There are several drugs on the market whose overall safety may not be fully known. Drug safety monitoring is important in identifying previously unknown side effects. This activity is not exclusive to drugs, but also applies to natural health products. Patient awareness of product safety is a major concern in Canada. Only about 5% of […]

This research project is intended to assess the efficacy of thin film reactors in achieving disinfection of opaque fluids (juices, milk, and wine). These opaque fluids present new challenges for reactor testing and modeling. A thin film reactor will be implemented and its performance will be evaluated against opaque fluids. Consequently numerical modeling will be […]

The Centre for Operations Excellence Industry Projects 2019 consists of seven sub-projects sponsored by five different industry partners. Each sub-project represents an important challenge for its sponsor. These sub-projects include Extracting data from unstructured text of NOTAMs to assess relevance (Boeing 1), Developing a fix effectiveness engine to perform data-driven predictive maintenance (Boeing 2), Initial […]

The availability of safe drinking water has emerged as one of the most serious problems facing the global economy in the twenty-first century. Removing heavy metals from drinking water, industrial waste and soil are important environmental engineering tasks to reduce pollution and water scarcity around the world. Biomimetic designs help engineers to produce new technologies […]

The common method of training and warming-up in baseball is by using weighted disks that are added to the player’s baseball bats. The current scientific evidences showed that the use of these devices doesn’t improve the performances of the players and actually slows down their swing speed and batted ball speed. Our partner developed a […]

Bien qu’un nombre grandissant d’acteurs socio-économiques tentent de sensibiliser les employeurs à l’importance d’offrir des ressources favorisant la conciliation travail-vie personnelle (CTVP), l’état actuel des connaissances sur les mécanismes psychologiques expliquant leur effet sur la CTVP et, plus globalement, sur le bien-être des employés se montre fort limité. Par conséquent, la présente recherche vise à […]

L’entreprise Mobilités Mondiales inc. a fait breveter un concept de système de transport fonctionnant avec la traction hélicoïdale et des rails tubulaires ouverts. Après maintes preuves de concept expérimentales, l’entreprise a mobilisé une équipe d’experts en conception et fabrication mécanique et en automatisation qui sauront parfaire les travaux de R&D amorcés au respect des normes […]

Recent pipeline projects in Canada and the US have attracted lots of attention due to their importance for our future economy and environment. In the proposed project University of Alberta and Shawcor propose to work together towards developing E-smart pipelines and creating defect free system. We will utilize the vast amount of emerging and cutting-edge […]

In recent years, the problem of global warming has brought home energy consumption to the forefront worldwide. Grid stabilization is a matter of national security as well as household efficiency. Therefore the goal of this MITACS project is to continue the development a Smart Utility Management System (SUMS) to manage power consumption, reduce peak usage […]

Immunomagnetic cell isolation particles are widely used to separate cells from complex, biological environments, such as blood, urine, or bone marrow. Cell isolation particles are typically decorated with specialized antibodies to bind to targeted cell surfaces via specific antibody–antigen interactions. These interactions can be disturbed by the presence of serum proteins, which are common constituents […]

As technology continues to make smaller and more flexible devices possible manufacturers of these devices need ways to hold them together. Normal methods of bonding two thin pieces of metal together no longer meet all the depends placed on them by the relatively small size of the devices. In order to meet this challenge this […]

Fuel cells are a clean energy technology that generates electricity without harmful emissions and uses hydrogen as the fuel in place of oil. As fuel cell electric vehicles are deployed globally on a significant scale, it is critical to ensure high levels of operational durability and reliability, equal to or exceeding that of incumbent engine […]