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Investigation of supportive policy for Active School Travel: Evidence-based recommendations for policies to promote active transportation for school journeys

Walking and wheeling to/from school represents an important source of physical activity for children. As policy decisions about how we build our neighbourhoods, schools, and transportation systems have changed, we have seen a worrisome decrease in the number of children who use active modes of travel to get to/from school. We have limited research mapping existing policies related to school travel planning across and within school, municipal, and regional districts. We proposed that the intern will review and analyze Ontario policy scan data, conduct a scoping review, and survey and interview key informants to identify best practices for policies and procedures that support and promote the use of active travel modes by Ontario students. These findings will inform the policy agenda of the Ontario Active School Travel Council, and support Ontario Municipalities, School Boards, and Student Transportation Consortia to develop policies that support and promote active school travel.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jason Gilliland

Student:

Partner:

Green Communities Canada

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Transportation (excluding aerospace); Sustainability & the Environment

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

Hemicelluloses – based Microgel and its applications

Hemicellulose is the second most abundant renewable polysaccharide, and the HMC-based microgels have great potential in the application in various industries of surface coating, oil recovery, printing, and diaper industry. In this project, the HMC obtained from FPInnovations’ novel fractionation process will be used as the raw material to prepare HMC-based microgels. The fundamental properties, including the rheological behavior, water absorption, swelling degree, will be determined. The second aspect is to determine the potential applications of the prepared HMC- based microgel, such as coating, ink/printing, oil recovery, diaper. There is a strong market demand develop natural polymer- based micorgel, not only because of the rising oil prices but also due to structural versatility, biocompatibility, and sustainability of bio-based products. Hemicelluloses (HMC) are renewable resource of biopolymers, and they have been the focus of growing attention in the context of bio-economy and sustainable development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yonghao Ni

Student:

Partner:

FPInnovations (Pointe-Claire, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Pursuing innovative non-rare earth amplified fibered DFB lasers: Ultra-long fiber Bragg gratings non-linear induced temperature control

Recent years have seen significant leaps towards perfecting the fabrication of ultra-long fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) for application in non-linear optics, including fibered DFB lasers. Previous work from the laboratory was able to successfully identify and mitigate some of the intrinsic defects causing non-uniformity in multiple type of fibers leading to their compensation attaining high quality reproducible ultra-long FBGs. However, implementation with such novelty components lead to poor results for the DFB fibre laser applications, and further investigation demonstrated temperature gradients along the grating degraded its expected efficiency. This research follows in its footsteps, with the objective of further investigating possible solutions to approach the predicted performance of the DFB laser. Transfer matrix methods using Matlab computation are expected to be a core section of the research. Introducing Kerr non-linearity will allow the simulation of temperature degradation effects. Validation of numerical results will then be experimentally assessed in our laboratories and/or at the partner location.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raman Kashyap

Student:

Partner:

MPB Communications (Pointe-Claire, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Towards a patient-centered eHealth system through the integration of cloud services into OpenEMR

Healthcare organizations in British Columbia currently lack an eHealth system as a network of multiple data sources to manage EMRs in meaningful ways. To support clinician decision in operational needs, this project will research the usability of a GUI as an EMR summary view in the Canadian healthcare context for both providers and patients and investigate integrate data from provincial EMRs information systems. Afterwards, another research on how to present the collected information in a meaningful, contextual relevant way will be carried out to assist healthcare data management, and finally a patient portal will be designed to help healthcare providers improve their individual medical services. This system will facilitate the partner’s healthcare business by supporting clinical decision making and improving the patient experience of care.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zheng Liu

Student:

Partner:

VistACan

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Creating and testing effective teacher curriculum guides for the educational versions of Ubisoft’s Assassins Creed games

The Assassin’s Creed series is viewed by the public and educators as a promising educational tool rife with historical settings, characters, and events (e.g., Chapman, 2013). Yet, its use in formal education has lagged (Gilbert, 2017) because educators’ lack understanding (i.e., knowing how to teach with a technology, Mishra & Koehler, 2008) and acceptance (i.e., being willing to use technology, Davis, 1989) for games as educational tools. To address this issue, we will create and test Assassin’s Creed curriculum guides. First, the team will document the full range of learning activities in the games. Second, activities will be organized into two teacher-friendly curriculum guides that can be implemented in multiple grades and countries. Third, educators will provide feedback on the guides via surveys and focus groups to determine if and how the guides increase their understanding and acceptance of Assassin’s Creed as an educational tool.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adam Kenneth Dubé

Student:

Partner:

Ubisoft Divertissement

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Antimicrobial Activity of Kisameet Clay II

e problem to be addressed is if detailed laboratory studies can be designed out to confirm
and extend the historical, anecdotal information on the therapeutic/medicinal properties of
Kisameet clay (KC). There is much non-scientific information alleging the potent antimicrobial
activities of many clay products. In this research proposal we propose to carry out a detailed
microbiological analysis of the antibiotic activity of KC: the project will involve a full
investigation of the bactericidal and bacteriostatic activities of the clay, considering the
material as a potential antibiotic. Once confirmation of antimicrobial activity is confirmed we
will develop new methodologies and carry out further studies with a variety of pathogens,
including hospital isolates of antibiotic resistant strains. This internship looks at support
research for the main research goals. The company will benefit from the research into the
development of advanced methodology which will be used in ongoing experimentation to gain
a better understanding of the microbiological properties of Kisameet clay.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Julian Davies

