One in three women, including up to 58% of pregnant women and 48% of new mothers, experience a pelvic floor disorder (PFD) in their lifetime. PFD affects the everyday lives of women from urinary continence, fecal continence, painful sex and their shame in discussing these symptoms. The lack of comprehensive medical devices to provide for […]

This project will serve value to the individual student in developing business skills related to information gathering and transforming the information into a knowledge-based document(s) that will essentially guide municipal operations and governance. The Township will also gain in establishing a working relationship with a Co-op student and in experiencing growth relating to strategy and […]

Air pollution is a global public health concern. It is responsible for a cascade of adverse health outcomes. However, quantifying the outcomes and impacts of air pollution is difficult. The advancement of IoT and big data technologies can now allow public health officials and researchers to monitor air pollution levels and take appropriate and rapid […]

Metal additive manufacturing (AM) technologies are now frequently used in the aerospace, automotive, medical, and energy sectors for fabricating end-use components. The digital nature of the supply chain involved for metal AM production becomes increasingly susceptible to numerous types of cyber- and cyber-physical threats. There is a need for developing security and traceability markers embedded […]

Hydrogels have been widely researched as biomaterials for cell and drug delivery. Allarta has developed polymer-based capsules, based on pioneering research at McMaster University, with a range of diffusion profiles. Allarta has shown the ability of these hydrogels to support different mammalian cell types including stem cells and islets. Furthermore, such cell-containing hydrogels have been […]

The ability to extract 3D models from 2D images, a process called Inverse Graphics, finds applications in the many applications of Virtual Reality. For the development of urban digital twins, we focus our research on Inverse Graphics of buildings, which would greatly simplify the reconstruction of entire city blocks in a virtual environment. We plan […]

My research seeks to identify species that are valuable socially and ecologically to fishers in Chilika (a coastal fishing community in India). To achieve this, I will interview fishers from three ecologically diverse communities to ask what fish are important for (but not limited to) nutrition, livelihoods, culture, biological communities. I will observe how this […]

Enterprise Data Engine Development

Light detectors are a mature technology that we encounter on a day-to-day basis without even realizing it, such as in cameras for high resolution imaging and in satellites and dishes for communication. The ability to detect light at the fundamental limit (i.e., single photons) is critical for numerous applications in modern medicine, imaging and quantum […]

Cyclic Materials are helping the world transition to a more environmentally responsible future by recovering rare earth elements and other valuable materials from the difficult-to-recycle products of the modern world. Helping businesses recycle, provide the market with a secure and regional supply of critical metals, and do so in an ethical, economic, and sustainable way. […]

The presence of chlorine-bearing compounds in sewer headspaces is a potential risk to personnel and can cause decay of valuable infrastructure through increased rates of corrosion. There is however little information available on their speciation and concentration in these systems as standard methods for sampling them from sewer headspaces do not exist. In addition, the […]

The two goals of this project are to: 1. create a demonstration information system based on an existing system called Dreamcatcher for consultation, land-use, occupancy, and planning based on the archival material of the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation (MNCFN); and 2. use this system and First Story to preserve and promote Aboriginal […]