The project aims to identify eco-friendly organic molecules to be used as copper corrosion inhibitors for water cooling towers, which are crucial for heat management in facilities like hospitals and factories. Currently, toxic nonenvironmentaly- friendly chemicals are used to manage corrosion in water cooling towers, which pose environmental risks. The intern will collaborate with TGWT, […]

Wood ash is the residual from biomass boilers at forest products mills and stand alone energy facilities. In Canada, residual ash is often landfilled, which can be costly and pose environmental risks. However, considering that the components of the ash are derived primarily from soils and trees, and there is increasing interest to return wood […]

The project will recruit and interview staff at a number of long-term care (LTC) facilities about their experience of making difficult, ethical decisions. Materials from these interviews will be used to write a number of case studies, which participants will then discuss in focus groups. All interviews and focus groups will be recorded and transcribed. […]

Alors que la mobilité internationale atteint des niveaux sans précédent, exacerbés par les crises politiques et économiques, le visage de l’immigration se transforme. Au Canada, comme au Québec, on assiste à une augmentation sans précédents des migrant.es temporaires. Or, être migrant sur un statut temporaire peut engendrer différentes formes de précarités. Les services juridiques et […]

Cold temperatures in January 2024 devastated vineyards in the Okanagan and commercial vineyards responded by pulling out damaged vines. Surprisingly, in mid-June latent buds were observed on some of the cold-damaged grapevines. In collaboration with the vineyard team at Gray Monk Winery and Andrew Peller Estates, a MSc student in Sustainability at UBC Okanagan proposes […]

The research project aims to investigate how racialized communities relationship with public space can be improved with community-engaged architecture. The intern will use a post-occupancy evaluation to understand the impacts of the community-engaged designed public space, 1700SPOT, for the residents of Russell Heights. Impact is evaluated with consideration to racial and gender equity.

With the growing integration of renewable energy into power networks, their dynamic behavior has undergone significant changes. To ensure stability, it is essential to accurately model the dynamic behavior of key equipment, such as synchronous generators and inverter-based sources, within these networks. This project focuses on the implementation, analysis, development, and validation of established models […]

Ce projet de recherche, en collaboration avec la Ville de Sherbrooke, vise à comprendre comment les projets de développement durable sont acceptés par la population. Il comprend deux volets. Le premier soutient Hydro-Sherbrooke dans l’installation de compteurs intelligents pour mieux gérer la consommation d’énergie, un élément clé de la transition énergétique. Le deuxième volet aide […]

Controlled environment agriculture (CEA) is progressing toward innovative solutions specifically with remote monitoring instrumentation and artificial intelligence, can predict and detect physiological plant characteristics that will improve crop yield. The overall objective of this study is to design and build a test growth chamber to evaluate and remotely monitor environmental conditions and plant health. Environmental […]

Meto 3.0 est une solution intelligente qui permet de concevoir et gérer la stratégie de l’entreprise et d’exécuter la séquence des actions requises pour activer la croissance, l’innovation et la valorisation des PMEs. L’application est une plateforme collaborative qui capte l’information aussi bien sur le cloud que via des données privées afin de générer automatiquement […]

Ce projet de recherche vise à évaluer la motivation à réviser d’élèves du premier secondaire dans un contexte de dictées numériques et manuscrites. Les dictées numériques seront réalisées par l’entremise d’ÉvadiGraphe, qui est un outil numérique permettant la réalisation de dictées diagnostiques offrant une rétroaction simultanée et détaillée sur les types d’erreurs orthographiques. Le projet […]

Canadian sweet peppers have become common in our grocery stores, providing us with year-round access to fresh produce. These are grown in greenhouses, but in the past two years, a mould, fusarium, has been found attacking greenhouse peppers across the world. The best weapon against this mould is clean water and early detection, but this […]