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Improving Process and Product Performance through Innovative and cost effective solutions

EHC Global – our industry partner, is a worldwide industry leader in design and manufacture of escalator handrails and many other products for the lift industry. They mainly deal with thermoplastic polyurethanes (TPUs), which are versatile engineering polymers with a wide range of applications, however processing of TPUs is a complicated and challenging task. The complications arise from the relatively high melting temperature of crystalline hard blocks and the degradation and crosslinking that take place at temperatures slightly above melting temperatures. EHC-Global therefore, consistently look at ways to improving product performance by investigating innovative material formulations and production methods. This project mainly focuses on innovative and cost effective solutions to material formulations, on-site viscosity measurement systems, and optimal processes and geometry considerations. This would benefit EHC-Global in terms of product quality, cost reduction, and maintaining a competitive edge over competitors, and to spread their business in the global market.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ghaus Rizvi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

EHC Canada

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Programme :

Accelerate

Investigation of impact of technological advancement in positional MRI on measuring cerebrovascular reactivity

With the advancement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, an exciting time has emerged for research in the field of cerebral anatomy and physiology. The basis of this proposal is to employ a one of a kind imaging technique to drive forward our basic understanding of regional blood flow regulation in the human brain. The circulation of brain blood flow is profoundly influenced by the local prevailing pH (acid-base balance). An increased pH (reduced acidity) of cerebral extra-vascular tissue reduces blood flow, while a decreased pH (increased acidity) increases the cerebral blood flow. Changes in cerebral extra-vascular pH occur daily – determined in large part from variations in breathing frequency (and in turn changes in arterial partial pressure of CO2). The natural ‘reactivity’ of the cerebral vessels to changes in pH appear to be a surrogate for cerebral health. That is, the more the blood flow changes for a given change in pH, the ‘healthier’ they are. Indeed, those with lower reactivity are at higher risk of cerebrovascular disease. TO BE CONT’D

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Philip Ainslie

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Welcome Back Pain Management & Upright MRI Centre

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Programme :

Accelerate

Advanced wearable inertial tracking system to monitor automotive assembly operator motion for human simulation applications

Capturing the real human motions on the assembly plant floor is the key point for developing accurate virtual simulations. The real human motions of specific workstation operations at Ford Oakville Assembly Plant by using wearable inertial sensors will be collected. After data collection, virtual simulations will be performed for all the recorded operation tasks. Based on simulations, physicians can observe and conduct ergonomic assessment of each of operation tasks on the plant floor. In addition, developing an accurate posture prediction algorithm is important for the future assembly operation designs. This project will focus on the development of this new algorithm for some specific operation tasks. Once this developed posture prediction algorithm is validated, it will enable engineers to design assembly operations which do not exist at the moment. The real-time ergonomic analyses will aid engineers in assessing injury risks in the assembly design process.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Joel Cort

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Ford Motor Company;Potvin Biomechanics Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Windsor

Programme :

Accelerate

Développement du processus de transfert des connaissances sur les eaux souterraines vers les intervenants en aménagement du territoire

Actuellement, les données produites récemment dans le cadre du Programme d’acquisition de connaissances sur les eaux souterraines sont difficilement intégrables à la planification territoriale. Les intervenants en aménagement du territoire manquent de formation sur les eaux souterraines et il leur est donc difficile d’exploiter les données. Ce projet de recherche vise à développer une démarche pour outiller les intervenants de la région de Chaudière-Appalaches pour qu’ils soient en mesure d’élaborer un plan de gestion de l’eau souterraine. Les OBV et les MRC seront ainsi en mesure de rencontrer les nouvelles exigences du Règlement sur le prélèvement d’eau et sa protection (RPEP). L’eau souterraine pourra donc être mieux protégée, afin d’en assurer la qualité et la quantité pour les différents usages, tels que l’eau potable ou l’agriculture.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Roxane Lavoie

