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Engineering - chemical / biological

Non-Contact Laser-Based Vibration Sensor

The discipline of Vibrometery is wide and has many applications, vibrations are present in any mechanical system that involves moving components. So far, the main method to measure these vibrations has been the traditional accelerometer sensor, although it has its limitations and challenges.
Laser Doppler Vibrometers (LDV) were developed in order to address some of these limitations and they offer a non-contact measurement of vibrations by leveraging the Doppler shift effect. Although LDV offers superior accuracy and the benefits of non-contact measurement, this technology has been historically very expensive and not practical for rugged industrial applications.
In this project, we propose to develop an alternative sensor to LDV by utilizing the propriety technology developed by the partner company in the field of RF/photonics. The idea is to design a sensor without the expensive opto-mechanical assembly that is required by LDV. This will enable the industrial partners to commercialize this technology and develop a series of product lines for the global Vibrometery market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mojgan Daneshmand

Student:

Niloofar Sharafadinzadeh

Partner:

E.O.I Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Supporting Light Steering Technology within the Future Cinema Ecosystem

With rapidly improving display technologies used in the home, cinema needs to remain competitive in terms of achieving the highest image quality on screen. While increasing the quantity of pixels is currently rolled out, so far nothing has been proposed to improve the quality of those pixels. Emerging prototype cinema displays are currently being show-cased which brings significant improvement over traditional cinema experience. However new display technology with different pixel quality require modification to the traditional cinema workflow. This project aims at estimating the limits of the human vision system capabilities within a controlled environment to help define the specifications of future cinema display systems. Additionally, algorithm will be designed to allow inter-operability between the difference cinema displays that will exist in the future cinema ecosystem with particular focus on light steering, a revolutionary technology capable of greatly increasing pixel quality for similar power requirements than traditional displays.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Panos Nasiopoulos

Student:

Stylianos Ploumis

Partner:

MTT Innovation

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Digital media

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Phase 1 of Enhanced Measurement-Based Care Effectiveness for Depression (EMBED): A Canada-China Implementation Project (Salary Support for Postdoctoral Research Fellow)

EMBED (Enhanced Measurement-Based Care Effectiveness for Depression) is a multistage collaboration between mental health researchers and advocates based in Canada, China, USA, and Australia. Jointly funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, this 5-year program is the first major research initiative of the APEC Digital Hub for Mental Health (http://mentalhealth.apec.org), which is hosted at the University of British Columbia in partnership with University of Alberta and the Mood Disorders Society of Canada, along with over 15 core partners from ministries of health and academic institutions across the Asia-Pacific region. This project will develop a novel, evidence-based implementation strategy for improving clinical care for depression in Shanghai, China, based on technology-enhanced measurement-based care (eMBC) tools developed by Canadian team members. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raymond Lam

Student:

Gillian Murphy

Partner:

Canadian Mental Health Association

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Elevate

Fruit Extract to Dyes – Elucidating the Mechanism of Dye Formation using Genipin to Unlock New Colours

Dyes which are either sourced directly or derived from naturally-occurring products are of growing interest in the cosmetics industry. Sourcing chemical dyes or their close precursors from natural products can significantly reduce the environmental impact of manufacture by reducing the number of derivatization and purification steps. The industrial partner, Inkbox Ink, currently uses genipin, a dye precursor derived primarily from extracts of the gardenia fruit, in their semi-permanent tattoo technologies. The general mechanism of action involves the reaction of genipin with primary amines, in this case amino acids in the skin. The mechanism by which a colourless fruit extract becomes a brilliant blue dye is poorly understood, with numerous reports providing contradictory hypotheses. The rare ability of genipin to rapidly form non-permanent skin dyes suggests a number of potential applications. In order to develop new target dyes and facilitating new dermal technologies, the mechanism of action must be better understood. This Elevate program endeavours to elucidate the mechanism through selective synthetic modifications and analytical experiments. The knowledge gained from these studies will be applied to the development of new dyes and skin-binding technologies for Inkbox to commercialize, allowing for rapid growth for a Canadian start-up company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Caputo

Student:

Ian Mallov

Partner:

Inkbox Ink Inc

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Elevate

Terahertz Distributed Sensing Platform Based on Waveguide Bragg Gratings

Distributed sensing is an advanced technology that enables real-time monitoring of variations along the entire length of a waveguide, and offers the possibility of sensing from a long distance. In the optics domain, distributed sensing based on optical fibers has been successfully demonstrated. However, the realization of distributed sensing in the terahertz domain is still at an embryonal stage. This project aims at introducing the concept of distributed sensing into the terahertz domain, and developing, for the first time to our knowledge, a prototype of novel terahertz distributed sensing platform by integrating multiple THz Bragg grating sensing units into a low-loss and high coupling-efficiency THz two-wire waveguide. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roberto Morandotti

Student:

Junliang Dong

Partner:

QPS Photronics Inc.

