Current silicon photovoltaic solar panels are mostly produced from refined silicon, which must be of a required purity that is acquired through energy intensive and costly processes. Our industry partner, Ubiquity Solar Inc. is developing manufacturing process which will ultimately require less energy and cost and will also produce silicon of high purity with a […]

Our industry partner, EHC GLOBAL, is a world leader in the design, manufacture and sale of escalator handrails products including recyclable handrail that features built-in antimicrobial properties and the ability to display custom graphics. They also deal in many other products such as escalator safety brushes, urethane rollers and engineered polymer products and are continuing […]

InteliRain Inc. has developed an effective sprinkler system producing excellent uniformity water distribution for regular or irregular areas but using 30% less water compared to most existing standard industry system. However, the performance of the InteliRain system deteriorates rapidly when it is tested in an open field with wind effect. In this project, the intern […]

Bacteria co-existing with us by living in our intestines are important for maintaining our health. However, there are still many questions about how these probiotic or health-promoting bacteria act to influence health, and how to use them to combat the numerous health problems associated with inflammation. The objective of this research project is to determine […]

As ladders are such a common tool, its potential improvement can be easily overlooked. The purpose of this project is to invent a new ladder design. To avoid the lock-in effect of existing ladders, topology optimization is applied to explore new possible designs. The key of this technique is to let algorithms search for theoretically […]

Cylindrical vector beams (CVBs) are a class of non-conventional beams of laser light that exhibit spatially varying polarization properties and zero intensity along the propagation axis. CVBs have received significant interest due to their peculiar focusing properties when used in combination with high numerical aperture optics. CVBs are also especially important at the limit of […]

The power consumption by Radiofrequency (RF) Integrated Circuit (IC) Power Amplifiers (PAs) in mobile handsets and other mobile communication devices is a major factor determining the battery life of these equipment. The objective of this project is to find new ways to implement power efficiency improvement techniques in CMOS RFIC PAs for improved battery lifetime, […]

L’utilisation inappropriée des antibiotiques comme facteur de croissance pour l’élevage animal a été identifiée comme l’une des causes de l’apparition de la résistance bactérienne. Ce type d’usage est d’ailleurs interdit en Europe depuis 2006. D’autre part, la demande canadienne en poulet sans antibiotique est en croissance depuis plusieurs années. Cependant, les poulets d’élevage sans traitement […]

Composite materials have been increasingly used in today’s aerospace products such as Bombardier CSeries and Boeing787 airplanes. A widely used composite manufacturing process is Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) utilizing robotics, precision control, and other high tech tools. Quality requirements for aerospace products are at very high level for product safety and performance. Statistical quality control […]

Air Phaser is a proprietary product produced by Air Phaser Environmental and designed to oxidize and/or reduce air-borne pollutants that need to be transformed to environmentally benign forms. The Air Phaser uses electrical discharges to destroy and break down the VOC’s present in the contaminated air. Although, the technology is effective for many VOC’s, some […]

The proposed project, performed with the company Immune Biosolutions, aims to develop superior antibodies for biological targets of interest for the treatment of colorectal cancer. Specifically, these targets are a class of proteins expressed on cell surface, which are notoriously difficult for the development of antibodies. The method involves making molecules look like the biological […]

Ce projet de recherche porte sur le développement d’un ingrédient cosméceutique préparé à partir d’un extrait de feuilles de brasénie, une plante aquatique répandue au Canada. Le premier objectif du projet est de procéder à une analyse plus approfondie de la composition chimique de l’ingrédient en déterminant la teneur en tanins hydrolysables et en identifiant […]