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Techno-Economic Feasibility of Eavor-Loop Electrolytic Hydrogen Production

Hydrogen fuel is currently being explored as a replacement for diesel, which is heavily relied upon for long-haul transportation. The benefits of hydrogen fuel include carbon-free emissions (US Department of Energy, n.d.) and quick refueling (FuelCellWorks, 2021). There are logistical and financial issues with transportation and storage of hydrogen, and using green, dispatchable energy for hydrogen production on site solves these issues. The Eavor-Loop 2.0 design is a closed loop that extends approximately 7km into the ground and provides ample subsurface area for heat exchange with 12 multilateral passes. (Eavor Technologies Inc., 2022). The components of the proposed site design would include an Eavor-Loop, an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) generator to convert heat to electricity, and an electrolyser system to convert electricity to hydrogen. This project will include a preliminary life cycle analysis (LCA) for materials required to produce a comparable amount of hydrogen using an Eavor-Loop with an ORC generator versus energy from wind and solar.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roman J Shor

Student:

Partner:

Eavor Technologies

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Integrating social enterprise elements within a sexual assault centre

The purpose of this project is to develop and pilot a social enterprise for a sexual assault centre. In this context, the term social enterprise refers to adding revenue-generating services to the sexual assault centre. The proposed idea for the social enterprise is to offer training modules and educational material on a variety of topics. The project consists of creating, marketing, and implementing accessible training modules. Research conducted will include focus group to test out the training material. The additional revenue generated would contribute to maintaining current and future programs and services. The social enterprise would also aid in promoting the mission and values of the sexual assault centre throughout the province.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alyson Byrne

Student:

Partner:

NF & LAB Sexual Assault Crisis and Prevention Centre Inc.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

The Effects of the Tripartite Intervention on Attitudes Toward Disability

The proposed research project aims to understand junior students’ (grades 4-6) attitudes towards disability. The students are part of an inclusive school board in Ontario. The research will be done through the use of three surveys, two worksheets, and an intervention utilizing parasport athletes. Surveys and worksheets will be given to students before and after the intervention and again at the end of the school year to determine if the intervention made an impact on their attitudes towards disability. Parasport Ontario has a specific goal to gain more exposure to local school boards, thus they will benefit from this partnership. CTC is committed to inclusivity and this research, if the intervention is successful, will provide CTC with another program to advertise to families, educators, and school boards.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Freer;Monique Somma

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Tire Corporation;ParaSport Ontario

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

The Effect of Integrated Crop Management on Weed Phenology and Weed Persistance

Weeds can adapt to diverse crop management practices altering their growth, phenology (timing of developmental events such as emergence, flowering, seed production etc), and seed persistence (seed viability and dormancy). Managing herbicide resistance in weeds with integrated weed management and reducing greenhouse gas emissions with integrated nutrient management are becoming the two most important crop production strategies in the prairies at present. In this research project, our goal is to determine the effect of INM and IWM practices and their interactions on weed abundance, phenology (emergence, time to flowering and seed shatter), and persistence (germination traits). The interns will be engaged in establishing the field and greenhouse experiments, collecting weed and crop growth and development data using conventional methods (density, biomass, plant height etc) as well as using drone-based remote sensing data. All these data will be utilized to determine how crop-weed competition is altered due to changes in IWM and INM practices and how weeds demonstrate adaptations to changes in crop production practices. This project other than training HQPs, will generate new knowledge on weed adaptation and how farm management practices can influence weed persistence.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dilshan Benaragama;Robert Gulden

Student:

Partner:

Manitoba Crop Alliance;Saskatchewan Wheat Development Commission

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Risques d’érosion et d’inondation côtière au Nouveau-Brunswick

Le projet s’inscrit dans le plan d’action du Nouveau-Brunswick d’atténuation des impacts de la hausse du niveau marin, des ondes de tempête et de l’érosion sur les localités côtières de la province. Les infrastructures côtières comme les bâtiments et les routes auront un risque accru d’inondation parce que la mer sera de plus en plus haute et que les hauts niveaux d’eau de tempête atteindront des surfaces jusque-là hors d’atteinte causant des dommages importants. De plus, l’érosion du littoral sera accélérée par cette hausse du niveau marin, par le fait que les glaces hivernales qui protègent les côtes diminueront pour finir par disparaître et que les tempêtes seront possiblement plus violentes. L’étude va déterminer les nouvelles zones à risque futur d’érosion et d’inondation pour appuyer la planification et l’aménagement des localités vulnérables.