Student:

Partner:

Kisameet Glacial Clay Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

IoT, AI and Analytics for Smart Urban Water Systems

The Advanced Data Analytics Platform for the Transformation (ADAPT) developed herein integrates quality assurance, quality control and Artificial Intelligence techniques to identify trends and relationships in water networks data. The importance of this information for fostering utility communications and business processes is demonstrated through a visualization dashboard built based on ADAPT. These tools will provide insights regarding constantly generated utility data streams, increase staff effectiveness, identify benchmarks for judging the quality of new data, and embody a foundation on which to evaluate urban water management decisions and set expectations for performance. They will reduce economic losses by improving asset efficiency, and by improving usability of data, assuring that investments in sensor networks are well spent. The integration and assimilation of data from ADAPT, and next generation telemetry, industrial and IoT, will support utility management needs such as in predicting sewer overflows, water supply flows and quality, and optimal sensor placement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Barbara Jean Lence

Student:

Partner:

Global Quality Corp

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Association automatique entre symboles et textes dans des documents d’ingénierie

La plupart des documents d’ingénierie comportent des symboles pour caractériser les systèmes qu’ils représentent. Ils comportent également des annotations (identifiants, notes, spécifications) sous forme textuelle pour préciser certaines propriétés importantes ou identifier les composants. Si l’association entre les symboles et les composants est intuitive pour un expert humain, il en va autrement pour un ordinateur. Ce projet vise à permettre la découverte automatique de tels liens d’association par un ordinateur, en utilisant des techniques d’apprentissage automatique. Une telle avancée pourrait permettre des gains d’efficacité significatifs et une gestion simplifiée pour les compagnies exploitant des infrastructures présentement documentées manuellement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Gagné;Jean-Francois Lalonde

Student:

Partner:

Bentley Systems Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Technology

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Study of the performance of borehole thermal energy storage systems for provision of renewable heating

Thermal energy storage (TES) systems are suitable to bridge the existing mismatch between demand and supply. In current study, borehole thermal energy storage (BTES) is selected due to its advantages. The performance of the BTES can be affected by several factors in different patterns including design, operation, and geological and material properties. Although it has been proven that the BTES systems can be effectively dealt with the seasonal energy intermittency issues, the heat transfer mechanisms involved in these systems has not been thoroughly and systematically studied in previous explorations. Therefore, this research aims to conduct the thermal performance analysis of the innovative concept of coupling the thermal solar collectors to a BTES system to store surplus solar energy and provide upgraded heat when heating demand is raised on a Canadian residential building.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Seyed Ali Ghoreishi-Madiseh

Student:

Partner:

2356268 Ontario Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Design of Reliable Resource Management Solutions in Cloud Environments for Medical Analytics and Beyond

While cloud-based medical analytics is important for facilitating efficient, patient-centric smart healthcare services, the reliability of the cloud is often under question because of many cloud failures and outages. In this project, how to reliably assign the resources and tasks to the cloud through virtual machine and medical service migration will be investigated, modeled, and evaluated through simulations and experiments. This will provide practical and adaptable solutions for health caregivers. The model will serve as a guide to caregivers and caregiving facilities for the achievement of reliable resource management. The effectiveness of the model will be evaluated and tested using both mathematical optimization and Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based models. Journal publications in high impact factor IEEE transactions and/or journal(s) will be targeted to report the adopted methodology and experimental findings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zubair Fadlullah;Salimur Choudhury

Student:

Partner:

Thunder Bay Regional Health Research Institute

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Lakehead University

Program:

Accelerate

Sales Coordinator

a) Working in collaboration with the Commercial Teams to ensure a customer centric approach on all innovation/renovation
projects “own the customer side of the 4Ps” (including but not limited to Listing objectives, List Price recommendations,
MSP/FSP, merchandising and shelving objectives)
b) Collaborate with Brand partners on the publication of any launch decks to ensure customer facing approach (lead a
commercial mind set)
c) Managing and supporting customer portal process (e.g. Article workflow, Sobeys Partner
Portal, Whole Foods VIP, Walmart Retail link, Precima)
d) Supporting the sales teams in the creation of business presentations and reviews

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

GreenSpace Brands

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Characterization and numerical simulation of precipitation in the climatic wind tunnel at Ontario Tech

Climatic wind tunnels (CWTs) can repeatedly control variables such as temperatures, humidity, rain, snow, etc., that cannot be controlled outdoors. This allows tests to be performed faster, in weeks instead of years, thus speeding up the product development cycle. However, generating realistic precipitation in a CWT is still a challenge, because it is not well understood and it is difficult to create repeatable precipitation as desired by industry. The objective of the proposed research is to characterize the precipitation in the CWT at Ontario Tech, and develop a numerical precipitation simulation model. The study will involve physical experiments to obtain parameters such as liquid water content, mean volume diameter, droplet number concentration, and particle size distribution are essential for precipitation characterization. They are essential for precipitation characterization and will also serve as validation data for the development of the numerical simulation model. Further, they will provide insight in the quality of precipitation generated in the CWT. The industry partner will gain insight in applying its analytics tools to precipitation data. This collaboration will also help the interns gain industry relevant skills.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Agelin-Chaab

Student:

Partner:

GlassHouse Systems

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

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