The healthcare industry is focusing on utilizing emerging technologies to make healthcare systems secure, interoperable, and efficient. Blockchain technology offers promising features, such as immutability, security, traceability and decentralization, appropriate for clinical healthcare interoperability and data sharing. This project is part of Lab2Market program, which provides a commercial opportunity to utilize blockchain technology, a new […]

Climatic and soil conditions played a crucial role in crop productivity, and thus impacted the economic benefits of the entire industry, especially in Canada. Biochar is widely known as a sustainable material as soil amendment. However, conventional biochar lacks the ability to improve water-use efficiency. A new type of biochar is being developed by co-pyrolyzing […]

The global competitive market requires products to meet the high customer satisfaction, low production cost and short development cycle. Product design searches for potential solutions of products to meet customer requirements based on design constraints and technical details. As a large number of possible concepts have to be explored in the design process, applying the […]

Brainswitch Labs is a Vancouver-based startup in the VR Health space. We are developing an application that helps mental health therapists to get their patients into a mental state receptive to therapy. Our goal for this time period is to release a public version of our product to the Meta App lab marketplace.

TROES Corp. is a Canadian-based, advanced battery energy storage company, specializing in smart distributed energy storage solutions. Based on the LiFePO4 technology, TROES develops, designs, manufactures and delivers high-performance, rigorously tested, innovative, AI-based IoT and cloud-based energy storage systems. The systems are integrated with TROES’ proprietary battery modules, Battery Management Systems (BMS), Enclosures and Power […]

To maintain grain quality, grain drying is essential to turn the newly harvested grain from a high moisture content, high temperature and easily spoiled state to a safe condition for transportation or storage. Convection grain dryers are the most widely-used grain dryers around the world, however, the design of dryers nowadays is still mainly based […]

Products have to meet high customer satisfaction standards, low production costs in order to compete in the global market. Comparing with conventional production techniques, the additive manufacturing (AM) technology can construct complicated forms with more efficiency. In order to produce high quality 3D printed parts, the appropriate selection of printing parameters is crucial. Advanced parameter […]

Bird populations in North America have been in decline since mid-1900s due to a multitude of stressors including pesticide use, habitat loss, predation by cats, as well as window and vehicle collisions. Tommy Thompson Park is a constructed wilderness park in Toronto (Ontario) that is along the migratory path for many species that are exhibiting […]

Cloning technique using somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) is valuable in agricultural field since it used to generate elite animals. However, there are various limitations in cloning animals such as occurrence of fetal disease and low success rate. In this project, we aim to optimize a safer and more stable technique that can replace cloning. […]

Entrepreneurship often refers to the founding of new businesses. However, new perspectives see the benefit of entrepreneurship for other areas of individual and social well-being. Such a change in perspective allows us to see the benefit of teaching about entrepreneurship at younger ages. This project aims to investigate possibilities of an online platform for providing […]

As modern software is getting more complex, it is of great importance to ensure software reliability. Up to now, the most practical way of building high-reliable software is via a huge amount of testing and debugging. Therefore, software defect prediction, a technique to predict defects in software artifacts, has gained popularity by lessening the burden […]

For this project, Jenn Rickert will work with the game company Certain Affinity in order to develop an understanding of best practices for game development in the modern era. More and more, society is accepting that the virtual world is often as real as the physical world in the minds of its participants. To this […]