With a growing concern to reduce carbon emissions, timber construction has is experiences a rebirth in Canada and abroad. The availably of engineered wood products, innovations in manufacturing, and changes in the building codes are some incentives for timber becoming a materials choice. Connecting these large timber members is done efficiently with the help of […]

Traditional GPS RTK requires two receivers one of which serves as base station. Assuming in-between separation is not too long, spatial correlations for GPS observation errors are pretty significant. Base station can be used to correct rover observations. As a result, 2-cm horizontal and 5-cm vertical positioning accuracy within 5-minute initialization time is available at […]

The goal of this proposal is to make the most advantage of the recently developed technique of Frequency domain Optical Parametric Amplification (FOPA) by pushing this technology to unprecedented levels. The IP has been protected by the group of prof. François Légaré from INRS_EMT. The main inventor, Bruno Schmidt, has founded few-cycle Inc. to commercialize […]

Recent technological advancements have led to widespread usage of interactive and collaborative systems in educational settings. In particular, SMART Technologies’ interactive products are being widely used at schools and universities across the country. Although this is a valuable achievement, it also presents new challenges to evolve these systems to new user needs. For example, one […]

Hydraulic fracturing of unconventional gas reservoirs utilizes a suite of chemical additives to accomplish specific engineered purposes. Chemical selection depends in large part on formation and operational characteristics but also on secondary non-technical properties, such as cost and environmental sustainability. Encouraged by industry level directives, oil and gas production and service companies are moving towards […]

This project involves researching and integrating constraints into existing route and schedule optimization software. The partner organization (Western Heritage) has developed software that calculates the shortest route and optimal daily schedule for home care workers visiting patients in their homes. These schedules must consider constraints for each worker and patient, such as: smoker, pet in […]

In this project, the intern will design a community health care scheduling system for the allocation of home visits to care givers in community health care. The system adopts an agent-based distributed system architecture which take patients scheduling preferences on time, location and care givers into account when assigning care givers to home visit appointments. […]

A cardiac arrhythmia is defined as an abnormal heartbeat which happens when the patient’s heart beats too fast, too slow, or in other irregular patterns. Although arrhythmia can occur without any symptoms, it is typically associated with heart palpitations, chest pains, fainting or heart failure. One type of treatment option is an interventional catheter-based procedure, […]

Iberian Minerals is a junior mining company, based in Canada. The Company recently acquired Mineworx Technologies, based in Vancouver, British Columbia and is now focused on various mining technologies. One such technology we are developing is an eco-friendly, non-cyanide based leach extraction for gold processing utilizing iodine as a complexing agent. The research and development […]

Les mesures de stations météo et d’équipements intelligents sont de plus en plus disponibles. Ces mesures permettent de caractériser le lien entre les conditions météo, les habitudes des occupants et la consommation d’énergie. 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 […]

However, hydrogen storage is difficult) due to the poor density of gaseous hydrogen under ambient conditions. Many possibilities have been investigated to increase the energy per volume ratio of hydrogen, including high pressure tanks, cryogenic conditions or the development of alternative hydrogen storage materials. The local company Hydrogen In Motion is developing new materials for […]

Les chutes chez les aînés sont un problème de santé publique sérieux. Actuellement, les services mis en place pour prévenir l’augmentation du nombre de chutes au sein de la population québécoise s’inscrivent majoritairement en prévention secondaire et tertiaire, pour une clientèle âgée de 65 ans et plus à risque de chute, ou ayant déjà chuté. […]