The Energy potential of water has been successfully harnessed to produce electricity since the late 19th century. In 2018, hydropower production accounts for approximately 61 % of the total electricity produced in Canada. To exploit this source of energy, water is stored in dams and is strategically used based on hydrological cycles. Over the years, […]

DockPort Ltd. focuses on research, development, testing, manufacture and marketing of a patented, novel, mechanized system for suspended oyster aquaculture, called BOBR (Benefit Of Being Round). DockPort is preparing to bring BOBR and related products to market. This project partners DockPort with four oyster aquaculture farmers interested in testing the BOBR innovations, together with scientific […]

The industrial partner, Mission Control Space Services (MCSS), is a participant in an upcoming mission to launch a rover to the moon. In this project, Western students will assist MCSS by developing algorithms using techniques from deep learning to support the lunar mission. The interns will have two primary responsibilities. One intern will develop a […]

When a previously trained machine learning model is put into production, the production phase begins where said model makes predictions on the inputs provided to it. When the distribution of production data changes over time, we talk about data drift. Then the model is likely to become less efficient, or even obsolete. The project consists […]

L’objectif du projet est d’automatiser la reconnaissance des signaux acoustiques et vibratoires a l’aide d’un modele d’apprentissage profond. Cette reconnaissance est la premiere etape du developpement d’un modele de pronostic et de suivi de !’evolution de la degradation des alternateurs. Ces signaux sont issus de mesures effectuees periodiquement sur les alternateurs durant leur fonctionnement. Les […]

In certain scenarios, in the hospitals, oral medications need to be administrated in a liquid form using syringes in order to avoid complications such as asphyxiation due to the blocking of airways, which is common in children. Consequently, a pharmacy technician may need to fill up hundreds of syringes per day for different units at […]

Pressure ulcers are a major health concern around the world, affecting individuals living with spinal cord injury (SCI) in particular. Pressure ulcers occur when the blood supply to the skin and underlying tissue is compromised, leading to cell death and potentially fatal infections. In this project, we are developing a soft, flexible and stretchable pressure […]

Microwave energy combined with a vacuum environment can be used for rapid low temperature dehydration and produce high quality food products. Industrial processing of tomatoes involves various treatment steps that affect the final profile of antioxidants in commercial food products. The goal of this project is to evaluate the retention of antioxidants in grape tomatoes […]

This research project explores and documents the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun’s customary food practices and community traditions surrounding the potlatch, described as an Indigenous way of ensuring there was always a system of distribution for wealth. Oral history interviews with First Nation elders and citizens will be conducted and contribute to recommendations for […]

Implied volatility surfaces are a key concept in financial markets, central to the pricing, risk management, and regulation of financial instruments. Despite their importance, numerous mathematical questions about implied volatility surfaces still confront practitioners and regulators today, such as how to fill in missing values in a given surface. Previous MITACS-sponsored work has shown that […]

Microplastics cause severe environmental issues, damage to ecosystems and harm animal and human health. This project aims to develop low-cost and/or portable microplastic detection platforms. In the proposed project, a particle focusing microfluidic device will be developed and integrated with the Raman spectroscopy equipment at industry partner site to maximize the light scattering effect and […]

In an age of so many new wearable devices, e.g., smartwatches, glasses, rings, clothing, and so on, headphones can be recognized as the first widely adopted wearable device. They have been around for more than a century and have been used mostly as an output device for listening to music, or, in the recent decades, […]