The intent of this project is to address the high-speed electronic portion of a silicon photonic transceiver solution that will explore new and innovative metro reach terabit optical modems. In total there are five projects that combine to create the solution. These five project areas are silicon photonic design, high-speed electronic design, modelling, packaging and […]

Recruitment of future employees is an essential activity in any organization, yet it is tedious and error-prone. Substantial effort is spent in rote tasks like finding candidates matching a particular job offer, contacting them, scheduling an interview and performing the actual interview, while the more interesting tasks like making a final decision on who to […]

L’analyse des accidents de navires indique que 80% des accidents ont pour origine un problème de facteurs humains et que la mauvaise conscience de la situation de la part du pilote est le facteur causal principal à l’origine de ces accidents (C. C. Baker & McCafferty, 2005; Barnett, 2005). La conscience de la situation est […]

Aeroplan Inc. (“Aeroplan”) , aims to redesign and optimize its loyalty program Aeroplan via a collaboration with Polytechnique Montréal. Customers affiliated with Aeroplan’s program earn miles through their purchases and can exchange these miles for various gifts. It is essential for Aeroplan to predict customers behavior, to define the causes of certain behaviors and to […]

When an earthquake happens, the soil underneath structures loses all or parts of its resistance. This condition is called liquefaction (for loose sands) or cyclic softening (for sensitive clays) as the soil acts as water during the earthquake. Liquefaction or cyclic softening can damage considerably man-made and natural earth structures and cause serious loss of […]

Soil liquefaction or excess pore water pressure buildup reduces a soil’s stiffness and strength and can result in significant damages during earthquake shaking. The current state of practice on liquefaction evaluation techniques relies mainly on simplified empirical procedures based on case observations and free-field laboratory testing which have been widely limited to clean sands (zero […]

This internship project proposes to develop a new approach to model electromagnetic nonlinear thin regions, such as those encountered in various electrical devices and, for example, constituted by superconducting materials. In fact, it seeks to reduce the computational costs in simulations of devices made of thin layers and consequently allowing more realistic simulations, which is […]

Les boucliers thermiques servent à protéger les véhicules spatiaux des fortes contraintes thermiques auxquels ils sont soumis lors de la phase de rentrée atmosphérique. En dissipant cette énergie par plusieurs mécanismes physiques, ils garantissent l’intégrité du véhicule. Afin de mieux les comprendre, on se propose ici de réaliser une étude numérique en simulant ces différents […]

Prompt doit identifier les PME qui ont un fort potentiel de croissance au sein de l’écosystème canadien de la 5G. Dans ce contexte, la recherche propose d’exploiter une base de données textuelles. Elle est constituée par les sites internet de 7 000 entreprises. Cette base de données a déjà été construite par Prompt. Le premier […]

To be safe and efficient, autonomous robots will need to consider and understand one another when performing their respective tasks. Communication and joint planning between robots might not be possible due to the number of robots, adversarial behaviors, or the lack of common protocol. In this project, we start by tackling this large issue at […]

Le transport adapté des personnes ayant des besoins particuliers est une activité qui demande des outils et méthodes de planification différents du transport collectif régulier. Dans ce projet, nous proposons trois éléments : 1) des modèles de prévision de la demande de transport adapté à court et moyen terme, 2) un outil de planification permettant […]

La planification de la réfection d’un navire est une tâche difficile qui requiert un effort considérable en termes de ressources qu’il faut gérer. Elle comprend plusieurs centaines d’activités d’inspection, de désassemblage, de réparation, de remplacement, de reconversion, de modernisation et de réassemblage. De plus, il faut prendre en compte les contraintes d’espace qui limitent le […]