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Engineering - chemical / biological

Examination of key nutrition, health, environmental, and welfare issues in swine to improve sustainability and societal acceptance of pork production

In order to remain competitive, pig producers must continually evolve to address current and emerging challenges to the Canadian swine industry. The Prairie Swine Centre has developed a multidisciplinary research program aimed at addressing key issues within the swine industry related to environment, society, safety, and sustainability. The main research projects included in this proposed program include: 1) establishment of processing conditions required to optimize the feeding value of wheat and barley for swine, 2) increasing value of environmental enrichment for sows, 3) determination of optimal density for nursery pigs, and 4) evaluation of the presence of airborne pathogens in swine facilities and development of effective air filtration to minimize the impact of these contaminants. The results of this program will have important implications for the swine industry and, since the research will be conducted under circumstances representing actual production environment and practices, it is anticipated that producer-members of the partner organization will be able to readily adapt knowledge gained from this program into current practices. Adaptation by these producers will further result in improvement of future research programs and lead to dissemination of knowledge to the entire Canadian and North American industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jennifer Brown

Student:

Khalil Sahtout

Partner:

Gowans Feed Consulting

Discipline:

Animal science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Clinical and systems transformation: Identifying software testing approaches to identify best practices in interface design, customization and optimization

Health care organizations are working to modernize health care using health information technology. Health information technology has been found to improve the quality of patient care and health care outcomes. Today, it is very important for health information technology professionals to develop high quality and high impact technologies that can support health professionals and patients. Clinical simulations and usability testing are two methodologies that can be used to optimize technologies used in health care. This work will involve the application and advancement of these techniques to the area of clinical systems transformation in health care

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elizabeth Borycki

Student:

Helen Monkman

Partner:

IBM Canada

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of Non-Condensable Gas Behaviour in Thermal Exploitation of Grosmont Reservoir and Its Role and Effect on Reservoir Performance and Simulation History Matching of the Saleski Pilot

The Grosmont formation, a carbonate naturally fractured reservoir in Alberta, Canada, has 400 billion bbl of bitumen resource, which is currently not commercially exploited. Viable exploitation of this reservoir would mean addition of a huge quantity to Canadian oil reserves. Since December 2010, Laricina Energy Ltd. in their Saleski pilot evaluated a bitumen recovery process using steam injection. The pilot was shut down on September 2015 due to low commodity prices. The Saleski Pilot examined Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) and cycle steam injection in Grosmont reservoir. The close to five years operation of Pilot has provided a very invaluable set of data. Some wells in the pilot have proven commercial rates and efficient steam to oil ratio, while some other wells showed less favourable performance. Nevertheless, any future commercial phase in this reservoir would largely benefit from using the Pilot data in order to properly model the reservoir, predict its performance, and subsequently optimize the recovery technology. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Apostolos Kantzas

Student:

Moslem Hosseininejad Mohebati

Partner:

Laricina Energy Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Modeling and HIL Simulation of Modular Multilevel Converters

The proposed internships will be aimed at developing advanced computer (software) and hardware platforms for simulation of modern power-electronic converter systems used in emerging electric power transmission systems. In particular, modular multi-level converter (MMC) simulations will be targeted. These converters are considered the primary candidates for dc systems used to integrate renewable energy sources into the existing grid. These two internships will develop functional models that can be readily used for the analysis and design of systems involving modular multi-level converters. Additionally the two interns will gain knowledge and experience on the requirements of converter systems in the context of the power grid by interacting directly with industry experts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shaahin Filizadeh

Student:

Shailajah Rajesvaran

Partner:

Manitoba Hydro

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Aurora Lighting

The proposed project contributes to the development of a product for use in public spaces to provide LED lighting which is made interactive through sound responsiveness. This sound responsiveness is made possible through the use of modern micro-computers which can be programmed to use sounds in the environment to create different lighting effects. Unfortunately, this is a difficult task if the environments are noisy. It’s a lot like trying to have a conversation during a loud party; a lot of information gets lost. This project is motivated by the desire to make the sound responsiveness more effective in noisy environment through the use of automatic sound analysis techniques. There are many techniques which have been created to help account for noise but none have been used for this specific reason. These different techniques will be investigated to see which can help sound responsive lighting in a noisy space. The partner organization is relatively young and this product will be their first to market. Through the funds made available through MITACS the partner organization will have more resources to ensure the success of this product. Furthermore, the technologies developed with this research will be integrated in future products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

George Tzanetakis

Student:

Steven Bjornson

Partner:

Limbic Media Corporation

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Media and communications

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Molecular mechanism of action of anti-fibrotic antibodies

Significant advances in technologies related to antibody discovery and development have allowed therapeutic antibodies to become the fastest growing class of biopharmaceuticals over the last 20 years. Northern Biologics is a biotechnology company that seeks to develop therapeutic antibodies for the treatment of cancer and fibrosis. Together with Dr. Jean-Philippe Julien at SickKids (University of Toronto), the intern will work with Northern Biologics to develop and characterize antibodies against cellular receptors that show aberrant signaling in several diseases including cancer, atherosclerosis, lung fibrosis and kidney injury. Integrative structural biology and biophysical technologies will be used to inform lead selection with the goal of progressing therapeutic candidates for clinical trials.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Philippe Julien

Student:

Swetha Raman

Partner:

Northern Biologics

Discipline:

Microbiology / Immunology

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Strategic BC Salmon Health Initiative: Inventory and Assessment of Health Risk of Microbes in BC’s Pacific Salmon

