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Amélioration économique et éthique de la production porcine par la génétique quantitative

Optimiser la production porcine au Canada est un défi majeur puisque ses acteurs sont en concurrence avec ceux des pays où les coûts de production sont moindres. Il est impératif pour une telle optimisation de repenser ses programmes de sélection, de considérer la nécessité de diversifier son offre et d’améliorer le bien-être animal. En combinant deux approches, ce projet se propose de traiter ces problèmes économiques et éthiques par le biais d’une recherche de pointe en sélection génétique. Premièrement, en appliquant de façon unique au domaine agricole des méthodes de quantification des tissus internes initialement développées pour la médecine humaine, les méthodes éprouvées de génétique quantitative permettrons d’optimiser les programmes de sélection pour produire des porcs à plus forte valeur économique. Deuxièmement, les comportements agressifs liés au stress dans les élevages intensifs pourront être limités grâce à la sélection sur une source de variabilité génétique ignorée jusqu’à très récemment : les effets génétiques relatifs à la sociabilité

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Dany Garant

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Olymel

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Agriculture; Manufacturing

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke

Programme :

Accelerate

Silicon photonic thermal phase shifter for on-chip spectrometer

Luxmux sensors will monitor steam quality and water quality for in-situ Thermally Enhanced Heavy Oil Recovery. In Canada, 2 billions of kilograms of steam are produced per year for heavy oil recovery and this amount is expected to double in the next ten years. Each year, heavy oil producers spend $2.3 billions on natural gas to produce this steam. Lack of technology for online monitoring of steam quality and water quality reduces the amount of oil that can be produced and increases the amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) being emitted. Luxmux’s sensors and analyzer solutions will provide heavy oil producers the ability to generate more oil for a given plant and reduce Canada’s carbon footprint. Currently the 11% of Canada’s total CO2 emissions is caused by Alberta heavy oil production; in ten years it might become the 20% of Canada’s emissions, if the oil production increases as expected. Luxmux’s solution is expected to provide a reduction in 1 megaton of CO2 per year, and increase revenue by $5 million per year per boiler for heavy oil producers. This project will improve the technical specifications of Luxmux’s sensors, making them more useful for the oil and gas industry.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Lukas Chrostowski

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Luxmux Technology Corporation

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Mechanical design and improvement of modular Stable Vertical Lift Platform (SVLP)

Portable lifting systems and platforms are used extensively in music and movie industries for elevating both equipment and personal. An ideal system for these industries is a portable stable platform that can be transported to the desired site and reconfigured (or moved) to the necessary height with ease. The market currently lacks such highly portable stable lifting system. A modular stable vertical lift platform (SVLP) has been conceptualized in order to overcome the mentioned issues in current lifting systems. The modular SVLP has tremendous market potential in both the entertainment and movie industries. Indeed the final clients in the entertainment industries are eager about the design idea. SFP currently lacks the expertise and dedicated manpower resources to independently develop the modular SVLP system and needs the assistance of an intern through the Mitacs Accelerate program in order to successfully design and analyze their system.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Krishna Vijayaraghavan

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Surrey Fluid Power Ltd

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Utilities

Université :

Simon Fraser University

Programme :

Accelerate

De nouvelles plateformes pour améliorer la gestion de l’information sur le chantier

A l’heure actuelle, le domaine de la construction est l’un des plus en retard au niveau des nouvelles technologies par rapport aux autres domaines de l’industrie. En effet, que ce soit pendant la phase de conception, ou celle de réalisation, l’information circule encore beaucoup sur support papier, et en grande quantité. Alors que des études ont été conduites sur l’introduction des nouvelles technologies de l’information et de la communication sur les chantiers et en phase conception, et que les résultats montrent clairement un impact positif de ces nouveaux dispositifs (logiciels pour tablettes, mobiles, bornes i-booth et SmartUse, drones…) sur la productivité et la qualité, les entrepreneurs restent réticents à investir dans de telles nouveautés qui représenteraient pour eux un changement peut être trop brutal des habitudes de travail, et une perte de profit à court terme due au temps d’adaptation. Ce projet vise donc, en particulier en travaillant sur i-booth et SmartUse, à établir un guide d’implantation, de façon à faciliter la mise en place et la prise en main des technologies, et plus largement à encourager les entreprises à les adopter afin de faire évoluer la construction au Québec.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Daniel Forgues

