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13270 Completed Projects

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Engineering
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Engineering - biomedical
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Engineering - chemical / biological

The effects of the dietary supplement Cardioflex on reducing cardiovascular disease risk factors in adults.

Heart disease and stroke are the leading causes of death and prescription drug use in Canada. In 2011, it was estimated that 1.6 million Canadians are living with heart disease or the effects of a stroke. One person every 7 minutes dies from heart disease or stroke in Canada. The purpose of this clinical trial is to take adults who are at risk for developing cardiovascular disease but are otherwise healthy and to determine whether daily supplementation with Cardioflex for 90 days will reduce their risk factor markers such as blood lipid (e.g. cholesterol and triglyceride).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Semone Myrie

Student:

Trevor Kouritzin

Partner:

Innotech Nutrition

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a Diagnostic Screening Platform for Quantitative Detection of Drugs in Saliva

Drug-impaired driving represents a significant and increasing threat to the safety of Canadians and there is an urgent need for a convenient, instantaneous and accurate road-side evaluation technology for impaired driving. Current solution for roadside drug testing includes a device that is still just a qualitative indicator. Quantitative detection of drugs currently require expensive equipment, dedicated infrastructure and specialized laboratory personnel. To address this problem, eye3concepts inc. is teaming up with McMaster University and wants to adapt its smartphone based reader technology called pd.id to detect the presence of prohibited drugs (PDs) such as Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, ecstasy, opiates, Fentanyl, Carfentanyl and alcohol in saliva. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Seshasai Srinivasan

Student:

Syed Ahmed

Partner:

Eye3concepts Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Developing the Microsoft HoloLens for cognitive-motor dual-tasking.

People living with a disease or injury that affects their brain face daily challenges related to impaired cognitive function – including memory, reasoning, planning, and problem solving – and motor function particularly during tasks that concurrently challenge cognitive and motor function, such as grocery shopping, navigating new or busy environments, or simply having a conversation while walking. This project will develop and evaluate a tool that uses a mixed-reality headset, the Microsoft HoloLens, to combine challenging and controlled cognitive and motor tasks in a manner similar to these naturally-occurring daily challenges. This tool will improve our ability to assess and train cognitive and motor function in people living with disease or injury that affects the brain.

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Faculty Supervisor:

William McIlroy

Student:

Kit Beyer

Partner:

Microsoft HQ

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

A Conceptual Aerodynamic Design for a High-Lift Electric Hybrid Airship

Hybrid airships with vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capability have the potential to drastically simply the commercial transportation system by picking up payload from the pick-up points and delivering it directly to the pre-set destinations. Development of new electric hybrid airship designs for the Canadian and global transport industry will lead to lower shipping costs, where the ultimate goal is to cut shipping cost by at least 50 percent per kg of payload and by at least 10 percent of the present-day cost of ground and marine transportation per kg of cargo. This study proposes a new conceptual aerodynamic design for a hybrid airship capable of lifting at least 25-ton cargo up to a distance of at least 1000 km on a single battery charge while cruising at a speed of at least 100 knots (185 km/hr).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe Lavoie

Student:

Suraj Bansal

Partner:

Win Global Partners

Discipline:

Aerospace studies

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Blockchain based Software Validation

For a software application to be released, it may need a number of standard certifications, which should be issued from different associations and for a wide range of software features (e.g., security, perfor-mance, scalability). We call these associations trusted third parties. The main problem with these trust-ed third parties is that they are single points of failures. For example, if one of these parties gets hacked many software source codes could be stolen. The other problem with trusted third parties is that they often do not have enough resources to verify a software therefore they become the bottleneck of the process. In this project we propose a solution for software testing that involves multiple parties that have minimum trust to each other without the need for a trusted third party.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Reza Samavi

Student:

Pouyan Momeni

Partner:

Highmark Global Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Biomass estimation form footage of single camera by applying deep learning algorithms

Virtus is using machine and deep learning to analyse real-time video feeds from fish cages to help the aquaculture industry to calculate biomass, stress and health levels of fish. This information will help companies in various way. Knowing the state of the fish will help to optimize feeding the fish which saves money in what is one of the highest expenses in the aquaculture operation. Such AI will reduce labour by automating the current methods of obtaining measurements of fish which are done manually. Furthermore, our software will help farms not only reduce fish-feed but provide optimization which will help optimize the health of the fish and which leads to higher quality and size of the final product.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sageev Oore

Student:

Hossein Salimian

Partner:

Virtus Analytics

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Fisheries and wildlife

University:

Program:

Accelerate

The design and fabrication of a novel mitral heart valve for catheter-based insertion

The aim of this collaboration is to produce a novel design of percutaneous mitral valve that utilizes the synthetic cryogel material developed at the Heart Valve Performance Laboratory, UBC Okanagan campus for the valve leaflets, along with different anchoring mechanisms to develop an optimized option for testing. The proposed design will be made for either the transseptal, that being a puncture between the right atrium and left atrium to give access to the native mitral valve, or the transapical approach, that being entering through the apex of the heart into the left ventricle. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hadi Mohammadi