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Faculty Supervisor:

André Robichaud

Student:

Partner:

2Pixels Geomatics

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Moncton

Program:

Accelerate

Regional and individual-level factors influencing common loon reproductive success

We will use several databases from Canada and the USA which hold more than 30 years of scientific survey and citizen-science observations of common loon breeding on lakes across eastern and central North America, to determine regional population trajectories and evaluate what threats or factors might explain variation in reproductive success. We will also focus on a multi-decadal study of individually-marked loons to see how fine-scale, local factors compare to broad regional factors influencing loon reproduction. The information will help the partners and stakeholders inform and tailor ongoing research and monitoring, including a national citizen science program, and will yield key information to wildlife managers for managing loon populations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Mallory

Student:

Partner:

Birds Canada (ON)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Arts, entertainment and recreation; Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Acadia University

Program:

Accelerate

Flexible and fully integrated power patch for self-powering sensors

Nowadays the most rewarding aspect of engineering is to create solutions to the needs of society in a natural and resource efficient manner, therefore we must come up with more innovative and resource efficient solutions. One such solution can be a novel, flexible and scalable power-patch, which integrates an inductive coupling, a power conversion and conditioning unit and a super capacitor based energy storage system using a state-of-the-art polymer integration and packaging technology. All three components of power-patch can be printed individually using low-cost inkjet printable inks on to common plastic films using low cost material printer before they are integrated using advanced polymer technologies. The novel polymer based integration and packaging technology can also provide modular connectivity for wide variety of applications even though initial target for our power-patch is stand-alone wireless sensors and sensor networks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bozena Kaminska

Student:

Partner:

Nanotech Security Corp (Burnaby, BC);Simon Fraser University (Burnaby Campus)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Elevate

3D Human Motion Generation Using Learnt Motion Representations

In this internship, we aim to develop a machine-learning model that learns human pose and movements. Such
models can be used for AI-assisted human animation creation, motion refinement and denoising, video or imageto-
pose conversion, and motion editing. We plan to implement and push state-of-the-art human motion models by
taking inspiration from the advances in computer vision research. Consequently, the research results will be
published in peer-reviewed journals or computer vision venues, and the source code will be publicly available.
Another expected outcome of this internship is a toolbox for the animators at Ubisoft for game development.
Finally, we plan to collect information about the users’ interactions with this toolbox to be used on future research
on AI-assisted animation creation and editing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ali Etemad

Student:

Partner:

Ubisoft Toronto

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Construction of an extended cardiac activation map to the torso volume

Cardiac arrhythmia represent a major health issue in Canada, as well as in Europe, as they may lead to sudden death. Accurate means of detection need patients to undergo invasive and perilous exploration, because understanding of electrocardiograms is currently limited. To improve non-invasive detection, it is in particular interesting to understand the physical and mathematical links between the so-called “activation time”, a representation of the electrical activation of the heart, and measurable quantities such as electrocardiograms on the torso surface. In this project we propose a novel point of view, studying the evolution of a mathematical extension of the activation time in the torso. We hope to establish clearer correlations between the quantities measured on the torso surface with intra-cardiac information such as activation maps.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yves Bourgault

Student:

Partner:

Université de Bordeaux 1

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Exploring Eating Behavioral Phenotypes in Mood Disorders

Mood disorders, including depression and bipolar disorder, represent a common and severe group of mental illnesses. Poor eating behaviors contribute to worsened symptoms and quality of life in these patient populations, but this aspect is not adequately addressed in clinical care. Previous work characterized six groups of eating behaviors in mood disorders, including low appetite, high appetite, emotional eating, food addiction, irregular eating rhythms, and poor diet quality. The objective of this project is to explore these eating behaviors in mood disorders, using a personalized food diary through the app ‘RxFood’. The goal of this study is to validate the previously identified eating behavior characterizations and confirm the feasibility of using an app to assess the behaviors in people with mood disorders. This project will contribute to larger investigations in the field, improved clinical assessments, and the development of new treatment strategies which consider eating behavior in mental healthcare.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elisa Brietzke

Student:

Partner:

RxFood

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Why is it important to fund Indigenous-led systems change?

Vancouver Foundation (VF)’s Indigenous-led systems change grants support organizations addressing structural inequalities and racism faced by Indigenous organizations in BC. These organizations have historically been marginalized, counted on few resources and spent much of their time reporting to donors and coping with other bureaucratic barriers. This research will bridge the gap by reviewing academic and non- academic sources to provide evidence of the colonial roots of the barriers that Indigenous and Métis-led organizations face. It will inform an advocacy and engagement strategy led by VF to influence public and private leadership to fund and contribute to lasting change across Indigenous communities in the province. The findings will be shared with Indigenous-led organizations in BC and beyond on VF’s online platforms through reports written in an accessible language, including a literature review, an annotated bibliography and maps on the pressing needs and ongoing system-change initiatives in British Columbia.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe Le Billon

Student:

Partner:

Vancouver Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Experimental verification of non-standard phantom simulations: applications for orthopedic device heating

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a safe and effective tool for imaging patients without implanted medical devices. However, implants can negatively interact with MRI scanners, which sometimes earns the patient a ban on MRI because their implant is deemed unsafe. Orthopedic implants (e.g., plates, screws, and nails) often heat up during MRI, so they must be tested to determine if they heat too much or if the patient can be safely scanned. The current testing method is very simplistic, leading some orthopedics to heat a little more than acceptable, so new testing methods are needed to address the current oversimplifications. This project aims to develop simulated and experimental tools for more realistic testing materials (e.g., bone mimic) and for blood flow cooling of implant heating. These tools will be utilized during implant safety testing by MRIdt, increasing the proportion of orthopedics that were previously ‘unsafe’ but can now be safely scanned.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexei Ouriadov

Student:

Partner:

MRIdt

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

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