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

CERACQ;CONTECH

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Construction; Information and Communications Technology; Manufacturing and Construction

Université :

École de technologie supérieure

Programme :

Accelerate

Valorizing Industrially Produced CO2: An Effective Solution for Carbon Capture and its Conversion to Marketable Products

Sequestering the industrially produced CO2 leads to its capture via the underground formation of stable inorganic carbonates/bicarbonates. An alternate approach is to convert the CO2 into valuable organic products having commercial markets. The incorporation of CO2 as block molecule with which to expand the platform is part of the Enerkem strategy aiming to further improve the use of Carbon from waste. Such strategy is deployable across Alberta. It will likely constitute the first world model of an integrated Carbon utilization blending biomass C, recyclable C and fossil C resulting in an optimized energy system. The proposal is aimed to validate, further develop and implement an effective and efficient technology that will “recycle” CO2 from, and captured by, the petrochemical sector (amounts available in Alberta are more 120 million metric t/y recovered as CO2-rich streams) via its conversion into CO. Such conversion is carried out using combined CO2/steam reforming of methane.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Natalia Semagina

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Enerkem (Edmonton, AB)

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Alberta

Programme :

Accelerate

Exploring energy disaggregation techniques for application on low resolution energy data from non-residential properties

Reducing energy consumption is one of many ways to respond to our urgent global need to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. To do so, it is important to identify the most effective energy saving strategies and communicate them to energy consumers. Pulse Energy is a company that works to do just that and is always looking to improve their energy saving recommendations. This internship will explore how these recommendations can be improved using energy disaggregation, which tries to find the energy consumption and operating schedule of equipment in a building using only measurements of the building’s total energy use. We will evaluate the use of some energy disaggregation techniques on various businesses’ energy data, measured every 15 to 60 minutes. Our work will expand the body of research on energy disaggregation and help Pulse Energy connect non-residential energy consumers with the best energy saving recommendations possible.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Lutz Lampe

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Pulse Energy inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Unpaved forest roads as a source of suspended sediment in the Honna River watershed

The Honna River is the drinking water source for the Village of Queen Charlotte (pop. 950), and is also important salmon habitat. Sediment from unpaved forest roads near the river may be entering the channel in significant quantities, reducing water quality. In two previous internships, intern David Reid implemented a channel reach-scale study of all sediment sources in the Honna River in an effort to collect data regarding the quantity of sediment contributed from the road, and also regarding how this quantity compares to natural sediment sources. The goal of the proposed internship is to undertake analysis of collected field data in order to calculate a sediment budget for the river basin, with a greater goal of determining: 1. The volume of sediment contributed by the road surface, 2. the effect of traffic on increasing sediment input to the river, 3. Whether a road surface sediment production model can be a useful tool for predicting in-channel sediment yields. Results will be used to manage wet weather road use in the Honna River watershed, and will also fill research gaps related to basin-scale sediment input from roads to rivers.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Marwan Hassan

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Forestry BC (Prince George);Island Timberlands

Discipline :

Earth science

Secteur :

Water; Forestry; Sustainability & the Environment

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Improving efficiency and safety in aviation industry using big data analytics (phase II)

Aviation industry uses flight data recorders (FDR) to monitor a high number of parameters during each flight it operates. It is expected that analyzing this data will provide useful information to airlines for improving flight safety and efficiency. However, this analysis is a challenging task in itself because the amount of accumulated data is enormous and also because it is diverse. To overcome these difficulties, data is first preprocessed (or cleaned) and only significant parameters are kept. Then, neural networks are used to model the relation between these parameters and find optimal values. Finally, clustering is used to group similar flights together and the properties of each cluster are analysed to explain how they influence flight safety and efficiency.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Richard Labib