Student:

Dylan Goode

Partner:

Angeleno Medical LLC

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Ultrasound Device for Superficial Targets

This project intents to design and build a prototype for a device that uses low-intensity ultrasound for localized treatment of malignant skin cells. The industrial partner is interested on evaluate the performance of a current cosmetic device and the feasibility to use a device with similar characteristics to treat malignancy. We propose to first characterize this existing device to determine the conditions of operation, then evaluate the biological effects that are expected for those conditions. We will then design a prototype device that can maximize the effects and test this prototype on live cells comparing malignant vs. normal skin cells. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laura Curiel

Student:

Seyed Mohammad Mohammadi Jahromi

Partner:

Modular Eyes

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Employing Data Mining Strategies for Intelligent Project Management

Typical accounting systems are built for accountants, and they are great for filing a year-end. However, they are a burden at running day-to-day consulting companies where every hour has value. The GroupThinq accounting application tackles this problem by providing a framework to control, in real-time, every aspect of a company, helping teams to run projects, connecting teams across organizational silos, and making visible the value of time for every team member. Although GroupThinq system has shown to improve financial performance on jobs, empowering and motivating individuals to meet the project’s financial targets, the produced and collected data has not been explored in its full potential. The objective of this project is to leverage such potential by adding machine learning and visualization components to the framework to support an in-depth data analysis, providing a visual interface to help users to explore and understand the results of statistical and prediction analysis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fernando Paulovich

Student:

Martha Ferreira

Partner:

Group Thinq

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an Improved Airborne Cat Dander Dispersion System in a Cat Allergen (Fel d1) Exposure Chamber

Red Maple Trials (Ottawa, ON) created a new facility where patients can be exposed to airborne Fed d1 cat allergen. In this facility, the patient’s symptoms (with or without medication intervention) can be monitored in a controlled manner. Male cats are kept in the exposure chamber furnished with blankets. These blanket sheets are shaken vigorously during an exposure test with an hour of duration. In the current project, a modified robotic vacuum will be used to disperse and make Fel d1 that has been settled on the floor of the exposure chamber to become airborne. Airborne allergen concentration and size distribution will be monitored in time. It is expected that more homogeneous allergen concentration and spatial distribution in this exposure chamber will allow better competitiveness for the company to attract pharmaceutical companies. Nevertheless, allergy research regarding the approval of new medication (with better efficacy) can impact a significant portion of allergic patients in Canada and abroad.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Edgar Matida

Student:

Rym Mehri

Partner:

Red Maple Trials

Discipline:

Aerospace studies

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Enabling liquid and solid repellency for personal protective ensembles

This project will investigate how to add waterproof, oil-proof, and contaminant-proof properties to soldier protective clothing (ballistic armour vests). Four interns will develop methods for attaching a repellent coating to the fabrics that the Canadian Armed Forces wears. The interns will work with PRE Labs Inc., an armour company in Kelowna, BC. Together, the interns and PRE Labs will figure out to bond the coating to the fabrics, and just how effective the coating is when placed on a fabric. This will involve characterizing the treated fabric for its liquid and contaminant repellency. The interns will additionally measure the breathability of the fabrics. PRE Labs does not perform R&D on coatings or textiles, making this research extremely valuable to them. PRE Labs would be unable to engineer such a coating without the aid of the interns skilled in chemistry, coatings, and textile modification.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kevin Golovin

Student:

Kamran Alasvand Zarasvand

Partner:

PRE Labs

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Nanotechnologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Decision Making Tool for Pipelines Risk Assessment with Multi-hazards (Corrosion and Geo-Hazard) Consideration

The oil & gas industry is vital to the economy of British Columbia (BC) and Canada. The BC Oil and Gas Commission (BCOGC) regulates more than 40 thousand km of pipelines that transport a variety of refined and unrefined products. The reliability of the pipelines is often compromised due to natural ageing and deterioration processes, coupled with exposure to natural hazards (e.g. earthquake, geotechnical failure, climate change) and human induced hazards (e.g. accidental hits, vandalism). Metal loss (e.g. due to corrosion) and geotechnical failure (loss of integrity due to geotechnical effect) accounts for over 50% of failure incidents. Understanding performance of the different pipelines and their interaction with the environment (as the failures can manifest as leaks and spills) is important to support decisions about risk mitigation, future development, investments and maintenance policies – all of which are important so that pipeline operations can be made more efficient and reliable. The focus of the research work is in developing risk-based models for the assessment of the interactions between corrosion and seismic induced geotechnical damage and their effects on the mechanism of pipeline failure.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Edouard Asselin

Student:

Hongxing Liang

Partner:

BC Oil and Gas Research and Innovation Society

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Energy

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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