Le lac Saint-Charles, principale source d’eau potable de la ville de Québec, a connu un vieillissement accéléré au cours des dernières années, en raison des plantes aquatiques et des sédiments qui le comblent graduellement. Cette situation est en bonne partie due à une surabondance d’azote et de phosphore dans un milieu où la rareté de […]

Ce projet concerne la surveillance de chantier des travaux d’infrastructures municipales. Il s’agit d’uniformiser les pratiques et de fournir de nouveaux outils pour aider les donneurs d’ouvrages à définir leurs mandats. Le guide créé sera simple, accessible et adaptable aux différentes situations que l’on retrouve en milieu municipal, afin de conseiller également les chargés de […]

Les applications mobiles « santé » et les objets connectés (ex. bracelets, tensiomètre, glucomètres) sont en pleine croissance et deviennent de plus en plus utilisés par les consommateurs qui y trouvent une façon de gérer activement leur santé. Dans ce contexte, l’objectif de cette étude est de comprendre quels sont les facteurs qui motivent ou […]

In the Internet of Things (IoT), physical objects are connected to achieve a variety of applications. Many rural and remote communities lack the fast connectivity to the Internet that will allow the advent of IoT. This project aims at providing this connectivity by exploiting unused TV channels, gradually made available by a growing number of […]

Aujourd’hui, la méconnaissance de la localisation précise des réseaux d’infrastructures souterraines (télécommunications, électricité, gaz, eau…) ainsi que les mauvaises techniques d’excavation conduisent à de nombreux accidents lors de travaux à proximité de ces réseaux. Dans un contexte où en 2015 au Québec, on dénombre près de 5 bris d’infrastructures souterraines en moyenne par jour (dont […]

The purpose of this multi-project study is to investigate the effects of two different doses of protein supplementation following exercise training on muscle damage and inflammation, as well as on post-recovery exercise performance in young swimmers. Sub-project 1 examines whether whey protein supplementation following a training session enhances exercise performance and affects post-exercise muscle damage […]

Food safety is a major concern and current approaches may take weeks to detect harmful bacteria that has contaminated food. This project involves the development of a rapid detection test kit to allow food processors to see if food has been contaminated by potentially harmful bacteria before the food is sent to market. The interns’ […]

This project will develop a temperature sensing and control system for microfluidic systems. Microfluidic systems are devices that can move and analyze small volumes of liquid for many applications, including health care applications. The temperature control system will be made up of several components. The first is essentially a thermometer. This thermometer will use an […]

Metafor is developing a new class of IT system management solutions and as a part of this, wants a method to show differences between multiple deployed instances of an application. To implement this, Metafor requires an accurate, high-performance generalized tree differencing algorithm. Differencing algorithms are used for comparing different versions of a document or snapshots […]

A laser-optics vehicle profiling system will be designed and developed in this project. The image of a laser line projected onto the surface of a vehicle from a vantage point will be used to make metric measurements on the vehicle and to develop a 3D model of it. It is conjectured that this setup would […]

Ciena is a manufacturer and a provider of networking solutions. The company wants to be able to emulate the different software and hardware components in a very flexible way so that the emulation platform can be available to any user. The emulation allows the user recreate a networking environment to be able to know, beforehand, […]

The proposed research will attempt to help residents reduce energy use in apartment buildings. The intern will provide residents with energy use feedback that shows their building’s energy use compared to a neighboring building. Buildings that reduce energy use will receive encouragement to continue conserving. The intern will work with two partnering utilities companies, FortisBC […]