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SMART Technologies for the Classroom: Supporting Collaboration and Inquiry Year Two

Since 1991 SMART Technologies has infused classrooms around the world with powerful interactive technologies, principally the “SMART Board” which sets a standard for interactive whiteboards. The SMART Board has been featured in many innovative designs for learning and instruction – some coming from academic research, and many from classroom teachers as they integrate touch boards into their own instructional practice. This postdoctoral research program will extend and apply my dissertation research, which centred around the role of the SMART Board as a display of student knowledge, and an entry point for knowledge building discourse. Working closely with SMART product developers, I will articulate and study new pedagogical patterns that leverage Smart technologies to help make collaboration and inquiry more accessible to teachers. The pedagogical designs that we study will employ new products from SMART including multi-touch tables and distributed “canvas” representations

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Faculty Supervisor:

James Slotta

Student:

Cresencia Fong

Partner:

SMART Technologies

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Sustainable Vertical Services using GSTC Clouds

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been recognized as one of the main flag ships of global transformation toward a sustainable future, especially because of its capabilities to substitute/virtualize human activities and services. One group of promising ICT approaches to this goal is that of service-based, resource-shared, and virtualized ICT solutions that will be the focus of this project. One of the challenges to be addressed is on how to make ICT a sustainable part of an ICT-dominated world when a marginal role for ICT is not valid in the future. We pursue a actor-based understanding of ICT-related activities, which should be capable to recognize all actors of an ICT-dominated ecosystem and also to assess their responsibility in actions and footprint of every actor involved. Disaggregation of assessments and analyses along various dimensions, including but not limited to those of spatial, temporal, and service, is a fundamental requirement. This disaggregation, which is built on multi-layer graphical representations, fairly covers the whole picture including upstream and downstream activities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mohamed Cheriet

Student:

Reza Farrahi Moghaddam

Partner:

Ericsson Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Characterization of infarct-sparing mechanisms of Celastrol and related compounds

The ability to repair or regenerate damaged heart presents a major challenge in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Current treatments are unsuccessful to regenerate dead myocardium and fail to address the challenge caused by the early loss of cardiac cells. The use of a new drug to stimulate protection of the heart during an ongoing myocardial infarct would be very relevant to the clinical setting, to help patients suffering from heart attack. Our proposed treatment with Celastrol, and other small molecules under investigation in our lab, presents an innovative pharmacological treatment to reduce damages caused by myocardial infarct. With strong preliminary data supporting our hypothesis, our team will develop and optimize this novel therapy in relevant experimental models, for eventual translation to human use. Understanding the mechanisms underlying the protective effects of Celastrol will provide insights to develop new
drugs or treatments to improve clinical outcomes in the setting of acute myocardial infarct and benefit our Canadian patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicolas Noiseux

Student:

Henry Adolfo Aceros

Partner:

Neomed

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

Program:

Accelerate

A rapid screening tool for multiple tick pathogens/Maritime tick bank

Ticks contain many different disease-causing bacteria and viruses, including the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. Multiple infections with these other pathogens in addition to Borrelia cause more severe illness. For many of these pathogens there are no or limited diagnostic tools available to detect the pathogen. This project includes production of a new product, “a rapid
screening tool for multiple tick pathogens”. This product would allow ticks to be simultaneously screened for the presence of multiple, clinically important pathogens. This tool is based on published methodology developed for European tick pathogens. Development of this tick screening product relies on the Maritime tick bank data to find regionally-specific pathogen DNA sequences, for example strain common in Eastern Canada. Development of this rapid tick pathogen screening tool is important for correct public health messaging as well as for a diagnostic aid in human and veterinary medicine.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vett Lloyd

Student:

Julie Lewis

Partner:

Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Mount Allison University

Program:

Accelerate

Dynamic forces on non-symmetrical elastic elements

The St. Lawrence River harbours a complex ecosystem whose physical properties vary from upstream to downstream. It includes lakes and freshwater reaches, a long estuary, and a gulf with marine features. The area is home to richly diverse habitats and an equally rich diversity of flora and fauna. It is a natural resource to be sustained and preserved. The attempt of SSL construction is to perform an in-water installation of precast elements. This is to avoid minimal intervention to Saint Lawrence ecosystem and life and economical cycle. This study facilitates the in-water construction and support sustainable road and infrastructure development by SSL construction.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vincent Chu

Student:

Shooka Karimpour Ghannadi

Partner:

Signature Sur Le Saint-Laurent Construction

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Hollow Microneedle Manufacturing Process Development

Microneedles are hollow needle structures made out of metal, polymer, or silicon which can be manufactured at any height up to one millimetre, with arrays from one to hundred microneedles, depending on the required playload for delivery. Microneedles platform technology can be applied in medical, cosmetic, biotechnology, and industrial applications. The partner
organization has developed a low-cost process for manufacturing hollow microneedle arrays. The intent of this project is to improve and optimize the manufacturing process to increase microneedle uniformity and manufacturing repeatability. Different fabrication processes and process sequences for creating microneedle tip opening will be investigated to increase the robustness of the prototype manufacturing process. Also, the choice of sacrificial material will be optimized to improve the metal electroplating process and device removal from the mould. These improvements are necessary for finalizing the design of the prototype and creating a Minimum Viable Product for clinical trials testing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Konrad Walus

Student:

Mehrsa Raeiszadeh

Partner:

Microdermics

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Characterization of the state of health and aging effects of Li Ion Batteries

