Crystal shape and size are among the most important features of crystalline product that are prevalent in the pharmaceutical industry. Extremely fine and needle-like crystals pose various problems in the downstream processes including filtration, tableting, handling, and storage. Rufinamide is an anticonvulsant medication, and its most stable and therapeutically advantageous crystalline form shows notoriously undesirable […]

Le projet porte sur l’optimisation de biocapteurs grâce à une nouvelle méthode utilisant un laser impulsionnel (excitation très courte). Les deux étudiants du projet travailleront sur deux aspects distincts du projet: d’un côté, l’étude de matériaux aux propriétés thermiques et optiques intéressantes pour lesquels nous avons peu de données; d’un autre côté, l’étude de l’effet […]

The volume of data being transmitted (streaming, blockchain, machine learning, etc.) continues to increase exponentially. To carry this data, the traditional metallic transmission systems (typically copper) are being replaced with light-based (photonic) medium to reduce both the space and power consumption. This implies integrating photonic/optical components within the microelectronics infrastructure for electrical to optical conversion […]

Severe hemorrhage is a leading cause of mortality, accounting for upwards of 100,000 annual deaths in North America and 1.9 million worldwide. Under this condition, in a process called hemostasis, platelets in blood aggregate to form a plug to seal the blood vessel wound. During hemostasis platelets also contract to strengthen this plug, thus generating […]

The climate warming currently affecting the Arctic is two to three times faster than anywhere else, with profound consequences for natural ecosystems and communities. Notably, thawing permafrost remobilizes organic matter (previously trapped in the soil) that underlies the production of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, which in turn helps amplify the ongoing […]

L’objectif du projet de recherche est de développer un mode de contrôle en force performant et sécuritaire pour un bras manipulateur de Kinova. Afin de répondre à ces critères, le bras robotique doit être en mesure d’appliquer une force constante malgré certaines perturbations et aussi être en mesure de détecter une défaillance afin d’arrêter le […]

L’objectif du projet de recherche est de concevoir une peau électronique pour redonner le sens du toucher aux personnes ayant perdu l’usage d’un membre (supérieur ou inférieur). Une peau électronique est un dispositif qui vient mimer les fonctionnalités de la peau humaine comme détecter les événements tactiles ou percevoir une texture. Basé sur une nouvelle […]

Different industries have widely employed condition monitoring to evaluate their system’s health. For gas turbines, current methods have limitations related to certain operating and environmental conditions and are mainly based on supervised approaches requiring annotated data that is hard to acquire. This project will focus on developing an unsupervised anomaly detection mechanism that alarms users […]

Cette recherche sera orientée sur la diminution de la masse volumique des mycomatériaux, un composite de résidu forestier ou agricole collé grâce au mycélium de champignon (racine de champignon). Ce matériau biodégradable peut remplacer le polystyrène expansé dans plusieurs industrie telle que l’emballage et l’isolation thermique et le contrôle acoustique de bâtiment. Une densité inférieure […]

Post-consumer textile waste is a serious concern as over two thirds of the postconsumer textiles end up in landfills. More than 95% of the waste could be recycled but only 15% is actually recycled nowadays. This project will test the thermal cracking of textile wastes at high temperatures (500–550°C) in a lab unit at UBC. […]

Timber-harvesting is an important industry to Canada. At this time, the industry is predicting serious labour shortages over the coming decade. Because of this, the industry is looking to robotics and AI technologies to increase the level of autonomy of timber-harvesting machines, as well as, to make the operations more safe and environment friendly. In […]

This proposed study is a part of a comprehensive investigation to evaluate the corrosion performance in SCC concrete structure. The full project is carried out based on the development of new SCC mixtures containing concrete materials available in Newfoundland and an investigation on the cracking behavior of full-scale SCC structure members. The main purpose of […]