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Comparative study of approximate and rigorous approaches to lightning discharge through power system towers

The project performs comparative study of simplified and rigorous approaches to analysis of lightning strike discharge through complex 3D structures of the power line towers and their grounding systems. Simplified models of the commercial tools such as PSCAD and TFlash will be compared to the new rigorous electromagnetic model (EM) based on full-wave algorithms analysis. The rigorous 3D EM modeling (developed at the University of Manitoba) is based on the novel fast direct method of moments solution of the integral equations of electromagnetics which account for the presence of the stratified media of the soil. The rigorous modelling results will be used to identify deficiencies in simplified models at the high frequencies (above 100kHz) where the full-wave effects become important. Such effects are commonly distorted in simple models, yielding an overall high error in predicting the performance of the lightning strike protection systems, including the grounding electrodes buried in the soil.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Vladimir Okhmatovski

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Manitoba Hydro

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

Université :

University of Manitoba

Programme :

Accelerate

Validation of a microRNA signature prognostic of metastasis in soft-tissue sarcomas

Soft tissue sarcoma is a disease that affects patients of all ages and have profound societal impact. On average 17 life years per patients are lost due to sarcoma, which is 2-3 times more than bowel, lung, prostate or breast cancer. Patients with soft-tissue sarcoma represents one the top 5 most important cancer cause of average percent lifespan lost. Patient die of this cancer from distant metastasis. There are currently no method to determine who may benefit from chemotherapy to reduce the chance of developing metastasis. Using patient biopsy tumor samples, we had previously developed and validated a biological signature that can predict a patient’s risk of developing metastasis. For this signature to be used in clinics, it needs to be validated using samples from other sources and from different sarcomas. This project will assess the signature’s accuracy using sarcoma samples obtained from 4 different academic centers in Canada and US. At the completion of the study, we will know whether this biological signature can be used as a clinical tool to select certain patients to receive aggressive chemotherapy to reduce their risk of developing and dying of sarcoma metastasis.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Thomas Gervais

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Institut du cancer de Montréal

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Adaptive FOREX Geocoding System for Currency Market Monitoring

Foreign exchange market, also known as Forex is a currency trading market spread all around the globe. There are multiple factors that effect the exchange rates in currency market. Considering these factors in development of a trading algorithm will result in more accurate trading decisions. The proposed research that will be covered by the activities of the intern will thus include the development of a model which has flexibility in dealing with multiple attributes in real time for foreign exchange. The new and improved model which will take into an account the geospatial location of the news and the temporal spatial correspondence between the news and the cities of their origin will be developed. Investigating the relationship between geospatial news location and currency markets using newly developed machine intelligence algorithms is at the core of the proposed internship. The novel methodology will be based on building a highdimensional weighted autocorrelation model between real-time news and their spatio-temporal geographic locations. This would require development of sophisticated methods in the areas of data mining, geocoding and spatio-temporal pattern matching.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Marina Gavrilova

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Winsor Global Financial Inc

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Finance and Insurance

Université :

University of Calgary

Programme :

Accelerate

Production of ODS steels

The University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB) has a world-class advanced powder metallurgy lab. I will be taking small particles of steel (iron) and using a heated hydraulic press combine the fine powder into a hard sheet. I’ll be adding into the mix a small amount (much like adding chocolate chips to a muffin mix) of special namometer sized oxide particles (think like ceramic beads) that will improve the steels mechanical properties (strength, temperature resistance, etc.). This is called oxide dispersion-strengthened (ODS). These ODS steels are new and upcoming, very promising for surviving highly radioactive environments in the next generation of nuclear power plants. I’ll be further studying this freshly fabricated ODS steel using very high resolution electron microscopy at USTB, to see even the smallest molecular defects that would have arised from the powder metallurgy process.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Zhongwen Yao

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

University of Science and Technology Beijing

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Education

Université :

Queen's University

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Supply chain metrics during the product lifecycle

