Social enterprises are businesses whose primary purpose is to create social and/or environmental impact. This study will seek to understand how to grow these businesses to create more social or environmental impact while being financially sustainable. This study will interview social enterprises to understand how they work, how they are trying to grow and what […]

Bridges Environmental Solutions Inc has developed a novel and low cost process for dewatering wood and waste wood materials and extracting a lignin-based solution useful in subsequent wood reforming and laminating processes, which they have helped develop. They use this lignin product to both chemically modify cellulose structures and permanently reform wood for improved mechanical […]

Ce projet de recherche vise le développement de nouvelles connaissances et de nouvelles données de référence adaptées au secteur de l’immobilier institutionnel au Québec pour valoriser les pratiques de gestion en bâtiment durable afin de stimuler leur transmission et leur adoption. Cette recherche contribue à la mission du partenaire, l’Association des gestionnaires de parcs immobiliers […]

We are developing an automated monitoring system to optimize the frequency of septic tank pumps. Septic tanks are used in ~87% of rural communities across Canada; current best practice for maintenance pumping is neither effective nor efficient as it is based on time rather than use. A reliable monitoring system can reduce cost by minimizing […]

Clinical diagnosis and rehabilitation of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) relies on patientreported symptoms and on limited availability of quantitative assessment tools. Also, there is no clear standard of care and lot of disparity in the rehabilitation protocols used in the clinic. The industrial partner APEXK Inc. has developed novel patented technology-based solutions to enhance […]

Plenty Canada has partnered with the University of Guelph to launch a biocultural knowledge and mapping project to begin restoring Indigenous knowledge, visibility, and character to the Greenbelt as an important Indigenous cultural landscape in Ontario. Our proposed work builds upon the success of a pilot project that we launched with the Canadian Commission for […]

This project aims to investigate the benefits of using linguistic cues for extracting speech-of-interest from competing background noise. Given an algorithm which detects formants of a speaker of interest within an audio signal which includes background noise, and given that the limits of such an approach are reached when formants of the speaker of interest […]

Ion sources are important for TRIUMF Canada’s national particle accelerator laboratory, as they are a key sub-system in the TRIUMF 500 MeV Cyclotron which is used for world-class fundamental discovery science, and cutting-edge technology development and transfer to the medical and industrial sectors. D-Pace is a spin-off of TRIUMF, and is a global leader in […]

This project – Canadian Architectural Education, Accreditation, and Licensing trends in a Changing Environment – partners with the Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB) to comparatively analyze quantitative and qualitative data concerning challenges and opportunities facing academic and professional sectors in Canada. The intention is to better understand past changes, current states, and future trajectories so […]

This project attempts to design an efficient waste heat recovery and thermal management system for air-cooled electric vehicles. The thermal management system will be useful for the small electric vehicles to control the optimal temperature in the cabin and battery bank operating under diverse climatic conditions varying from extremely cold to hot. The successful accomplishment […]

Using a participatory action approach, this research will examine the potential of the ARTpreneurs program to support social connection, knowledge sharing, and skill building among young artists in the Atlantic region.

The proposed research project concerns the development of optimization tools and sizing methodologies used to assess optimal structural airframe configurations and aerodynamic lines for given business cases. A PDF intern will be in charge of proposing improved optimization strategies, mainly related to composite material, and of adding specific capabilities inside the internally developed sizing tool […]