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Integrated photonic devices on silicon nitride for next-generation passive optical networks

Passive optical networks (PON) are a key technology to provide broadband Internet services to personal and business users through high-speed fibre cables. This technology has been deployed worldwide for local and access networks. In order to accommodate the drastically increased data volume, the Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T) has recently defined a 40-Gb/s capacity PON system. In this project, we are developing integrated optical solutions for next-generation PON systems to enable a higher data transmission capacity through multiple frequency channels. Our technology is based on a unique process platform in Canada and will contribute to Canada’s leadership in optical communication technology and potential economic benefits in this rapidly growing market.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Wei Shi

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

AEPONYX Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

Université Laval

Programme :

Accelerate

Assessing the Marine Environment for Compensation after a Ship-source Oil Spill has Occurred

The International Oil Pollution Compensation Funds (IOPC Funds) was established in 1971, in order to minimize the externalities of the marine shipping industry. The IOPC Funds provide financial compensation for oil pollution damage that occurs in Member States, resulting from spills of persistent oil from tankers. Since their establishment the Funds have been involved in 149 incidents of varying sizes around the world. Canada is a Member State to the IOPC Funds, and the current approach the IOPC Funds take to evaluating environmental damage for compensation after a ship-source oil spill has occurred is the subject of controversy, leading some critics to assert that the current approach Canada takes to assessing environmental damage caused by ship-source oil spills is limited (Wang & Faure, 2008, Amos & Miron, 2013). In order to address this assertion, this research will explore the challenges associated with assessing environmental damage in the case of ship-source oil spills, and examine the current compensation scheme in Canada. This research will also explore alternatives to the current Canadian scheme that could be of interest to the tanker safety discourse in Canada.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Aldo Chircop

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Clear Seas

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Transportation (excluding aerospace); Oil and Gas; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

Université :

Dalhousie University

Programme :

Accelerate

Enhanced mine safety and productivity in burst prone ground using destress blasting

Destress blasting is a rockburst control technique where highly stressed rock is lightly blasted to reduce stress. This technique is currently used in Canadian mines to reduce stresses around mine production openings. In this research project, the intern will build a numerical model to simulate the destress blasting that will be undertaken at a Canadian nickel mine to extract a highly stressed ore pillar. The aim of the numerical modelling analysis is to determine the stresses in the ore pillar after the destress blasts and then to evaluate the risk of rockbursts and the safety of mining. A numerical modelling back analysis based on measured pillar stress changes will serve to validate the simulation techniques. Development and validation of new constitutive models to simulate destress blasting in a numerical model will help the partner organization predict the effectiveness of future blasts, allowing the partner organization to optimize the design of future the destress blasts, maximizing ore recovery and minimizing ore at risk.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Hani Mitri

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Vale Canada Limited (Copper Cliff, ON)

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Mining; Other

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

Implementation of the parallel FDTD analysis for optical devices simulation

As the complexity of the modern simulation problems increase, the simulation efforts have been growing constantly. Taking advantage of the current multi-core chip to fully utilizing the modern processors available in the market, the development of computational simulators that are scalable and portable between current hardware have become a real challenge. As a result of its simple implementation and wide frequency coverage, the FDTD solver is popular in several research / industry fields. The main objective of this project will be the implementation the FDTD method using the current parallel hardware and provide integration with the Crosslight software. Hence, an efficient and fast optical solver will be realized. Although, the proposed package is mainly optimized to design and analyze optical devices, other applications – such vacuum electronic devices and Surface Plasmon structures – will be considered.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Safieddin Safavi-Naeini

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Crosslight Software Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Developing a UAV-based camera for precision agriculture

A&L Canada Labs Inc. is developing a UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) or drone with a multi-spectral camera for various precision agriculture applications. The multi-spectral camera has 6 bands: one in the red band, one in the blue band, one in the green band, and three in the NIR regions. The scope of this project is to develop precision agriculture products from the images acquired by the A&L Canada Labs Inc. camera. The first application is late blight disease detection over potato fields. The second application is to produce crop types and damages and related surface estimation for crop insurance agencies. The third application is for detecting diseases greenhouse crops. Developing such an operational monitoring system that uses top-notch drone and camera technologies is critical for A&L Canada Labs Inc that is engaged for more than 20 years in grower advising. It is also critical for the crop insurance agencies across Canada that require accurate estimation of crop damage surfaces. Detecting crop diseases are also essential for Canada as diseases are a major threat to the Canadian agricultural sector.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Brigitte Leblon

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

A&L Canada Laboratories Inc (NB)

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of New Brunswick

Programme :

Accelerate

Optimization and Control of Ozone Use within Recirculating Aquaculture Systems

Recirculating aquaculture systems are indoor, tank-based systems which allow aquaculturalists to raise fish in controlled environmental conditions through the use of several water treatment processes. Research related to the aquaculture industry is important, as it is currently one of the fastest growing food industries. This research aims to improve the operation of these systems by reducing the amount of organic waste in the recirculated water through the use of ozone. The focus of this project is to address problems related to the implementation of ozone treatment within recirculating aquaculture systems by developing a central method of ozone addition, validating ozone addition guidelines, determining the effectiveness of ozone for the removal of algal cultures suspended in the system flow, and evaluating automatic control of ozone addition through the use of a UV light transmittance probe. The anticipated result for Cooke Aquaculture Inc. is an ozone system which has improved performance, is inherently safer, and reduces cost through more effective ozone dosage control.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Michel Couturier

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Kelly Cove Salmon Ltd

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Agriculture; Manufacturing

Université :

University of New Brunswick

Programme :

