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

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
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.

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Chapter
Laurent Simon. "Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology." John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

Kwang S Kim, Laurent Simon. "Optimal Control of Heat-Assisted Transdermal Drug-Delivery Systems ." In Samuel P. Werther, eds., Nova Publishers, 2011.

Laurent Simon. "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., Nova Publishers, 2009.

Book
Laurent Simon. "Control of Biological and Drug-Delivery Systems for Chemical, Biomedical, and Pharmaceutical Engineering.." John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013. ISBN 0470903236.