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- Ice Throw from Wind TurbinesX<Read More
In cold climates there is a perception that ice fragments could be thrown from rotating large wind turbines and create a hazard. While turbines should be shut down in icing conditions several authorities now require calculation of the risk associated with this potential hazard, in terms of numbers of ice...
Faculty Supervisor: Peter A Taylor
Student: Sumita Biswas
Partner: Zephyr North Canada Ltd.
Discipline: Resources and environmental management
Sector: Alternative energy
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Program: Accelerate
> - Development of a Sample Preservation and DNA Extraction Buffer for C-POD™X<Read More
Sample preparation for DNA extraction is labour intensive, tedious and a recognized bottleneck and impediment to high throughput automated DNA profiling. The organization sponsor, DNA Ident Inc., has a uniquely designed sample collection container (C‐POD) developed to capture DNA and to streamline sample preparation. The proposed project will develop DNA...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Bradley White
Student: Tasnova Khan
Partner: DNA Ident Inc.
Discipline: Biology
Sector: Life sciences
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Program: Accelerate
> - A new approach to the assessment and evaluation of technical skillsX<Read More
Surgical education has changed dramatically over the last 15 years as traditional “time served” approaches have given way to objective assessments of efficiency. These assessments are very resource intensive and require a greater level of training for the educators and evaluators. Furthermore they often do not provide timely, meaningful feedback...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Alex Mihailidis
Student: Neil Rittenhouse
Partner: Mount Sinai Hospital
Discipline: Kinesiology
Sector: Life sciences
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Program: Accelerate
> - Self-Powered, maintenance-free wireless sensor network with location tracking and health monitoring sensor interfaceX<Read More
Monitoring of remotely deployed installations is an expensive and challenging task involving potential risk for unsupervised personnel working in inaccessible locations. To this end, Adigy Canada Inc. is developing an innovative wireless network that is characterized by completely maintenance-free operation, provision of interface for health monitoring wireless wearable sensors, localization...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Bozena Kaminska
Student: Marcin Marzencki, Camille Jaggernauth, Yang Ding, BennyHung, Philip Lin
Partner: Adigy Inc.
Discipline: Statistics / Actuarial sciences
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Program: Accelerate
> - Project Portfolios in Dynamic Environments: Organizing for UncertaintyX<Read More
This doctoral research will study the mechanisms put in place by organizations facing very dynamic environments to manage projectportfolios when the uncertainty level is high. The theoretical basis will include the literature on Project Portfolio Management,Organization Theory (Weick’s Sensemaking) and Strategy Theory (Dynamic Capabilities). The unit of analysis will be...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Brian Hobbs
Student: Yvan Petit
Partner: Ericsson Canada
Discipline: Computer science
Sector: Finance, insurance and business
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Program: Accelerate
> - Optimization of Optical Signal in Microarrays: Predicting properties of polycrystalline ZnO coatingsX<
Optimization of Optical Signal in Microarrays: Predicting properties of polycrystalline ZnO coatings
Read MoreThis project addresses an important need for more reliable diagnostics and health care testing. DNA microarray technology coupled with PCR has enabled a dramatic improvement in high]throughput clinical diagnostics, with analogous advances from other biomolecular and chemical microarrays in areas of metabolomics, proteomics, etc. There is still room for improvement,...
