Le programme de stages MITACS ACCÉLÉRATION étudie les activités du service des urgences de l’hôpital Grand River. En mai 2008, le gouvernement provincial a annoncé une augmentation du financement de certains hôpitaux afin de les aider à réduire les temps d’attente aux urgences. Ce stage a pour objectif d’étudier le service des urgences de manière […]

Dans ce projet, les trois stagiaires collaboreront intensivement avec Philip Beesley Architect Inc. pour concevoir et déployer des enveloppes architecturales cinétiques. Ces enveloppes seront présentées au Solar Decathlon 2009, dans la catégorie Canadian North House, comme des installations sculpturales et comme un système d’ombrage dynamique. Les possibilités conceptuelles du projet et les alternatives de design […]

This project will assist Suncor Energy Inc. (Suncor) and Fort Mckay First Nation bring a Suncor mine site back to its original ecological state and environmental functions. To best achieve this, Fort Mckay First Nation and Suncor will work together to ensure the new restored site will support the traditional practices of Fort Mckay First […]

The cellular clearance pathway autophagy is required for degrading toxic proteins and damaged organelles, but is disrupted in many neurodegenerative diseases. During induction many autophagy regulators quickly localise to membranes from the cytosol. The Martin lab has identified palmitoylation, which involves the addition of the fatty acid palmitate to cysteine residues, as a potential regulator […]

Mobility is an essential component of routine life for everyone. Walking and biking are two major transportation modes that help residents meet most or all of their daily needs. However, several mobility-related challenges occur as a result of weak maintenance of urban infrastructure such as sidewalks, bike lanes, and trails, which can decrease the safety […]

The food services industry is ripe for a technological revolution. Challenging labor conditions such as rising minimum wage, high employee turnover, and scarcity of skills among other things makes it increasingly difficult for restaurants to be profitable and scale their business effectively. Delivering a quality product in a consistent manner with today’s low-pay low-skilled workforce […]

Stroke happens when a blood vessel in the brain, is blocked by a clot (ischemic stroke) or bleed due to a vessel rupture (hemorrhagic stroke). The dielectric properties of healthy brain tissue are different from the one that is affected by stroke. In this study, these properties are measured in rat’s brain by an electromagnetic […]

Terahertz spectroscopy for material imaging/sensing and characterization has received a great deal of attention over the past decade. Terahertz (THz) electromagnetic waves have frequencies in the range of 1012 Hz. Terahertz spectroscopy and imaging has many applications ranging from security, communication, food production, quality control for pharmaceutical industries, and cancer diagnosis. In the heart of […]

Customer satisfaction with an automatic car wash is highly dependent on the quality of the final drying phase, with residual water leading to spots and thus poor perception of performance. As such, Suncor Energy is committed to improving the drying phase of their next generation car wash facilities through principled design guidelines based upon scientific […]

This research is concerned with speaker diarization for the purpose of facilitating automated speech transcription. This problem has multiple depths depending on the prior knowledge provided to the system. The type and amount of information about the number and characteristics of the speakers can differentiate this problem in a range from a 1-to-N matching, where […]

This project is intended to development the technologies needed for three-dimensional (3D) printing of concrete constructions. This highly interdisciplinary research endeavor will draw on expertise in additive manufacturing, construction, materials science, and robotics to develop the key elements of 3D construction printing. The project will study and design concrete mixtures suitable for layer by layer […]

The motivation for this research comes from an overall need to improve the performance of high voltage module (HVM) and to reduce the size and its material costs while maintaining its efficient performance, with no partial discharge, arc or thermal issues. In particular, stable transient and steady state performances must be achieved for medical X-generators […]