IATA Aviation Safety Culture survey (I-ASC) is an employee survey aimed at providing the airlines with the means to meet the Safety Management Systems (SMS) requirement to measure and continuously improve their safety culture. The intent of the survey is to gain insights on organizational safety culture, identify areas of improvement and areas of excellence. […]

Nearly a fifth (18%) of treated water entering Canadian water networks never reaches the end user. Many cities in Canada experience leakage rates of over 30%. Thus, there is a clear opportunity to implement new leak detection technologies, such as those offered by WaSave, to reduce water wastage. This project will analyse the Canadian water […]

A considerable percentage of BNC projects are impacted by stoppages, re-adjustments and delays. Such issues are often communicated too late to prevent significant losses or facilitate the reallocation of funding to maximize value creation for the bank and its clients. The majority of delivery metrics (risk, statuses, stakes) that help to anticipate strategic issues and […]

In 1845, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote “I look everywhere for grandmothers and see none”. Working-class women poets of the eighteenth-century have been ignored by scholars for over 200 years. My project aims to reconnect these poets with their ‘granddaughters’ of today. I will be working in an interdisciplinary way, contributing across multiple platforms […]

NeoSpina Health Care Inc intends to contribute to unprecedented treatment techniques for LBP by developing a novel medical device and investigating acquired data from treatment procedures. Accordingly, the main objective of this project is to develop a non-invasive robotic device to treat a wide array of spinal conditions while reducing the treatment duration compared to […]

According to recent studies, cyber-attacks and privacy and security breaches have increased in number and impact, costing Canadian companies $6.75 million on average per incident. Developing secure software products requires professionals to collaborate in multi-disciplinary environments characterized by a lack of common terminology and access to shared information and knowledge. These settings can lead to […]

With the demand for high quality farmed fish on the rise, we are also expected to deliver on greater supplies of fish feed. Currently, fish feed is manufactured by capturing small foraging fish in the ocean, which are converted into pellets. This practice hinders marine life by disrupting the natural food chain of larger fish. […]

Our research provides time-cost and financial effective solutions for construction projects and customers. The solutions include a performing of the graph represented generative floorplan, the scalable and user-participated framework. This research targets performing an end-to-end generative pipeline to conduct valid schematic floor plan designs for contextual adjustment representation of any functional buildings. The goals are […]

Data-driven optimization of building operations can significantly increase energy efficiency in the building sector with a relatively minimal cost. However, one of the main obstacles that prevent wide-spread implementation of advanced control strategies is the lack of standardization in data organization and advanced control algorithms between different buildings. To this end, this MITACS partnership with […]

Plastic continues to be produced, as it’s an essential element in many industries such as medical, engineering, electronics, etc. As a result, there is an increase in plastic waste that is not being recycled and often ends up in our landfills and oceans instead. This is because recycling is a time-consuming and often expensive process […]

The project has the following objectives: 1. To build a simulation for a generic social model, to represent how effective a toxic text sentiment detection algorithm/model works within simulation a. Building a simulation model b. Testing the performance of the model using a dataset c. Evaluation of the model 2. Optimizing existing toxic text detection […]

Today, the world faces climate change, uncoordinated depletion of natural resources and rapid urbanization. Buildings in cities account for about 25% of the global energy consumption and 15% of the energy-related greenhouse gas emissions. Likewise, in the province of Québec, buildings are responsible for a large share of the total energy use. A recent study […]