Building structures with asymmetric setbacks possess both vertical and in-plan irregularities. The former is due to the abrupt changes in the plan dimension at the level of the setback while the latter results from the asymmetry between the upper tower portion and the lower base portion. An asymmetric setback introduces mass, stiffness and resistance eccentricities […]

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as drone, is an emerging technology with a tremendous potential to enable new civilian applications. In a near future, the number and use of UAS will increase. They will play a significant role in many public missions such as border surveillance, wildlife surveys, military training, weather monitoring, and local […]

In this project we perform the reaction of transesterification of vegetable oils to produce biodiesel. The process is accelerated when this reaction is performed in a continuous reactor equiped with an ultrasound generator. In this case very high conversions are obtained at residence times as low as 20 second compared to hours in current technology. […]

This project is in collaboration with a governmental laboratory working on a fermentation process which yields an aqueous solution of short chains monoalcohols. Our contribution to this work will be the development of a suitable heterogeneous catalyst for the conversion of these mixtures of alcohols into gazoline range (C5-C9) hydrocarbons. The complete project would then […]

One of the main challenges of a global supply chain is to distribute products from their production point to a set of dispersed customer in another geographical region. The efficient planning of this transportation process can have major impacts on costs, product availability, lead-times, environmental impacts, etc. In this project we consider long-haul transportation as […]

Recently a new trend related to the study of pollution emissions and environmental impacts minimization has started in the area of the vehicle routing problem [20]. Most of this literature is related to the pollution routing problem, in which the aim is to effectively route vehicles to satisfy customers demand while taking into consideration traveling […]

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic degenerative disease in which central nervous system demyelination and white matter inflammation leads to axonal injury and neurological deficit. Canada has one of the highest rates of MS incidence in the world; studying the pathogenesis of MS is of the utmost importance. MS pathology results from myelin-directed autoimmune attack […]

Around the world, education systems are changing and being reorganized around the concept of competence. This term is so used by authors, in different contexts, that it becomes difficult to know exactly what it means. The purpose of this project will be to analyse definitions and uses of the word in both education and social […]

Digital technologies are increasingly present in school, in various forms (specialized software, ipad, online work, reverse class ….). In this project, we will focus on the influence of these technologies on mathematics learning. Research can take many forms depending on the interests of the student:experimentation in the classroom of a particular technology,surveys of teachers and […]

The present research project examines how recent immigrants think and speak politics. It adopts an approach that understands the political as being constructed through individual interactions that form part of broader political and cultural systems, but which are also at least in part determined by previous experience with public institutions. The objective is to capture […]

Deadwood, being standing (snags) or fallen, represents a key structural element in forest ecosystems. Many flora and wildlife species are directly associated to deadwood for establishment and growth in plants and feeding or nesting in animals, including cavity-tree nesters (primary excavators and seconday users). Some living trees are also important for wildlife as part of […]

Signals outputted from microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) transducers are often very weak, and the sensing interface circuits must exhibit very low noise levels to enable a large dynamic range of detection. Capacitive sensing interfaces exhibit high temperature stability, low power consumption, low noise, and are appropriate to implementations in CMOS. Different methods, such as switched capacitor […]