Projets novateurs réalisés

Conception d’un nouveau système prototype de pultrusion pour l’élaboration et la fabrication de matériaux composites de pointe à base de résines thermoplastiques

Dans les domaines de la fabrication industrielle, la tendance est au remplacement progressif des matériaux classiques (plastique, acier, aluminium, etc.) par des matériaux composites ou polymères renforcés de fibres (PRF) à cause de leur excellente résistance, poids léger, faible densité, excellent module d’élasticité et forte résistance à la corrosion. Aujourd’hui, pour la fabrication de matériaux composites pultrudés, l’industrie utilise surtout des résines TD qui ne sont pas recyclables. De plus, ils sont considérés comme substances dangereuses. L’utilisation de résines TP pour la production de matériaux composites pultrudés détient un avantage sur celle des résines TD puisqu’elle permet de modifier la forme du composite après sa fabrication. De plus les TP sont réutilisables et recyclables. L’objectif du projet est le sélectionner de nouvelles résines TP liquides qui permettront de fabriquer des pièces composites par polymérisation in situ du polymère lors du procédé de pultrusion. Simultanément, nous allons développer et fabriquer un système prototype de pultrusion TP, compatible avec les nouvelles résines TP et se basant exclusivement sur une polymérisation contrôlée in situ.

Blood flow within microfluidic conduits

A current area of focus at SMT Americas is to develop injection-moulding methods for medical lab-on-chip (LOC) devices, particularly to transport and process blood and plasma while eliminating conduits clogging and reducing sample loss. This project will evaluate the effect of flow conditions on viscosity of samples, and the adequacy of conduit structures achieved with SMT Americas’ technology for cell separation. The resulting data and analysis will aid the intern to support particular segments of her project in developing a point of care microfluidic chip that separates blood plasma from its cells for sample sizes less than 100?L. SMT Americas will understand and resolve their current limitations in developing conduits for cell separation, with further objectives to increase the blood and plasma flow rates within their micro-conduits, while reducing sample loss.

Private conservation in a changing landscape: a perspective on Land Trust Organizations in Canada

Land Trust Organizations acquire and protect private land for conservation purposes. They have become the fastest growing tool for biodiversity conservation of private land in Canada. Despite their growth and the recognized importance of private protected areas; there is little information about them. This research aims to understand who the Land Trust Organizations are (e.g. size, level of protection, funding, governance structure, ecological monitoring) and the important opportunities and challenges they face. This baseline information on Land Trusts will contribute to making an informed decision of a nation-wide collaboration model of the organizations. This will support the changing of their political systems, to help humans live within Earth’s carrying capacity.

Extraction and identification of potential active ingredient from expired pharmaceutical drugs

Every year billions of doses of medications go unused by patients in North America. Some of these are returned to pharmacies for appropriate disposal, but the majority of these are discarded in landfills or flushed into municipal wastewater streams. Our goal for this initiative is to collect unused and expired pharmaceuticals and develop a sustainable method to extract the active compounds, and to establi

Comparaison des effets d’une stratégie d’apprentissage par problème avec les rétroactions vidéo sur la prise de décisions de jeunes hockeyeurs de 12 ans

Les meilleurs joueurs prennent la bonne décision, au bon moment et peu importe le contexte. Les habiletés de prise de décisions sont essentielles au développement du jeune joueur rêvant d’atteindre les sommets de son sport. En partenariat avec l’Académie Ulysse, le présent projet vise, pour commencer, à élaborer une approche par problème pour améliorer la prise de décisions de joueurs de hockey Pee-Wee. Ensuite, le projet prévoit comparer les effets de l’approche avec ceux des rétroactions vidéo traditionnellement utilisées par les entraîneurs. Puisque l’approche par problème place les joueurs dans des situations collaboratives où ils construisent eux-mêmes leur connaissances tactiques, l’hypothèse est l’apparition d’une meilleure rétention des habiletés de prise décisions suite à la participation à une approche par problème.

Evidence based delivery of effective packages of health services in humanitarian, fragile and conflict affected settings

Maternal, and childhood mortality and morbidity rates continue to rise in conflict affected areas. The Canadian Red Cross (CRC) is collaborating with the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) to implement Advanced Health Partnership (AHP) framework to provide health care to populations directly in war zones and conflict settings, without access to healthcare as a result of conflict. In delivering these services with a focus on providing services to women an, children, there is an opportunity to ensure that delivery of these services is based on best available practices and good quality data for evaluation of these services is generated. Through this internship, I will work with the Global Health Unit of the CRC and collaborate with the ICRC in the implementation of the AHP framework. I will analyze existing frameworks for providing health services design study to evaluate the delivery of AHP pilot project in South Sudan.

