Paramedics provide essential emergency care services for Canadians. However, in providing this service, paramedics are exposed to many highly demanding task and situations. Further, these high demands are often referred to when paramedics suffer pain, discomfort and even injury. While efforts are underway to lessen these demands where possible, due to the nature of paramedic […]

This project explores new polymer cure methods using a combination of light and thermally sensitive catalysts for epoxy thermoset resins. These resins can be used for a number of applications, including as insulators in high voltage coils. The postdoc and MSc interns will identify simpler epoxy formulations that utilize specially tuned photoinitiators and thermal catalysts. […]

In software development, code reviewing is an essential code validation step during integration [1, 2]. When developers submit their code for review, human reviewers need to validate the changes made to source code and other artifacts (e.g., data files, artifacts created by artists). This review process can go through several iterations in which the reviewers […]

In 2007, ParticipACTION was relaunched in Canada with the goal of inspiring and supporting active living and sport participation for Canadians. The focus of ParticipACTION is on social marketing initiatives The objective of the proposed internship is to take advantage of data collected through internal evaluations commissioned by ParticipACTION of two national campaigns – Teen […]

5G network connectivity is important in the quest to revolutionize healthcare in Canada. This is because 5G technology has the unique capability to support reliable high-speed data transfer. The technology also supports increased amount of healthcare data that can be transmitted in real time. This project seeks to 1) explore the use of 5G-enabled healthcare […]

The Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance commits to export clean Canadian hydrogen by 2025. It is critical to evaluate the life cycle carbon emissions associated with hydrogen transmission at sea. In this project, we will focus on analyzing ammonia as a hydrogen carrier for the shipping purpose. A sensitivity analysis will be conducted to evaluate the life […]

This project focuses on studying the combustion behaviour of hydrogen and ammonia blends as potential alternative fuels. While clean energy sources have progressed, specific industries and transportation still rely on combustion technologies that produce harmful carbon emissions and contribute to climate change. The project aims to improve the efficiency and reduce emissions of combustion processes […]

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are increasingly employed in vision-based systems, extending well beyond self-driving vehicles. With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) and distributed vision sensing, vision-based systems have found diverse applications across various domains. These include detecting hazards on work sites and anomalies in critical infrastructure, utilizing, for example, video and image […]

The profitability of dairy production is based on the ability of the animal to have high milk production, good health and good fertility. A major challenge for dairy producers is to select for high performing animals and avoid the undesirable correlated response between production and other traits. The proposed research includes the imputation of newly […]

Pelvic floor disorders (PFD) affect up to 50% of the female population and include stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP). The non-surgical treatment for POP and SUI is pessaries, which are intravaginal devices, fitted through trial-and-error. While pessaries are an effective treatment option, many patients will have to try multiple pessaries before […]

In this project, a microfluidic sensor will be developed for bacteria detection in water. The microfluidic device enables in-situ synthesis of molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) membranes with bacteria imprinted cavities. The sensor works based on bounding the target bacteria to the MIP membrane, thereby altering the electrochemical signal which will be measured using in-situ fabricated […]

Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative condition affecting thousands of individuals each year. Due to the diverse set of symptoms and progressive nature of the disease, individuals with PD may require ample support from local healthcare facilities, health care providers and informal care partners. Due to the demands of the informal care partner role, it […]