Les personnes vivant avec un handicap communicationnel peuvent rencontrer des défis lors de l’utilisation de certains services dont ceux offerts par les institutions financières. Ce projet vise à établir l’état actuel de l’accessibilité communicationnelle dans les institutions financières au Québec. En questionnant des personnes vivant avec une aphasie et leurs proches ainsi que des employés […]

Mitacs Accelerate has funded the first year of the Precast Design Studio. In this second and third year, the Mitacs intern, Chadia Uwamahoro, will conduct experiments on conventional horizontal connections to understand their cyclic behavior. The test setup and the experimental data will advance the scientific knowledge on the cyclic response of precast concrete shear […]

Ce projet a pour but d’améliorer le contrôle de qualité et l’entretien des gros équipements de production d’énergie électrique, soit les grands hydro-alternateurs. Une des parties problématiques de ces équipements est l’enroulement situé dans la partie fixe de la machine, soit le stator. Ce dernier est en effet soumis à des importantes contraintes électriques, mécaniques […]

Hydro-Québec has found that welding flaws induced during the manufacturing of hydraulic turbine runners are prone to fatigue damage. To avoid catastrophic failure, they developed a life estimation model that relies on flaw detection and sizing through non-destructive testing (NDT) inspection procedures. Probability of detection (POD) gives the probability or likelihood that a flaw of […]

La conception et le développement des plateformes drone hydrographique de surface à faible coûts sont pleinement insérés dans les efforts déployés par la communauté Hydrospatiale pour la génération d’un jumeau numérique des océans et des zones côtières. Une telle plateforme se veut versatile. Ainsi, différents professionnels pourront bénéficier d’une telle plateforme pour les levés en […]

The goal of this project is to improve Business Intelligence solutions to stay competitive in the market. We aim to take the learning efforts off the user’s shoulder using advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques. We will develop AI technologies to help users answer questions that can be expressed in natural language and use existing data […]

Universities can be leaders in sustainability by building food sovereign campuses and communities. Instead, universities across Canada are contributing to unsustainable and unjust food practices by hiring multinational corporations (Aramark, Sodexo, Chartwells-Compass) that externalize social and environmental costs. The intern will continue the research from their Ph.D. dissertation about building food sovereign campuses and work […]

There are 768,000 new cases of liver cancer and 730,000 deaths worldwide every year. Only 15% of the cases are operable, and the median survival is generally

Organizations are trying to manage their waste streams using circular economy principles to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Without proper assessment, organizations that follow a standard waste hierarchy often lack proper awareness and understanding about the amount of GHG emissions individual options actually reduce. They can use sophisticated (and systems thinking) approaches such as life […]

Canadian ocean and freshwater systems currently undergo rapidly changing disturbances that threaten high-value aquatic species such as shrimps and fishes, even in Marine Protected Areas. Whilst biologists gathered a large amount of knowledge (and data) about the responses of aquatic animals in such disturbed environments, our current understanding is often limited to individual single-layer levels […]

Pour accélérer la transition énergétique et lutter contre les changements climatiques, le gouvernement du Québec dispose de plusieurs programmes d’incitatifs financiers et de conseils pratiques (Rénoclimat, Chauffez vert, Éconologis et Novoclimat) pour accompagner les ménages et entreprises dans les travaux résidentiels écoénergétiques. Cependant, les obstacles liés à la pluralité, aux critères d’admissibilité spécifiques et complexes, […]

Immersive technologies create unique experiences by merging the real physical world to a virtual simulated reality. This technology has revolutionized the way in which organizations and many services are implemented. Recently, XR experiences have gained popularity because they can be universally displayed in any type of mobile device and do not require a headset. The […]