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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

An Integrated GPS/INS/Visual Positioning System for Head-Mounted Devices

The Recon Jet is an eyewear that is targeted towards cyclists and runners. The Recon jet is attractive because it displays the athlete’s performance, such as maximum speed and acceleration in real-time using the Recon Jet heads-up display technology. The current Recon Jet has a GPS receiver and onboard sensors that track the athlete position, and velocity, and displays the athlete’s ride data on a map. The current Recon Jet GPS receiver and onboard sensors have poor positioning accuracy of the athlete at times when GPS receiver signal reception is lost. This work proposes using a camera that is already on board of Recon Jet to better estimate the athlete position. The camera captures images of landmarks in the environment during the athlete ride. The relative shift of these landmarks captured in different images can be used to better estimate the athlete’s position and velocity.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Edward Park

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Recon Instruments Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing

Université :

Simon Fraser University

Programme :

Accelerate

In situ mobility characterization of solar grade materials during thin film growth

The intern will collaborate with Plasmonique Inc. to design and construct a novel solar material characterization apparatus. Specifically, the experimental apparatus will monitor the quality of solar materials during thin film growth. This will allow thin film growth to be optimized in a ways never before possible as growth conditions can be adapted in real time to optimize the film growth.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Giovanni Fanchini

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Plasmionique Inc.

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

Université :

Western University

Programme :

Accelerate

Epigenetic Control of Human T Helper Cell Differentiation Across Development

Each year, about 4 millions of newborn babies die from infectious causes worldwide. Birth represents a major immunological transition from a safer environment to a microbiologically hostile outside world. T cells are key players of the immune system and newborn babies do not display a strong immunological response as most of their T cells are naïve and not differentiated into T helper (Th) cells compared to adult individuals. Thus, characterization of mechanisms regulating differentiation of naïve T cells in newborn babies represents an approach to enhance their immunological responses. Our research goal is to improve survival of newborn babies by investigation of the genetic modifications associated with these mechanisms. These characterizations also enable us to understand why there are variations in immunological responses to the same pathogen between individuals and could act as a starting point for identification of a therapeutic agent/vaccination to improve immunological responses in newborn babies.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Pascal Lavoie

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

BC Children's Hospital Foundation;STEMCELL Technologies Canada Inc

Discipline :

Life Sciences

Secteur :

Other services (except public administration)

Université :

The University of British Columbia

Programme :

Accelerate

Création d’un parc d’eau-vive à Montréal

L’idée est de penser un projet de construction utilisant les technologies appliquées afin de reproduire artificiellement les propriétés naturelles d’une rivière. Aussi exceptionnel que cela peut paraître, garantir un lieu de pratique viable pour des sports comme le canoë-kayak de slalom, de freestyle et de descente, le canoë-polo, le rafting, le surf, ou bien la nage en eau-vive, le sauvetage maritime, etc. porte en soi cette difficulté liée à la nouveauté de la chose. L’initiative de ce genre de développement nécessite de ce fait une investigation exhaustive de la structure et du fonctionnement de l’environnement commercial afin de confirmer les ententes avec les partenaires, surtout financiers. Ce prochain stage permettra dans une première mesure de chiffrer le portrait de l’eau vive au Québec. Dans une autre, d’en savoir davantage sur les circonstances de marché et sur l’assemblage dans la réalité d’un tel équipement en pleine ville.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Sylvain Lefebvre

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

Fédération québécoise de canoë-kayak d’eau-vive;Cubix

Discipline :

Sociology

Secteur :

Arts, entertainment and recreation

Université :

Université du Québec à Montréal

Programme :

Accelerate

Quantum Annealing Techniques for Efficient Graph Analysis

This research investigation aims to assess a set of well known NP-Hard problems that are currently only solvable with an approximation, and prototype implementations of a general solution to their class of problem previously developed by 1QBit. This requires a series literature and prior art reviews, prior to the development of new algorithms and code which will deploy an analog optimization process as part of their solution. Identifying ideal problems and refining recently developed solution is part of the larger research goals of 1QBit of finding methods to translate a range of problems into the ideal form for currently available adiabatic annealing hardware. This project is part of 1QBit’s research program for how to best utilize an annealing oracle for intractable or poorly solved optimization problems

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

Mark Giesbrecht

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

1QB Information Technologies Inc

Discipline :

Computer science

Secteur :

Technology; Other; Finance and Insurance

Université :

University of Waterloo

Programme :

Accelerate

Recovery of high purity scandium oxide from titanium processing residues

Scandium (Sc) is a rare, but strategic element for many high-tech applications such as next generation fuel cell technologies. Typically, it is required as highly pure (99.99%) Sc2O3. Currently, the global supply of Sc2O3 is very small and concentrated in a few countries. There is currently no production know-how available in Canada. The principal source of Sc extraction is as a by-product of metallurgical processes, e.g., titanium ore processing. The project investigates the extraction of high purity scandium from titanium pigment industry residues. This involves the selective leaching of a residue and determining the appropriate acid, pH, temperature, redox potential und time conditions. At the same time the dissolution of impurity elements needs to be minimized at maximum the Sc extraction. In a second step an appropriate chemical for solvent extraction is determined and the optimal extraction and stripping conditions will be investigated. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop a production process for of highly pure Sc2O3.

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Superviseur du corps professoral :

George Demopoulos

Étudiant :

Partenaire :

5N Plus Inc

Discipline :

Engineering

Secteur :

Manufacturing; Mining

Université :

McGill University

Programme :

Accelerate

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