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

CAE

Discipline :

Mathematics

Secteur :

Aerospace

Université :

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

F508-del CFTR rescue by mutated toxoids and evaluation of its functional efficacy in vivo

Many genetic diseases caused by small genetic mutations do not result in complete loss of protein fnction, but rather are due to the degradation of mutant protein by a “quality control” mechanism (endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation-ERAD) soon after it is made. Prominent amongst such ERAD-dependent diseases is Cystic Fibrosis(CF), a chronic, progressive, life-threatening genetic disease that primarily affects the lung, gastrointestinal and reproductive systems. Certain bacterial and plant toxins “hijack” this “quality control” system in the ER. Our cell culture results show inactivated (detoxified) Cholera Toxoid rescues the mutant protein causing cystic fibrosis from degradation. This could be a new basis for the treatment of many of the genetic diseases caused by ERAD. Animal studies will allow the partner company to bring this novel therapy to the market faster. To remain competitive in the global economy, corporations need to accelerate pipeline development by outsourcing specific research projects.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Christine Bear

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

ERAD Therapeutics Inc.

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

Orthosis modelling and fabrication

Orthoses are planar insoles for countering the constant and permanent deformations caused by muscular or nerve weaknesses. The orthosis fabrication process at VRAM currently involves five labor-intensive stages: the assessment of the gait, the determination of the corrective measures, the evaluation of the orthosis dimensions, the creation of hand-carved molds for forming the orthosis, and the forming and shaping of the orthosis using cork-based materials and resins. The purpose of the proposed research project is the automation of the last three stages to improve the speed, repeatability, material uniformity, and accuracy of the product.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Eric Lanteigne

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Les Ortheses V.R.A.M. Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of Ottawa

Programme :

Accelerate

Design, Manufacture and Testing of a Thermoplastic Composite Guardrail: Modeling Phase

Today’s modern industries aim at supplying premium quality products that can offer added performance value, lower weight, less environmental impact, decreased manufacturing and maintenance costs, increased durability and safety, and eventually higher customer satisfaction and market competitiveness. To achieve these milestones, new engineered materials such as fiber-reinforced polymers are rapidly replacing traditional single materials such as steel and aluminum. In particular, fabric-reinforced polymer composites have received a rapid attention in leading industries such as aerospace, marine, automotive and transportation. The aim of the present MITACS project is to arrive at a stat of the art simulation tool that can be employed for development of a new, fully composite guardrail that can replace the current steel/concrete guardrails in highways. The new guardrail by the supporting organization (AS Composite Inc) is expected to have a greater safety and durability with an estimated 75 years service life, less weight per surface area, superior corrosion resistance, and easier installation and maintenance.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Abbas Milani

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

AS Composites;University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Programme :

Accelerate

DLVR Drug Delivery Characterization

Highly targeted therapies can be devised to treat a variety of cancers, specifically acting on the mutated genes causing tumor growth. One challenge with such techniques is delivering the therapy to the interior of the cancer cell, when enzymes in the blood can actively break down the therapeutic molecules or when delivery to healthy cells can cause toxicity. Nanoparticle carrier molecules can solve this problem by containing the payload and delivering it directly to the cancer cell. DLVR Therapeutics has developed a novel nanoparticle that targets a cell surface marker common on some types of cancer cells. This nanoparticle has been developed to mimic natural molecules in the bloodstream. Its small size allows it to exploit the altered perfusion in a tumor, offering great potential for improving specificity. The intern will work to better characterize this nanoparticle delivery system using advanced imaging techniques, and evaluate the efficacy and specificity of this treatment approach in a preclinical model of cancer.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Gang Zheng

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

DLVR Therapeutics;University Health Network

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

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