Le froid extrême est un environnement quotidien pour de nombreux travailleurs canadiens. La conception de vêtements de protection efficaces contre le froid passe par une connaissance parfaite de son isolation thermique, ce qui n’est pas actuellement le cas. Pour pallier à cette lacune, ce projet propose 1) de déterminer l’isolation thermique de différents assemblages de […]

Le projet de recherche tente de réduire l’impact de l’absentéisme et des arrêts de travail (chez le personnel de soins) sur la qualité des services proposés dans les hôpitaux. Pour cela, des emplois du temps optimisés seront générés à l’aide de nouveaux indicateurs. Ces indicateurs seront créés avec des algorithmes issus de l’intelligence artificielle à […]

This study aims to understand how municipalities in British Columbia (BC) address urban Indigenous housing need within their Official Community Plans and housing strategies by reviewing a sample of plans and strategies from throughout BC and interviewing municipal planning staff. For AHMA, the Umbrella Organization of Indigenous Housing Providers in BC, this research is necessary […]

Solder paste is a material that is approximately 90 % metal alloy powder by weight and 10 % flux medium, a material consisting of organic compounds whose principal function is to remove oxide from the powder surface, is used in the assembly of electronic devices. This material is printed onto circuit boards, after which components […]

The Honna River is a source of drinking water for the Village of Queen Charlotte on Haida Gwaii, British Columbia. There is concern that sediment from a highly traveled logging road is contributing to poor water quality in the Honna River. This project is following up on the work of Elizabeth Baird (2010 MITACS Intern), […]

In this project, we design and develop a big data analytics system, which is expected to support the advancement in the state-of-the-art in modeling the dynamic risks associated to emergency responders being delayed at active rail crossings. The model will be used to show risk within cities and support prescribed solutions to mitigate the impacts. […]

Maplesoft markets Maple, the world’s premier symbolic mathematics processor, used extensively in education, research, and industry, and Maple T.A. (Testing and Assessment) a powerful online testing environment. The proposed project focuses on development of and research on educational applications of the software. Course content will be developed using Maple and Maple T.A. for core university […]

There is an urging need to enhance the market competitiveness of the fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) material as an alternative to conventional steel and concrete materials in building retrofit projects in Canada due to the reduced life-cycle cost of the former. Optimizing the design of FRP reinforcement is a key element toward increasing the market […]

This project is aimed at providing the sense of touch (haptics) in Robotics-Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery (RAMIS). In our previous work, we developed a 7-DOF haptics-enabled master-slave teleoperation setup at CSTAR (Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics) for RAMIS. This setup is a research platform for two important applications: endoscopic suturing and tumor localization in […]

Hydra Energy Corporation Commercial Demonstration Project based in Prince George, British Columbia 12.4 MT/day of waste hydrogen will be captured, purified and transported to an onsite hydrogen refueling station from which Class 8 tractor-trailer truck fleets will refuel daily. Hydra’s demonstration project can provide a significant reduction in fleet greenhouse gas(GHG) emissions, Particulate Matter and […]

The partner company, Metals Economics Group, has been acquiring and compiling information and statistics on the global mining industry for over 30 years. With an increasing pressure on existing mineral reserves and declining productivity of reserve expansion through exploration and M&A activity, the reserves have become a target for increased scrutiny. From a comparative standpoint, […]

In 2016, Magna Corporate has partnered with Exonetik to develop multiple prototypes of active seat suspension which were used for market validation and technical feasibility investigation. In June 2019, Magna Seating officially launched a research and development program to bring the active seat suspension to production in July 2021. The objective of this applied research […]