Toyo Pumps is performing research to upgrade their current line of recessed impeller or vortex pumps. Currently, these pumps can only operate in very limited and specific conditions. The goal is to redesign these pumps to allow them to operate in a wider variety of conditions and improve the efficiency, producing more work at a […]

La forêt est une ressource importante pour le Québec et le Canada. Des entreprises d’ici produisent les machines et outils nécessaires à la transformation du bois. Les moulins à scie modernes sont déjà hautement informatisés afin d’optimiser la valeur de la ressource sylvestre, mais il y a place à l’amélioration. Ce projet de recherche développe […]

Bicycle and pedestrian counts are important data for the planning and design of safe roads. However, installing pedestrian and bicycle counters across an entire city road network is not financially viable. Therefore, a good option is to estimate counts at the network scale, using knowledge from a handful of pedestrian and bicycle counters (strategically placed) […]

Active vision or perception is one that can manipulate the viewpoint of the cameras in order to investigate the environment, and get better information from it. It mostly encourages the idea of moving a visual sensor to constrain interpretation of its environment. This research in active vision is concerned with determining the 3D pose and […]

The proposed research will involve optimizing and improving engineering operations within Bombardier based on data collected from flight recorders and aircraft operators. This will involve developing new processes in maintenance tracking (i.e. tracking aftermarket spares sales, scheduled maintenance, accessing direct maintenance costs per component, etc.), and implementation of a stress tools suite for in-service structures […]

How can we make the connected home smarter and more energy efficient? Ecobee’s research aims to address this question by making cutting-edge improvements to its smart home thermostat. There is huge potential to save energy in the residential heating and cooling space – homes with an ecobee smart thermostat can save up to 15% of […]

Visual attention refers to the mechanism of dynamically and selectively focusing on a subset of the visual input stimuli for detailed analysis, which is part of the visual perception process of the early primate vision. It has been successfully integrated into the design and implementation of many artificial visual recognition systems with applications to image […]

Microelectronic fabrication needs a method to deposit very thin films of copper in very accurate patterns to interconnect the microelectronic devices on a chip. Atomic layer deposition (ALD) is a method used in microelectronic manufacturing that could do this, but a suitable copper process has yet to be identified. This internship is to help continue […]

The goal of this project is to use naturally occurring bacterial partners to improve the flavour and nutritional properties of plants grown in hydroponic and aquaponics systems. This study will investigate ability of plant associated bacteria to alter the metabolic profile of select vegetables and leafy greens. Vertical farming is an increasingly popular solution for […]

Ce projet vise à répondre aux besoins des industriels canadiens aérospatiaux d’aujourd’hui, spécialisés dans la fabrication de composantes en matériaux composites. Ces besoins ont été définis avec plusieurs PME et donneurs d’ordres, dont Bombardier Aérostructures et Services d’Ingénierie, Hutchinson Aéronautique et Industrie Canada, SphèreCo, Texonic, Lubricor, Génik et PCM Innovation. Ce projet se concentrera sur […]

Voltage instability is one of the major causes of many blackouts such as Canada-United State blackout (2003), Sweden-Denmark blackout (2003), India blackout (2012), and Turkey blackout (2015). If reliable methods are available for online voltage stability assessment, operators can be warned and automated corrective actions can be initiated to prevent voltage collapse. Although, a large […]

Battery technologies are urgently needed for emerging high-tech applications, such as medical implants, wireless sensors, wireless devices. These new devices have very limited space and require high reliability, and therefore demand the batteries could provide high energy per volume and high safety. Current Li-ion batteries cannot meet this demand due to its relatively low energy […]