The main technical objective for the intern is to contribute in developing a breadboard that utilizes the laser, receiver and scanner technologies and create a potentially very small lidar. The intern other objectives might also include: • Investigate the transmitter choices and down?select the best one • Examine the available detector arrays • Evaluate whether […]

Detection of natural gas diversion in residential pipelines is important for public safety. To maintain utilities companies’ reputation and customer satisfaction, such diversion must be detected in a nonintrusive manner, without digging or using endoscope cameras. Thus, it is important to develop techniques for residential gas pipeline diagnosis using an external small device that can […]

In this project, the goal is first to design a domain ontology that models the innovation management forms semantically. At this step, the ontology contains domain-specific background knowledge, which is expressed using terminological statements. Then every completed form and the value of its fields are asserted as instances of different concepts of the ontology. Afterwards, […]

Vitamin D compounds are being developed for the treatment of chronic kidney disease. The purpose of this proposal is to develop a cell-based screening platform that will allow the rapid assessment of relative efficacy of a library of compounds. The intern will use recombinant DNA methodology to generate a cell-based assay in which the green […]

La presente recherche traite de l’evaluation des risques faisant obstacle a la liberte d’exploitation (FTO) d’un produit biologique, tel que levaccin XX d’influenza developpe par Medicago®. Elle correspond a la derniere etape du systeme de controle P.I. et a, notamment, pour objet d’identifier de nouveaux risques, mais egalement de mettre a jour taus les risques […]

The objective of this project is to elaborate an automated and scalable approach to assist security analyst in investigating and identifying underlying key cause (or causes) behind security or compliance failures of network services in NFV-based environment. Finding the root cause allows appropriate and achievable actions to be taken to recover or/and prevent the recurrence […]

Food security is a growing concern in communities across Canada, along with a host of other challenges impacting the health and equity outcomes of our food system. Municipalities, whether big or small, find themselves at the front lines of these issues and there is growing recognition of the potential for municipalities to play a leading […]

This project will develop a smart parking solution, including both hardware sensors and the analytics platform, that provides real-time parking availability data, which can support decision makings, such as policy refinements, demand-responsive pricing, etc. Our project aims to optimize the rate of parking facilities’ utilization as well as improving drivers’ parking experience. In terms of […]

In Canada, motorists are faced with a wide range of environmental conditions. Weather, in the form of rain, snow, other frozen precipitation, fog or strong winds, occurs 10 to 20 percent of the time, depending on the location and year. This project, which involves a three-way partnership between State Farm Insurance, the Institute for Catastrophic […]

Hydraulic fracturing technique has become an essential requirement in exploiting tight and light oil reserves in Saskatchewan and Alberta. The recovery in tight oil fields in these provinces is low with rapid production decline in hydraulically fractured wells. Also, it should be noted that fracturing horizontal wells can consume millions of gallons of water; a […]

Spiral tubes and rings have been broadly used in the manufacturing sector, especially for the automobile industry. However, the failure of the rings will significantly shorten the service life of components, even leading to a disaster when the part is under operation. Generally, these tubes and rings are made from steel sheets spirally using the […]

Les mesures d’équipements intelligents sont de plus en plus disponibles. Ces mesures permettent de caractériser le lien entre les habitudes des ménages et la consommation d’énergie du chauffage de l’eau. La meilleure connaissance de ce lien contribue au développement d’outils permettant d’anticiper la consommation d’énergie. Un réalisme accru de prévision permettrait à Hydro-Québec d’entrevoir d’autres […]