In the proposed project, the intern will develop circuits through simulation for broadband impedance matching for high-frequency surface-wave radar antennas transmitting at HF frequencies. This will allow the range resolution of transmitting antennas to be improved so that targets, as well as ocean surface wave and current parameters, may be respectively better detected and estimated. […]

Canadian salmon production is the fourth largest farmed salmon industry in the world. Farmed salmon is British Columbia’s (BC) largest agri-food export with a total economic output of $1.6 billion annually, which represents 60% of total production in Canada. Approximately, 90,000 tonnes of farmed salmon are produced in BC every year which in turn supports […]

L’intérêt de la recherche réside dans le fait qu’une entreprise comme Certex envoie à l’enfouissement entre 750 et 1000 tonnes de rebuts de textile annuellement. Les auteurs Stall–Meadows et al. (2012) affirment que près de 100% de ce type de rebuts pourrait être recyclé.13 L’objet de cette étude consiste à évaluer les perspectives de défibrer […]

L’objectif général du projet, divisé en trois stages, vise l’amélioration des procédés d’assemblage et de calibration des instruments ICOS pour la mesure précise de gaz jusqu’à des concentrations aussi faibles que des parties par milliards (PPT). Les deux premiers stages ont pour but d’améliorer les outils de calibration des systèmes ICOS, plus spécifiquement en utilisant […]

The world’s stringent need to transition to a low-carbon industrial economy is more pressing than ever. It is imperative to innovate, develop, and implement revolutionary technologies that use low-carbon-intensity energy generation sources and have an intrinsic negative GHG emission factor while being economically profitable. The electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction to fuels and chemicals coupled with […]

Conventional camera sensors record three color channels: red, green and blue. In this project we will investigate computational photography algorithms for cameras that record a near-infrared channel (NIR) in addition to RGB. This channel is particularly useful for biometric imaging and holds great potential in consumer imaging applications as well. The key challenge in simultaneously […]

Current planning/business analytics platforms automate time-consuming manual budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes to help business users (e.g., financial officer, human resources, merchandising, marketing, or sales) make business decisions. Moreover, end users often use the interactive “what-if” analyses to understand the data from different perspectives and gain insights. However, the current way of presenting the analysis […]

Materials fatigue has a detrimental impact upon the lifetime and cost-effectiveness of turbine equipment in Hydro-Québec’s energy production division. Metal fatigue, in turn, is linked to it internal microstructure, that developed in a metal during its fabrication or repair through welding, as is often done to damaged hydroelectric turbine blades that break during operation. The […]

Water scarcity threatens more and more people in the world. Cape Town (South Africa) imposed strict water restrictions in 2018 in response to shortages. Closer to home, water restrictions were put into place in Quebec in the summer of 2020, and First Nation communities have been confronted with fresh water issues for years. Water scarcity […]

UAVs are becoming essential solutions in a wide range of industries. In this market growth, the potential of UAVs to fly in indoor environments represents a massive opportunity for companies. In particular, for applications such as medical care, search and rescue operations, and industrial management and inspections. The main concern of UAVs flying indoors is […]

Breast cancer affect one out of eight women worldwide. Triple-negative breast cancer is an invasive breast cancer that is estrogen receptor-negative, progesterone receptor-negative, and HER2-negative. Triple-negative breast cancer is a type of breast cancer that is usually more aggressive, harder to treat, and more likely to come back (recur) than cancers that are hormone receptor-positive […]

Quantum computers are no longer fantasises of distant future. Recent advances in quantum computing hardware as well quantum algorithms offer a wide variety of possibilities to improve existing classical algorithms. Some of the operations involved in the standard classical algorithms might be performed much more efficiently using quantum machines. The current proposal will explore the […]