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Arctic Research Foundation UX/UI searchable database

The Arctic Research Foundation (ARF) is a private, non-profit organization creating a scientific infrastructure for the Canadian Arctic. Over the years, it has generated and collected a huge volume of big data. These valuable big data need to be managed. In response, we design an effective database to (a) integrate these big data (which may be of a wide variety of data types, formats, etc.) from different sources, (b) manage them, (c) catalogue the data, (d) extract useful information from the data, and (e) make the data accessible to researchers and public. By doing so, we centralize these disparate raw data collected by ARF vessels, mobile labs, and equipment from across the Arctic into a universally readable and easily searchable database. Moreover, we add an easily understandable, highly usable user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) elements so that the resulting searchable database can be easily accessible.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ralph Dueck;Carson Leung;Reynard Dela Torre

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Arctic Research Foundation

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Red River College; University of Manitoba

Programme :

Accelerate

High Performance Cold Spray Process Development

PolyCSAM is a new industrial-scale cold spray additive manufacturing (CSAM) facility created by Polycontrols to address production and industrialization challenges. It serves as a demonstrator and an innovation/development platform. A recent strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis revealed that the supply chain is solid and diversified for all key components, with the exception of the cold spray (CS) gun itself. There is a clear business opportunity for Polycontrols to come up with innovations that have the potential to be disruptive in the world of CS additive manufacturing. The objective of this project is to develop a new high-performance CS gun that exploits the potential innovations in the following areas: recurrent nozzle clogging, nozzle designs maximizing particle’s impact velocity & temperature, coating internal diameters, and efficient powder preheating. Specific activities that will develop new innovative solutions to allow for the production of a new gun that reaches a technology readiness level of 5 will be performed using CFD and modern engineering design tools.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Bertrand Jodoin

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Polycontrols

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Ottawa

Programme :

Accelerate

AI enabled audio-visual annotation for endoscopic procedures

Video endoscopy is the main diagnostic and screening method for cancer screening in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Currently, the endoscopic video is not sufficiently documented, which makes reviewing of these videos difficult. The research team will partner with the company to develop an audio/video recording technology to combine physician voice annotation of the video during the endoscopy procedure. This project will produce more detailed documented endoscopic video and allow more accurate comparison of videos recorded at different time to monitor disease progress.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Qiyin Fang

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

AzadMedica Inc.

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

McMaster University

Programme :

Accelerate

Pilot Plant for Lithium Extraction from Saskatchewan Brine Deposits

With the growth in demand for electric vehicles and mobile devices powered by rechargeable lithium batteries, demand for lithium is expected to increase by over 200% in the next decade. Current lithium production comes primarily from Australia, South America and China. There are significant lithium reserves in the same Saskatchewan aquifers currently being exploited for their concomitant oil reserves. Although the lithium concentration in these aquifers is lower than in brines being mined elsewhere, new lithium selective extraction technologies show great promise for making extraction of lithium from these aquifers economical. Prairie Lithium has previously identified a lithium selective ion exchange material that can extract more than 99% of the lithium in a brine sample in only 4 minutes. The project described here involves the modification, deployment, and optimization of a commercial pilot unit to demonstrate the viability of using this extraction methodology to develop the first lithium brine mine in Saskatchewan using produced water from oil and gas production.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Shafiq Alam

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Prairie Lithium

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Mining

Université :

University of Saskatchewan

Programme :

Accelerate

High purity diamond deposition system

Synthetic diamond allows to exploit technologically relevant properties at much more affordable costs than based on natural diamond. While early applications related to the extraordinary hardness of diamond, more recent applications target the outstanding heat conductivity and dedicated point defects that allow for the control of individual paramagnetic states. This has extended the requirements for the controlled growth beyond the requirements for a high-quality bulk structure towards the engineering of surface passivation and defect state populations via dopants. On a microwave plasma chemical vapour deposition system that is soon to be completed, Plasmionique targets the development of stable and reproducible processes to achieve these goals in collaboration with a scientific partner: Andreas Ruediger from INRS-EMT will conduct the structural and functional characterisation to provide continuous and fast feedback on the effect of process parameters on the desired properties. Dr. Muchemu has acquired in depth knowledge on plasma processes and optical spectroscopy techniques during his PhD at University of Toronto and will have the opportunity to deepen his scientific knowledge and to complement it in almost daily exchange with all partners about the technological and commercial requirements for national and internationals competitiveness in the field of thin film deposition technology.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Andreas Ruediger

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Plasmionique Inc.

Discipline :

Physics

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Programme :

Accelerate

Follow up of horses treated with stem cells at eQcell Inc.

