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13270 Completed Projects

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Projects by Category

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Engineering - chemical / biological

Digital Marketing and Sales Decision Optimization

Like many of their global compatriots, Canadian banks have embraced digital transformation, which enables their account holders to access and manage their accounts and investments online, allowing personalized service. This reality includes the needs of internal stakeholders as well as clients. Planning and implementation of Customer Relations Management and digital sales systems require new ways of working that in turn implicate policies and procedures. Internal culture is impacted as banks strengthen their talent acquisition in AI, Machine learning and data analytics. Collaborations between the marketing and sales department, the operations department (for customer service), the IT and data analytics teams, the customer information manager and senior management are critical for successful service and profitability. The Mitacs Accelerate will support The Digital Marketing and Sales Decision Optimization project. This project will use Artificial Intelligence, organizational behavior, design ethnography, and data visualization research to identify and integrate the data assets, analytics and communications needs of all contributors, designing a user-centric system to support strategy, implementation and evaluation of marketing campaigns.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sara Louise Diamond

Student:

Ahmad Karawash

Partner:

RBC Royal Bank

Discipline:

Design

Sector:

University:

OCAD University

Program:

Accelerate

Developing Leadership Competencies Through Elite Sport

Sport participants offer a source for community leadership potential that could be more fully and intentionally leveraged for maximum social impact. Currently, leadership development occurring through sport is haphazard and may be a product of chance rather than intent. This research explores elite athletes’ perspectives of leadership competencies developed through sport and aims to gain greater understanding of how these competencies can be intentionally incorporated in long-term athlete development models. Interviews will be conducted with current and recently retired athletes inquiring into experience-based leadership competencies developed through sport. The intent of this research is to understand the ways qualitative leadership competencies might actually enhance sport performance outcomes, lead to a more holistic model of sport designed to develop excellence in both performance and leadership, and better leverage the power and potential of sport for individual, team and community development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nevin Harper

Student:

Patricia Obee

Partner:

Canadian Sport Institute Pacific

Discipline:

Social work

Sector:

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Modelling of inspection cycles for power distribution transformers

EPCOR Distribution and Transmission Inc., an electric utility based in Edmonton is carrying out inspections on a fixed time interval for all of its distribution assets. In the case of pad-mounted distribution transformers, many of the time-based inspections resulted in the decision of “no action required”. This project aims to investigate the inspection data and develop a simple mathematical model to define the optimal inspection schedule for pad-mounted distribution transformers. This project will reduce the inspection costs of EPCOR Distribution and Transmission Inc. and help to better plan their future inspections for the pad-mounted transformers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ming Zuo

Student:

Sathishkumar Nachimuthu

Partner:

EPCOR Distribution and Transmission Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Fatigue characterization of cane and synthetic reeds for alto saxophone

Reeds for woodwind instruments are known to be extremely variable and change significantly with time. This makes it difficult for musicians to find and maintain a reed that performs at a level suitable for their personal preference. In this project, the magnitude of these changing properties will be characterized in both natural cane reeds and synthetic alternatives, thus examining the cost-benefit of supposedly more durable synthetic reeds. The impact that these changing properties have on the resulting sound quality (important to the musician) will also be compared between cane and synthetic reeds. The results will aid the partner organization in the design of future synthetic reed products, testing methods and provide baseline data on current products to help musicians select equivalent synthetic reeds exhibiting the desired performance of more variable cane reeds.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gary Scavone

Student:

Scott Connor Kemp

Partner:

Légère Reeds

Discipline:

Music

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Sulphur dioxide sensor for wine quality control

BarrelWise is focusing on the barrel wine aging process which is labor intensive and is logistically challenging for large wineries with thousands of barrels. Due to wine evaporation through the permeable oak barrels, the aging wine needs to be topped to displace ullage and sulphated to protect the wine from oxidation and microbial spoilage. In addition, sulphur levels in the barrels have to be tracked to ensure sufficient protection to the wine, and guarantee that legislated sulphur levels are not surpassed.
BarrelWise has developed a patented solution that allows all barrel management to be performed without exposing the barrel to surrounding air, through a custom bung. The focus of this Mitacs internship is the development of an SO2 sensor, which will allow the wine-maker to track the sulphur levels in the wine aging process for each barrel. In addition, this sensor will allow for precise sulphur addition on a barrel-by-barrel basis, with the ultimate goal of minimizing excess sulphur addition to aging wine.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven Rogak;Vivien Measday

Student:

Miayan Yeremi

Partner:

BarrelWise

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Characterization of Natural Organic Matter from Various Sources

BioLiNE Corporation is a technology innovator, focused on providing advanced, science-based solutions for sustainable crop production. BioLiNE® products have consistently demonstrated superior results helping farmers grow healthier crops with higher yield and exceptional quality. One of the active ingredients in some of our products is fulvic acid, an extremely complex organic acid produced in nature through the process of humification. The humification process is quite complex and involves both biotic and abiotic processes, and as such researchers to- date are not able to synthesize fulvic acid in the lab. In this project we are attempting to study the chemical structure and composition of fulvic acid derived from different natural sources with the goal of advancing the understanding of fulvic acids.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Charpentier

Student:

Md Abdul Mumin

Partner:

BioLiNE

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Quantification and Improvement of Juvenile American Eel Passage Through Fishways and Wetland Water Control Infrastructure.

