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Signal Mapping Integration into Immersive Spaces

The creation of an immersive space requires the precise connection of audio, visual and haptic systems. Current methods for connecting these systems rely on software engineers to rebuild the tools each time a change is made to the mappings, making it difficult for designers to experiment with new interaction methods. This internship will support and integrate a complex mapping framework into several immersive space tools to allow designers to create reusable and shareable mapping presets for their immersive environments. The feasibility of using the mapping framework in further projects and the benefits it provides will then be evaluated by developers and designers.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Marcelo Wanderley;Joseph Malloch

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Société des Arts Technologiques

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Arts, entertainment and recreation

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

Wood Biochar Monolith as Low-cost, High-performance Nanocarbon Material for Electrical Energy Storage

With the rapid development of the economy, the demand for electrical energy storage is also increasing. However, the lack of high-efficiency, economical and reliable energy storage technologies makes it difficult for current electrochemical systems to utilize renewable energy and enable the circular economy fully. As an efficient and green energy storage device, the supercapacitor has the characteristics of high-power density and long cycle life. It has many applications in consumer electronics, transportation, communication and other fields. This Mitacs project focuses on developing a new electrode material – wood biochar monolith (WBM) for high-performance supercapacitors. The project will explore three aspects of WBM: the effectiveness of chemical modification in enlarging the accessible internal surface area, the feasibility of combining WBM with high entropy alloy (HEA) for elevated capacitance and the determination of factors controlling the mechanical properties of WBM, such as hardness.
The ultimate outcome of the project is the procedures that allow the creation of commercial supercapacitors with WBM electrodes.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Charles Jia

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Tianjin University

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Education

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Developing a bio-electrochemical sensor for naphthenic acids detection in oil sands-produced water: a path forward

Naphthenic acids (NAs) represent the primary source of acute toxicity in oil sands process affected water. Due to the seepage potential of NAs from oil sands tailings ponds into the surrounding surface water and groundwater, environmental monitoring of NAs in water samples from tailing ponds, surrounding groundwater and surface water, and groundwater wells became a routine part of oil sands mining operations. Commonly used analytical techniques for NA concentrations measurement include Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, and high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectroscopy. However, these methods are time-consuming and resource-intensive, and samples need to be sent to an analytical laboratory which can cost up to $1,000 per sample. Hence, developing a fast, low-cost analytical method for on-site quantification of NAs will help address these challenges. Consequently, this project aims to develop a simple bio-electrochemical sensor for rapid and on-site quantification of oil sand-related NAs in water samples.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Bipro Dhar

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Imperial Oil Resources Ltd

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Mining

Université :

University of Alberta

Programme :

Accelerate

What can the oral microbiome tell us about child mental health?

There is a growing need to address the rising child mental health crisis in Canada. One way is to take a personalized medicine approach which includes factors that influence an individual’s environment, genetics and their microbiome. The microbiome includes a collection of microorganisms and can live on or within the human body. Many environmental factors such as diet and lifestyle behaviours, can influence the composition of the microbiome. The microbiome is also known to differ with some diseases, however, the link between the microbiome and mental health in children is largely unknown. Therefore, the goal of our research is to examine the composition of the microbiome and related factors that are associated with mental health characteristics in children and adolescents. To do this research, we will study spit samples collected from children and adolescents, along with questionnaire data. The findings will provide possible new targets for treating mental illness.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Morgan Langille

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

The Hospital for Sick Children

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public administration

Université :

Dalhousie University

Programme :

Accelerate

Studying VR painting with a participatory design approach

Painting in Virtual Reality (VR) offers unprecedented possibilities for artists to create and visualize 3D scenes. On the one hand, modern VR painting applications reproduce the traditional painting metaphors of a brush that traces paint strokes. On the other hand, these strokes can be traced in 3D space rather than on a flat canvas, a capability that has no equivalence in the real-world. The goal of our project is to study how artists depict shapes and materials with this emerging medium. After interviewing artists about the way they work with existing VR painting software, we hope to distill novel insights about the functionalities they need, and to develop prototypes of these functionalities that could then be tested by the artists to inform future research on digital painting and on content creation in Virtual Reality.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Fanny Chevalier

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Université Côte d'Azur

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

New and Digital Media; Entertainment and Media

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Multi-Fidelity Design Optimization of Hydro Turbine Runner Blades

From an energy production perspective, the mobile component of the turbine, the runner, plays a key role in the operation of a water turbine. In the present competitive situation of deregulated energy markets, there is a great demand for more efficient runners which can withstand severe operating conditions. Traditional trial-and-error runner design methods largely depend on the designers’ experience, and always need long design cycles. In this project, a new design optimization methodology has been developed, which uses a combination of highly accurate evaluations and inexpensive moderately accurate evaluations in a proper design cycle, to integrate their advantages and alleviate their weaknesses, with respect to important industrial design limitations such as time and cost. This robust methodology is able to consider several different design objectives and constraints to obtain high-performance runners. Since the majority of Canada’s power stations work with water turbines, even by a few percentage points improvement of runner efficiency and durability, extra millions of dollars can be gained each year.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

François Guibault

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

ANDRITZ Canada Inc.

