In recent years, the rise of ultrabooks and mobile devices has been accompanied by an ever-increasing need for reliable high-bandwidth wireless communications. Their widespread use, combined with the industry’s move to virtualized cloud services, has put additional pressure on the Internet’s back-end infrastructure. Moreover, this increased load has coincided with a progressive shift in use-cases, […]

Durant ce stage, l’objectif est d’étudier le flux de patients entre les urgences et l’hôpital. Nous allons présenter un modèle de simulation afin d’analyser le parcours des patients dans les urgences, entre les urgences et l’admission et les urgences et le congé. Nous visons d’identifier les causes des problèmes de congestion dans les urgences retardant […]

L’entreprise Hortau a mis au point une nouvelle technologie mesurant directement le potentiel matriciel du sol sur une plage étendue allant jusqu’à -1000 kPa. Cette technologie a permis de caractériser de nombreux phénomènes en physique et hydrodynamique qui n’avaient encore jamais été observés. En testant différentes approches pour mesurer la tension du sol, l’objectif du […]

The proposed research project would focus on the development of high-value carbon fibers from low-value waste by-products, asphaltenes, for multifunctional applications. One part of the program would highlight the efforts to scale up the technology without deteriorating the process performance. The other part of the program would focus on working with North Forge in the […]

Mud pulse telemetry is a widely used technology for measurement-while-drilling (MWD) in the oil and gas sector. MPT signals are used in real-time drilling application to provide insight about the pressure, temperature, drill bit direction and deviation, and transmit logging data about the surroundings to improve the reservoir drilling economic efficiency. It transmits signals using […]

Without doubt, hydrogen will be a significant component of future worldwide energy supply. The main issue that hampers the use of hydrogen is related to its storage and transportation which currently uses costly high pressure or very low temperature to transport and store hydrogen. Therefore, there is an urgent need to provide a safe, efficient, […]

Product lifecycle management has always been promising. But achieving fully connected data, people, and processes may seem daunting for most SMEs. Spiri Robotics is a vibrant company with strong software engineering roots. They run distributed, remote operation in parallel in several North American cities using state-of-the-art versioning, testing and deployment tools for their code. However, […]

Electromagnetic (EM) waves are becoming more prevalent due to the rapid development of electronics, which pose serious risks to human health, electric devices, and the environment1,2. In order to overcome the above problems, engineering and fabrication of multifunctional EM shielding materials are indispensable. Thus, recently, a wide spectrum of materials ranging from metals to soft […]

This project aims to design sustainable new microsystems to power data monitoring buoys that can provide a sustainable power source using the ocean waves dynamics. The proposed project will result in significant advances in three long-standing challenges in energy harvesters-based micro devices powering the data monitoring buoys using the ocean waves. These include low frequencies […]

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, particularly carbon dioxide, is a major scientific concern to tackle climate change. One promising method is to convert CO2 into fuels via electrochemical CO2 reduction (ECR). Nonetheless, several challenges remain before this technology can be scaled up and commercialized, including achieving a high selectivity, current density (i.e., reaction rate), and long-term […]

ZrB2-B4C composites are potentially very attractive for aerospace applications exposed to ultra-high temperatures > 2000 degree C. While monolithic composites in this material system are well-known, development of a functionally graded composite (FGM) is a novel idea. Recently, we have published a research article [1] in which the FGM concept in this system has been […]

Companies in the energy sector are increasingly considering the use of liquid metals in their operations (e.g. for cooling). This presents new challenges related to the inspection and monitoring of these infrastructures. Indeed, these industries often operate in very harsh environments (e.g. ionizing radiation) and under very high pressure and temperature conditions. Thus, the ultrasonic […]