Working directly with the Innovation Team, and under the general direction of the Director of Growth & Business Transformation, the individual will contribute to research analysis, innovation hypothesis testing, program development execution, and presentations to senior leaders within the organization.

Bien qu’imperceptible à l’oeil nu, la surface d’un parebrise automobile n’est pas parfaitement lisse. On y retrouve de minimes fluctuations, qui dévient légèrement la lumière passant à travers la surface de verre. Ces déviations diminuent la précision des applications de conduite assistée (par exemple, l’assistance au freinage), qui dépendent d’une caméra positionnée derrière le parebrise. […]

Mission Control Space Services is a five-year-old start up in the space exploration, robotics and AI industry. As a start up that has had some success they are growing and are at a point in time where it is necessary to build out the team to grow the organization to the next level. A start […]

Project Overview. The COVID Sports Solutions project links Vancouver based Econic with an Emily Carr Universtiy MDes graduate student to support research and development of patent pending mask and droplet guard products targeted for use in sport. Work planned for this project include: review of existing designs; exploratory market research; SWOT analysis; iterative design development; […]

Modern commercial trucks are crucial for economic activity. The diesel engines in these vehicles emit about 8% of all CO2 emissions in Canada. To reduce the environmental impact of current trucks, Hydra Energy Inc. is developing an approach to replace some of the diesel fuel with excess hydrogen generated in industrial processes. To maximize the […]

The company provides devices to measure quality of curing light used in dental procedures. These devices produce high volume and high velocity data. This data is then used to forecast a future state and to make a well informed business/operation decision according to an expected future state. One of the challenges in application of such […]

A newly identified group of cells termed type 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) have been discovered in the past decade. Increasing evidence supports the view that ILC2s play a central role in driving the cellular changes in the airways of asthmatic subjects. ILC2s are increased in severe asthmatics with uncontrolled inflammation despite being on the […]

Covid-19 has emerged as a major health concern in 2020, with a mortality rate of 11%. Covid-19 is due to a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which enters the human body through a receptor called ACE-2 in the airway. Asthmatics are usually at increased risk for viral infections, which exacerbated their asthma symptoms, however early clinical studies […]

Understanding the stability profile of a product, whether a consumer packaged good or a pharmaceutical drug product, is key to ensuring the consumer has a safe and effective product. In the pharmaceutical realm, the internationally accepted approach to stability testing is codified within the International Conference on Harmonisation (ICH) Guidance: Q1A(R2) (Stability Testing of New […]

I have been hired as an Operations and Supply Chain Analyst at AVA Technologies, a Vancouver-based small company helping consumers grow anything, anywhere with smart home gardens. I will be helping the team build up supply chain resiliency as the product is brought to market, while also working on internal projects on a case by […]

Smart devices can allow active individuals to monitor their training workload in order to reduce injuries and improve performance. However, many devices are geared towards a single activity, which limits their impact. Kinetyx recently developed an insole with multiple sensors that can be worn within a shoe while performing many activities. Using this insole, we […]

Modular synthesizers are becoming more commonplace in the studios of musicians around the globe. These instruments, first invented in the 1960s, are composed of modules, each of which performs a unique function, such as generating sounds or modifying them by applying effects such as distortion, echo and more. When building a modular synthesizer, the user […]