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Organisme des Bassins Versants de la Côte-du-Sud

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université Laval

Programme :

Accelerate

Exploring the benefits of the novel CRISPR endonuclease Cpf1 over Cas9 for genomic engineering

A recently developed technology called CRISPR/Cas9 allows scientists to quickly and precisely edit DNA in living cells and is about to revolutionize molecular biology and genetics. The success of CRISPR/Cas9 is based on its ease of use, effectiveness and cost efficiency. Our aim is to explore a variant of this technology, CRISPR/Cpf1, for its application in genomic engineering and potential benefits. Specifically, we want to systematically address whether CRISPR/Cpf1 can be used to manipulate any gene of interest in the genome, and whether it matches or exceeds the functionality of CRISPR/Cas9. In a second step, we aim to use this technology to improve existing cell-based production systems for biologic drugs such as therapeutic antibodies used in cancer treatment.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jason Moffat

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

NuvoBio Corporation

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

Design and Implementation of Real-Time Platform for Beehive Monitoring and A Mite Extraction System

As one of the oldest forms of agriculture, apiculture (i.e. beekeeping) plays an essential role in contributing to people’s livelihoods and the survival of the environment. However, beekeepers are faced with challenges such as Colony Collapse Disorders (CCD), swarming (queen bee leaving with the majority of the worker bees), and queen loss. Unfortunately a constant monitoring of the hives by the beekeepers is demanding and it disturbs the activity of the hive. The objective of this project is to design a remote real time platform that enables the study of the colony’s behavior. The study will be performed with the cooperation of HoneyView Farm Ltd. on the bee colonies. The results will help the development of an intelligent system that will be able to recognize the colony and queen bee’s condition by observing different factors such as sound, temperature, vibrations, and other factors. The system will then inform or warn the beekeepers about the condition of the hive and the queen bee. In addition, an automated system will be designed to extract the Varroa Mites that have been known to be one of the causes that lead to CCD.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Farid Golnaraghi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Honeyview Farm Ltd

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Agriculture

Université :

Simon Fraser University

Programme :

Accelerate

Nepali Case Assignment

In most commonly studied languages, the subjects of all sentences are marked the same way. In some less commonly studied languages including Nepali, however, subjects of transitive verbs are treated as subjects, while subjects of intransitive verbs are marked the same way as objects of transitive verbs. These are called “ergative” languages. If we imagine that English were an ergative language, the following pair of sentences would be grammatical:
“She saw him.”
“Him slept.” (rather than “He slept”).
There is an active debate among theoretical linguists about how to best explain why some languages work this way. The grammar of Nepali poses problems for many of the current theories, but Nepali is an understudied language and no account has yet been proposed to explain it. In this project we will analyze linguistic data gathered from Nepali speakers in northern India to formulate an explanation for subject marking in Nepali. Such an analysis stands to make significant contributions to the current debate on split ergative subject marking, and to what is known about the linguistic structure of Nepali.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jessica Coon

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Jawaharlal Nehru University

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

The effect of motivation on foreign speech performance

As a result of globalization, foreign language communication has become increasingly important in many countries. Vietnam has been going through drastic economic surge and globalization in recent years, so effective teaching methods for foreign language based on
scientific evidence are imperative for developing the country. This project will explore the role of motivation on Vietnamese learners’ foreign language communication in English and Korean, i.e. two of the most widely studied languages in Vietnam. When speaking a foreign language, you want to project ideas and get meaning across (approach), while you try not to make errors or lose your face (avoidance). Therefore, motivation in foreign language speaking involves different directions: moving forward to communication goal and moving away from linguistic problems. This project targets the different types of motivation on foreign language speech performance. The findings will shed lights on effective ways of teaching foreign language especially for Vietnamese learners learning English or Korean.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Kim McDonough

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Vietnam National University, Hanoi

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Université :

Concordia University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Stressless Gamification to Improve Workplace Health

