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13270 Completed Projects

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Engineering
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Engineering - chemical / biological

Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of the Clearwater Formation in Marten Hills and Nipisi north-central Alberta

The general objective of this research is to understand the geology of the Clearwater Formation in a region of Alberta where new oil and gas reserves have been discovered. The research will include detailed mapping throughout the region to understand where the best oil and gas resources are. This area is especially interesting as enhance production techniques, such as using steam injection or fracking the reservoir are not needed to produce the resources.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Murray Gingras

Student:

Cole Ross

Partner:

Cenovus Energy Inc.

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Adding Value to Canola Oilseed Production

Canola is one of the world’s most important oilseed crops and is the most profitable commodity for Canadian farmers. It has applications in production of cooking oil, bio diesel and animal feed. The value of this crop will be enhanced by optimizing methods for sorting, dehulling and further processing. Sorting the seeds will streamline seed applications based on the relationship between seed properties and seed quality. Dehulling seeds will lower the fiber and increase the protein content of Canola meal which can then be used for plant-based protein like the Beyond BurgerTM or animal feed. Further processing by fermentation of canola meal produces bio diesel, and other potentially valuable ingredients. We expect to find ingredients that have been found in wheat and barley fermentation, which are known to reduce cognitive decline (Glycerylphosphorylcholine (GPC)) and to act as a natural antibiotic in perishable food items (bacteriocins). The start-to-finish processing of Canola after harvest into oil, food, health, and fuel products will generate additional value to the Canola producers and the Canadian agricultural market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Reaney

Student:

Sarah Purdy;Timothy Tse

Partner:

Bioriginal Food and Science Corp

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Anticancer activities and drug-drug interaction of extracts from long pepper, rosemary, lemongrass and white tea with chemotherapeutics

Natural extracts have potential as anti-cancer therapeutics. These botanical materials are well tolerated and are safe to be given as supplements over long periods of time. This project aims to provide scientific and clinical validation of these extracts for their anticancer effects and sensitization of cancer cells to standard chemo regiments. Synthite Industries Inc., a well-established corporation in India, will partner with the academic collaborator to develop anticancer natural extracts, fractions enriched with anticancer bioactive ingredients, as supplemental therapeutics for cancer patients. This project will determine if these extracts could decrease the toxicity of chemotherapies on vital tissues through in-vitro and in-vivo experimental models. These results will help Synthite develop non-toxic natural extracts as supplemental therapy for cancer patients to improve quality of life and overall survival.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Siyaram Pandey

Student:

Benjamin Scaria

Partner:

Synthite Industries Inc

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate International

Wearable and High-Frequency Bias-Switchable Row-Column 2D Ultrasound Array Development

Most ultrasound scans require time-consuming manual scanning of transducer arrays to obtain 2D images of the body. 3D images can be acquired by so-called matrix probes but these are large and bulky, and typically offer inferior image quality. Such probes do not exist in high-frequencies important for pre-clinical applications and to date no wearable 2D probe exists. Our vision is to create wearable flat-form-factor 2D arrays that could be used for longitudinal monitoring of the heart or other critical parameters in a hands-free way. These wearable probes could be connected to smart-phone-like ultrasound scanners. The objective of this program is to develop a new flat-panel ultrasound technology for high-frequency and wearable volumetric ultrasound scanning. The focus is on the transducer and electronics development to enable such next-generation ultrasound technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roger James Zemp;Asha Rao

Student:

Chris Ceroici;Mohammad Rahim Sobhani

Partner:

CliniSonix Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Perception, Mapping and Planning for Autonomous Indoor Cart Pullers in Plant Nurseries and Greenhouses

The project revolves around automation in nursery farms and greenhouses. The goal is to deliver planted pots using autonomous unmanned systems. Planted pots will be loaded/unloaded to/from plant carts using a small robot called BigTop, designed and developed at the supporting organization, AIS. Motion planning, control, and navigation algorithms will be developed through this project for a mother vehicle, equipped with a myriad of on board sensors, to move plant carts to their goal position in the nursery farms/greenhouse without any human intervention. Neither loading/unloading planted pots to/from plant carts, nor docking of the mother vehicle to the plan carts would be studied in this project.
On board sensors will be used to generate a digital incremental map of the environment, as new information about the environment become available, to localize the cart-puller vehicle inside this map, and to plan efficient, and safe motion plans within this environment fully autonomously.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mehran Mehrandezh;Homayoun Najjaran

Student:

Zeynab Talebpour;Hamid Sadeghian;Zahra Kamranian

Partner:

Advanced Intelligent Systems Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - other

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Gardyn Home Optimization and Testing for Home-Based Plant Growth Production

Vertical farming is an agricultural approach that involves indoor, large-scale plant cultivation, at multiple levels, with controlled environmental conditions, a hydroponic nutrient solution and artificial light. This space-saving approach to growing fruit and vegetables has the potential to meet increasing fresh produce demand in dense urban areas. In recent years, several commercial entities have marketed smaller scale, vertical plant growth systems to consumers who want fresh and locally grown food. These at-home systems vary in design and claim user-friendliness, yet they still hold many limitations. The goal of this research is to test and optimize the at-home plant growth system “Gardyn Home”, designed by Groupe FXR Jardyn S.A. We have a four step plan to improve the Gardyn prototype. We will expand the types of plants grown with this at-home system by selecting different varieties and cultivars that are nutritious, have short growing cycles and stature, as well as known drought- or disease-resistant properties. In addition, we will test and compare different light emitting diode (LED) settings with respect to plant growth and yield. Third, we will develop a nutrient tracking system for the hydroponic system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Lefsrud

Student:

Rachael Warner;Bo-Sen Wu

Partner:

Groupe FXR Jardyn s.a.