Faculty Supervisor: Erika Merschrod
Student: Csaba Szakacs
Discipline: Chemistry
Sector: Nanotechnologies
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Program: Accelerate
> - Life at Risk Evaluation for the Spinal Cord Injury Solutions NetworkX<Read More
The Centre for Operations Excellence (COE) at the Sauder School of Business,University of British Columbia (UBC) was asked by the Spinal Cord Injury Solutions Network (SCISN) and The Rick Hansen Foundation to carry out an evaluation of a forecasting model. SCISN and The Rick Hansen Foundation commissioned the development of...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Derek Atkins
Student: Rachel Lewis
Partner: Spinal Cord Injury Solutions Network
Discipline: Economics
Sector: Life sciences
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Program: Accelerate
> - '>Enhancement of the FVTD Electromagnetics Solver for the Design and Optimization of MRI RF]CoilsX<Read More
This research will develop numerical modeling and optimization techniques for the design of radio-frequency (RF) coils used in Magntetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). These techniques will aid in the design of specific RF coils for interventional MRI procedures which impose unique and challenging demands on the RF coils's performance. The first...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Joe LoVetri
Student: Ian Jeffrey, Gabriel Faucher, Puyan Mojabi
Partner: Element Life Science
Discipline: Engineering
Sector: Life sciences
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Program: Accelerate
> - '>DreamWafer Intelligent Rapid Prototyping Platform for Electronic SystemsX<Read More
The WaterBoard is a 'waffle iron' for prototyping electronic systems. In the envisioned concept, the user simply places components('dough') in the WaferBoard and closes the cover. 'WaferBoard' then senses the component contacts and recognizes the components and interconnects them ('cooks them'). The prototype ('waffle') is now ready to be brought...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Yves Blaquiere
Student: Jean-Sebastien Turgeon, Issam Eddine Hamzaoui, Etienne Lepercq, Mohammed Bougataya, Mamadou Diop and Oussama Berriah
Partner: Richard Prytula
Discipline: Engineering
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Program: Accelerate
> - Development of a CNC Machine Tool Performance Simulation System: "The VCNC System"X<Read More
Industry uses computer numerical controlled (CNC) machine tools to manufacture parts efficiently at high speed. Before batch manutfacturing is performed confidently, a trial]and]error cutting test is required to validate if part tolerances are violated, which is a costly and time]consuming procedure. The objective of this research project is to develop...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Yusuf Altintas
Student: Burak Sencer| Chinedum Okwurdire | KeithDunwoody
Discipline: Engineering
Sector: Manufacturing
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Program: Accelerate
> - Biologic Therapies in Rheumatoid ArthritisX<Read More
This project will profile the use of new drugs of rheumatoid arthritis, in a population-based sample. Potential differences in the use of these agents will be examined to identify discrepancies in drug use patterns across demographics, which could be addressed through targeted strategies. Our proposal is timely in terms of...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Elham Rahme
Student: Ryan Ng
Partner: Pfizer Canada Inc.
Discipline: Pharmacy / Pharmacology
Sector: Life sciences
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Program: Accelerate
> - Application of collaborative online knowledge strategies in public service broadcastingX<Read More
This project will ensure the success and long]term viability of the Canadian music wiki in development at CBC Radio 3. The usergenerated,participatory online resource focuses exclusively on Canadian music and Canadian musicians, using wiki software that empowers citizens to become creators of content. This project would examine issues of quality...
Faculty Supervisor: Alfred Hermida
Student: Amanda Ash
Partner: CBC
Discipline: Journalism / Media studies and communication
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Program: Accelerate
> - A Generative Model of Impulsive Sound Production and PropagationX<Read More
The overall objective is to design a learning system that takes a training set of acoustic signals and produces a classifier that can identify the category of the acoustic signal, out of a small number of categories. We have already found that it is important to consider the factors of...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Douglas Eck
Student: Aaron C. Courville
Partner: ApSTAT Technologies Inc.
Discipline: Computer science
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Program: Accelerate
> - South Simcoe Green Business Transformation ProjectX<Read More
Through a review of best practices in planning and economic development for sustainable communities the partner will obtain background information on how to move forward strategically with implementing the Green Business Transformation Project. A comparison of existing planning policies in South Simcoe at the provincial, regional and local level with...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Gerda Wekerle
Student: Susan Lloyd Swail
Partner: NT Temps
Discipline: Geography / Geology / Earth science
Sector: Environmental industry
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Program: Accelerate
> - Evaluation of the Effect of Air Sparging on the Performance of Industrial Copper ElectrowinningX<Read More
As part of a program to improve the profitability of operations at Quebrada Blanca, Chile, Teck is testing an air sparging system in their industrial copper electrowinning cells. This represents a unique opportunity to measure the effects of gas sparging on product quality and metal production cost, and to generate...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Eduard Guerra
Student: Bruno Welte-Kern
Partner: Teck Metals Ltd.
Discipline: Engineering
Sector: Mining and quarrying
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Program: Accelerate
> - '>Visual Histories of Decision Processes for Business IntelligenceX<Read More
In contemporary professional work, particularly groupwork, knowing what has been done, and why it was done, is often crucial to a project's success. Further, an important aspect of organizational memory is the shared history of project work (successful and unsuccessful both). Yet, most work and project management software provide only...
Faculty Supervisor: Dr. Robert Woodbury
Student: Karine Koslova
Partner: SAP Business Objects Division
Discipline: Computer science
Sector: Finance, insurance and business
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Program: Accelerate
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