For over 10 years, eQcell Inc. has been treating horses with stem cells. In order to efficiently direct future research, a full picture of the efficacy of past treatments is necessary. This project will follow up with all clients across 8 clinics to collect an up-to-date snapshot of previously treated horses’ health and progression or regression from the time of treatment. These data will help generate hypotheses and narrow the research focus of the company to where stem cells may be best applied. This work fits within the overall vision of eQcell to develop novel treatment strategies for various equine diseases and conditions that will ultimately lead to a reduction in the number of Ontario horses affected by disease, reduce the number lost training days due to serious conditions resulting in a net positive impact on the Canadian and global equine industry.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jonathan LaMarre

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

eQcell

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Guelph

Programme :

Accelerate

Investigating the performance of ultra-thin graphene oxide films for natural gas dehydration

The main goal of this project is to identify the key performance parameters of the membrane and collect some data on the membrane performance. To achieve this goal the intern needs to first develop a testing system to evaluate the dehydration performance of the membrane. After building the test system the intern will utilize the system to check the performance of a wide range of membranes and select which ones work best as well as factors that would impact the membrane performance. Then the test system will be brought to natural gas plant to verify the performance. Evercloak will supervise the intern and support out of lab research activities on their premise. Evercloak will benefit as the results of this project will inform key decisions within their technology development roadmap in addition to talent acquisition/training.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

David Simakov

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Evercloak

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Topologies and Linearization of High Peak-to-Average Power Amplifiers for Digital Broadcast Radio Applications

Broadcast radio is changing from an analog medium based on frequency modulation (FM) to a full digital broadcast based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The high peak-to-average power ratio of the OFDM waveform requires different power amplifier topologies and a high degree of linearity. The research in this project analyzes current amplifier performance for digital radio broadcasting in the FM band, investigates new linearization techniques and explores new amplifier topologies. Key research aspects are improving linearity to meet spectral emissions requirements and increasing power added efficiency (PAE) for amplifiers broadcasting a hybrid waveform composed of both an FM and OFDM component that is increasing in injected power with the goal of an all digital OFDM waveform.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jean-Francois Bousquet

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Nautel

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Dalhousie University

Programme :

Accelerate

Nutrient removal using a glass-base engineered adsorbent for treating public effluence and agricultural wastewater: designing of a portable continuous setup and study of an agricultural application of the saturated adsorbent

Agricultural wastewater and public effluents often contain elevated levels of phosphorous and nitrogen that limit its ability to be directly repurposed as crop fertilizer or irrigation spray. Removal of soluble nutrients from wastewater is difficult. Current treatment options have high investment costs and are often not well suited for smaller farm sizes common in Canada. This research intends to characterize the utility of a solid-state adsorbent material engineered by NPower Clean Tech Corporation that shows promise for removing anionic forms of phosphorous and nitrogen. Successful application of the saturated (spent) adsorbent for crop growing purposes (as soil amender and slow release fertilizer) will add more value to the whole process particularly for small size farms. If the product economically recovers these nutrients, then this research may directly benefit Canadian farmers, public sewer utilities, and waste generating industries by offering an additional means of controlling their waste stream profiles.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Hossein Kazemian

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

NPower Clean Tech Corporation

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Northern British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Electrocardiogram (ECG) filtering algorithms for real-time ambulatory applications in harsh environments

The electrical activity of the heart i.e. ECG, can convey a lot of useful information about an individual’s health and psychological states. Wearable devices recording ECG signals can help monitor the physical health of soldiers remotely and help make critical decisions like casualty detection, remote triage, and medical management. However, ECG signal quality from these devices is often poor due to various problems such as sensor or body movement, environmental disturbances etc. In order to improve the signal quality there is a need to develop filtering methods for ECG so that reliable decisions can be made about individuals health even in noisy conditions. Additionally, in order to make medical decisions without any delays, it should not have a lag which puts additional constraints on the kind of filtering methods we can use. Hence there is a need for research in real time filtering method for ECG.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Tiago H Falk

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Thales Canada Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and Communications Technology

Université :

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Programme :

Accelerate

Tightly coupled visual-inertial-LI DAR SLAM for real time application

Since Amazon robotics expanded the use of drones to package deliveries to customers, drone applications have been expanded to many industries along with its ability to perform various tasks autonomously. The fundamental technology of drones’ autonomy comes from perceiving its surrounding, creating its own map based on onboard sensors and estimate its location within the map. This technology, also known as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM), has been on the rise especially in mining and construction industries for surveying and mapping the site more efficiently; thus, many research works have been performed to improve robot’s SLAM technology. Although various sensor suites have been researched to improve SLAM performance, this project focuses on the novel contribution of developing a robust and accurate 3D SLAM by jointly optimizing stereo cameras, IMU and LiDAR measurements. This project will not only advance the field of autonomous navigation but will also help ARA Robotique to be competitive in the UAV market.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

James Richard Forbes

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

ARA Robotique

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Aerospace; Technology; Other

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

Implementation and Characterization of a Prototype of Optical Free-space Interconnect for Space Applications

As we advanced into the information age, the need for high capacity communication channels is becoming ubiquitous. As the next generation of satellites is being deployed there is a need for efficient interconnections between them, especially for those forming low earth orbiting constellations for the coming Internet-of-Space applications. The limited radio frequency spectrum available is not sufficient to implement these communication links, and thus, free-space optical interconnects (FSOIs) are expected to become the technology of choice to interconnect satellites. Reflex Photonics, a company from Kirkland, Quebec, has been providing optical interconnect solutions for connections inside satellites for the past 3 years and now wants to explore how it can leverage its expertise to build FSOI transmitters for space applications. To do this, they want collaborate with Prof. Ménard of UQAM to develop a FSOI transmitter demonstrator in order to investigate the challenges of implementing this technology for space applications.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Michaël Ménard

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Reflex Photonics

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

Université du Québec à Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

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