Dans les municipalités, il y a présomption que la règle du plus bas soumissionnaire réduit considérablement les bénéfices découlant de l’implémentation des nouvelles technologies. L’implémentation du BIM dans les projets publics rencontre des différents enjeux, surtout au niveau du mode contractuel du plus bas soumissionnaire. Malgré plusieurs publications sur le thème de l’utilisation des modes […]

The shortage and quality of food to feed the existing and growing population is an issue of global concern. There is also serious problem with the fungal and bacterial pathogens which result in losses of billions of dollars of annual loss of agricultural products. This project is an attempt to mitigate this with the use […]

The intern will work with McGill University researchers Dr. Danielle Donnelly and Dr. Stan Kubow to identify potato cultivars with better processing quality and less inclination to form dark-colored compounds after they have been cut (enzymatic browning) or cooked (after-cooking darkening or ACD). ACD is related to content of certain minerals, the polyphenolic chlorogenic acid, […]

This project will aim to convert a commercially available variable rate sprayer into and intelligent sprayer able to precisely spray the pests and weeds in the potato seeds only when needed. The detection of the pests and seeds will take place by cameras equipped with algorithms able to detect each target. The team members will […]

Selon le plus récent rapport du Groupe d’experts intergouvernemental sur l’évolution du climat (GIEC), les événements extrêmes tels que les précipitations abondantes sont susceptibles d’augmenter. Le projet proposé s’inscrit dans la quantification de cette augmentation et a pour but général d’introduire les effets du changement climatique aux courbes Intensité-Durée-Fréquence (IDF) des précipitations. Ces courbes sont […]

Certaines antennes appelees antennes a reflecteur double-grille sont actuellement utilisees sur des satellites. Ces refiecteurs sont constitues de deux grilles paraboligues placees I’une derriere I’autre. Ces grilles sont orthogonales, c’est-a-dire que la premiere r6flechit les andes polarisees verticalement et est transparente pour les ondes polarisees horizontalement, alors que la deuxieme fait I’inverse. De cette maniere, […]

The use of natural gas as a fuel for on-road commercial vehicles offers significant benefits, including lower greenhouse gas emissions. Methane, the main component of natural gas, has many virtues as a fuel. One of these benefits is that it is a very stable molecule. This stability does introduce a challenge: it is hard to […]

To prevent noise-induced hearing loss, at the workplace just like in everyday’s life, an Advanced Communication Earplug (ACE) will be designed. This ACE will merge hearing protection features usually found in industrial protectors and modern communication capabilities that can be found in consumer products such as in-ear headphones and hands-free communication headsets, into one in-ear […]

Ce projet consiste à entreprendre la recherche nécessaire à l’élaboration d’un instrument de mesure de la communication responsable, soit l’Indice de communication responsable au Québec, pour l’entreprise CBleue et pour le Conseil québécois de la communication pour le développement durable en partenariat avec l’Observatoire de la consommation responsable de l’Université de Sherbrooke. Cet indice permettra […]

New Brunswick Power Corporation (NB power) is required to file a 10 Year Financial Plan to the EUB every year as part of the general rate application; and this plan must include a scenario analysis in order to demonstrate the potential effect on forecasted financial outcomes of reasonable variations in terms of some key factors/variables. […]

This research aims to conduct transaction cost analysis (TCA) of popular factor investment strategies (value, momentum, size) using intraday tick data. While trading over short-term and investment over long-term has been separate operations historically, the implementation trading cost can be a huge drag on the long-term investment performance. Therefore we would want to simultaneously consider […]

Thus far Steam-Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) has been the sole commercially viable in-situ recovery method to extract Canadian oil sands that are too deep for mining. It involves high pressure steam injection and bitumen production using horizontal well pairs located near the base of oil sands formations. While it has enabled conversion of significant resources […]