This project is to be undertaken to design and fabricate a new headboard for mechanical tarp systems for a flatbed trailer. At present, there are a number of problems including on-time supply of headboard, shipping, waste scrap, and health and safety of drivers. With this project a new design will be proposed and then […]

The project’s main objective is a further reduction of dependence on fossil fuels in our everyday electric appliances. Fossil Fuels are used to generate electricity and they emit dangerous greenhouse gases to the environment which one of its consequences is the familiar global warming phenomena. By integrating a heat exchanger to the original solar PV […]

  This project will provide Bristol Machine a flexible 3D parametric design of the LHD bucket at a high quality. It will help the company to design the products more efficiently and quickly in response to customers’ specific needs. The LHD bucket will increase productivity by proper selection of wear materials. Also, the FEA analysis will improve and optimize […]

  The ability to correctly make safety-related decisions and to demonstrate compliance with existing limits is of great importance in the nuclear safety analysis industry. For example, we may be interested to assess whether or not a physical component (such as the pressure tube which carries fuel) has undergone physical changes that have exceeded its […]

Women with breast cancer often undergo mastectomy, or removal of the breast. Afterwards, they may elect to reconstruct their breast using one of several methods. One of these methods is by implantation with a permanently adjustable prosthesis which may show a smaller budgetary impact. This project will estimate the budgetary impact to the government or […]

  Vivadis is a small Ontario company seeking to commercialize an architectural video-wall display having a large and continuous viewing area. Vivadis has display experience and has performed market research and has concluded that the ideal markets for Vivadis to serve are the indoor and outdoor architectural, entertainment and military markets. Requirements of a suitable […]

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a serious mental condition that often completely debilitates a client. MDD is typically treated with one of several currently available antidepressant medications. However, the response rate to any of these medications is only about 30%. Unfortunately, there are currently no means for a priori assessment of whether a specific person […]

  Water quality is critical for a many human activities. With respect to recreational water, a particular type of water source, there are often relatively high levels of microbial contamination in relation to other types of water sources (e.g., drinking water). E. coli is used as a microbial indicator for water quality because E. coli […]

We are developing new ways of producing sustainable biofuels from non-food-competitive biomass feedstocks grown in Canada, such as switchgrass, forestry bi-products, and other forms of lignocellulose. However, in order to produce enough biofuels for transformative change to our nation’s energy infrastructure, there are many systems issues in the supply chain and chemical processing which must […]

If Canada or any other nation is to address its long-term transportation energy needs by massively expanding the use of biofuels, we must be sure that such an approach is truly sustainable. There are two main routes for biofuels: biological (such as fermentation of corn to produce ethanol) and thermochemical (such as the gasification of […]

One of the fundamental unsolved problems in control theory is the choice of a constrained control Lyapunov-function for nonlinear systems-a problem that goes to the heart of defining and understanding what stability means. In our group we have used results on null controllable regions for linear systems to address this problem for linear systems. This […]

The need for a comprehensive framework to diagnose and handle actuator and sensor faults has been well recognized. This project will strive to develop rigorous first principles and data-based fault-detection and isolation filters and fault-tolerant control designs.