This study explores the relationship between caregiving skills and characteristics and the engineering profession. The goal is to understand how caregiving experience contributes to the development of skills that are beneficial in engineering organizations. Interviews and surveys will be conducted to: (1) identify caregiving skills relevant to engineering, (2) explore how these skills are applied […]

Traditional modelling and simulation involves a human expert to manually design and create simulation models. However, these models quickly become obsolete for systems that continually change, such as smart manufacturing systems. This creates a need to create new simulation models which is difficult and expensive. Data-driven simulation extracts simulation models from data without explicit modelling […]

Identification of insect prey is essential for understanding the foraging behaviours of insectivorous bat and bird predators. The intern will develop software tools that will aid a skilled entomologist with the rapid identification of insects from photographs taken from field collecting sites. The proposed tools will facilitate the identification of photographed insects to order/suborder and, […]

The City of Ottawa operates two water treatment plants, Britannia and Lemieux Island Water Purification Plants. Their treatment consists of coagulation with alum, filtration and post-filter disinfection. The City operates its filters within a “biofiltration” framework intended to allow for the beneficial growth of friendly bacteria on the filter media surface. Biofiltration enhances removal of […]

Denture assemblies are oral appliances or prosthetic devices to replace missing teeth and restore oral function, speech, and aesthetics. The dentures market is driven by the senior population and demand, which is expected to grow by 68% in the next 20 years according to the Canadian Institute for Health Information. This demographic also often suffer […]

The first initial buildup of oxygen in the Earth’s atmosphere – the Great Oxidation Event – started around 2.5 billion years ago, where oxygen may have reached levels comparable to today’s atmosphere. Following its debut, atmospheric oxygen levels quickly crashed, coinciding with a contraction of the global biosphere. The geologic time period of the Orosirian […]

The objective of this project is to comprehensively measure the experiences and circumstances around commuting to large employers (e.g., in this case Carleton University). The motivation is to identify barriers and incentives to commuting without a car. Two interns from University of Savoy Mont Blanc’s Solar Academy master’s program will visit Carleton for the summer […]

Invasive species are organisms that arrive in a new environment and quickly dominate the landscape. They present one of the most important threats to local plants and animals; this is especially the case for invasive plant species, which comprised almost a tenth of Canada’s vascular plant life in 2008. Despite the abundance of invasive plants, […]

White pine blister rust is a serious disease of pine, an ecologically and economically important forest species in Ontario and the Maritime Provinces. In western Canada, this pathogen has virtually eliminated pine as a commercial species and the disease now threatens eastern Canada. Endophytes are fungi that live in the leaves of various plants including […]

examine the feasibility of an innovative solution that combines Federated Learning with Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) to optimize the selection of edge nodes for model aggregation. Through the proposed DRL-based client selection method, the system can actively select nodes that have shown superior performance based on their training quality, computational resources, and network conditions. This […]

Our project addresses challenges in VR striking sports games, where the lack of accurate physical feedback limits VR’s ability to promote physical activity. Building on an existing NAIST project, we propose to enhance their haptic device into a sport-universal tool that improves realism and immersion by replicating real-world sports interactions (e.g., striking a ball) across […]

The features of optical fibers and the fascinating properties of nanomaterials can be combined to result in an attractive new platform for chemical sensing. Flame Spray Pyrolysis (FSP) has distinct advantages for the assembly of chemoresistive gas sensors compared to their traditional synthesis methods. Modern photonic sensing devices such as tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) […]