Advancing an Intelligent Transportation Data Platform and Environmental Sensing to Promote Sustainable Cities

Transportation services, ranging from public buses to private logistics fleets, could benefit significant from the introduction of Rogers’ 5G wireless networks. This project has a primary objective to support UBC’s efforts to achieve its 2050 emissions reductions goals, with an emphasis on a reduction of GHG and air pollutant emissions from transportation services.

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Community Education for Economic and Social Justice: With Special Consideration of Covid-19 Impacts, Future of Work Trends, and Leadership Development for Systems Change

The research proposed for this project will support community education efforts of the iMOVe Arts Association to support the re-integration of racialized and marginalized people who have been incarceration into community, help youth at risk avoid incarceration, and development of leadership skills to enable systems change to reduce racism, over-representation of racialized people in incarceration, […]

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Serverless Computing for Realtime Video Analytics: Measurement, Analysis, and Implementation

Ubiquitous deployment of networked cameras has boosted the prevalence of video analytics. Leveraging machines to automatically analyze captured videos has become the driving force behind a variety of contemporary applications. However, it is known to be resource-hungry with highly dynamic demands, which mismatches the existing monolithic cloud service deployment with coarse-grained resource allocation. Recent advances […]

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Thermal management innovations for enhanced battery performance, longevity, and vehicle range

Several barriers continue impacting EV adoption, including vehicle driving range, cost, lifespan, and safety. These barriers are aggravated in extreme cold and hot climate settings due to the sensitivity of batteries and EV technologies to sub-zero and high temperatures (above 45°C). Partnering with Ford Canada, we will jointly develop battery thermal management innovations combining physics-based […]

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Improving the efficiency of Hydrogen fuelling stations with Ionic liquids

Hydrogen is a promising vehicle fuel that emits no greenhouse gases at the end use and can be produced from a variety of renewable and low-carbon sources. However, to provide a useful vehicle range it has to be stored at very high pressures, with maximum pressures as much as 800 times atmospheric pressure. Fuel stations […]

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Robust Polymeric Membranes for Carrier-based Selective Ion Separations for Battery Recycling

Current rates of recycling for many metal species are near-zero. Improved processes are needed for enabling efficient recycling of electronics waste, including batteries. In our work, we will design polymeric membrane materials that will provide a robust platform for separations processes, specifically targeting separating metal ions from each other in aqueous solution. The interns will […]

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Work improvement for the manual heavy structural workstations by using dynamic value stream mapping

The goal of the proposed research project is to improve the work productivity for the partner company (Ocean Steel) by identifying bottlenecks accurately in the steel fabrication workstations. This work included evaluating the current applied solutions in order to resolve the same problems encountered with Ocean Steel, which was done by conducting a literature review. […]

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Board Management and Configuration for Datacenter FPGAs

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are a programmable technology that enable the implementation of hardware circuits. FPGAs are now being used as computing devices, but lack the capabilities and services provided by the operating systems used in all software-based computing systems. The goal of this project is to develop some fundamental operating system features for […]

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Exploring opportunities and challenges for offshore wind in the Strait Area

The purpose of this study is to identify the opportunities and challenges for offshore wind development in the Strait Area. Onshore wind is an established industry in Nova Scotia. However, there is an increasing interest on the part of large global players in exploring the potential contribution of offshore wind development in the region. The […]

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Marketing research for nuclear power plant refurbishment & life extension and an Establishment business strategy in targeted region

The sponsor company, Gnest Inc has plenty of experience in the consulting and design of nuclear power plant and specialized specific nuclear power engineering projects. Internship periods for 4 months can help the sponsor company to prepare for new promising fields of nuclear power engineering with specialized plan. The output of internship can help sponsor […]

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