Projets novateurs réalisés

Define and Implement Digital Go-To-Market (GTM) Strategy and Plan

We are looking to create and implement our primarily digital GTM strategy.
We will be incorporating an agile approach: plan-do-check-adjust.
Will be very dynamic environment – learning what works and what doesn’t, and quickly adjusting our tactical approaches as more information comes in.
There will be a planning component and a doing component to this project.
Data will be a key driver in our entire process – determining our next steps.
There is an opportunity that with the right candidate this engagement would continue into the future.

Business Process Development for Resson Rama’s Project

Resson, a Fredericton, NB-based precision agriculture company looking to develop a new business process that integrates the three major tasks involved in its product development cycle (client feedback solicitation, software development, and, quality assurance testing). In addition, through the development of this process, Resson will improve the features and functionality of an existing software product offered by Resson that better responds to customer feedback in a way that is sustainable and can be replicated across the company’s line of products as needed. The intern will review customer feedback on the software related to performance, needs, and desired functionality, using this to develop the improvement plan for the software. Throughout this process, the intern will work on quality assurance testing/product validation activities to ensure that the final product meets the needs of the users based on the feedback. In addition, the intern will document the revised business process used for this and proposed for future work. Ultimately, through this internship, Resson anticipates being more agile in responding to customer feedback and better able to develop robust product offerings with high performance and strong customer satisfaction in a timely manner.

The HDL & KGMS Squamish Language Project

Since 2010, Kenneth Gordon Maplewood School (KGMS), a private K-12 school on the North shore that serves children with learning differences, has worked in collaboration with design students from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU). Over the last three years graduate interns have engaged with this partnership, working with Anji Dawson, Counselor and Indigenous Specialist from the Squamish Nation, on integrating Squamish language and culture into day-to-day interactions at KGMS. To evolve this we aim to establish an Indigenous working group, of core and ancillary collaborators, to act as a community platform for Anji Dawson and other Indigenous instructors at ECU and KGMS to test and discuss ideas and approaches to integrating Indigenous life ways and learning styles into various curriculum at both sites.

I, Kathleen Edwards, the intern, will collaborate with makers and educators through a series of participatory workshops. We will story-tell, make together and share knowledges toward the production of materials, curriculum and pedagogy that support KGMS Learner’s needs. All knowledges produced will be documented, adapted, integrated and shared under Anji’s guidance.

Clarifying the biochemical basis of smoke-taint in grapes and wines

When grapevines are exposed to forest fire smoke they often trap the compounds responsible for the odour of smoke within the ripening berries. Through poorly understood processes, grapes may transform these compounds into forms that are not readily detected by smell or current testing procedures. The yeasts used for fermentation may break down these storage forms, regenerating the smoky aroma and tainting the resulting wines. Using a combination of grape tissue culture, greenhouse-grown grapes, and vineyard studies, the interns will deduce how smoky aroma compounds enter grapes and become chemically trapped. Improved methods for detecting these trapped odours in ripening grapes will be devised. The knowledge generated through this project will improve the accuracy of Supra’s smoke-taint testing methods and help them advise their clients (vineyards and wineries) regarding crop protection.

Hand Stimulator

Functional electrical stimulation (FES) exercise therapy (ET) is well established in the scientific community (Teasell et al, 2007 and http://www.ebrsr.com/ ) yet it is not accessible to the majority of the stroke population or those that could greatly benefit from it. In Canada alone millions of dollars has been spent in the last 20 years on proving its efficacy and trying to find cost effective means of administering this treatment. Yet to date there is little in terms of viable commercial products that allow for this type of treatment to be administered. We have become more proficient over the last couple decades at saving lives following cerebrovascular accidents and spinal cord injury and as a result there is an increasing number of survivors with severe disabilities. Every week over 1,000 Canadians have a cardiovascular accident (CVA, stroke) of whom 75% survive and require rehabilitation (Heart&Stroke_Foundation 2010). Today’s larger population of stroke survivors living with the aftermath of a stroke increases the demand for more cost effective and improved upper-extremity treatments

Culture-Actualization Index

At Maslow Centre for Executive Leadership, we work with leaders to build humanized, impactful & high-performing organizations through a critical process we call culture actualization. Culture actualization is when an organization is able to uncover and effectively use individual and organizational potential. We have the framework and solutions to help organizations realize and benefit from this. Over the last 18 months, we have been gathering qualitative findings exploring how leaders are addressing employee needs and how Maslow’s hierarchy of needs relate to employee experience and workplace culture. Our research intends to understand how human needs show up at the workplace in the (post) covid era. With this ongoing research, we now want to build a quantitative survey tool (Culture-Actualization Index) based on these research findings that will help the way organizations transform and lead their people. This survey tool will form part of our consultative approach to engaging organizations so that we can customize our unique solutions to the unique needs of the organization.