Discipline:

Journalism / Media studies and communication

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Elevate

Landscapes of Injustice, Curatorial Postdoctoral Fellowship

Amaratunga Railton’s proposed project is to take a leading role in curating the capstone public output of Landscapes of Injustice (LOI). LOI is a 7-year, intersectoral community-engaged research project exploring the dispossession of Japanese Canadians during the 1940s. LOI illustrates (1) the violation of human and civil rights at a time of perceived insecurity; (2) measures taken in the name of national defence; (3) the enduring harm of mass displacement, and loss of home and property; (4) human resilience. The travelling exhibit is one major research output of the project, culminating 4-years of intensive research by a national team. Under the direction of the Director/Curator of the Nikkei National Museum (NNM), the fellow will conduct research within the archives and scholarly outputs of LOI to create a major travelling exhibit to museums and institutions across Canada, with potential destinations abroad. TO BE CONT”D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jordan Stanger-Ross

Student:

Yasmin Railton

Partner:

Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre

Discipline:

History

Sector:

Education

University:

Program:

Elevate

Evaluating the effectiveness of novel chemically modified chars, in conjunction with other organic and inorganic residuals from the forestry and pulp & paper industries, for enhanced passive treatment of mine-influenced water

This research will test the efficacy of sulphate and metals removal from mine-influenced water using passive or semi-passive technologies. Critical to successful application of these technologies is creating conditions that support microorganisms that mediate precipitation of metal sulphide minerals. For this purpose, we propose to develop an effective formula of reactive constituents comprised of 1) complex organic matter (OM) that provides a food source, 2) a form of iron that mediates reductive and metal removal processes and 3) other amendments that help retain nutrients and/or buffer the pH. Our particular focus will be to leverage valorization and reuse of forestry and pulp & paper mill residues for the treatment system. Specifically, we will test 1) locally sourced OM materials such as pulp & paper biosolids, 2) different types of activated and chemically modified biochars and/or 3) waste pulp & paper ash.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Baldwin

Student:

Lauren Lundquist

Partner:

Teck Metals Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Part of the water, part of the land’: Developing Indigenous water legislation for Carcross/Tagish First Nation

The protection of water is a priority for Carcross/Tagish First Nation (C/TFN) and revitalizing Indigenous legal and governance systems is fundamental to advancing Indigenous approaches to water governance. While the citizens of C/TFN have governed the waters and lands within their traditional territory since time immemorial, their Tagish and Tlingit legal orders have been disrupted by colonial forms of governance. Nevertheless, knowledge of these systems endures in practice and oral history. The revitalization of Indigenous legal traditions and forms of governance is a core objective of for C/TFN. Under the supervision of Carcross/Tagish Management Corporation, this MITACS Postdoctoral research will contribute to the advancement of innovative Indigenous approaches to water governance. It aims to collaboratively develop Indigenous water legislation, which brings together Indigenous legal traditions with western legal frameworks to advance contemporary legislation. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gordon Christie

Student:

Nicole Wilson

Partner:

Carcross Tagish Management Corporation

Discipline:

Law

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

Program:

Elevate

The Contribution of Invertebrates to the Seasonal Diets of Walleye in Lake St. Joseph

The aim of this project is to better understand the onshore and offshore feeding habits and movement of walleye on Lake St. Joseph. There is special emphasis on answering the question: if, when and how much do Walleye rely on invertebrates in general, and Mayflies in particular. Walleye are an economically and ecologically significant sport fish and Mayflies are an important bioindicator of ecosystem health and potentially have an intricate predator prey relationship. To better understand these interactions, we will reconstruct the seasonal diet of walleye, across many age classes and determine their foraging habits both onshore and offshore. Biological information will be collected from the walleye to determine any specific foodweb interactions and transient movements that may exist. To conserve and protect ecological processes in an everchanging world understanding natural interactions has never been more important.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Beresford

Student:

Ayden Ricker-Held

Partner:

Old Post Lodge

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Conception and automatisation of a tunable Phase-Mask Interferometer for Fiber Bragg Grating inscription

Optical fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) have become ubiquitous in many products such as lasers, filters and sensors. However, typical commercial products are becoming more complex, ones that require highly competent operators since many parameters need to be fine-tuned during the writing of quality FBGs. A previous Mitacs project successfully addressed several challenges in the conception of a FBG writing system based on scanning tunable Phase-Mask Interferometer, marketed by PhotoNova as the BraggTune, using different UV lasers. However, many challenges remain to make the commercial unit more versatile, precise and easier to use with semi-automation, removing the uncertainty of manual mechanical tuning, as in the present product. In the first phase, the flexibility and the ease of use of the device by automating the existing product enabling fabrication of different types of FBGs will be researched. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ke Wu

Student:

Victor Lambin Iezzi

Partner:

PhotoNova Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Elevate

Modelling successional dynamics in the boreal mixedwoods

A thorough understanding of the effects of the natural disturbances on successional dynamics is essential when developing silvicultural approaches. If applied correctly, this understanding should ensure the sustainable management of the wood resources, as well as the conservation of the biological attributes and ecological functions of forest ecosystems. With respect to the spatial and temporal complexity of the successional dynamics of forest ecosystems, simulation models are powerful tools as they are able to address many factors simultaneously. In this respect, forest simulators can process a large amount of data and parameters which are required to better understand and predict species and structural succession occurring at the stand and landscape levels. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Lafleur

Student:

Kobra Maleki

Partner:

Norbord Inc

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Forestry

University:

Program:

Elevate

Assessment of DNA Ministring technology in cell transfection and the treatment of Colorectal Cancer (CRC)

Despite the power of gene therapy, its successful application to medicine has been diminished due to: (i) high toxicities and potentially fatal adverse effects; (ii) poor transgene expression in target cells; and (iii) extensive vector degradation. While viral vectors greatly improve efficiency, they sometimes lead to cancers due to chromosomal integration and may suffer from a lack of desired tissue selectivity. In contrast, nonviral systems have proven safer, but less efficient. Developing highly effective and safe DNA vectors is essential.
The double-stranded DNA-minimal construct, called “DNA ministrings”, are miniaturized-DNA constructs carry only the expression cassette (promoter, gene of interest, intron, and nuclear translocation enhancing sequences). As such, DNA ministrings offer a much safer, yet highly effective alternative to current gene delivery vectors. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shawn Wettig

Student:

Nafiseh Nafissi

Partner:

Mediphage Bioceuticals Inc

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Nanotechnologies

University:

Program:

Elevate

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