A stochastic model was recently developed to theoretically estimate per capita water consumption for various lifestyles, based on specific domestic water use activities. The intention is to populate this model with data from the City of Montréal, bearing in mind that metering of water consumption is uncommon in the study area. Therefore, calibration and verification […]

Continuous flexible systems such as aircraft wings, pipelines, risers, bridges, power towers, and transmission lines are always subjected to unwanted vibrations induced by unsteady wind loading. The typical engineering solution is to add a tuned-mass damper to these structures. This typically works in removing the unwanted resonance, but it creates new problems as it adds […]

Biocompatible hydrogels have been used for a long time in biomedical applications (e.g. microcarriers for adherent cell growth; drug delivery vehicles). For these applications, controlled pore size and pore interconnectivity are important parameters. The project aims at better characterizing several physicochemical strategies for pore generation. Then, as second objective, the influence of pore size upon […]

Carbohydrates are promising bio-feedstocks to synthesize functionalized compounds. The US Department of Energy identified seven compounds with a high oxygen to carbon ratio as alternatives to sugar fermentation to ethanol. Transition metals oxidehydrate fructose to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA), a monomer for green plastic (polyethylenfuranoate). The aim of this project is to develop a micro-fluidized bed […]

API usability specifies how easy, efficient, error-preventing, and pleasant an API of a software library is from its users’ perspective. With machine learning (ML) techniques becoming increasingly powerful and pervasive, many non-programmers and casual users (e.g. domain experts in medicine or geography) started to explore ML libraries. However, many find them challenging to use because […]

This research project is aimed at improving the oxygenation of water downstream of hydroelectric dams; one of the issues being to preserve the aquatic fauna. The goal is to develop the fundamental understanding and applied technology needed by industry in the field of two-phase flows. Experimental and numerical tools are developed to design similar laws, […]

Le projet de recherche porte sur la prédiction probabiliste d’une demande intermittente. On cherche à prédire la distribution statistique du niveau de remplissage d’un réservoir en fonction du temps, à l’aide des données des derniers services. Ces prédictions permettront d’optimiser les fenêtres de temps des prochains services. De ce fait, on augmentera le taux de […]

The Home University, the Home Supervisor and the intern involved with this Mitacs Globalink project agree to be bound by the standard intellectual property (IP) terms of the Canadian university and, furthermore, hereby irrevocably assign all their rights, title and interest in and to any Project Intellectual Property to the Canadian University, as may be […]

The current feedstock of en-life high impact polystyrene (HIPS) is currently impossible to be valorized and recyled due the presence of brominated fire retardants (FRs). The presence of those FRs is consequence of the need from the electronic industry to compile with the security regulations. However, now those brominated compounds are to be banned due […]

Le projet de recherche entrepris dans ce stage vise à établir une méthodologie pour caractériser des pastilles supraconductrices en fonction de l’angle d’un champ magnétique appliqué. Avec l’aide du magnétomètre géant du groupe de Philippe Vanderbemden, l’aimantation d’une pastille supraconductrice plongée dans un champ peut être déterminée pour obtenir sa densité de courant critique, une […]

The current feedstock of en-life high impact polystyrene (HIPS) is currently impossible to be valorized and recycled due the presence of brominated fire retardants (FRs). The presence of those FR´s is consequence of the need from the electronic industry to compile with the security regulations. However, now those brominated compounds are to be banned due […]

The aim of this research project is to improve the design of one of our robotic leg (see https://youtu.be/2zo5aSJEjhY). This leg is able to mechanically adapt its walking pattern in reaction to a collision without any sensor or high-level control. The objective of this research internship is to update the mechanical design of the leg […]