Space Heating and Cooling in residential, commercial, and institutional buildings accounted for roughly 20% of Canada’s overall energy. Early detection and repair of building envelope defects ensures continued energy performance and building longevity, thus energy audits are a necessary, but time-intensive process using today’s methods. Utilizing the emergent technology of small unmanned aerial vehicles, UAVs, […]

The aeronautic and aerospace industries are exploring new approached to reduce the mass of cables, bulky electronic systems. This rationally leads onto aircraft weight reduction as well as the amount of CO2 and greenhouse gas emitted by aircrafts. To reduce the mass of cables, power harvesting technique could be utilized. In this approach, the energy […]

At landfills and industrial waste containment facilities, synthetic polymer membranes (known as geomembranes) are placed along the bottom and sides of the containment cell to prevent leakage of contaminants to the environment. These geomembranes are subject to large loads from the overlying waste, resulting in bulging of the geomembrane due to the overlying particles. By […]

La séparation visuelle automatique des artères coronaires dans les images médicales, appelée segmentation, est un prérequis pour le diagnostic et l’évaluation automatisée de pathologies cardio-vasculaires. C’est également un outil très important pour les cliniciens dans la planification des interventions. Nous proposons dans ce projet d’améliorer la segmentation automatique des artères coronaires en profitant des récentes […]

With the maturity of renewable energy technology in recent years, micro-network has become an ideal power supply solution to the remote villages and islands. Recently, researchers have tried to reduce the cost of the system based on ideal assumptions. However, the factors that actually affect the system life cycle cost are varied. Including the control […]

Heterogeneity of cell populations is a common occurrence in bioreactor operations (Lara et al., 2006) and is typically caused by processing of cell cultures in vessels of varying sizes and process conditions and by deficient mixing. Most bioreactor research deals with average conditions of the cell population with respect to quantities such as dissolved oxygen […]

Alpha Technologies, a Canadian leader in power electronics, and the University of British Columbia have teamed up to develop new automated testing technologies to speed the development and certification of power supply products. The automated test systems will run the products through their paces simulating real world scenarios and environmental conditions. The ability to quickly […]

The partner organisation, Sigma Energy Storage, develops energy storage by gas compression. This technology is based on the storage of electricity from intermittent energy sources, such as wind or solar power. During the gas compression, carbon dioxide can be liquefied and extracted. This project aims to convert carbon dioxide into a valuable fuel, which could […]

Hydrofaction™ is Steeper Energy’s proprietary hydrothermal liquefaction technology that converts low value biomass residues to renewable crude oil using supercritical water and homogeneous catalysis. Steeper Energy Canada (SEC) is focused on identifying optimal pathways for upgrading Hydrofaction™ Oil into renewable diesel and jet fuels. Amidst plummeting crude oil prices, such renewable fuels still command attractive […]

Les systèmes d’imagerie ultra sensible et de haute performance comportent des capacités en comptage de photon peu documentées pour éclairer le choix des futurs utilisateurs en diagnostic biomédical. En intégrant l’équipe de Nüvü Caméras, le stagiaire aura comme objectif principal d’étudier et de concevoir un outils de mesure de la performance en imagerie à comptage […]

The efficient utilization of automation systems necessitates a clear understanding of the interaction of the human operator, the automation system and any automated routines being run. Precision Drilling is installing the newest generation of drilling automation control systems on their fleet of rigs and wishes to understand both the interaction of the human driller with […]

The proposed research project targets anomaly detection of event data. The project has a duration of six months and aims to achieve two objectives: (1) to evaluate the effectiveness of a novel approach for real-world data, and (2) compare it to alternative methods. The intern will use existing research resources, and will apply them to […]