City of Toronto’s Digital Infrastructure Strategic Framework (DISF) has a vision of “A Digital Connected Community” where digital infrastructure is increasingly used to deliver services, perform data-driven asset management, help manage public resources efficiently, encourage civic engagement, and inform decision-making. A critical component of the DISF is the ability to share data across services and […]

This project aims at upgrading and automating some of the existing methods used at Myant to manufacture, assemble, and test smart textiles. The candidate will use their engineering knowledge to assess the needs and opportunities for improvements, to design theoretical solutions, to prototype and test these solutions, and finally to prepare an industry-grade version of […]

State-of-the art computational methods will be harnessed to design strainers used for collecting and treating industrial and municipal wastewaters. Such devices play a vital role in conserving a vital and ever increasingly scarce natural resource. This research is a new initiative that will benefit societies throughout the world who depend on efficient and effective capture […]

The global demand for clean energy and energy security is increasing, in the context of extreme weather events and global unrest. Distributed and intermittent energy sources (e.g., solar, wind) can provide much needed renewable generation but complex power conversion and storage systems are required to transform raw unregulated power into quality power needed to supply […]

Ce stage s’inscrit dans un projet qui a pour objectif de réduire le coût de fabrication des cellules solaires à très haute efficacité (1). Dans ce cadre, le développement de cellules solaires détachables, et le développement d’un procédé de passivation s’impose. L’objectif de ce stage est dans un premier temps d’étudier l’impact de l’amincissement des […]

The extensive use of fossil fuels is responsible for emitting the main culprit of climate change — carbon dioxide (CO2). As electricity generated from renewables becomes more accessible, CO2 conversion into valuable chemicals using electricity is being actively explored as an economically viable solution for mitigating climate change. Nitrogen-containing fertilizers support almost half of the […]

In the proposed project, the intern will develop circuits through simulation for broadband impedance matching for high-frequency surface-wave radar antennas transmitting at HF frequencies. This will allow the range resolution of transmitting antennas to be improved so that targets, as well as ocean surface wave and current parameters, may be respectively better detected and estimated. […]

Industries using fossil fuels as their energy source contribute to global warming as the required energy for their processes is supplied by combusting fossil fuels. CO2, a greenhouse gas, is a product of combustion. Using electricity generated by hydropower as the heat source may eliminate CO2 emissions. One of the commercially available electric heaters is […]

L’objectif général du projet, divisé en trois stages, vise l’amélioration des procédés d’assemblage et de calibration des instruments ICOS pour la mesure précise de gaz jusqu’à des concentrations aussi faibles que des parties par milliards (PPT). Les deux premiers stages ont pour but d’améliorer les outils de calibration des systèmes ICOS, plus spécifiquement en utilisant […]

The focus of this project is hydrothermal liquefaction of woody biomass waste. Woody biomass waste could include branches or woodchips from logging and wood processing. The waste material is ‘cooked’ with water at extreme temperature and pressure to produce waste oil. The low energy carrying woody biomass waste is converted into a higher energy carrying […]

The world’s stringent need to transition to a low-carbon industrial economy is more pressing than ever. It is imperative to innovate, develop, and implement revolutionary technologies that use low-carbon-intensity energy generation sources and have an intrinsic negative GHG emission factor while being economically profitable. The electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction to fuels and chemicals coupled with […]

Retrofitting aging commercial buildings from the exterior using wall panels can increase their sustainability and energy efficiency. The partner, RoBIM Technologies Inc., is developing an end-to-end automated solution by using robotic technologies and introducing more energy efficiency materials into the panel design. The combination of robotic prefabrication and sustainability of engineered wood products (EWPs) are […]