Accelerate

Proof of Concept: Real-Time Integrated Weld Analyzer in Aluminum Spot Welds

Use of aluminum alloys in the automotive industry comes with huge manufacturing challenges such as instability of spot welding processes. To overcome this challenge, frequent selective quality tests are performed in industry usually by destructive means, which are labour intensive and costly due to its nature. Non-destructive testing (NDT) of aluminum spot welds can decrease these costs. This proposed spot welding NDT method will incorporate an ultrasonic probe in the welding electrode, which is fully automated and each spot weld tested at the moment of manufacture. The proposed inspection technique is able to reveal features such as exact moment of melting, amount of liquid metal penetration into each plate, thickness of weld pool and estimation of pool diameter. This research project will demonstrate the capability of the in-line inspection of resistance spot welds in aluminum alloys and develop a database of information relating welding parameters to weld quality.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Roman Maev

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Alcoa Canada

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Windsor

Programme :

Accelerate

Mapping for Change: A Case Study of Enhancing Informational Exchange and Collaboration Through Geoweb Technology

‘Mapping for Change’ is a case study of best practices in the use of Geoweb as a mechanism for enhancing informational exchange and collaboration between homelessness stakeholders including non-profits/charities serving the homeless. Using geoweb technology developed in the Spatial Information for Community Engagement (SPiCE) Lab at UBC Okanagan, the project involves implementing and monitoring/evaluating the use of a web-based mapping application (Homelessness Services Database) that will function as an accessible and searchable spatial database of housing and related services for the homeless in Kelowna. The project will benefit partner organizations through access to real-time information on homelessness services in Kelowna on which to base organizational planning efforts.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Jon Corbett

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Central Okanagan Foundation;United Way Central and South Okanagan/Similkameen Office

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

Université :

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Programme :

Accelerate

Camp Risk Management and Camp Association

Camps are the places where staff from oil and gas companies stay while they work in the oil fields. Camp management is important to the business of all oil and gas. Failure to manage camps appropriately can result in serious risk consequences and potential legal obligations. This research plans to fill in the research gap that exists in regard to camp management of oil and gas companies. It plans to build a risk management mechanism of camp management and thus determine the feasibility of a Camp Association based in Calgary, Alberta, the headquarters of many major oil and gas companies operating in Canada. It will help the partner company manage and operate camps more efficiently and effectively. It will also benefit the camp management of other oil and gas companies by providing the opportunity to enjoy the benefits of a Camp Association.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Irene Herremans

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Calgary

Programme :

Accelerate

Dynamic clustering of temporally incremental energy consumption patterns in a knowledge cloud

This project will develop a new mechanism for grouping objects in a dynamic environment, where new objects are regularly added with limited or incomplete information. Furthermore, the information about the existing and new objects increases over time. This new grouping mechanism will be called dynamic clustering of temporally incremental patterns. The proposal will be tested using energy consumption patterns for a large number of buildings. The types of the buildings will vary based on their usage such as office buildings, warehouse, shopping malls, hospitals, educational institutes, etc. The buildings will further differ from each other in terms of size, occupancy, and hours of operations. These buildings will also be situated in geographically diverse locations and climatic conditions. The data stored in the cloud will be analysed using a number of statistical and artificial intelligence techniques to create a knowledge repository. The knowledge will provide the system abilities to:
• predict energy consumption for any given day depending on date, time, and weather conditions for any one of the buildings stored in the cloud
• optimize the energy management system to provide comfortable operating conditions with minimum energy consumption
• accommodate new buildings without knowing their history of energy management

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Pawan Lingras

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Green Power Labs Inc

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

Université :

Saint Mary's University

Programme :

Accelerate

Evaluation of Ion-Exchange and Nanofiltration as Effective Methods for the Removal of Trihalomethanes Pre-cursors at the Waterhen Water Treatment Plant

This project aims to establish an ion-exchange/nanofiltration pilot study at the Waterhen water treatment plant. A natural result of the chlorination disinfection process in water treatment is the formation of disinfection by-products (DBP), a family of known carcinogens. This project aims to limit the formation of these DBP by removal of their precursors using the newly implemented pilot system. KGS Group is a contributing partner to this project, and will benefit from the interaction with the University and the expertise and the analysis that they have to offer. Manitoba Aboriginal and Northern Affairs (MANA) aims to improve the local water quality of their representing Manitoba water treatment plants. This research will aim to improve the availability of safe drinking water to the residents of Waterhen, Manitoba.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Beata Gorczyca

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

KGS Group

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Water; Environmental Science and Technology; Sustainability & the Environment

Université :

University of Manitoba

Programme :

Accelerate

Assessment and modification of oral-nasal balance in speakers of Brazilian Portuguese with cleft palate

Many individuals with cleft palate have hypernasal speech, which affects speech intelligibility and acceptability and is socially stigmatizing. The proposed studies relate to the assessment and the behavioural modification of oral-nasal balance in speech. The first study will test a new assessment procedure for hypernasality and other oral-nasal balance disorders which will aid clinicians in more accurately assessing their patients. The second study will explore the effect of voice focus adjustments in hypernasalspeakers with cleft palate. We expect that changing voice focus will allow patients to reduce their hypernasality. In addition, Brazilian Portuguese features nasalized vowels, whereas English does not. By conducting these studies with speakers of Brazilian Portuguese we can begin to develop assessment and treatment methods that work across languages. Taken together, the two studies have the potential to considerably change and advance the assessment of oral-nasal balance disorders and the treatment of hypernasality.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Tim Bressmann

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho"

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

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