Stress is a top workforce risk and according to a Towers-Watson 2013 survey, half of all employers identify improving the emotional and mental health of employees as their top priority for building health and productivity programs. The objective of this research is to improve StressWelliQ’s systems and product portfolio by creating gamified technology solutions and thereby improving the lives of Canadians. The creation and evaluation of this technology will allow StressWelliQ to create a more effective augmented stress management platform. We expect to (a) build the gamification and social interaction strategies within StressWelliQ’s platform, (b) evaluate the effectiveness and (c) build gamified application strategies of the biomedical devices developed by StressWelliQ. It is expected that these results will help StressWelliQ to gain a competitive advantage for stress management, stress evaluation, and stress prevention. Building a gamified stress management platform will ultimately provide novel research and design opportunities for the interns and help them build a stronger researcher portfolio.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Lennart Nacke;Mark Hancock

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

FlourishiQ Inc.

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Arts, entertainment and recreation

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Système d’intendance (Stewardship) de Recyclage des cartons de lait vides au Nouveau-Brunswick

Tout bon projet provincial en recyclage requiert en soi d’examiner en amont un système d’intendance de certaines matières recyclées permettant un retour raisonnable sur l’investissement. Thermopak Ltd. travaille sur un projet de pyrolyse à partir de la récupération des cartons de lait vides. L’entreprise nécessite de concevoir un système de recyclage bien rodé ayant pour but de récupérer ce type de carton vide après usage domestique sur tout le territoire du Nouveau-Brunswick. Le projet présenté par la compagnie reflète l’intérêt du propriétaire à vouloir minimiser l’impact environnemental concernant l’enfouissement d’une quantité effarante de ces cartons de lait vides sur 5 des 6 sites d’enfouissement de la province du Nouveau-Brunswick.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Habib Hamam

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Thermopak Ltd

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

Université de Moncton

Programme :

Accelerate

Effets de la quantité et distribution des coupes partielles sur les aspects écologiques et économiques de l’aménagement écosystémique

Des études récentes semblent indiquer que les coupes partielles ne seraient pas aussi bénéfiques qu’on le croyait en termes de conservation de la biodiversité et du fonctionnement des écosystèmes forestiers par rapport aux coupes totale. Les coupes partielles sont toutefois utilisées de plus en plus fréquemment pour répondre à des objectifs de protection de la biodiversité mais peu d’études ont évalué de façon adéquate l’impact de ces méthodes d’aménagements lorsqu’elles sont appliquées sur de grande superficie. L’objectif de ce projet est de déterminer la quantité et la distribution spatiale et temporelle des différents types de coupe utilisés qui optimisent l’ensemble des services produit par les forêts en Haute Mauricie (ex : biodiversité, séquestration du carbone, production ligneuse, habitat faunique de qualité, etc). Ceci permettrait à notre partenaire qui est un acteur important de l’aménagement forestier en Haute Mauricie d’implanter une approche qui concilie à la fois les besoins économiques et écologiques.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Christian Messier

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Corporation du Développement Durable du Haut St-Maurice

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Agriculture

Université :

Université du Québec en Outaouais

Programme :

Accelerate

SIEMENS Perceived Value of Energy Consumers Project: Research and Development for Modeling the Perceived Value of Energy Consumers

Research and Development for Modeling the Perceived Value of Energy Consumers is a novel area of study which should help to better understand the energy consumers and the perceived value they place on different services and products. By identifying, understanding potential new products and services the related business models can be developed. Various dependencies between product/service offerings and customer segment can be displayed, analyzed and measured through key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine the customer perceived values, such as customer satisfaction and customer retention. The increased understanding of the perceived value and the customer segments can result in new innovative and tailor-made products and service.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Dhirendra Shukla

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Siemens Canada Limited (Fredericton, NB)

Discipline :

Business

Secteur :

Utilities

Université :

University of New Brunswick

Programme :

Accelerate

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