The goal of this project is to design a heat recovery system for ArcelorMittal Dofasco’s (AMD) steel-making plant in order to convert waste heat into power. This will result in lower operating costs and a lower environmental impact for AMD and represent one more step forward for Hatch in the area of industrial applications of […]

Le projet vise à recenser et analyser les connaissances mobilisées, les instruments utilisées et les choix stratégiques opérés dans les projets des rues conviviales ou complete street, mise en œuvre par certaines municipalités au Canada et en Amérique du Nord. L’analyse porte sur le cadre règlementaire, législatif et normatif nécessaire à la mise en place […]

Dans le contexte actuel des changements globaux, l’aménagement de nos forêts représente un défi majeur. Face a? cette réalité, nos pratiques visant a? contrôler et prédire l’évolution de nos forêts ne sont plus assez efficaces et nous devons revoir notre façon de les gérer. L’augmentation de la diversité de caractères indicateurs (traits fonctionnels) pour l’aménagement […]

Massive drifting icebergs frequently threaten offshore operations on the Grand Banks because of their massive size, and great mechanical strength. These ice hazards move erratically, which complicates efforts to modify their trajectory or undertake evasive action. This MITACS project aims to further improve security of offshore workers and help protect wildlife and the environment by […]

The research project consists of improving a model that is used for the prediction of new loans granted at a financial institution. The improvements will come from adding macroeconomics variables in the original model which currently does not include these types of variables. The hypothesis is that adding these variables should provide more precise predictions […]

Du fait des changements environnementaux en cours, il est nécessaire de faire évoluer les pratiques agricoles pour qu’elles soient plus respectueuses de l’environnement. Pour avoir une agriculture plus durable et tout autant productive, il est essentiel d’accompagner les agriculteurs dans cette transition, notamment en développant de nouveaux outils. Le but de ce projet est de […]

Arched culverts are widely used nowadays as a solution for numerous roadways and railways overpassing as they are cheaper and easy to construct in comparison to conventional concrete and steel bridges. The current study involves three-dimensional numerical simulation for three full-scale field monitored large-span arched culverts (including the largest span arched culvert in the world […]

L’objectif du projet et d’améliorer l’efficacité énergétique d’un bâtiment en proposant le contrôle prédictif des équipements CVCA (Chauffage Ventilation et Climatisation de l’air) de ce dernier. Cette amélioration devra être basée sur la prédiction du nombre d’occupants dans un bâtiment. Nous utiliserons les capteurs standards et spécialisés pour estimer et déterminer l’occupation en temps réel […]

Due to early strength requirements, shotcrete mix must incorporate rapid set accelerating agents to speed up mix set time and accelerate hardening. Silicate-based shotcrete accelerators have demonstrated good early compressive strength, short set time and good stiffening properties at relatively low cost. The silicate-based shotcrete mix also has minimal impacts on health, environment and improved […]

Among the applications of computer science in the field of health care and biomedicine, the processing of clinical patient records is one of the increasingly important topics for improving the Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems. A practical use of EHR systems is to help improve the decision making process for the physicians. The goal of […]

Machine learning (ML) has recently achieved impressive success in many applications. As ML starts to penetrate into safety-critical domains, security/robustness concerns on ML systems have received lots of attention lately. Very surprisingly, recent work has shown that current ML models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, e.g. by perturbing the input slightly ML models can be […]

The central role of the Internet in modern society creates challenges of efficiency, flexibility, and security, especially as usage intensifies due to proliferation of mobile devices and the Internet of Things (IoT). Wireless network-based technologies such as Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), introduce new challenges. In particular, shifting locations and hardware […]