Flooding causes significant impacts to economic activities, disrupts and displaces populations and creates substantial risk to human safety. Recovery efforts from major flood events can be lengthy and have huge economic impacts both in loss of revenue and cost of repair and restoration. Changes in physical characteristics, economic practices and/or human actions can impact the […]

There is growing pressure from intergovernmental organizations, governments and consumers to reduce the quantity of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere. Investments in green technology such as renewable energy sources, battery technology and carbon capture and sequestration can often yield significant reductions in carbon emissions. However, the corresponding economic costs of these projects can […]

In Canada, the majority of the regulated occupations in Canada are controlled by provincial and territorial law and are governed by professional bodies with the authority to set entry requirements and standards of practice and to issue licenses and/or certificates of practice to qualified skilled labour (CICIC, 2006). There is an increasing demand for professionalism […]

Le vieillissement de la population bouleverse le marché de l’emploi. Ce projet de recherche, mené auprès des premiers responsables RH du secteur de la finance et des assurances (entrevues et questionnaires), vise à analyser les défis de gérer un capital humain clé instruit vieillissant dans ce secteur ainsi que d’identifier des actions et des activités […]

The goal of the proposed research project is to survey evidence of the effectiveness of recreational therapy programs and disseminate this information through a therapy guide and algorithm that will assist recreation program staff in BC and Ontario in meeting the needs of residents living in residential care facilities. The guide will provide a comprehensive […]

The proposed research project is around conducting feasibility studies on the purification and conditioning of industrial hemicellulosic C5 sugars from a number of potentially commercial wheat straw liquor fractions. The research will propose experiments where data for the ultimate evaluation of enzymatic hydrolysis vs. a selected comparative list of acid hydrolysis can be included. The […]

Energy networks are often very complex which results in highly unpredictable congestion patterns in the physical constraints of the network. Most efforts to model congestion in energy networks are made on toy problems. Here, the objective is to model and predict congestion in a real physical energy network using automated machine learning systems, in particular […]

The idea of using light for transferring data has been developed rapidly since 1960s. Today, using light for short-distance communication, as an alternative for copper wires, is rapidly growing mostly because of its broadband communication characteristics. Optical communication systems consist of both electronic and photonic components. Designing such systems will benefit from an Integrated Development […]

Les alternateurs hydrauliques font partie des équipements de base de la production d’énergie électrique sur le réseau. La défaillance de ces équipements en service peut occasionner un arrêt indéterminé de la production, des pertes financières importantes et des pannes pour les usagers. La durée de vie des alternateurs hydrauliques, comme tous autres équipements électriques haute […]

Chaque année, des millions de dollars sont dépensés pour le transport des biens de base à travers le pays. De plus, la facture ne cesse de grimper étant donné que le prix de l’essence en fait de même. D’autre part, l’industrie du transport est responsable d’une grande partie des émissions de gaz à effet de […]

The Recon Jet is an eyewear that is targeted towards cyclists and runners. The Recon jet is attractive because it displays the athlete’s performance, such as maximum speed and acceleration in real-time using the Recon Jet h ads-up display technology. The current Recon Jet has a GPS receiver and onboard sensors that track the athlete […]

L’entreprise BioIntelligence Technologies inc. développe des sondes permettant le suivi en temps réel de procédés chimiques et biochimiques industriels de même que des serveurs-analystes réalisant la gestion de données de procédés. Cet appareil permet de gérer autant les données obtenues par des instruments de suivi en ligne que par des analyses d’échantillons. Cela permet d’accumuler […]