Innovative Projects Realized

Developing and Validating a Robust Sample Preparation, Separation and Quantitation Method for Pesticide Residues in Cannabis

Mandatory reporting limits established by Health Canada for pesticide testing in cannabis are typically lower than those published in various U.S. states. Because dried cannabis leaves and flowers generate many co-extractives that can negatively impact testing results, a simple and cost-effective sample preparation and analytical method needs to be developed to meet the demanding testing requirements in Canada. In this proposal, we will develop a robust sample preparation and clean-up procedure based on comparative research work and optimization of conditions and steps utilizing a combination of more basic procedures to extract 96 pesticides listed by Health Canada. Also, we will develop instrument methods to allow low level analysis of pesticides with good recovery in complex cannabis matrices.

Novel approaches for longitudinal control laws of commercial aircraft

The A220 aircraft, former CSeries, is the first commercial aircraft certified by Bombardier with fully augmented Fly-by-Wire Control Laws. The longitudinal controller gains are usually scheduled across the flight envelope according to relevant aerodynamic variables. Their tuning can be a lengthy and, sometimes, sub-optimal process. Hence, it is key for Airbus Canada to continue developing state-of-the-art design methodologies based on recent academic research. During this Master’s thesis, the student will evaluate the benefits and applicability to A220 of two ways of addressing this topic. If successful, those techniques will allow to improve the control laws robustness and performance. They will also offer a major competitive advantage by significantly reducing design turnaround times and the needs for exhaustive development flight test.

Social Media and Public Engagement

Social Media Presence – develop strategies to utilize social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and how best to raise the profile of the organization. Additionally, utilize these platforms to engage with our potential clients
Review current Communication Plan and suggest any recommended changes and implementation processes.
Assist in our community engagement procedures (town halls, community outreach) if we are successful in our recent RFP application for development of supportive housing. This would be a new area of support we would provide, a different level of programming and a new type of stakeholder.

Validation of Novel, Tumor Microenvironment-targetedImmunomodulatory Biological Therapeutic

ImmunoBiochem is developing novel anti-cancer therapeutics to address unmet need in intractable solid tumors. Because solid tumors are highly heterogeneous and evasive, recognizing cancerous cells, while avoiding damage to normal tissue, is a challenge. As a result, many targeted therapies quickly come up against resistance, resulting in patient relapses. ImmunoBiochem is solving the issue of tumor versus normal recognition by exploiting unique cancer targets in the tumor environment – a collection of features that are uniquely present in tumors and absent in the environment of normal cells. This provides for an ability for broader targeting and opportunity to avoid many common resistance mechanisms. The intern will help advance the validation of novel drug candidates in models of various cancer types and subtypes, to understand efficacy and how to ultimately translate the findings to initiate clinical trials in human patients.

FC Analyst

The baseline will be to build a current competitor landscape analysis which will also include mapping their key technology, integrations, and go-to-market strategy. Assessing where their key focus and what they consider the advantage will then be aligned with what we see happening in the market and how we are shaping our product to succeed in the next cycle of drop-shipping.

Community Engagement Strategist

Simbi is an online platform designed to help students improve their reading comprehension and fluency gains. As the community engagement strategist, I am responsible for outreaching to Simbi’s stakeholders and pursuing potential partnerships. Specifically, I will be working with Holocaust survivors and First Nation communities to upload their stories to the platform, and obtaining celebrity partnerships to excite kids to read.

Business Development Intern

The strategic analysis will be centered on inserting Peloton’s cloud based electronic payment product into the middle of the multiple relationships in the trust account management space. This is a “greenfield” market opportunity that the company is uniquely set up to pivot into. Peloton seeks assistance with the market analysis and creation of the business plan. A key component of the business plan will be articulating, through diagrams and simple language, the complex payment flow involved in these transactions that works within the law society’s legal framework as it pertains to electronic payments.

Pliteq Business Strategy Internship

The project will involve identifying and analyzing potential high growth and stable markets. It will require conducting research through various construction databases and market sources to address the two opportunities outlined above.

Pliteq has created a team dedicated to growing sales of the GenieMat®Rail product, an acoustic solution with applications to railways. The role will involve working with this team to identify rail projects as well as other government infrastructure projects, where Pliteq’s products have a range of applications throughout any given building. It will require tracking government stimulus announcements across Pliteq’s global markets as well as reviewing construction databases for specific projects.

The second issue will require an understanding of both macro and micro economic factors to determine which geographic markets Pliteq should prioritize. This could include research on government restrictions during COVID-19 and general economic health of the region as well as on the local construction industry and rate of new builds. Pliteq’s sales engineers are each focused on a specific region. Some team members have seen a dramatic slowdown in their region and, in response, have refocused their attention on other existing markets.

Business Strategy Internship

We are looking at a strategy that addresses the two issues stated above. A way for Carlyle to pivot to expand their bundling approach (mentioned in issue one), to be a competitive advantage in the shrinking market, and issue two getting us engaged in the changing workflow within our customer companies. The objective of the project to investigate the options, do market sizing, competitive landscaping, and develop the action plans of implementation of the strategy.
One of the areas we see on the horizon is completing the workflow of office printing. Right now, we are on the creating side (printing a page), we think there are opportunities to continue the journey of that page. What do they do with that printed page? File, modify, store, destroy, secure, distribute and so on. The intern would work with us on exploring and researching the options of expanding Carlyle’s services further down the life cycle of that printed page.

Business Strategy Internship

Business Strategy Internship

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mortalite au sein des peuplements de peuplier faux-tremble en AbItibi et dans Ie Nord-duQuebec,
O’ordinaire, les perturbations naturelles dans ces peuplements n’empachent pas la
regeneration de s’etablir, mais ce ne fut pas Ie cas suite 8 I’epidemie d’jJ y a quelques
annees, Les objectifs d’amenagement forestier au Quebec etablissent qu’iI faut remettre
rapidement en production les superficies forestiares et dans Ie. contexte des peuplements
degrades par I’epidemie, une serie de traitements ont ete appliquees sur un territoire de 5
Km carres dans un important massif de peupller faux-tremble dans Ie Nord-du-Quebec : des
coupes d’ete et d’hiver (en 2010) et un retrait de I’aulne, espace competitrice (8 I’hiver 2011),
Cas traitements ont ete realises en ml!me temps que la mise en place d’un dispositif
experimental de suivi, I’ensemble etant Ie fruit d’une collaboration entre la Chaire Industrielle…

Marketing and Innovation Specialist

As a Marketing and Innovation Specialist at Nature’s Expression, I will be assisting the development of robust strategies targeted at retailers to support sales activities. COVID-19 has significantly decreased the sales projections of Nature’s Expression and I will have to reconsider the existing marketing strategies throughout the remainder of the year. I will accomplish this by maintaining social network activities, coordinating promotions using various delivery methods and reviewing survey results to learn about the types of funding mechanisms British Columbians are in favour of.