From cell phones to laptops, from electric vehicles to medical portable devices, from renewable energy storage to emergency backup units, batteries have become an integral part of modern day electronic devices and systems. As batteries get aged, due to repeated charge and discharge cycles, the health of the battery deteriorates. The poor health of a battery can result in malfunctioning of electronic devices and therefore, it is pertinent to accurately predict the state of health of the battery so that a timely replacement could be performed. However, determination of health of a battery is a complex task, which requires sophisticated techniques and cutting edge equipment. The aim of this study is to enhance the battery health monitoring methods and hardware equipment to make it robust and efficient. Since, Cadex Electronics Inc. specializes in designing and manufacturing battery analyzer devices that determine the health
of a battery, this findings of this study will be used to improve existing battery analyzing technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

William Dunford

Student:

Hassan Shabbir

Partner:

Cadex Electronics

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

DFT calculation of H abstraction reactions of phenyl-?-naphtylamine with alkyperoxy radicals

Lubricating oil degradation is a ubiquitous problem in industrial machinery. In general, this process includes the thermal breakdown, oxidation, and polymerization of the oil molecules as they turn into undesirable by-products while the lubricant ages. Primary antioxidants, also known as radical scavengers, are regularly added to the lubricant to remove the initial peroxy and alkyl radicals. As a large number of industrial applications rely on the use of such additives, it is therefore very important to have solid knowledge of the efficiency of each type of antioxidant molecule. This project will use density functional theory (DFT) to look at a sample of three Habstraction reactions between a popular antioxidant molecule, phenyl-?-naphtylamine and a series of alkylperoxy radical molecules. These results will be used by our partner organization, GasTOPS Ltd., to refine a thermochemical model of the oil degradation process. This will allow GasTOPS engineers to design more accurate macroscopic models of the oil breakdown in industrial setups.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ronald Miller

Student:

Jean-Francois Joly

Partner:

Gastops

Discipline:

Aerospace studies

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Democracy in Authoritarianism: Public Participation in Biosafety, Biodiversity, and Climate Change politics in China

My dissertation looks into China’s three environmental policy domains, including climate change, biodiversity and biosafety (GMOs), to investigate how China’ environmental diplomacy, economic interest and political concerns of legitimacy and stability intersect to condition public participation and its effectiveness in affecting policy decisions. It seeks to illuminate not only why authoritarian regime embraces deliberation and public participation, but also how much democracy an authoritarian China can take without having to resort to suppression. While trying to map out the distribution and evolution of public opinion mobilization on the three environmental issues, my dissertation also aims to shed light on the agency of key political actors in shaping China’s environmental governance from civil society organizations, international NGOs, media (traditional and mass media), and even within the government.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yves Tiberghien

Student:

Li Guo

Partner:

Discipline:

Political science

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Value added monomers and polymers from renewable sources

Enormous research and commercial activities on utilization of bio-based materials to replace petroleum-based chemicals are currently taking place around world, aiming at the reduction of pollution and global warming. Among them, L-Cysteine which contains a thiol (-SH), amino (-NH2) group and carboxylic acid (-COOH) group. It is considered to be a unique building block for construction of a variety of functional compounds and polymers. Therefore, a series of high molecular weight polymers from L-cysteine based diketopiperazine (DKP) have been synthesized through simple and clean processes. The project intends to explore the potential application of these polymers as biocompatible materials using advanced spectroscopic instrument and testing equipment. Moreover, different star-structure compounds with L-cysteine end-group have been prepared and will be fully characterized. Their desirable usage as green surfactants would be explored by all means such as surface tension measurements and morphological study.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zhiyuan Wang

Student:

Di Zhang

Partner:

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Large-Eddy-Simulation of Brain Aneurysms

Rupture of cerebral aneurysms often leads to mortality or sever morbidity in most cases. Pathogenesis of aneurysms has been attributed to abnormal flow-induced forces that act on the vessel walls. These forces are typically measured by first recreating patient’s aneurysm model from medical images, and, afterwards, using these as input for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate blood flow. Majority of CFD-derived literature predicts stable (laminar) flow patterns, whereas our higher-order CFD simulations have shown highly unstable (“turbulentlike”) flows, consistent with experimental studies. From clinical perspective, these higher-order CFD techniques are computationally expensive and thus, infeasible. To reduce the computation times while maintaining accuracy, we aim to use Large-eddy-simulation techniques, an area of expertise of Dr. Nicoud’s group who have recently applied it to heart flows. This unique collaborative initiative between two world-leading groups will, for the first time, investigate the clinical feasibility of LES techniques for aneurysm rupture risk assessment, with an aim to reduce the computation times.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David A. Steinman

Student:

Muhammad Owais Khan

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Evaluating the potential of supplemental irrigation to increase agricultural and water productivity in India with climate change

Agriculture demands more water than any other process in the world and is related to 90% of water use in India. India irrigates nearly half of all its cultivated land, while groundwater resources are being depleted at a rate that is threatening the endurance of India’s agricultural economy. The interplay between food security, water resources, energy, and livelihoods necessitates evaluating and integrating initiatives that increase agricultural production while reducing demands on water resources. Supplemental irrigation is the practise of minimally irrigating in an effort to increase water productivity – the amount of crop produced per unit of water. Our investigation will evaluate the potential for supplemental irrigation to increase both crop production and water security in the Mehsana region of Gujarat where the depletion of groundwater is particularly acute. Our results will provide a range of increases in productivity relating to different supplemental irrigation adoption scenarios under both present and future periods using different climate projections.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jan Adamowski

Student:

Mikhail Smilovic

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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