While Canada welcomes many skilled migrants into our economy, some newcomers experience labour market challenges, and are pushed towards alternative career options. Thus, they decide to change their desired occupations or pursue new career paths in Canada. As a result, the purpose of this research is to gather information and learn more about skilled migrants’ […]

Skilled migrants are integral to the Canadian labour market. Yet, existing research provides little guidance on integration beyond the entry point into organizations. This research project aims to gain new insights into organizational integration dynamics for skilled migrants. HR professionals and Line managers in small to medium-sized organizations within the Health, Manufacturing and IT/Services sectors […]

The construction industry is plagued by a multitude of rising costs that threaten to curb achievable profit margins. This rise in costs is ultimately transferred to the end-user, as the construction industry seeks to maintain the viability of their business model. Nexite High Performance Envelope (Nexii) panels are composite polymer-concrete cladding panels with a finished […]

Advanced energy storage plays a critical role in addressing climate change and increasing the high penetration of renewable energy sources such as wind and solar. Among energy storage systems, lithium-ion batteries are the most electrifying and sustainable. These technologies’ functional constraints, prices, and safety all have an impact on the acceptability of large-scale battery storage […]

In 2018 the Region of Durham created the Durham Community Energy Plan (DCEP), Durham Region’s strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and transitioning to a green economy. Achieving the goals of the DCEP will provide multiple economic, environmental and social benefits to Durham Region. Successful implementation of the DCEP however requires multiple groups and sectors […]

Hypoglycemia or low blood sugar is a phenomenon that results from excess insulin or strenuous exercise in diabetic patients. If untreated, this can quickly lead to dizziness, seizures and even death. In healthy individuals, the body is able to compensate for these fluctuations and restore blood sugars to normal levels by lowering insulin and raising […]

Toronto has been experiencing a housing affordability crisis for almost two decades and the house prices continue to increase. The increasing unaffordability causes many problems in the city including increasing social inequality and difficulty of accessing affordable housing essentially for newcomers and racialized communities. This project aims at focusing on the discussion of “missing middle” […]

We are proposing to help design the experimental setup to characterize chip-scale Optical Phased Arrays (OPAs). OPAs – a photonic device used for optical beam forming and beam steering – have been widely studied for LiDAR, optical sensing, free-space communication and more. Building on previously prototyped phase array antenna design at Honeywell, the team aims […]

Next Hydrogen company, in partnership with Wellmaster, wants to use by-product oxygen in the water electrolysiindustry as a raw material in another business. The project site proposed, in Bruce County, has many farms producing agricultural wastesThe project will asses whether composting and vermicomposting are the best choices to use this oxygen. One of the most […]

Transient electronics and their dissolution byproducts, are usually harmless and benign, and hence they are an attractive approach for the global e-waste problem especially for low-cost, one time use devices such as RFID tag antennas. For this research, a straightforward laser-induced method of environmentally friendly reduced Graphene Oxide films is proposed for fabricating transient RFID […]

Toronto City Council received a petition signed by close to 14,000 individuals calling for Dundas Street to be renamed, citing its namesake Henry Dundas’ role in delaying the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The petition has led to a broader review of how the City commemorates public figures and events in place names, monuments, […]

The project involves the conversion of pulp and paper waste into renewable natural gas (RNG) using anaerobic digestion. It is the process in which microorganism converts the organics content into methane, hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide in the absence of oxygen. However, these microorganism are highly sensitive to change in pH, sulphates, organic load and […]