This project builds on ongoing research within the project ((Border-Crossing Books) which focused on the ways in which book cultures explicitly intersect with national identities in the twenty-first century. This project began by examining the circulation and reception of national literatures in the US, UK, and Australia from 2000–2020; this project will also be expanded […]

Teck Metals Ltd. operates one of the world’s largest integrated lead-zinc smelting operations based in Trail, British Columbia. An important part of Teck’s normal day-to-day operations is to carefully track and report on any pollutants generated on site that are released into the environment. The purpose of this internship is to assist their Company in […]

Additive manufacturing (AM) is a product construction process by adding successive layers of materials according to computer-aided design models. Recently, metal AM products have been increasingly applied in aerospace, automotive, and biomedical industries. However, the complex interactions (i.e. thermal field) between metallic components and manufacturing processes make the product qualities inconsistent and unreliable, resulting in […]

Esdilagh Development Corporation(EDC) business Interns to perform business development research to inform the composition of business plans, ensuring we have professional business guidance tools to assist EDC in engaging in business sectors as identified in the Esdilagh Economic Development Plan and Investment Profile completed in 2011. Project goals are to produce professional quality Business Plans […]

The goal of this project is to further digitize the financial advisory process for Canadian financial advisors and their clients. AdvisorFlow is an integrated software allowing financial advisors to streamline first-mile client discovery, document collection, report generation, and more. In its first year of operation, the focus was developing a minimum viable product and gauging […]

The goal of this project is to further digitize the financial advisory process for Canadian financial advisors and their clients. AdvisorFlow is an integrated software allowing financial advisors to streamline first-mile client discovery, document collection, report generation, and more. In its first year of operation, the focus was developing a minimum viable product and gauging […]

Drowsiness is considered the foremost cause of accidents in the mining industry. Studies estimate that up to 65% of annual accidents in mines are related to drowsiness. The total loss to the company’s assets is around $22.6 billion, and operator lives are not replaceable. The lack of real-time drowsiness monitoring and prognosis in the mining […]

The project plans to develop and optimize functional interfaces in two unique sustainable energy systems, that of biomass combustion as well as CO2 electroreduction. For the biomass combustion part of the project, a large limitation of of biomass combustors is the buildup of soot which in turn impacts heat transfer. The research goals are to […]

This project aims to explore how women entrepreneurs perform their entrepreneurial functions within business incubators. Women entrepreneurs are known to suffer from impoverished social networks that precludes them from performing their entrepreneurial functions like opportunity recognition, resource mobilization and innovation. Policy makers seek to support and enable women entrepreneurs in various ways. Incubation is one […]

OneCup uses Computer Vision to uniquely identify livestock and wildlife from almost any angle, effectively Face ID for animals, called 360 Live ID. We then track health, growth, activity, nutrition, and phenotypes with the ID. It is a revolutionary idea that will disrupt the agricultural industry. We call our AI for cattle BETSY, or Bovine […]

This research addresses the ethical issues that abound in professional design practice. If these issues are identified, they are seldom discussed and mitigated. As such, this research aims to 1) observe human-centered design in action, 2) develop a series of tools, artifacts, and methods—what I refer to as ethical design things—to foreground matters of ethics […]

A Venture Capital Internship focused on investment deals in Asia-based startups.