The CareChanger product is an incontinence care system to be used for detecting and predicting voiding events of a care-receiver in an assisted care facility while providing care to one or more patients with incontinence issues. The fundamental aim of this project is to assist caregivers in providing more personalized, efficient, and cost-effective care specifically […]

Both global warming and increasing supply of nickel and cobalt are urgently world-wide issues to be addressed. Mineral carbonation is a promising method to permanently store greenhouse gas CO2 into stable mineral carbonates but energy-intensive requirements and low-value products limit the successful application. Meanwhile, with the increasing demand on global nickel and cobalt supply for […]

Animated fluid effects based on physical simulation have been a staple part of visual effects industry. They are characterized by offline simulation and rendering that produces highfidelity dynamics and visuals. As the technology for computer games advances, the opportunity to create such effects in real-time as either a playback technique or dynamic simulation is becoming […]

The Nexii building system consists of a structural lightweight pre-cast sandwich panel system that attaches to an existing or new base building structure. In an effort to make the panels lighter and improve the building envelope performance, the new generation of Nexii panels use FRP instead of steel framing among several other modification to the […]

The project is a program evaluation of the mobile application OISEAU: Agents of Nature, designed by the non-profit organization Morning Star Enterprises. Morning Star has developed individual OISEAU applications for six Calgary Parks locations and the launch is the summer 2013.The application is designed to increase children’s exposure and connection with nature, as well as […]

This research project will investigate local economic impacts resulting from municipal government procurement through locally-owned suppliers in comparison to procurement through national or multinational suppliers with local operations. The objective of the project is to determine a BC analysis to quanitify the economic impact of local purchasing decisions. Using the LM3 method, this research will […]

A turbine is placed in an engine system to make use of energy contained in exhaust gases. It receives hot gases that are left over from the combustion process and converts them into useful shaft power that increases overall efficiency. The flow from each cylinder is highly dynamic since it is created by the exhaust […]

Forestry operations on Vancouver Island are carried out in a region of difficult, mountainous landscapes with very large amounts of rain and snow falling in the area. Heavy precipitation, especially liquid rain falling on snow, can cause not only landslides and floods, but water quality issues as well. These issues affect the environment, people, infrastructure, […]

Big data is a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications. The challenges include capture, curation, storage, search, sharing, transfer, analysis, and visualization. In this internship, we analyze a real-world big data set(s) to make sensible inferences by […]

In more than 75% of all Sudden Cardiac Arrests, no one is there to witness the event and call 9-1-1, and resultant survival is near 0%. Sudden Cardiac Arrest death is a significant and unrecognized epidemic in Canada, affecting over 20,000 people annually. We hypothesize that modelling the implementation of wearable sensors in the population […]