L’épilepsie peut entraîner des crises violentes et touche entre 0,5 et 1% de la population dont ?30% souffrent d’épilepsie réfractaire aux médicaments et bénéficierait de la neurostimulation. Des recherches démontrent la capacité de prévoir les crises 24 heure à l’avance, donnant la possibilité au patient de prendre des mesures d’atténuation. Ce projet vise à développer […]

Titanium alloys are used to manufacture aerospace components that require high strength at high operating temperatures such fan blades, heat shields and jet engine exhaust cones. Parts that have complex geometries are commonly formed at high temperature (around 900°C) so as to achieve maximum ductility during the forming process. By applying a small oscillating load […]

The proposed project aims to develop and verify new knowledge, technologies and engineering tools aimed at identifying and mitigating geological hazards encountered on deep cave mining projects. The research will integrate laboratory testing, mine data and advanced computer modelling to better understand the underlying influencing factors. The research will see four interns working closely with […]

he objective of this project is to investigate, theoretically and experimentally, the problem of detecting setpoint (reference) cyber-attacks against Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs). In the first phase of the project, the student (Mattia Cersullo) will develop a novel setpoint attack detection and mitigation scheme based on a supervisory control scheme known as the Command Governor (CG). […]

Additive manufacturing is rapidly employing the Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems to facilitate its reliability and relieve human supervision. However, with 5G network and cloud computing intertwining with the physical machines placed locally, the service is vulnerable to prospective cyberattacks. Various researchers have already stressed the urgent need to ensure the users’ and businesses’ […]

Chemical-assisted enhanced oil recovery (EOR) has recently received a great deal of attention as a means of improving the efficiency of oil recovery processes. Since heavy oil production is technically challenging due to its high viscosity and high asphaltene content, therefore, new recovery techniques are often tested and applied in lab-scale. This study will contribute […]

Personal protective equipment (PPE) for essential workers in flammable environment requires two essential traits: fire resistance (FR) and fitting comfort. The fitting comfort is especially an issue for women firefighters, whose protective clothing are not appropriately catered. Elastic fibers in sportswear, such as Lycra, offer superb fitting and comfort, but their FR version is commercially […]

The laser powder-bed fusion (L-PBF) process is a novel additive manufacturing (AM) technique used to produce metal objects layer-by-layer using a laser source. Aim of this project is to design an optimized heat exchanger with enhanced heat transfer performance with the advantages offered by additive manufacturing (AM) technology such as complex design and lightweight. The […]

Pelvic floor disorders (PFD) result in urinary and fecal incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse (POP), loss of support for the pelvic organs. While not commonly known, POP affects upwards of 50% of females. The common non-surgical treatment is to use intravaginal inserts, known as pessaries, to hold up the pelvic organs. The correct pessary is […]

Aujourd’hui, le processus actuel de contrôle de la qualité dans les industries alimentaires et de l’électronique imprimée ne répond pas parfaitement aux besoins des industriels. Le plastique, à titre d’exemple, est un contaminant qui est très nuisible et complexe à détecter pour les industriels du secteur alimentaire avec les technologies actuelles. Au cours des deux […]

Wind-tunnel testing allows to verify predicted pressure distributions in various configurations on a specific model. For this verification to be successful, both the model deformation and the air flow needs to be predicted accurately. Modern wings tend to be thinner, thus more flexible and deform more under the loads applied in the wind-tunnel. Current methodologies […]

Large area digital displays are often made using tiled liquid crystal display (LCD) units to form a video wall. However the seams or bezel gaps that result are often not acceptable. This project aims to demonstrate and prototype a solution to seamlessly tiling liquid crystal displays (LCDs) to form a large formal digital display. Tilted […]