Large amounts of crude oil and natural gas are located beneath Canada’s ocean floors. Currently, the offshore oil and gas industry makes a significant contribution to the Canadian economy. Although it is not visible as onshore landslides, numerous underwater landslides occur where huge amount of seabed sediment might displace and could result in tsunami in […]

Optimizing a program for Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) is critical for performance, yet remains a challenge due to the non-intuitive interactions among the optimizations and the GPU architecture. Automatic optimization tuning for a GPU is demanding particularly given the exploding number of mobile GPU variants in the market. We explore the use of machine learning […]

The proposed research is a multi-disciplinary project, which aims at improving existing theories and developing innovative technologies to unlock Canada’s oil and gas resources in a more sustainable way. Theoretical models derived from physics and mathematics are to be examined with real data, and new approaches will be developed to face the technical challenges. Mentorship […]

In this project, the intern will study the impact of staffing changes and process improvements on the throughput of the remanufacturing department of a Vancouver Parallam mill. The intern will work closely with the Management Team and department employees to conduct the analysis. The objective of the work is to develop new and modify existing […]

Heavy oil and bitumen in-situ extraction aided by solvent addition is a potential EOR technology that provides an alternative to the current thermal processes. However, its mechanism is not well understood yet. The aim of this study is to improve the understanding of solvent based processes by history matching experimental data using a reservoir simulator […]

The efficiencies of biomass-fueled power plants are much lower than those of natural gas and coal-fueled plants because exit steam temperatures are restricted to inhibit corrosion of superheater tubes. Nexterra needs to raise steam conditions from 403°C to 460°C in future systems in order to satisfy customer demands. The raise in the probability of corrosion […]

This research will focus on the physical testing (with a view to mine and tunnel site implementation) of ground support elements that are associated with mining and tunnelling works. The support elements will be monitored using fibre optics. In addition to providing insight into the behaviour of such support elements, this type of instrumentation also […]

Blood is composed primarily of cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, etc.) and plasma (the fluid in which the cells are suspended). Health care providers commonly require the components of blood to be separated before performing tests; currently, this requires blood samples be taken to a medical laboratory for processing. Recent advances in […]

This project seeks to improve the performance of polymer-based spinal implants through the development of a multi-layered coating technology to overcome identified problems. The coating must allow for: a) strong adhesion to the underlying polymer to ensure structural stability; b) radio-opaque properties to allow visualization of the implant during x-ray procedures; and c) a bone […]

Advances in wearable physiological sensors can now potentially provide critical information about human functional states in real-time, in order to support performance, learning, and safety in various work, training and leisure-related contexts. It has been observed that models trained for human state prediction in laboratory suffer from drastic performance loss when deployed on subjects unseen […]

L’Université Laval, l’Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, Thales Recherche et Technologie Canada, le Parc Technologique du Québec Métropolitain et la Ville de Québec ont créé une unité mixte de recherche en sciences urbaines (UMR-SU) visant à améliorer la qualité de vie de la population en milieu urbain. L’UMR-SU propose une vision intégrée de la […]

Fish grown in RAS require special water quality conditions to remain healthy and grow. New water is meant to be added to the system only to account for evaporation, splash out, cleaning and flush out of waste materials. However, the amount of makeup water used at the Oak Bay hatchery is excessive when biomass is […]