The American Eel is a species of significant ecological, social and commercial value and a species of conservation concern in part due to reduced habitat connectivity to both freshwater habitat as juveniles, commonly known as glass eels or elvers. During the proposed research period the intern will work to quantify passage of elvers through existing infrastructure that is representative of the majority of infrastructure within Ducks Unlimited projects within Atlantic Canada. This knowledge will permit DUC to quantify the ability of elvers to access freshwater habitat inside its projects and work to develop widely applicable solutions to increase elver passage. This will enhance the populations of eels within DUC projects and enhance the productivity long term viability of DUC wetland projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Stokesbury

Student:

Brandon Nilsen

Partner:

Ducks Unlimited Canada

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Fisheries and wildlife

University:

Acadia University

Program:

Accelerate

Cognitive and Physical Demands of Using Ergonomic Spinner Knobs

Howell ventures, located in Fredericton, is a leading company in North America for designing and producing driving aids. Driving aids, such as “remote spinner knobs” enable individuals who have physical limitations (due to structural, traumatic, or pathological reasons) who want to maintain their independence by driving their vehicles. The purpose of the study is to identify a remote spinner knob design that reduces cognitive and physical demands while driving.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wayne Albert;Michelle Cardoso

Student:

Bharat Kant

Partner:

Sure Grip Hand Controls

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Carbon Footprints of Agriculture Production in Atlantic Canada

The proposed research investigates an opportunity of monitor, measure, and model the role of carbon sequestration and emission of carbon dioxide from agricultural soils of Atlantic Canada. Precision agricultural practices will be designed to promote sustainable agriculture in Atlantic Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aitazaz Farooque

Student:

Rimsha Khan

Partner:

Slack Farms Limited

Discipline:

Engineering - other

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Prince Edward Island

Program:

Accelerate

Effect of Convective vs. Freeze Drying on the Hemp Bioactive Compounds

Industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) and its fibres being durable are used in fabrics, sail making and papermaking. Its seed is a rich source of polyunsaturated fatty acids (omega-3, 6) and its oil is used for cooking and for medicinal purposes. Cannabis contains cannabinoids, of which, ?9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) have been identified as the most active and responsible for psychotic and medicinal properties. In hemp, high levels of CBD is accumulated in the female inflorescences.
In order to extract and develop the product, drying is carried out which involves decrease in the moisture content of a material. A lower moisture leads to a decrease in the free water available for microbial activity. Consequently, spoilage micro-organisms are inactivated. Industries are adopting ancient drying methods to dry cannabis which are facing many problems including longer drying periods (5- 6 days), mold contamination and poor quality. Hence, the objective of the project is to reduce the drying time with maximum quality retention to the selected products used. Freeze drying is one of recent developed technology which dries the frozen product by sublimation under vacuum. Freeze drying is operated at low temperatures which reduces the volatile losses producing premium quality product.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alex Martynenko

Student:

Sai Kiran Reddy Challa

Partner:

Truro Cannabis Co

Discipline:

Engineering - other

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

First Nations Philanthropy Engagement Research Project

Post-secondary education, if community-led and projects-based, has the potential to transform education, food and housing policy, as well as build capacity locally in Brokenhead First Nation compared to two First Nations lacking road access. This partnership will explore optimal solutions to resolve development challenges through applied participatory research, community engagement, community development and the establishment of two rural Indigenous community foundations. By conducting participatory action research we will collaborate to leapfrog Indigenous development and community economic development from colonially imposed to self-determined and community-led Indigenous Foundations. Community s of programming and surveys of community foundation knowledge.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shirley Thompson

Student:

Trea StormHunter;Keshab Thapa

Partner:

Winnipeg Foundation

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Finding graph minors in the D-Wave hardware graph

D-Wave’s quantum computer is good at solving a specific type of problems known as Ising spin problems. However, in order to solve one of these spin problems, you must first solve another hard problem—embedding the spin problem on D-Wave’s quantum processor.
From the land of discrete mathematics, this embedding problem falls into a well studied branch of graph theory known as graph minors. Being that this problem is difficult in and of itself, D-Wave has developed a heuristic solution. This project’s main aim is to help improve this embedding process. This project will help improve D-Wave’s current heuristic solution as well as devise new approaches to the problem.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Matthew DeVos

Student:

Stefan Hannie

Partner:

D-Wave Systems Inc.

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

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