Les eaux usees municipales sont traitees par des procedes physico-chimiques, biologiques ou une combinaison des deux types, Le pretraitement des eaux arrivant a la station d’epuration (STEP) est necessaire pour proteger les equipements de procede. Le degrillage (enlevement des debris organiques grossiers de !’eau) et Ie dessablage (enlevement du sable de I’eau) sont deux procedes […]

Text Mining is the process of automatically extracting structured knowledge from unstructured, natural language documents. It aims to support users in dealing with large amounts of textual information. Examples for specific text mining tasks are entity detection, summarization, and opinion mining. Due to the complexity and ambiguity of natural language, this analysis is broken down […]

Les antibiotiques facteurs de croissance ajoutés dans les aliments pour animaux a été récemment interdite au Canada et leur utilisation sera considérablement restreinte dans le futur. Ainsi, plutôt que de seulement contrôler les maladies entériques, des efforts doivent être faits pour améliorer la santé de l’écosystème intestinal. Il existe de nombreuses alternatives telles les huiles […]

The objective of the project is to conceive and build a prototype of a tunable “white fiber laser” i.e. a broadband light source. As it is based on supercontinuum generation in a microstructured fiber, the source is expected to be compact and find applications in several domains, from fundamental studies to biomedical imaging and spectroscopy […]

Batteries are main storage systems in many applications such as electric vehicles, shipping, transportation, and utility backup power. With the recent breakthrough in the supercapacitor technology, it is predicted that supercapacitors will challenge the batteries in many of these applications since their power delivery is much faster than the batteries. The current chargers are designed […]

In manufacturing industry many tools are protected by coatings to increase tool life and productivity. It is only logical that mechanical properties of the coating will affect its performance. Therefore, it is essential to characterise the coating and understand its properties to tailor it for a specific application. These properties might be assessed with different […]

Cannabis has been known to treat ailments for thousands of years, including conditions such as pain, cancer, arthritis, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis (MS) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Despite an increase in research dedicated to molecular and behavioural effects of cannabinoids, there has been no direct evidence to elucidate the effect of cannabis on pain-related areas […]

The intern will work with a multi-disciplinary research team from architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, biology, business development and materials research in the design development phase of a project to create a structural insulated panel prototype from cellulose. As the most abundant organic polymer on the planet, cellulose is currently emerging as a sustainable material […]

The Ladle Metallurgy Furnace is used for adjustment of chemical composition and temperature, and control of tiny particles called “inclusions”. Controlling inclusions is carried out by adding calcium to modify the solid alumina or magnesium aluminate inclusions to less harmful liquid inclusions. During ladle process, reaction of top slag, steel and inclusions occur simultaneously. Therefore, […]

The aircraft flight deck has increased substantively in its complexity in recent years. The input systems are more complex, and the information feeds are much more detailed. In order for a pilot to interface effectively with the aircraft systems, the cockpit control functions must be laid out in an intuitive format. To do this, a […]

The goal of this research project is to develop novel technics to teach artificial agents how to play complex video games using reinforcement learning and demonstrations. Namely, we wish to propose a novel approach for learning from demonstrations, in which an agent simultaneously learns a behavior and the corresponding reward signal. This training procedure will […]

Les blocs opératoires sont un des services les plus dépendants des activités logistiques. Lors d’une opération le chirurgien doit avoir les bons outils au bon moment pour que celle-ci se déroule dans les meilleures conditions. Pour cela, toute une chaîne d’approvisionnement s’organise afin d’accomplir cette tâche complexe. En effet, les produits utilisés sont des instruments […]