Digital Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia app

The project would be a scalable app designed to treat insomnia effectively. This will include educational videos and materials to enable patients to do self-treatment. This should be much more time and cost efficient than traditional treatment, much more easily accessible, and scalable.

TranqSleep hopes that the digital platform will be easy and intuitive to use and can be scaled up to reach a much larger number of patients for this disorder than conventional CBTI treatment does, at a much lower cost.

Développement d’une méthode de télédétection par drone pour les inventaires de nerprun

La propagation des espèces exotiques envahissantes représente l’une des plus grandes menaces pour la biodiversité et le maintien des écosystèmes. Au Canada, près de 500 espèces végétales introduites sont considérées comme envahissantes, elles engendrent chaque année des dépenses importantes ainsi que de nombreux effets indirects, mais néfastes causés par la perte de services écosystémiques. Les espaces boisés de Laval sont mis en danger par le nerprun, dont deux espèces exotiques envahissantes (cathartique et bourdaine) ont été observées. En raison de leur croissance rapide et leur reproduction importante, ils rentrent en compétition avec les espèces indigènes et engendrent une perte de diversité, rendant ainsi les milieux plus fragiles. Afin de réduire les coûts nécessaires aux inventaires du nerprun, nous souhaitons par ce projet développer une méthode de télédétection par drones.

Evaluating and learning from a mind-body medicine course: An interview-based study

This project learns from the experience of participants in an eight-week Mind-Body Medicine program (MBM). Mind-Body Medicine (MBM) teaches people how to help themselves by uncovering and engaging their inner resources and building resilience, broadly understood. The eight-week MBM program will be delivered through the Iris Centre for Mindfulness, Peace and Healing in Fredericton. The research will involve the analysis of interviews with participants, including those who dropped out. The intern will identify the strengths and limitations of the program as well as learn about the experience of MBM in the lives of participants. This research will support program development at the Iris Centre and contribute to the development of similar programs provincially and nationally.

Decarbonization strategies for North Coal’s mining operation in British Columbia; a conceptual study

With growing urgency towards Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG), mining companies are trying to position themselves to take advantage of the massive demand for metals to come with the energy transition. To place their products in the marketplace and retain their social license to operate, miners are committing to net-zero carbon emission targets.
With a progressive approach North Coal is seeking technologies to position themselves as the most ESG-efficient producer of metallurgical coal and expand the company’s value proposition to cover the energy savings aspects and the carbon footprint reductions of its current and future mining operations.
The energy and carbon footprint impacts can vary significantly from mine to mine, depending on the power sources used and the processing circuit. Our objective is to develop a mine energy system digital model that can predict the impact of utilizing different technologies/equipment under a wide range of operating conditions.

Understanding the Value of Responsible Gambling Programming in Canada: An Industry Perspective

While most people gamble for fun, some people suffer harms from their gambling. To prevent people from experiencing gambling-related harm, the gambling industry has put in place responsible gambling programs and tools to help people gamble within their means. However, even with the different responsible gambling tools and information available to players, the use of these resources is low. In the current project, I will be working with the gambling industry to understand how responsible gambling programming can be more effective and appealing to players. I will interview responsible gambling representatives in the industry from all over Canada to learn about their thoughts on what is working and what can be improved in their responsible gambling strategies. The findings from these interviews will be used to develop recommendations and best practices to share with different gambling operators to help their players gamble positively and safely.

Intersectional Inequalities in Science

The goal of this project is to investigate the direct harms to science wrought by structural racism and the benefits derived by the inclusion of women and minoritized people of color in the scientific workforce. Specifically, this work seeks to (a) quantify the participation of marginalized individuals in the production of science, (b) elucidate the role of marginalized individuals in propelling intellectual innovations, and (c) understand how the distribution of labor and composition of scientific teams creates barriers and pathways to scientific success for minoritized groups. The project will develop empirical insights on the impact of diversity in science and identify mechanisms that can be used to improve the retention of minoritized individuals.