Bridge infrastructure constitutes a substantial portion of national wealth of Canada, whose performance during earthquake events has a significant impact on the public safety. This study focuses on investigating the force-based and performance-based seismic design of bridges specified in the latest versions of Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code 2014/2019. Numerical studies will be conducted, and […]

Electronic systems have advanced to the point that our daily activities depend on them and we trust the Integrated Circuits (IC) within the electronic devices to perform their required operation. Due to current manufacturing trends, ICs are outsourced to third parties, and may cause the integrity of the IC to be compromised. Systems that rely […]

This research project will examine the how digital networking technologies that use geo-targeted data can be used for social movement building. The project will analyze how grassroots community engagement can be optimized for online networks and digital technologies, and will engage with artists and activists who do this work, in a participatory relationship, in order […]

The Gitga’at Development Corporation (GDC) is creating a strategy for economic development activities within the Nation and requires innovative business research to facilitate this initiative. As such, this research cluster is comprised of six projects: • Project 1: Shellfish Aquaculture Opportunity Investigation • Project 2: Alternative Energy Feasibility Study • Project 3: Forestry Feasibility Study […]

There’s nothing quite as delightful as using a well-designed product, especially a piece of software. A field of research known as User eXperience (UX) tries to define measures that describe what a good design feels like. While conventional measures of UX for software work well (how long things take, whether or not you complete your […]

The research project will look at how EndPoverty Edmonton has engaged with the diverse Indigenous population that lives in Edmonton on their interests and perspectives on eliminating poverty. Indigenous peoples and communities continue to experience social and economic inequality as compared to other Canadians. Their social and economic inequality can be linked to the impacts […]

Our long-term agenda associated with this two year proposal is to address the needs of researchers working with large-scale scientific applications through our contributions to highly parallelized system infrastructure software. At the application level, we are targeting real-world projects such as the computational demands associated with the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions and NEPTUNE Canada. […]

This research has two main foci: (1) resilience and resilience intervention and (2) workplace dignity. The first main focus of this project is to evaluate Air Institute’s current evidence-informed Pathway to Resilience program, specifically their effectiveness in impacting the key resilience factors targeted in each workshop. This research will also examine data in order to […]

The amount of crude oil that can be extracted from an oil field can be increased by injecting gas or water into the reservoir. This process, generically-termed enhanced oil recovery (EOR), can be monitored using geophysical remote sensing techniques. In this project we will focus on monitoring of EOR gas injection with time-domain electromagnetics (TDEM). […]

Free-space optical inter-satellite communication has become an area of key interest in global research and development towards satellite-based communication networks. The aim of this project is to research and develop a thermally stable, multi-watt, optical phased array for the purpose of coherent mechanism-free beam steering in inter-satellite communication systems. Development of this electro-optic chip is […]

This research project investigates methods for detecting damage and breakage in fibers used in fiber-reinforced polymer composite pressure piping. Of primary interest is Acoustic Emission (AE) technology to isolate and identify damage types and corresponding AE features for fiber reinforcement rupturing when exposed service loads and different environmental conditions. Sound signals produced by fiber rupture […]

L’industrialisation du secteur de la construction suggère une transformation qui s’appuie sur diverses technologies visant à collecter des données en temps réel lors de l’exécution de projet, notamment via l’emploi de drones, caméras, outils télémétriques, capteurs et puces à radiofréquences. Ces technologies tendent à changer les façons de faire des entreprises de construction. La recherche […]