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Design and Testing of Innovative Precast Concrete Structures for Railway Infrastructures using FRP Reinforcement and Fibre-Reinforced Concrete

SYM-TECH Inc. is looking to develop new corrosion-free precast concrete members (sleepers and piles) reinforced with fiber-reinforced-polymer (FRP) rods and using fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) for railway foundation applications. Such precast concrete members are usually reinforced with conventional or pre stressed steel reinforcements. Steel bars and strands used for reinforcement have a limited service life due to corrosion when exposed to environmental conditions observed in North America. The corrosion process ultimately causes concrete deterioration and loss of serviceability, and entails high maintenance costs. The main target of this project is to design and develop precast FRCmembers using different types of FRP reinforcement (glass and carbon bars). We also hope to use the findings of this project to propose an update of the design guidelines for precast FRP-FRC sleepers and piles. Newly developed FRP-FRC member specifications would meet the North American industry standard requirements.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Brahim Benmokrane;Faouzi Ghrib

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Sym-Tech Béton Préfabriqué Inc.;Ani-mat Inc.

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke; University of Windsor

Programme :

Accelerate

Analysis and optimization of the air contactor for a new direct air capture technology

Carbon Engineering (CE) is currently building a demonstration plant to capture carbon dioxide directly from the atmosphere to combat climate change using a technique called direct air capture (DAC). This project will focus on determining the effectiveness of this plant at pulling carbon out of the atmosphere under various operating conditions, while also looking at contamination build up in certain parts of the plant. Determining the performance of this plant at different operating and environmental conditions, understanding this, and implanting improvements to CE’s plant design, will be key to making DAC cost effective as CE moves to a full sized commercial plant.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Walter Merida

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Carbon Engineering (Squamish, BC)

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Optimization Techniques for Automatic Assessment of Manually Drawn Diagrams in Educational Problem Sets

In STEM education, many problem sets require a student to answer a question with a drawing. For example, kinematic physics or statics/dynamics engineering problems often require the student to construct a free-body diagram as a necessary step in the solution. However, when such subjects are taught through online education (such as though a MOOC), most automatic assessment is only done through the constraints of multi-choice answers. The objective of this research project is to create an automatic assessment framework that can grade diagrams drawn and submitted by students through an online web interface. Our approach is a backend server-side module that decomposes the drawing into a set of shape primitives that are then automatically labelled and matched through an optimization approach to a set of solution primitives. Our approach must handle not only multiple correct solutions, but also select an appropriate grade based on a distance metric to the true solution.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Osmar Zaiane

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Varafy

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Information and cultural industries

Université :

University of Alberta

Programme :

Accelerate

Valorisation des hydrolats en cosmétique et étude de leurs impacts sur les propriétés des produits formulés (odeur, apparence, hydratation et conservation)

Les hydrolats, obtenus lors de la production d’huiles essentielles, sont souvent considérés comme des sousproduits de la distillation. Ceux-ci peuvent être intégrés avantageusement dans des formulations cosmétiques afin d’apporter une odeur agréable et contribuer directement à certaines propriétés cosmétiques. Le présent projet vise à identifier et à valoriser des hydrolats issus de plantes du Québec. Les
plantes sélectionnées en fonction de leurs propriétés et leur disponibilité seront récoltées et distillées puis les hydrolats seront analysés et caractérisés. Dans un second temps, l’impact des hydrolats sur les propriétés organoleptiques et hydratantes ainsi que sur le temps de conservation des formules sera évalué selon des méthodes éprouvées. Le projet devrait permettre d’identifier des voies d’utilisation fines pour ces sousproduits de la distillation dans le secteur de la cosmétologie.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Vakhtang Mshvildadze

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Groupe Boréaressources inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Agriculture

Université :

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Programme :

Accelerate

Towards the commercialization of a robotics-assisted rehabilitation platform for stroke therapy of upper limb

Stroke is the primary cause of physical disability resulting in motor dysfunction. Rehabilitation robots are employed to automate repetitive goal-oriented tasks, and strengthen neural pathways. The portable robot built by our team in collaboration with Quanser can be programmed to aid therapists, and assist upper-limb movements to deliver rehabilitation. In this project, various limitations that currently exist are overcome. First, movement assessment in rehabilitation is usually subjective, and lacks quantitative measures so adding proper sensing mechanisms bridges this gap. To this end, our proposed system incorporates kinesthetic and tactile haptic feedback for therapy and functionality assessment. Additionally, introducing tele-rehabilitation technology alleviates strains on therapists, and releases the need of active physical presence. Therefore, it facilitates home-based therapy that can potentially contribute to the reduction of healthcare costs while offering more accessibility, precision and consistency than traditional techniques. Ultimately, these extra features will justify the commercialization of the Quanser’s rehabilitation robot.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Alex Mihailidis

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Quanser Consulting Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

The Relationship between Live Chemistry Show Characteristics and Their Effect on Science Museum Visitors’ Attitude to Chemistry

Accessible, high-quality science education is central to positively shaping public opinion of science. Public perceptions and understandings of chemistry have often been associated with negative attitudes, misconceptions about the nature of chemicals, and sometimes misdirected anxieties about their effects on humans. These negative images are compounded by the fact that chemistry is under represented in science museums compared to the other major sciences. Reasons for this include chemistry being exceptionally challenging to present as a hands-on exhibit that attendees can explore unattended, and that chemists are less likely than other scientists to participate in outreach activities. However, chemistry lends itself exceptionally well to live shows, and the demonstrations available to trained individuals are numerous and varied. This project will assess chemistry shows currently being performed in science museums and then use the results to explore new ways to perform science shows at Science World that are better at positively shaping the public’s perception and understanding of chemistry and science in general.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

