Exploring the agronomic and soil health benefits of liming in the Prairies

Soil acidity in Alberta and northeastern British Columbia has been recognized as a problem since the early 1960’s. With the current application of N fertilizers, this problem has persisted making it unsustainable to maintain high crop yields in the long term. This project hypothesizes that the one-time application of lime to increase soil pH will […]

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Développement et synthèse du polymère Lubrium

Le Lubrium est un polymère synthétique mimant l’activité d’une glycoprotéine naturelle, la lubricine (protéoglycan-4), qui est présente à différents endroits du corps humain, notamment à la surface des cartilages des articulations. En effet, l’arthrose est une pathologie très handicapante ayant un développement progressif avec des prévalences respectives de 20% (7 millions de cas) et 26% […]

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Optimisation du procédé de fabrication d’éléments chauffants à base de fibre de carbone

Traditionnellement, les dispositifs employés pour chauffer individuellement à l’électricité les pièces sont conçus à base de métal, lamelles ou spirales, où l’ont fait circuler un courant afin de les chauffer. Pour assurer un chauffage adéquat au plus fort de l’hiver nord-américain, les plinthes chauffantes doivent avoir un volume minimal de métal, ce qui résulte en […]

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Valorisation des matières résiduelles textiles(de l’entreprise Certex) envoyées au sited’enfouissement

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 […]

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Hardy Sales-Operations and Supply Chain Intern-Abhishek

Hardy Sales, one of the most reliable suppliers for perishable foods in Western Canada, distributes meat, deli, seafood, and bakery items to both Retail and Food Service customers through using warehouse facilities located in British Columbia and Alberta. A family business that opened doors in 1982, operating out of one of the owners’ basements, Hardy […]

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Robot control using artificial intelligence for high diversity and low volume production sites

NeuroBotIA aims at tackling problematics of manufacturing SME such as the shortage of qualified workers. Currently, Canada is facing a labor shortage of 39% which will increase overtime due to younger generation interest in professional job and population growth decrease. Therefore, NeuroBotIA will develop technology to alleviate labor shortage using intelligent robots. This project aims […]

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Aurora Heat North America Expansion Project

Aurora Heat is an Indigenous and female-led organization that offers a variety of natural and reusable hand, foot, and body warmers. Since 2015, these wholly biodegradable warmers have captured the heart of customers looking to replace single-use and chemical-based products that are harmful to the environment. With thousands of customers across Canada, it has also […]

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Lenmark Industries LTD-Digital Marketing Assistant-Ashley

Founders Leonard and Mark Buhler have started Lenmark in 2016, with buying and selling equipment auctions, but they have quickly realized that there must be a better way for people and businesses to transact equipment and assets. This is how the idea was born and the development moved on from here, towards growing a business […]

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Lifelong learning for service robots

Traditionally, software for home products could not be changed once they were shipped. Furthermore, they could not run complex machine learning (ML) models because their computing and storage capacities are limited due to budget constraints. Recent advancements of cloud infrastructure, however, may allow such products to collect a large amount of data and continuously update […]

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Leavitt Machinery-Accounts Payable Intern-Maryem

This project will help provide solutions to our client’s problems and the Accounts Payable Intern will be learning about centralizing accounts payable processing and reporting across the enterprise. In addition, this project will support the organization to move towards a paperless processing environment. The intern will get exposure to our accounting systems and will provide […]

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Leavitt Machinery – Marketing & Sales Intern-Shaun & William

This internship project will be exponential in expanding the brand name and the customer base. The interns will conduct market and comparative research and will develop further relationships by contacting prospective qualifying clients. In addition, the project involves conducting a market search to identify and compare various costs of machinery parts. The interns leading this […]

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Corn root growth and rhizosphere bacterial taxa from the biological promoter Humic Land under field conditions

Humic Land is a 100% organic fertilizer that was produced from black peat using innovative technology that protects live soil microorganisms. It contains complex organic compounds known as humic substances and a microbial consortia that can biologically promote the growth of field crops. When Humic Land is applied to corn in a nitrogen-limited environment, the […]

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