Miniaturized resonators and oscillators built using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technologies have the potential to revolutionize the $5 billion timing market, as they offers direct CMOS compatibility, a dramatic size reduction, and a fabrication cost that is a fraction of the current incumbent technology. However, frequency stability has proved to be major challenge for many companies. […]

Treatments that involve activating a patient’s own immune system, immunotherapies, are becoming important cancer therapies. Unfortunately, doctors don’t always know the best way to combine these therapies to best treat patients and the current tools they have to evaluate treatment success don’t work well for immunotherapies. Molecular imaging, particularly magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or positron […]

Depuis quelques années, de plus en plus d’entreprises utilisent le data mining pour mieux comprendre les caractéristiques et les comportements de leurs clientèles. L’utilisation du data mining dans une étude de marché peut permettre d’identifier des facteurs invisibles avec des méthodes traditionnelles et ainsi avoir meilleure connaissance du client et bonifier la relation avec ce […]

This Mitacs Project’s aim is to calibrate and test a model to assess and improve the employee’s engagement. The work will focus in define a methodology to identify the necessary data for the calibration and the installation of a model (a set of equations) for improvement of a factory. This project will benefit both: the […]

Les systèmes de réalité augmentée (RA) et de réalité virtuelle (RV) ont récemment été implémentés dans divers secteurs professionnels, notamment dans les domaines de l’éducation et de la formation. Ces systèmes permettent, aux moyens de casques et d’écouteurs, de plonger les utilisateurs dans des environnements réels pour la RA, mais qui comportent des éléments virtuels […]

Wild blueberries are an important crop to this region as this is the only area that wild blueberries are naturally occurring. The changes in wild blueberry crop conditions caused by improved management practices over the past decade has caused increased plant density and leaf foliage. This extra foliage has made it more difficult for the […]

University of British Columbia and Amgen British Columbia (ABC) will collaborate to develop a safe and efficient lipid-based vaccine delivery system that can be used in laboratory animals to enhance the production of specific antibodies against difficult targets. These antibodies can be further screened and characterized for treating various diseases in humans.

Hydropower dams are significant investments and their integrity affects many stakeholders. Failure of a dam results in catastrophic events which cannot be mitigated. Seismic evaluation and prediction of dynamic response of dams need in depth assessment which has always been challenging with complex dam-water-foundation interaction. Impounded water considerably affects the response of a dam during […]

major contributor to smog formation is the release of volatile chemicals which are emitted from many sources including automobile exhaust and consumer products. To combat the adverse effects smog has on air quality in North America, agencies such as Environment and Climate Change (Canada) and the Environmental Protection Agency (United States) enforce limits on the […]

Women with breast cancer often undergo mastectomy, or removal of the breast. Afterwards, they may elect to reconstruct their breast using one of several methods. One of these methods is by implantation with a permanently adjustable prosthesis. This procedure may show a smaller budgetary impact compared to multi-staged implantation. This project will estimate the budgetary […]

Pyrolysis, which is the thermochemical decomposition of biomass at high temperature (350 to 700°C) under oxygen-limiting conditions, is a promising technology for the sustainable management of forest and agricultural biomasses. Pyrolysis decomposes biomass into biochar, non-condensable syngas and condensed liquid bio-oil. Those co-products can be used as an energy source in order to replace fossil […]

Ce projet vise le développement d’un Indice de Qualité d’Habitat (IQH) du saumon basé sur une classification de faciès d’habitats à partir de photos aériennes récentes. L’approche repose sur 1) la modélisation et la cartographie à grande échelle de la bathymétrie et de la vitesse de l’écoulement sur des rivières à saumon types du Québec, […]