The COE Summer Internship Cluster consists of seven sub-projects sponsored by six different industry partners. Each sub-project represents an important challenge for its sponsor. These subprojects include understanding predictors of service variation and of return-to-work outcomes within the Physiotherapy program at WorkSafeBC; scheduling at Tree Island Industries; optimization of work flow for a set of […]

Extreme conditions in Oil and Gas industry often impose conflicting demands for the optimum mechanical properties as well as long term corrosion resistance. The internal and external side of the pipeline are usually exposed to different environments and are required to possess different characteristics. It is difficult to find a single material to satisfy all […]

Dynamic pricing models create price by assessing total cost, demand, and timing to customize the price to the moment. The models enable both buyers and sellers to settle a price that is very custom to their specific needs. Bison Transport Inc. has a network model that monitors profit and a pricing engine that monitors margin. […]

Analyzing needs is essential in any innovation project. A product/service should be designed and developed according to users’ needs so that it could be successful in the market and satisfy its users. However, it is not just the users who are interacting with a product. Designers, developers, project managers, business analysts and other stakeholders might […]

Road safety affects everyone, and companies are looking for ways to identify the risk factors for their fleet drivers, and to reduce the chance of accidents. This project will build on Geotab’s existing methods for assessing driving risks, and develop new techniques to better identify risky drivers and risky behaviours. The project will focus on […]

Road safety affects everyone, not just Geotab customers. With several years of driving and environmental data collected from over 2 million connected vehicles, there is a great opportunity to leverage big data and machine learning to establish a minor collision detection system. On top of driving data and environmental data, it also contains machine diagnostic […]

Un projet d’expansion portuaire soulève plusieurs enjeux, notamment au regard de l’atténuation des impacts négatifs qu’auront les activités de camionnage pour la construction du nouveau terminal. L’enjeu de la fluidité aux points de contrôle (guérites d’accès au port) du transport routier entrant et sortant est ciblé dans ce projet. Les deux guérites existantes sont sujettes […]

Parking is a cumbersome part of auto travel in urban areas, primarily due to lack of information on the location of available spots. Sensors can be deployed to detect occupancy, but they often fail due to their high costs and detection inefficiencies in outdoor spaces. This project pursues a feasibility study of using LIDAR sensors, […]

Thales Canada, Transportation Solutions has a long history of developing automated train systems. The company has designed a new autonomous train system that contains a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), e.g., GPS, sensor input using corrected GNSS measurements. Thales and York University’s GNSS Laboratory are proposing in this Mitacs Accelerate proposal that one senior doctoral […]

Aircraft Pilot Coupling (APC) may arise when airframe structural modes encroach into the frequency range of human senses, biodynamics and control, which is becoming more relevant given the increasingly flexible and optimized airframes of next-generation aircraft. The phenomenon is characterized by oscillations sensed by the aircraft crew and passengers that negatively impact the ride quality. […]

Innovation Maritime is providing technical service to the advancement of the marine sector. In partnership with Innovation Maritime, this project aims developing planning optimization tools to be embedded in one of their decision support software for supporting a federal Crown corporation responsible of providing safe and efficient marine pilotage services to vessels transiting in the […]

La filière de l’hydrogène est en pleine effervescence au Québec. Pour accélérer son déploiement, de nouvelles utilisations de l’hydrogène doivent être ciblés. L’industrie lourde, ses activités industriels et les parcs industriels et portuaires qui les abritent sont de potentiels utilisateurs d’hydrogène. Ce projet vise à identifier de nouvelles utilisations de l’hydrogène dans un parc industriel […]