Beliefs, Practices and Integration of borderland knowledge: A Study of Mah?vaipulya- mah?samnip?ta s?tra under the view of Intellectual History

This project will concentrate on the 60 volumes Chinese translation Mah?samnip?ta s?tra , examine the quotation and annotation of this scriptures from the later works. With the interdisciplinary research methods including Buddhist philosophy, philology, ancient medicine, history, astronomy and geography , I will put this s?tra under the perspective of intellectual history and conduct a study on the Buddhist beliefs, practices and mutual integration of borderland knowledge in Medieval China.

I will collect the domestic and foreign research literature on Mah?samnip?ta s?tra ,Indian astronomy, astrology, medicine and geography, and have a preliminary combing of those documents. Meanwhile, at the help of both home and host Supervisors. I will finish a 2-3.0000 words’ paper on Mahayana beliefs in the mah?samnip?ta s?tra , which is just a part of the whole project.

Systematic development of novel peptide-derived therapeutics for the inhibition of lysine-modifying enzymes for the treatment of cancer

Cancer will affect 2 in every 5 Canadians in their lifetime, with just over 25% representing new breast cancer diagnoses in women. Despite significant progress in the treatment of the most common cancer in women, resistance to chemotherapeutic agents remains a consistent obstacle in terms of the successful treatment of many types of breast cancers. The Mitacs-funded collaboration between NuvoBio and the Biggar lab at Carleton University is seeking to address this issue by systematically designing and developing peptide-based inhibitors that hold the promise as new therapeutics. This will be accomplished by using novel methods of peptide-based inhibitor development to efficiently design potential inhibitors that disrupt the function of critical proteins that are known to drive breast cancer progression.

Energy reduction in HVAC systems in a commercial building environment using data-driven approaches

The main goal of this project is to develop data-driven approaches to reduce energy consumption and cost when operating commercial building’s cooling systems. Indeed, according to recent studies the building sector is one of the largest energy-consuming entities (almost 40% of global energy consumption) and this consumption is predicted to increase by 50% by 2050. Thus, there is an urgent need to provide solutions to reduce energy consumption taking into account the importance to improve environmental sustainability and the increase of electricity prices. HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and air-conditioning) systems dominate energy usage in commercial buildings (between 40 and 70% of the total electricity consumption). In this project, we propose to tackle several challenges to improve Brainbox solutions related to HVAC systems.

Integrating Inclusive Design into Project Workflows

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a set of guidelines to assist designers in the task of designing digital content which will be accessible to users with a wide range of abilities. These guidelines are known as the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), version 2.1. Students in the Inclusive Design program learn to think about WCAG as a good starting point for how to design inclusively in a variety of contexts, but also about ways in which they fall short of providing ideal accessibility. This project will draw on WCAG, and other resources, to research how content and technologies developed by the eBook company Rakuten Kobo can be made more accessible, and how those insights can be integrated into existing workflows to help avoid introducing accessibility barriers in future.

Investigation of Novel HPGR and Size Classification Comminution Circuit

Crushing and grinding rock is the largest consumer of energy at a mining operation. Ball Mill grinding is the main technology that is used for fine grinding, yet it is known to be very inefficient with respect to energy consumptions; estimates are that less than 2% of energy input to ball mills translate into particle breakage. The High-Pressure Grinding Roll (HPGR) is known to be much more energy efficient for breaking coarse particles and the present proposal is aimed at demonstrating that the HPGR is more energy efficient than ball mill grinding of fine particles. The target is to reduce energy usage by 50% by replacing ball mills with the HPGR. The research will investigate technical challenges of applying the technology for fine particle breakage and demonstrate the novel process.

Automated Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Classification for Hydrological Modelling and Physically-Based Inflow Forecasting

The problem considered in this work is how to produce highly accurate and consistent land-use/land-cover (LULC) maps significantly faster than current semi?automated methods for use by Manitoba Hydro. The goal is to improve the ability to produce maps quickly and efficiently as priority needs arise. This project will use an approach for automated LULC mapping from satellite images using deep learning methods pioneered by the applicants. By classifying each pixel in a satellite image into LULC categories using neural networks, rapid and accurate LULC maps can be successfully produced. These LULC maps can then be included in improving hydrological modelling and inflow forecasting as an additive layer to improve overall modelling processes. Secondly, this research will also develop a solution for higher resolution satellite data. Lastly, the final objective incorporates seasonal water levels into the LULC products that can contribute to the mapping of hydrological connectivity and disconnectivity.