The concept of Hi-Rail (highway-railway) units permits the normal road trucks to move in railway infrastructure. Hi-Rail vehicles serve different purposes, as well as maintenance, inspection and regular track works, in railway industry. Continental Railworks with more than 20 years of experience in providing Hi-Rail units for the class-1 railway companies in North America is […]

Ce projet a pour but l’étude, le développement, et le prototypage d’un élément de calcul hétérogène de haute efficacité et haute intégrabilité visant le calcul exascale de haute performance (HPC). Les éléments de calcul développés dans ce projet permettront d’avancer vers cet objectif via : (i) l’intégration de processeurs faible puissance les plus avancés avec […]

Le processus de détection et classification des défauts de surface consistent à analyser l’état de surface d’une pièce métallique. Y-a-t-il des défauts visuels dont on devrait se soucier? De quel type est-il? Il est possible, en utilisant certaines techniques mathématiques, de permettre à l’ordinateur d’analyser une image et de prendre ce type de décision. Naturellement, […]

There has been an increased use of freeze-drying in the pharmaceutical industry over the past few decades. This step converts a liquid product into a solid one without compromising its integrity, thus prolonging its shelf life. The monitoring and optimization of this process is commonly done by trial-and-error, leading to product quality control issues. Therefore, […]

Production of bitumen in Canada has increased considerably in the last decade. Due to its heavy nature, bitumen needs upgrading in order to make it marketable. The first approach adopted was to fully upgrade it to high quality synthetic crude oil, but due to the enormous capital and operating costs, it has been proven that […]

Production of bitumen in Canada has increased considerably in the last decade. Due to its heavy nature, bitumen needs upgrading in order to make it marketable. Partial upgrading, where bitumen is upgraded into transportable oil that meets pipeline specifications, has the potential to maximize the benefits of bitumen commercialization. However, there is not any economical […]

The research program is aimed at developing operating systems that enable grinding mill speeds to be controlled in responses to variations in ore properties. Although there are studies that show speed control can improve productivity and significantly reduce energy requirements, mines presently used fixed speed systems for their ball and tower mills. With development of […]

The construction of a recently developed pneumatic vehicle prototype is planned aiming at concept proof through light vehicle prototyping. The system considered is described in patent application for a novel compressed air / electric vehicle (ANCHEV) having a pneumatic system which works independently, but in conjunction with the electric system. There are air motors and […]

The objective of this research is twofold: to improve existing risk management framework to assess interest rate shocks, and to develop a new risk factor model to create an equity risk score system to help guide investment decisions. The first part of this research project involves the development of an equity risk score system to […]

The project deals with the production of non-structural composite interior coverings for aircraft and other vehicles. Producing such interior coverings in Canada requires very good mastery of manufacturing processes in order to contain costs. Target times for preform preparation are of the order of minutes and manufacturing processes remain largely manual. Competition from emerging countries […]

NeuroRx is an imaging contract research organization (CRO) specialized in the central nervous system (CNS). This company utilizes state-of-the-art digital image processing techniques to produce accurate and precise outcome measures for clinical trials of drugs in development. Prior to analysis, all scans must pass Quality Control (QC). The goal of my project is to incorporate […]

Le Canada figure parmi les plus grands consommateurs d’énergie par habitant au monde. En 2009, les Canadiens ont dépensé environ 11 p. 100 du produit intérieur brut (PIB) du Canada (près de 152 milliards de dollars) en énergie pour chauffer et climatiser les habitations et les bureaux, faire fonctionner les véhicules et les appareils ménagers, […]