Ciena Corporation is a global supplier of telecommunications networking equipment, software and services. The company operates in a high product mix, low volume environment with short product cycle times. As a consequence, it has difficulty estimating product volumes and end-of-life inventory. The project will determine the best set of metrics during product lifecycle stages in order to measure supply chain performance, to estimate total product volumes, and to minimize end-of-life inventory. The study will use a product lifecycle framework to evaluate the metrics used by Ciena now and those suggested through the study of other companies. The data from several of Ciena’s historical products will be evaluated using these metrics and the framework. A supply chain process model will be simulated using the proposed metrics and supply chain data to evaluate potential supply chain performance.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Vincent Thomson

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Ciena Corporation (St-Laurent, QC)

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Information and Communications Technology

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

IDENTIFICATION DES PARAMÈTRES ET DES MÉTHODES DE CONTRÔLE POUR L’AUTOMATISATION DU PROCÉDÉ D’OXYCOUPAGE DE L’ACIER.

L’objectif de ce projet est d’automatiser au maximum le procédé d’oxycoupage afin de l’incorporer aux équipements de découpe robotisés de l’entreprise partenaire. Ces derniers, qui utilisent actuellement le procédé de découpe au plasma uniquement, bénéficieront de cet apport technologique en terme de versatilité de produit et en comblant un manque notamment en ce qui concernent les profondeurs de
coupe possible qui sont nettement supérieures avec l’oxycoupage lorsque comparées plasma. L’acquisition des données de différents capteurs à sélectionner et le contrôle de chacun des paramètres du procédé se doivent d’être déterminés et optimisés. Une vérification doit également être calculée au niveau de l’état de la flamme et de la qualité de la coupe. Le tout devra ensuite être incorporé dans un logiciel le plus autonome possible au niveau du contrôle du procédé d’oxycoupage qui pourra être jumelé et adapté aux programmes existants de découpe. Le procédé faisant intervenir un gaz explosif et de l’oxygène pur sous forte pression, le volet sécurité est à prendre très au sérieux, tant au niveau des démarches expérimentales de développement qu’en ce qui concerne le résultat final.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Louis Rivest

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Prodevco Industries

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

École de technologie supérieure

Programme :

Accelerate

Contrôle de la qualité du remblai sans retrait

Le remblai sans retrait (RSR) est un matériau auto-compactant à très faible résistance pour remplir les excavations nécessaires aux réseaux souterrains des services publics. L’avantage principal est de rétablir la circulation rapidement après la construction. Certains doutes existent sur les pratiques sur le chantier. L’objectif est de mettre au point une méthodologie du contrôle de la qualité du RSR en chantier. Le programme d’essai en laboratoire et en chantier vise à spécifier le contrôle de la qualité du RSR et certains aspects du comportement au gel. Les résultats attendus sont des critères de qualité de mise en oeuvre (milieu récepteur, température, formulation, qualité du mélange, pratiques sur le chantier). Le temps idéal pour rétablir la circulation automobile devrait être identifié. La pertinence pour le stagiaire est d’apprendre à définir des améliorations pratiques après une étude rigoureuse et pour le partenaire d’améliorer le contrôle de la qualité du RSR.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Centre d'expertise et de recherche en infrastructures urbaines

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

École de technologie supérieure

Programme :

Accelerate

Biogéographie et diversification du genre Crudia (Leguminosae)

La perte de biodiversité tropicale actuelle est critique. Afin de mieux comprendre d’où provient cette biodiversité et pour mieux la protéger et la gérer sur le long terme, il faut comprendre quels sont les mécanismes responsables de sa formation. Mon projet se focalise sur l’étude du genre Crudia situé dans la famille des Légumineuses, qui possède un patron de répartition très inhabituel à la surface de la Terre. Du fait de cette distribution géographique pantropicale atypique, ce genre est un support idéal pour l’étude des mécanismes biogéographiques plus généraux qui façonnent la biodiversité tropicale. Les objectifs du projet sont de déterminer 1) l’aire d’origine du genre et comment le genre s’est retrouvé dispersé sur ces trois continents 2) si les espèces de Crudia ont subit un ou plusieurs évènements de diversification liés à l’occupation de nouvelles zones géographiques 3) s’il existe des caractères morphologiques qui sont à l’origine de la diversification du genre Crudia.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Anne Bruneau