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Energy and Utilities

Université :

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Embedded security markers in metal additive manufacturing parts and detection via high-frequency ultrasound systems

Metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies are now frequently used in the aerospace, automotive, medical, and energy sectors for fabricating end-use components. The digital nature of the supply chain involved for metal AM production becomes increasingly susceptible to numerous types of cyber- and cyber-physical threats. There is a need for developing security and traceability markers embedded in products, as well as low-cost non-destructive testing (NDT) methods such as ultrasonic testing (UT) for detection of such security markers benchmarked against computed tomography (CT) characterization data. The collaborative project between FUJIFILM VisualSonics and the Multi-Scale Additive Manufacturing Laboratory will investigate the design tradeoffs for embedding such security features to ensure manufacturability via metal AM, material performance, as well as meet UT detection limits based on the newest generation of phased array ultrasonic probes. The outcomes of this program have the potential of multidisciplinary academic discovery and opening a new market sector for VisualSoni

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mihaela Luminita Vlasea

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

FUJIFILM VisualSonics

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell catalyst layer degradation

Clean electrochemical energy conversion is critically needed to build energy security that reduces Canada’s reliance on fossil fuels. The polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell is a particularly important part of a clean energy future as an attractive alternative to the internal combustion engine for transportation applications. PEM fuel cells offer zero local emissions, fast-start ups, and use of clean hydrogen that can be produced from renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar. However, the widespread adoption of PEM fuel cells in Canada is currently hindered by high costs and limited lifetimes, largely stemming from the membrane electrode assembly (MEA), which includes expensive platinum. For this project, the University of Toronto (Prof. Bazylak) and Ballard Power Systems Inc. developed a new partnership to elucidate the sulphonic degradation of the ionomer and coverage of platinum catalyst sites through ex situ and operando imaging, electrochemical performance characterization, and transport property analysis.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Aimy Bazylak

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Ballard Power Systems Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

Multilingual Voice Recognition

Have you ever imagined a world where you can control everything at home and at work with your voice, even without having to read an instruction manual? Speech technologies based on artificial intelligence models promise to make that happen by teaching machines to recognize voice. However, these systems currently support only a few languages, and it remains a particular challenge to support languages for which large datasets do not exist. The proposed research will explore various state-of-the-art deep learning techniques to improve the performance of voice recognition for low-resource languages. This will help Picovoice to provide the same quality of service for diverse users and help language communities, where language is the only means of expression, to access important information they could not otherwise obtain.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Bernd Stelzer

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Picovoice

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Simon Fraser University

Programme :

Accelerate

Monitoring Stress Changes and Microseismic Events in Pillars During Potash Mining

Mining-induced stress in the area around tunnel openings represents a major design consideration in potash mines. In the past, induced stress has been monitored using an array of techniques derived from the hard rock mining industry, one of the key assumptions being linear-elastic deformation behaviour of the rock. When using these methods in a soft rock like potash, issues can arise with the accuracy of these assumptions. The proposed research will build on a recent project that developed improved methods for stress measurements in potash, and will supplement stress change measurements with microseismic monitoring technologies that can track yielding and creep in pillars by detecting the acoustic energy released when cracks develop. The results will lead to better methods for measuring the response of pillars to mining operations, which in turn will enable refinement of the models used to predict pillar response. Improved monitoring and modeling methods will allow more proactive engineering controls to be implemented at lower cost than reactive methods.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Christopher Hawkes;Douglas Milne;Donna Beneteau

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Nutrien

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Agriculture; Mining

Université :

University of Saskatchewan

Programme :

Accelerate

Stationary methanol steam reforming to hydrogen fuel for fuel-cell filling stations

Renewable hydrogen (H2) carriers such as methanol (MeOH) can be reformed back into H2 and is a fundamental chemical conversion for the long-term viability of the H2 economy due to its high density and ease of transportability compared to H2. MeOH is an especially important carrier as it is a simple C1 chemical that can be produced from solar-PV-generated H2 and direct-air-captured CO2 with a current commercially practical solar-to-fuel efficiency of 10% from renewable solar energy. MeOH steam reforming (MSR) in stationary systems next to H2 fuel-cell filling stations can eliminate the need for on-board mobile reformers and the former systems can be more robust in terms of attaining strict H2 product specifications. MeOH, with properly handling, is also a safe, lossless and a compact medium for long-term H2 storage. Both thermal- and photo-catalysts are viable options for achieving stable, long-term performance of stationary MSR systems.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mohini Sain

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Ford Motor Company

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

Wild blueberry geospatial image analysis

We will develop complex image analysis processes to advance and tighten our current processes and more accurately and speedily identify bare spots and in addition develop new processes to identify specific weeds that cause problems in wild blueberry fields. Using spatially accurate drone photography of wild blueberry fields the intern would use custom programming logic to develop image analysis software code to identify entities within those fields. Foreign entities include bare ground, weed species and grasses. Once identified these entity areas would be converted into polygons and stored in a geospatial database for use in developing prescription maps.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Milton King

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Bragg Lumber Company Limited

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Technology; Forestry

Université :

St. Francis Xavier University

Programme :

Accelerate

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Mitacs est financé par le gouvernement du Canada, le gouvernement de l’Alberta, le gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique, Research Manitoba, le gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick, le gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Écosse, le gouvernement de l’Ontario, Innovation PEI, le gouvernement du Québec, le gouvernement de la Saskatchewan, le gouvernement de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador et le gouvernement du Yukon.