The role of infectious disease in declining productivity of wild salmon in BC is poorly understood. We will combine novel genomic technologies with traditional fish health methodologies and more broadly identify the microbe exposure of BC salmon. By doing so, we can examine their evolutionary relationships and their epidemiological distribution patterns over time and space as well as assess the pathogenic potential through histopathology, functional genomics, proteomics, and other clinical measures of condition. Ultimately, we will identify the most critical microbes for BC salmon and follow-up with disease challenge studies. Inclusion of wild, hatchery, and aquaculture fish will provide the opportunity to explore potential pathways of exchange. Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows will contribute epidemiological studies and next generation sequence analysis for phylogenetics, transmission studies, and novel microbe discovery and will receive valuable training in conservation management from the Pacific Salmon Foundation and in genomics, physiology, veterinary epidemiology, and bioinformatics by collaborating laboratories at University of BC, University of Prince Edward Island, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada. These project interns will assist the Pacific Salmon Foundation (PSF) in obtaining data that can better inform salmon management for developing conservation policies for the species that PSF helps to protect and conserve.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raphael Vanderstichel

Student:

Diana Jaramillo

Partner:

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Prince Edward Island

Program:

Accelerate

Acoustically derived indicators of demersal and forage species productivity in the Strait of Georgia, and their link to the survival of juvenile salmon

With a rich acoustic dataset available in the Strait of Georgia (SoG), we propose this research to develop a series of acoustic indicators of productivity for forage (e.g. Pacific herring, mesopelagic fish, euphausiids, zooplankton and ichthyoplankton) and semi-demersal (e.g. Pacific hake and walleye pollock) species within the SoG by using robust multi-frequency techniques. Along with existing time-series of forage species catch from trawl surveys, the acoustic indicators of productivity will be investigated for potential links to marine survival of juvenile salmon in the SoG. Data and results from this study will be closely integrated with other projects sponsored by the Pacific Salmon Foundation that focus on juvenile salmon survival in the same area, serving the ultimate purpose of increasing our understanding of factors controlling the production of juvenile salmon and restoring economic benefits of Pacific salmon to local communities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Francis Dower

Student:

Lu Guan

Partner:

Pacific Salmon Foundation

Discipline:

Oceanography

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Elevate

Investigation of Rock Penetration and Fragmentation Problems

Anaconda Mining Inc. is experiencing three rock penetration and fragmentation problems that impact costs, recovery and overall feasibility. Through collaboration between Anaconda Mining and the Drilling Technology Laboratory (DTL) at Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) and the MITACS graduate internships described in this proposal, these problems will be investigated and appropriate solutions developed. The investigation of these research questions is applicable in the mining as well as oil & gas fields.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Butt

Student:

Yingjian Xiao

Partner:

Petroleum Research Atlantic Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Lower Cost Forging Control

Turbine discs are critical rotating parts of aircraft turbofan jet engines and are manufactured as separate units. In order for production acceptance of the forging technique used to manufacture turbine discs, a large amount of testing is conducted. This testing completed on raw materials and finished products includes a series of tensile and Low Cycle Fatigue (LCF) specimen testing. Based on the test data, this proposed research aims to determine a relationship between tensile properties and LCF life. This research will also explore modern analytical tools such as surrogate models in efforts to construct predictive tools to effectively and reliably reduce the amount of testing required on critical rotating parts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Walsh

Student:

Richard Sukhdeo

Partner:

Pratt & Whitney Canada

Discipline:

Aerospace studies

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

CARIC MANU-710: Aerospace Additive Manufacturing Initiative

Bell Helicopter Textron Canada Limited and Pratt & Whitney Canada have all initiated research projects on Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes. Although applications are different, all companies are facing the same challenges, including the lack of a mature Canadian supply chain. The purpose of the current project is to bring together the whole value chain (Certification authorities, OEMs, Suppliers, Universities & Research Centers) to collaborate on common tasks for the development of the capability to design, produce, inspect and certify parts using AM processes. The end goal is to reach TRL/MRL 6 on selected parts for primary and secondary helicopter structures as well as aircraft engines and pave the way for usage in the production of parts for repair, retrofit or new products development. The expected benefits are: CO2 emissions reduction via weight reduction and cost
reduction through part assemblies’ integration, lead time reduction, reduced buy-to-fly ratio, reduced inventory and optimized batch size.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Souheil-Antoine Tahan

Student:

Ali Aidibe

Partner:

Pratt & Whitney Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Program:

Accelerate

A ubiquitous positioning solution for head-mounted sensors

While GPS has become the de-facto standard for positioning, its availability and accuracy are hindered by attenuations. Positioning using vision-based systems is becoming an attractive solution due to its infrastructure-less architecture and its wide integration into portable devices. This work aims to develop novel vision-based algorithms for head-mounted sensors that would solve various problems such as finding the user direction of travel irrespective of their head orientation, finding the presence of obstacles and navigating away from them, and evaluating the performance of combining vision and inertial sensors algorithms and comparing them in terms of accuracy versus complexity. The proposed research is at the core needs of the sponsoring company, Recon Instruments, as the developed algorithms will be directly applied to the company’s suite of goggles and eyewear that comes equipped with a vision-based system. The algorithms developed will promote a safer ride and a more precise navigation solution.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Edward Park

Student:

Ahmed Arafa

Partner:

Recon Instruments Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Media and communications

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Elevate

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