David Anderson

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Science World

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Education

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Investigation of Driven FRP Reinforced Concrete Piles for Bridges, Tunnels, Marine, Lateral Support Applications

Reinforced concrete (RC) structures with steel reinforcement have a limited service life due to corrosion especially for these used in harsh marine and/or aggressive environments or which existed under water ground table. RC vertical structural members as columns and piles transmit axial compressive loads with or without moments are of critical importance for the safety of structures. These members usually exposed to shear and lateral forces. Using alternative noncorrosive reinforcing materials as fiber-reinforced-polymer (FRP) bars has been the focus of many studies in recent years to attack the problem from its root cause. This project intended to investigate the shear strength behavior of FRP RC piles under lateral loads with/without axial loading. The outcomes of this project will be important for examining the validity of the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code (CAN/CSA S6-06) design provisions for bridge deep foundation and water front and marine driven piles with FRP reinforcements.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Brahim Benmokrane

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Pultrall

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

Université :

Université de Sherbrooke

Programme :

Accelerate

Utilization of Electronic Health Records for Drug Safety Signal Refinement

Electronic health records (EHRs) are repositories of patient health information that contain data on drug prescription and possible adverse drug reactions. Risk Sciences International (RSI) has an interest in development and application of advanced statistical techniques to address questions of drug safety through the analysis of a large hospital-based EHR dataset. We propose to create an analytical framework for the analyses of these data focusing on complexities in estimation that arise from possible correlations in the data as well as the potential for the presence of misclassification errors in these records. Collaboration with pharmacoepidemiologists at RSI will allow us to guide for the development around the application of active case studies involving drugs suspected of being associated with adverse health outcomes.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Robert Platt

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Risk Science International

Discipline :

Mathematics

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

Increasing Marketing Campaign Performance Using Influential Users in Social Networks

Social networks have become an important information hub with a huge customer base. Hence businesses try to leverage social networks in their advertising and marketing campaigns. One of the advantages of social networks is that the users can influence their community and friends. Detecting influential users provides multiple benefits for businesses such as more effective advertisement and better user involvement. Many techniques, focusing on network centrality metrics, have been developed to detect influential users. However, these techniques do not handle spammers and fake friends effectively and return inaccurate results. Moreover, they ignore the effect of user-generated content on influence. Knowing who can influence who and in what area is important in advertisement and sale prediction. We aim to provide a solution to accurately detect influential users by integrating sociometric techniques with topic-based influence models while solving the shortcomings of both techniques.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Morad Benyoucef;TBD

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

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

Université :

University of Ottawa

Programme :

Accelerate

Projet de recherche sur l’incorporation et la valorisation du verre postconsommation dans les structures de chaussée

Dans un contexte de développement durable et de mise en valeur des matériaux de postconsommation, il est judicieux d’étudier toutes les applications possibles qui permettront le prolongement du cycle de vie des résidus de verre mixte. Leur utilisation dans les enrobés bitumineux et la structure des chaussées bitumineuses peut contribuer à atteindre cet objectif. L’ajout de verre dans les enrobés bitumineux peut contribuer significativement à diminuer les impacts environnementaux quant à la fabrication et la mise en oeuvre de ces matériaux. L’objectif du projet de recherche proposé est de contribuer au recyclage du verre mixte de postconsommation comme matériau granulaire dans les structures de chaussées bitumineuses. La recherche sera orientée sur le recyclage du verre mixte de postconsommation comme matériau granulaire aussi bien au sein même du corps de la structure de la chaussée que dans la confection des enrobés bitumineux.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Michel Vaillancourt

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Société des alcools du Québec

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Retail trade

Université :

École de technologie supérieure

Programme :

Accelerate

Efficient Prototyping of Linear Actuators Through Numerical Modeling

Within the gaming and aviation industries, there is a demand for simulators that imitate flight. Peripheral flight yokes are often used. The industry desires yokes that are both affordable and realistic. Recently, Iris Dynamics Ltd. has developed a new flight yoke that offers superior performance with respect to its competitors at a relatively low price. Their unique design is based on the use of a linear actuator, wherein the force on a magnetic shaft centered within current carrying coils is used to create the feeling of an actual flight yoke; their competitors simulate the feeling of flight through mechanical means. Using a single linear actuator is a novel approach to peripheral yoke design and scaling this technology is an active area of inquiry. The objective of the internships is to provide Iris Dynamics Ltd. with a numerical simulation tool that will allow for the optimal design of new flight yokes of various sizes, these designs being compatible with force, input power, and heat management specifications.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Kenneth Chau

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Iris Dynamics Ltd

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Programme :

Accelerate

Re-architecture of Sidefx.com

This proposed research will create a corporate website as well as content management system, which will be developed at and for Side Effects Software. The main objectives of this applied research are (1) redesign the corporate website and services attached; (2) ensure the security, reliability, and scalability of the system; (3) test the application efficiently and automatically; (4) generate a useful report based on the performance of the resulting data. With the participation of the intern in the design and implementation of the system, the company will benefit by being able to manage their web content and communicate with their clients with greater efficiency and reliability.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Alan Rosselet

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Side Effects Software

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

University of Toronto

Programme :

Accelerate

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