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Engineering - chemical / biological

Methodology Research on Business Process Reengineering with a Neutral Information Model of ERPs

McCoy recognizes U of A’s capability in engineering informatics and has approached U of A to conduct a joint research program to investigate a methodology applicable to McCoy’s unique business practice nature for implementing a new enterprise resources planning system. The most challenging research aspect of novelty is the requirement of a neutral information model that is to be developed in support of the transition from the existing ERP to the future system with the minimum data reengineering effort. McCoy and U of A would like to leverage MITACS Internship Cluster Program to anchor this joint research effort. Under this program, over a period of 2 years, 12 intern units are planned for three graduate students. The key benefits for McCoy Company are the development of a well investigated methodology framework and the manpower knowledge fusion and training throughout the project. 

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yongsheng Ma

Student:

Hongyi Liu, Jingxing Wei, Yanan Xie, Luis Campos, Narges Sajadfar

Partner:

McCoy

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Accumulation by Dispossession or Dispossessing Strategies of Accumulation in the Indian Periphery?

The proposed project will investigate the rise of grassroots resistance to industrial development in rural India. Research centres around a memorandum of understanding (MOU) negotiated in 2005 between the Government of Odisha (a coastal state in north-east India) and Pohang Steel Company of South Korea (POSCO) to construct the largest integrated steel plant in South Asia. Valued at $US 12 billion, it remains the largest single foreign direct investment (FDI) contract in India’s history. Despite the promise of growth and development for one of India’s most
impoverished regions, however, the project was vehemently resisted by local groups for over a decade, and today has been all but formally abandoned. In collaboration with Raju J. Das, an economic geographer at York University, and B. K. Sahoo, an economics professor at IIT Kharagpur, I will determine how and why the megaproject was rejected, and what this has meant for state legitimacy in the region as a consequence. The project will also contribute empirical findings to bourgeoning literature on the class character of struggle over industrialization and dispossession in the Indian periphery. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raju Das

Student:

Jarren Richards

Partner:

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Controller Development and Validation for Extreme Maneuvering of Agile Fixed-Wing UAVs

Historically, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) – also referred to as remotely piloted aircraft or drones – have most commonly been associated with military applications. In recent years, however, there has been a shift in interest towards civilian applications and a corresponding increase in research and development in this area. UAVs typically fall into two categories: fixedwing and rotorcraft. Fixed-wing aircraft – such as airplanes – generate lift by moving forward and creating airflow over their wings. Rotorcraft – such as helicopters – achieve their lift from rotating blades. Rotorcraft are usually used for tasks requiring superior handling and agility, however, they lack the endurance of fixed-wing aircraft. The proposed research aims to help bridge the gap between these two categories of UAVs by increasing the agility of fixed-wing aircraft, and thus broadening their suitability for missions requiring endurance and maneuverability. This will be accomplished by designing and testing onboard computer systems to automate extreme maneuvers with fixed-wing UAVs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Meyer Nahon

Student:

Joshua Levin

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Study on Alkylation of Benzene with Methanol over ZSM-5 Zeolite with controllable Internal and External Surface Acidity

The research project is studying the reaction of benzene to produce toluene and xylene is very useful as both of these products have great commercial value. The challenge that is being researched is to make this reaction more efficient by minimizing the sub-reactions that happen simultaneously, specifically the reaction of methanol to olefins. These sub-reactions tend to interfere with the main reaction and cause less of an output of the desired product. In order to minimize these reactions, Zeolites (which are porous minerals that can be taken from nature or synthesized artificially and act at a catalyst for certain reactions) will be manipulated to control the reaction. The varying aspect will be the acidity of the surface of the Zeolite that will inhibit the methanol from reacting into olefins.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jesse Zhu

Student:

Haley Overholt

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

University:

Western University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Study of the cure of CIR and FDR emulsion treated materials

The proposed research project is on asphalt rehabilitation materials called cold in-place recycling (CIR) and full depth reclamation (FDR). Those pavement rehabilitation techniques are gaining popularity because of their lower cost and their lower environmental footprint than conventional pavement reconstruction. In both case, asphalt pavement, and a part of the granular base for FDR, are pulverized and mixed with asphalt emulsion, at room temperature, before being compacted. In the field, those materials have proven their efficiency. In order to characterize those in laboratory, there is a need to make a cure. The cure is the time that the material needs to reach its bearing capacity. There is actually no standardized cure which results in very different mechanical results from the specimens from different laboratory. In this project, it’s proposed to study the effect of the length and temperature of the  cure. Post-compaction, to simulate the effect of traffic during the cure, will also be studied. For that, the student will test different mix with different curing protocol in the hope to better understand the cure and established a universal cure methodology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alan Carter

Student:

Marc-André Bérubé

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Identifying students’ thinking skills based on the pattern analysis of their interaction behaviours observed in virtual worlds

Virtual worlds, like Second Life, have been adopted by researchers to assess students’ understandings of the knowledge they have learned.
Students’ performances of solving the challenges and quests in the virtual worlds can be treated as their overall mastery of the taught concepts and skills. However, the answers of the questions like “do they have a clear idea of what concepts, theorems, and procedures the challenges involve” and “how familiar are they with the procedural knowledge and its associated objects (i.e.., equipment and tools) that fit their needs while solving the challenges” remain unknown. This research project aims to find the answers to the two questions by analyzing students’ interactions with the objects in the virtual world from both of intensity and time spent viewpoints. This research also aims to develop a metrics of mapping and measuring a student’s mastery level for each learning objective covered by objects in the virtual world based on his or her extracted interaction behaviour pattern. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maiga Chang

