Infrastructure facilities in Canada and many other places worldwide continuously deteriorate. Most structures either reached or exceeded their design service life. Bridges, buildings, roads, and other facilities deteriorate over time. To ensure the safety of these structures, visual inspections are routinely carried out by trained engineers. However, these visual inspections have some critical disadvantages, such […]

Due to modification ease, cost, and time-saving benefits, computational-based methods through the use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) software programs is the main approach besides physical testing (accelerated durability laboratory test, in-service drive tests) for evaluating the life of welded structures in several industries. Based on guaranteed functionality, integrity, and life cycle robustness requirements in […]

We propose to develop computer vision technologies for recognizing 3D environment for augmented reality (AR) mobile games. Given an image/video taken captured a mobile device (e.g. iPad), we would like to be able to recognize some useful information about the 3D environment of the game player. For example, one of our goals is to recognize […]

The City of Saskatoon and the Faculty of Social Work, University of Manitoba, is collaborating in an innovation and development project to enhance Saskatoon city’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives addressing systemic barriers. This one-year business strategy development project will engage senior City officials, community leaders and PhD student interns in knowledge mobilization (KMb) workshops […]

Distribution of elite germplasm is currently achieved through the transport of gilts and boars by toad or plane. The practice is associated with an increased biosecurity risk and has animal welfare concerns. The transport of the same elite genetics through embryos offers significant advantages: biosecurity is more secure and there are no animal welfare risks […]

The general objective of this project is to ensure that the development cycles for the ongoing ARF project are reliable and will focus on areas of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). Automated testing evaluating and using tools such as Cypress or Enzyme and increasing observability of the solution by exploring tools like AWS XRay […]

Access to breast cancer screening is limited in rural populations and developing countries, resulting in increased mortality rates for women. Microwave based breast cancer detection is a safer and less costly approach to early breast cancer detection. Building on our experience in experimental microwave radar-based breast imaging research we are developing and testing a portable […]

Churchill is experiencing different types of challenges. Because of the remoteness of this place, the communication and transportation systems are very costly and challenging. Managing municipal solid waste manage is another emerging problem for Churchill community. The current waste management system in the town of Churchill is very costly, and environmentally unfriendly. Town of Churchill […]

Power systems are subjected to randomly occurring normal and abnormal events that can trigger oscillatory response creating unsafe sustained fluctuations in power, voltages, currents and the frequency. Increasing integration of power electronics interfaced renewable generation contribute to new types of oscillations due to control interactions, sometimes supper imposed on classical electromechanical oscillations. Such oscillations can […]

A challenge that we’re starting to run into is fulfilling our marketing strategy to its full capacity and capabilities with the size of our team. With an additional team member, we’ll be able to deliver the full scope of our marketing strategy from idea to complete execution. Adding a marketing associate to our team will […]

Modern power systems wherein renewable resources such as solar and wind power are extensively used need to rely on some means for energy storage to address the intermittency of such resources. This proposal investigates a class of power electronic converters that are able to connect battery energy systems to the grid and provide multi-directional pathways […]

The project seeks to understand how the financial regulation of large scale cash transactions negatively impacts Indigenous communities. As well as, the time and cost associated with the regulatory burden of tracking large scale transactions for small, Indigenous credit unions. The partner organization, Me-Dian Credit Union, will benefit from cost savings and regulatory changes by […]