Domestic/municipal wastewaters in rural areas are often treated using septic tank systems which are often not very efficient. Because of this, effluent from septic systems often pollutes rivers, lakes and groundwater. To address this, Stantec, along with Ecowork of Japan, is interested in evaluating an innovative septic system for Essex, Ontario, where a pilot unit […]

In February 2009, the Ontario Government announced the Feed-In Tariff (FIT)Program which will play a premium for electricity that comes from renewable sources – wind, solar and biomass – to help curb fossil fuel emissions. The goal of this internship is to assess using unmerchantable wood – that which is not useful for traditional forest […]

NASA's planned permanent return to the Moon will demand advances in many technologies. In order to enable such a goal and to maximize the capabilities of such a presence it will be necessary to use the lunar resources and materials available, commonly referred to as In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU). This benefit would come in a […]

The flying probe test is a standard method used to test circuit boards for defectiveness, using probes that are able to move and access various test points on the board. A circuit board consists of many electrical circuits, each of which has inputs and outputs. During a test, a probe is first placed on the […]

The rapid propagation of Internet into nearly every aspect of our daily life together with the increase in volume and sophistication of network attacks puts a special emphasis on the security of the network systems. Currently, security modeling and simulation is one of the widely acknowledged methods for network security evaluation. However, in spite of […]

Given a landscape of computer software that is made up of very few platforms and operating system types, attacks on software can often come in the form of comparing differences between instances or revisions of software. Diversifying software is an effective technique to mitigate these kinds of attacks. Software diversification is a means to generate […]

This project is mainly about the investigation of the reliability of the computer-aided calculations used in conjunctions with the electronic instruments employed to detect radioactive contamination that may be deposited on surfaces such as a human skin. The investigations will be carried out using scientific theories including mathematical and statistical techniques as well as experiments […]

Integration is a core IT operation, and is aided by a number of available best]practice techniques for integration (integration patterns). However the application of these patterns has little to no automated support. They are applied by consultants on a per-customer basis, making it an expensive and time consuming task. A computer science student from the […]

This project aims to develop a novel approach for sensor based Body Motion and Gesture Recognition (BMGR) for interactive computer and video games. Conventionally, the user interface between player and game is via physical control devices, such as buttons and joysticks. To make game more attractive, vendors want to equip their products with natural interface […]

Wind forces on an offloading tanker that is approaching a Floating Production and Storage Offloading (FPSO) vessel are influenced by so-called shielding or shadow effects, which are caused by the distorted wind fields in the wake of the FPSO. During the offloading operations, an offloading tanker approaching an FPSO will experience changing flow conditions that […]

The project will help eBusiness service providers to react faster and more economically to changing demands on their IT services. The goal is to develop automated techniques to utilize off-site computing resources that are offered on the Internet (so-called cloud computing resources), whenever there is a particularly high demand on the company internal computing infrastructure. […]

The gNutrition for Youh initiative is a recent and unique partnership sponsored by Thrifty Foods, and delivered through 18 municipal recreation centres, with Springwell Nutrition Group, and evaluated by the University of Victoria. In 2008]09, over 1,300 participants attended education seminars. More than 225 also attended grocery stores tours. Process evaluation data suggested that the […]