This project focuses on developing an innovative, automated wearable oxygen delivery system specifically designed to improve the quality of life for individuals with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and other respiratory ailments. By incorporating advanced sensor technology, the system will dynamically adjust oxygen flow based on the user’s real-time respiratory needs, allowing for greater mobility […]

Selon Design Montréal (2021), 89 % des entreprises en design et architecture au Québec sont des petites et moyennes entreprises (PME). Les travailleur(e)s du design sont reconnus comme un atout pour l’innovation et la créativité des entreprises québécoises (MÉIÉQ, 2011). De meilleures connaissances sur les caractéristiques de leur pratique aideraient à renforcer l’influence bénéfique du […]

Medventions is a full-time 14 week paid program that allows students and new graduates to take part in physician-led, hospital-based fellowship training. Fellows come from different areas of study and will get hands on experience in a clinical setting with innovators and experienced mentors. It equips fellows to identify priority healthcare needs and develop their […]

Depuis 2005, la possibilité annuelle forestière au Québec est calculée par le Forestier en Chef à l’aide de logiciels perfectionnés qui utilisent des données empiriques pour prédire les volumes de bois futurs. WSP est souvent appelé à travailler sur ces calculs. Cette méthode supporte l’hypothèse que ces conditions vont se maintenir au court des rotations […]

La modernisation du système DCS MOD300 ABB au sein de la Direction d’épuration des eaux usées à la station Jean-R. Marcotte de la Ville de Montréal vise à améliorer l’efficacité opérationnelle et la fiabilité des processus industriels. Les objectifs incluent le développement d’un nouveau standard de programmation des contrôleurs DCS AC800M ABB pour optimiser les […]

New Brunswick municipalities have undergone transformative change due to the white paper on Local Government Reform. While municipal reform has focused on the structural elements of communities, it has not undertaken the financial reform that is long overdue. The provincial government is beginning to discuss reforms, the Union of Municipalities of New Brunswick is looking […]

The purpose of this research is to conduct a baseline assessment of the food system in Prince Rupert, BC. This will be accomplished through the inventory and analysis of local food assets. Defined as the local food infrastructure that maintains food secure communities, food assets include grocery stores, community gardens, student nutrition programs, and food […]

The proposed research project focuses on studying the urban heat island effect, which is a phenomenon where urban areas experience higher temperatures in urban areas than their surroundings. This effect can impact public health, energy usage, and urban planning. The research will use advanced analysis techniques to understand how different factors like building characteristics and […]

The Tsawout Nation has partnered with a local seaweed farming company, Cascadia Seaweed, to employ a suite of techniques for both marine monitoring and mariculture within a recently-established Marine Protected Area (QEN’T) in their traditional territory. A primary goal and next step for QEN’T is to monitor ecologically and/or culturally important marine animals, and to […]

Municipalities of all sizes are increasingly being asked to take on a greater role in terms of citizen-based lives, and extending their policy and planning purview into domains such as community sustainability and resilience, community economic development, functional regional development, and addressing the diversity of needs and expectations coming from both new-comers to Canada, and […]

The meaningful issues that are deeply-rooted in the Downtown East Toronto include poverty, homelessness, housing, community safety, mental health, substance use and the drug poisoning crisis. Challenges accessing formal systems for support and resources results from experiences with overlapping systems of exclusion and intersecting points of oppressions like stigma, racism or gender. The main question […]

Dans ce projet, on propose de produire du mobilier urbain (pièces extérieures) à partir de matières 100% recyclées. Pour ce faire, des plastiques flexibles (films, pellicules, sacs, etc.) en fin de vie seront récupérés pour être utilisés ensemble (mélanges de résines) ou avec l’ajout d’autres résidus solides. Ces résidus seront sélectionnés parmi les matières disponibles […]