Due to rapid development of technology, such as the Internet of Things, collecting data is easier and cheaper than ever before. As a result, municipal governments and urban centres across Canada are being inundated with data—data that have potential to improve public service. Despite this, local governments do not have enough data expertise to extract […]

Battery electric busses (BEBs) are a promising emerging technology to replace the diesel buses currently the mainstay of public road transportation. Diesel buses contributed significantly to both climate-change related emissions, as well as local air quality issues. This project is examining a number of key issues associated with BEB adoption, in the context of a […]

This MITACS internship will support Julie Fortin, an MSc student whose focus is on developing new techniques for analyzing oblique historical mountain survey images based on the world’s largest systematic collection of historical mountain survey images, the Mountain Legacy Project. Her research is driven by questions about shifts in biodiversity over time, built atop biodiversity […]

NXTSens has developed an implantable continuous monitoring, stand-alone and potentially mass-producible microsensor for accurate monitoring of tissue pressure and temperature in damaged limb muscles to better diagnose ACS. The proposed research will involve several sub-projects that include: i) develop appropriate surgical models for the accurate and reproducible placement of the microsensors in rodent compartments; ii) […]

Les organisations de haut savoir font face à un défi d’envergure : le départ à la retraite dans un futur proche d’un nombre important de cadres dirigeants et experts dont elles dépendent grandement. Ce projet de recherche a pour but de mettre en lumière les principaux enjeux liés au transfert des connaissances et de munir […]

Medicago, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has the potential to rapidly develop a vaccine in response to a newly sequenced influenza strain, allowing for large-scale vaccination of the population very early during a pandemic. The company would like to know how many doses of vaccine is required and what distribution strategies should be used to maximize […]

This project aims to provide much needed evidence to non-profit organizations working with vulnerable children and their families in five inner city schools. The All in for Youth initiative is a collaboration of eight organizations offering integrated, multi-dimensional supports to improve academic outcomes and resiliency of vulnerable children, support family health and stability, get communities […]

The visualization/decision support work encompassed by this application addresses key elements of the upgrade path for that strategic part of IBM Canada’s smarter cities product and service portfolio– as urban transport systems evolve, their escalating complexity requires more advanced visualization tools and practices. The specific project proposed for development within the MITACS brief is:• development […]

Le lac Saint-Charles, principale source d’eau potable de la ville de Québec, a connu un vieillissement accéléré au cours des dernières années, en raison des plantes aquatiques et des sédiments qui le comblent graduellement. Cette situation est en bonne partie due à une surabondance d’azote et de phosphore dans un milieu où la rareté de […]

Le projet de recherche portera sur la gestion des risques dans l’industrie maricole québécoise. Les mariculteurs du Québec seront interrogés afin d’identifier et de classer les risques présents dans leur industrie. Des stratégies de gestion des risques et, si possible, des mesures d’atténuation seront par la suite proposées, en se basant notamment sur les stratégies […]

Le lac Saint-Charles est la source d’eau potable qui alimente plusieurs municipalités sur le territoire métropolitain de Québec, près de 300 000 personnes. La forte urbanisation de son bassin versant a accéléré sa dégradation. Les données scientifiques laissent croire que cette dégradation pourrait être irréversible si les actions requises ne sont pas mises en œuvre […]

Le lac Saint-Charles est une source d’eau potable qui alimente plusieurs municipalités sur le territoire métropolitain de Québec, soit 300 000 personnes. L’urbanisation de son bassin versant a contribué à sa dégradation. L’objectif du projet est de faire un bilan hydrologique afin de tracer et de quantifier les sources des contaminants dans le lac. L’APEL […]