Discipline:

Engineering - other

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Designing an urban analytics prototype for the measurement of temporary public space projects

Our parks, public spaces and their activations can catalyze neighborhoods to build connections and create stronger communities. However, it is often challenging to measure the impact and value of these projects, at a neighbourhood level.
This project looks to develop a deeper understanding of the impact of public space initiatives, focusing on the short and long-term impact and value of permanent and temporary installations and how they impact communities.
The final result will be an urban analytics prototype to better capture data, visualize the data and draw insights of the possible impacts of public space projects, at a community level.
This project will assist those working in the built environment to understand the community level impact of installations in public spaces through the compilation urban data to better plan, develop and deliver projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Suzanne Stein

Student:

Molly Connor

Partner:

Park People

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

OCAD University

Program:

Accelerate

Advancing Adjoint-Based Aerodynamic Design Optimization for Industrial Cases

The primary objective of this collaborative research project is to further advance an established industrial strength framework for the aerodynamic design optimization of Advanced Aerodynamic Systems. A major expense during a three-dimensional aerodynamic shape optimization (ASO) is the cost of obtaining design sensitivities or gradients at each design iteration. The computational cost grows rapidly as the number of cost functions and design variables are added. The aim is to implement new constraints to allow for more realistic design considerations and a mesh adjoint capability to improve the computational cost of the underlying numerical framework. The development of new software tools that will allow BA to explore new paradigms in their aircraft design will enable the Canadian Aerospace industry to aggressively compete in this market segment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Siva Nadarajah

Student:

Aditya Kashi;Syam Vangara

Partner:

Bombardier Aerospace

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating the Quality of Special Olympics Canada’s Active Start and FUNdamentals Programs

The proposed research project aims to better enable positive sport experiences for persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities by improving the quality of sports programs offered. In order to accomplish this objective, the study will evaluate the quality of two sport programs – Active Start and FUNdamentals – within the largest intellectual and developmental disability sport organization in Canada, Special Olympics. To provide an extensive program assessment the project will incorporate perspectives from athletes, caregivers, program providers, leaders within the organization and researchers to determine gaps and areas of improvement. Furthermore, this study will not only be beneficial Special Olympics Canada by offering evidence-informed program changes but disability sport organizations in general as it can be used as a tool to guide effective program evaluation and implementation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amy Latimer;Kelly Arbour-Nicitopoulos

Student:

Natasha Bruno

Partner:

Special Olympics Canada

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Hemodynamic Impacts of Combining Axial Pumps

Heart failure is a prevalent disease effecting 250,000 people in North America alone. This disease can be treated by the transplant of a donor organ, but insufficient donor organs have led to the development of mechanical circulatory supports which now provide a reliable alternate treatment option for patients. Unfortunately, many patients that could be helped by a mechanical circulatory support are deemed ineligible due to the invasive, open-heart surgery that is required to install such devices. Puzzle Medical Inc. and the McGill group are researching novel pump designs that can deployed non-invasively to increase the availability of mechanical circulatory supports to high risk patients. An important consideration for development of this device is how it interacts with blood and its cellular components. Computational fluid dynamics will be performed on the pump to determine if different design changes will impact its biocompatibility.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rosaire Mongrain;Renzo Cecere

Student:

Amy McKean

Partner:

Puzzle Medical Devices

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

The Development of Novel Third Generation (3G) Advanced High Strength Steels Steels for Tank Car Applications

Railway tank cars are constructed from TC 128 steel plates, a design that has not changed for more than 50 years. The Lac Megantic rail disaster in 2013 refocused the attention of Canadians on the safety aspects of tank car design and operation, but not so much on the actual properties of the steels used to build them. In this project, we will explore the potential of modern advanced high strength steels as a replacement for TC 128. In particular, significant improvements to the tank wall puncture resistance will be targeted. New alloys will be designed using the latest scientific knowledge. Casting and processing will be done using the state of the art pilot facilities at the CanmetMATERIALS (CMAT) laboratory in Hamilton. Analysis and testing will involve experts at CMAT and at McMaster University. Promising new alloys will be tested in computer simulated accident events by industrial partner Trinity Rail. The aim is to achieve full scale industrial trial status for the new alloys within the next 5 years, ultimately leading to a new class of better performing and safer tank car steels.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hatem Zurob;Colin Scott

Student:

Julien LOUGE

Partner:

Trinity Rail Leasing Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - other

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Probiotics Counteract Gut Microbial Dysbiosis and Long-Term Neural degeneration in Male and Female CD1

Women are disproportionately affected by neuro-degenerative disorders compared to men. For years, research has attempted to identify why this phenomenon occurs. The answer may be found in the gut. The intestinal tract contains millions of bacteria that are colonized from birth; These bacteria are essential for keeping the brain and immune system healthy. Changes in the proportions of bacterial species during critical periods of development can have lasting impacts on neuro-inflammation and degradation. Our research delves into understanding how the microbiome impacts the development of neuro-degenerative disorders in women, and if these impacts can be negated through alternative treatments, such as probiotics. This research will provide the medical community with proactive alternative treatments, as well as expand upon the current knowledge of the capacity of probiotics (such as Lallemand Health Solutions, Inc.’s Lacidofil and Probio’stick) to positively influence healthy aging.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nafissa Ismail

Student:

Madeleine May Kearns

Partner:

Lallemand Health Solutions

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

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