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Université :

Université de Montréal

Programme :

Globalink Research Award

Production of Renewable Drop-In Fuel from Syngas Derived from an Ethanol Industry

The fuel-grade ethanol obtained from corn-based feedstocks, utilizes about 33% of the total carbon present in corn based feedstocks. The remaining fraction is converted into dry distillers’ grains (DDG) and carbon dioxide, which is then converted to syngas (CO+H2). In this research the syngas from ethanol plant will be converted to transportation fuel and derived chemicals using our patented Fischer- Tropsch (FTS) catalyst. The catalysts will be pelletized and tested in 5 cc micro-reactor. The process parameters such as, temperature, pressure will be evaluated to obtain optimal yields. The catalyst will be tested and optimized in a pilot scale with 100 cc catalyst in a reactor. The data generated will be utilized to design a facility to produce 7 bbl/day FTS liquid fuel and then the industrial scale plant. The project will be beneficial to partners by way of technology commercialization.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Ajay Dalai

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

EAJV Technology Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Saskatchewan

Programme :

Accelerate

A Framework for Scheduling and Mapping of Image Signal Processing Pipeline on Heterogeneous Architectures Applied to Video Enhancement Algorithms

Video contents and applications become integrated in everyday life and demands for high-quality videos, such as 4K, are increasing. Even modern optical equipment introduces inevitable noises that may heavily mask video content. Environment conditions such as low light, results in more video quality degradation. Therefore, a video-enhancement technique is required to reconstruct the original non-noisy video, but such algorithms require extensive processing resources to reach a reasonable (real-time) performance and power consumption. Heterogeneous processors and platforms can provide the required performance and power of a video processing algorithm by efficient design. This requires a suitable algorithm for scheduling the algorithm tasks on the processors of the heterogeneous architecture. The long-term objective in our university-industry collaboration is to propose a target architecture-independent framework, including scheduling and mapping algorithm, for accelerating an image-processing pipeline and apply it to video enhancement such as denoising. Our framework will consist of four main parts: a) modeling, b) scheduling and mapping, c) target-independent video enhancement library and, d) objective evaluation.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Aishy Amer

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

TandemLaunch Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Finance and Insurance; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Concordia University

Programme :

Accelerate

Using Visual Analytics to Support the Analysis of Environment Risk Indicators for Cancer

Visual analytics (VA) potentially has a great range of applications within healthcare. CAREX and Engage Data will investigate, with the intern, the uses of VA for data analysis and visualization to support real-world carcinogen-related explorations related to the use of the eRISK Online web-based tool developed by CAREX. Engage Data is specifically interested in understanding how the deployment of VA can be used to achieve a better understanding of on-line health informatics. The project involves modifying the eRISK tool based on identified user needs and problems in order to achieve a better understanding of the visualization of carcinogen-related health informatics, provide
valuable insights about the carcinogen-related needs of eRISK users, and facilitate interactive collaborations among Engage Data, CAREX and eRISK users.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Christopher Carlsten

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Engage Data;CAREX Canada

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Impact of Net Metered Solar Energy on Distribution Networks

The research will comprise effects of penetration of photovoltaic on existing distribution network. This will include power quality, voltage stability and customer load when there is a penetration. The graphs would display and let the utility organization know till what level the penetration should be done on a distribution network. The advantages and the need for doing the research is that the load can be distributed from the utility to the photovoltaic panels which are installed and the utility would have to generate less by the existing means. In this case by means of Hydro. The graphs would also show the peak generation by distributed generation (photovoltaic) in the hours of the day when the deliverable of customer load would be analysed. A literature review would be present in the final report which would have the effects of distributed generation on power quality, protection schemes & harmonics.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

William Dunford

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

BC Hydro (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Utilities

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

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