Student:

Vahid Bahreman

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

Athabasca University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Sleep quality and weaning from mechanical ventilation: a physiological clinical study

In mechanically ventilated critically ill patients, sleep disruption may contribute to prolonged weaning leading to longer intensive care unit stay and hospital mortality. It was reported that sleep disruption affects the outcome of noninvasive ventilation and we hypothesize that it may also have an impact in mechanically ventilated patients on the weaning outcome. We propose to perform a prospective, observational, clinical physiologic study to evaluate sleep quality and quantity by using a standard polysomnography (PSG) to evaluate the link between sleep disruption and the outcome of weaning. In order to adress this important question, we will
– Compare sleep quality and quantity in patients who pass and fail weaning assessment
– Compare sleep quality before and after extubation
– Validate the use of a technique to quantify sleep stages (Odd Ratio Product) as a continuous measure of sleep depth in comparison to standard PSG.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laurent Brochard

Student:

Tài Olivier PHAM

Partner:

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Augmented Reality in Surgery

Augmented Reality (AR) is the combination of virtual images with real objects in order to improve perception. It is a rapidly growing field and has many applications in medicine. For this research project we would like to apply AR to the surgical site during a simulated operation in order to provide additional information and improve surgical performance. This will involve making 3D models from CT scan data, setting up a projection system to display those models into the surgical site and tracking the movement of the organs being operated on to maintain an accurate projection. Surgeons will be recruited to perform a surgical task with and without the AR system in order to measure their performance and receive feedback on their experience with the AR system. This information will aid in the development of new medical technology that assists with surgery as well as exploring how AR affects users whose tasks require great skill and focus.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre Boulanger

Student:

Ian Watts

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Development of digital microfluidic based photonic nano-biosensor (Lab-on—chip) for the detection of E. coli

Child morbidity and mortality rates are directly influenced by pathogens that are present in our every day lives. In India, densely populated areas have seen increases in affected children over recent years. In order to combat the increasing rate of antimicrobial resistant pathogens such as E. coli, an easy to use, practical and cost effective detection system will be developed on a microfluidic platform. Digital microfluidics are essentially small labs on a chip that analyse properties of fluids through various means. An existing optical biosensor for E. coli has been developed at IIT Bombay. This project will integrate the existing optical E. coli sensor onto a microfluidic platform that will allow for rapid hands-free testing of fluid samples. If successful, a cost effective E. coli detection unit will be developed on a digital microfluidic device that can be used without sending any samples to a laboratory.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mina Hoorfar

Student:

André van den Berg

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia Okanagan

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Between free market and national regulation: Chinese telecommunications and Internet policy in post-WTO era

My research project examines the regulation of China’s Internet telecommunication sectors in the post-WTO era. It situates the current state of regulation (media ownership, competition,foreign-direct-investment, and content controls) against the historical development of Chinese telecommunication and internet industries. Using two case studies to illustrate contradictions and problems in regulating national internet and telecommunication service in an increasingly globalized market, this project looks at how media regulations are tangled in conflicting and converging political and economic interests. The study of how Chinese internet and telecommunication regulation accommodates the Central Communist Party’s political goal while harnessing the economic benefits of the internet is significant because internet and telecom policies do not only have a direct baring on free speech, democratic communication, but also on international trade and economic development. This study will provide key insights on the role of high technology in China’s rise in the changing global political and economic order.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tokunbo Ojo

Student:

Lianrui Jia

Partner:

Discipline:

Journalism / Media studies and communication

Sector:

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Examining ecosystem service changes in the Miyun watershed, China through stakeholder-driven visions of the future

The focus of this project is to explore how livelihoods are affected when changes in ecosystem services within the Miyun watershed occur. Rural households depend on ecosystem services that the landscape provides for their livelihoods. If the availability of these resources were to change, a person’s livelihood may become more vulnerable. Determining possible ecosystem service changes will be performed by scenario building stakeholder workshops. The stakeholders involved in the Miyun watershed include environmental management officials, urban residents and rural residents. Data collection will be in the form of stakeholder scenario building workshops. All of the discussion themes and ideas generated about the future of the Miyun watershed will be collected. The scenarios will reflect the ideas of desirable futures from each group of stakeholders. We expect three or four unique scenarios resulting from the stakeholder workshop meetings from which we can determine possible changes in landscape.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brian Robinson

Student:

Rachel Maynard

Partner:

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Nepali Case Assignment

In most commonly studied languages, the subjects of all sentences are marked the same way. In some less commonly studied languages including Nepali, however, subjects of transitive verbs are treated as subjects, while subjects of intransitive verbs are marked the same way as objects of transitive verbs. These are called “ergative” languages. If we imagine that English were an ergative language, the following pair of sentences would be grammatical:
“She saw him.”
“Him slept.” (rather than “He slept”).
There is an active debate among theoretical linguists about how to best explain why some languages work this way. The grammar of Nepali poses problems for many of the current theories, but Nepali is an understudied language and no account has yet been proposed to explain it. In this project we will analyze linguistic data gathered from Nepali speakers in northern India to formulate an explanation for subject marking in Nepali. Such an analysis stands to make significant contributions to the current debate on split ergative subject marking, and to what is known about the linguistic structure of Nepali.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jessica Coon

Student:

Martha Schwarz

Partner:

Discipline:

Languages and linguistics

Sector:

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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