In June 2011 Manitoba Hydro announced an investigation into the installation of a biomass gasification power plant to displace fossil fuel use at the off-grid community of Brochet Manitoba (Electrical Line Magazine, 2011). High and increasingly volatile fuel costs, risk of air and ground-water pollution, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and the challenge of delivering diesel […]

This project aims build an autonomous underwriting system that can provide debt financing to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the technology sector without human intervention. The research will explore mathematical methods and key factors that are unique to evaluating creditworthiness of those SMEs. The result will be an underwriting system that incorporates statistical methods […]

Conventional power systems rely on synchronous machines for generation of power and also for formation of an interconnected network of generation to which loads are connected via a transmission system (known as a grid). Increasingly renewable sources of energy are interconnected to a grid via power electronic converters. These converters have been traditionally operated with […]

The general aim of this proposal is to discover new natural products with antibacterial activity of relevance to companion animal health. While numerous discoveries of natural products have been made, the rate of discovery of new natural products has declined in recent years. The strategy outlined in this project aims to provide a streamlined approach […]

Meeting Canada’s commitment to the Paris Agreement will require a fundamental shift in the energy systems of Canadian cities. Regina, Saskatchewan is located in the sun-belt of Canada and also lies within the Great Plains wind corridor. Recognizing this potential for renewable energy, the City of Regina has committed to a target of meeting 100% […]

The Internet of things is a global infrastructure that enables advanced services by interconnecting physical and virtual things like smartphones, sensors, computers, machines or buildings. These devices typically create enormous amounts of data that can be used to create business value. Mnubo offers a software dubbed Smart Objects that is a comprehensive, full stack IoT […]

Several Ontario regions have agreed to reduce their carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. However, many of these cities don’t actually have a plan for how they’ll reach this noble but challenging goal. In response, the Waterloo Global Science Initiative (WGSI) (in partnership with several Waterloo Region collaborators) has created a prototype board game called […]

Les forces armees canadiennes sont appelees a consolider leur presence eta intensifier leurs operations dans le Nord canadien. La plupart de ces operations requierent des infrastructures (batiments, chemins et pistes d’atterrissage) et une grande capacite de mobilite terrestre. Les environnements pergelisoles qui caracterisent une grande proportion du territoire nordique Canadien sont potentiellement tres instables et […]

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 […]

Within this project, interns will review the peer-review literature on the four different topics: (1) Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), (2) Hydraulic Fracturing, (3) Anomalous Induced Seismicity, (4) Surface and Ground Water access, transport, flowback chemistry, conservation, recycling, treatment and disposal after use in hydraulic fracturing operations. The aim of the project is to perform the […]

I will be focusing my study on a small tidal marsh called Frenchies Island within the South Arm Marshes of the Fraser River, which has become overrun with an invasive species of cattail. Frenchies, like many tidal marsh islands has had a dike constructed around its perimeter and has therefore been cut off from the […]

Highly accurate 3D object detectors require significant computational resources, and reducing computation and memory load while maintaining the same level of performance is a critical task for any safe and reliable autonomous vehicle. This research project investigates the deployment of an accurate 3D object detection model to a resource constrained architecture by changing the model […]