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Student Intentions and Perceptions Survey

The proposed study will involve development and use of a survey tool to solicit responses from grade 6-9 youth across the province, and in-depth analysis of these data. The intern will help pilot the survey tool and make any necessary revisions to the tool prior to implementation. Upon launch of the tool, the intern will manage any user queries during the survey period. The student will conduct the initial quantitative analysis, and the detailed qualitative analysis, and will compose the final report with StFX academic supervisors and the principal investigator. The data from this study will provide valuable insights to the IORE (and the Marine People Partnership, which is the workforce development initiative undertaken at the IORE) into social perceptions of careers in trades & technology, engineering, and ocean sciences (jn Nova Scotia), and of factors that strongly influence the socialization and normalization of those perceptions. These data may signal optimal periods for targeting career counseling and awareness and exposure building program, and will help to inform MPP activities and initiatives relating to the development of intervention and awareness programs aimed

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Faculty Supervisor:

Katarin MacLeod

Student:

Laura Stiles-Clarke

Partner:

Institute for Ocean Research Enterprise

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Education

University:

St. Francis Xavier University

Program:

Accelerate

Cost Analysis of Smart Energy Network at residential to community levels: integration of natural gas, electricity and heat with end-use devices

There is growing pressure from intergovernmental organizations, governments and consumers to reduce the quantity of greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere. Investments in green technology such as renewable energy sources, battery technology and carbon capture and sequestration can often yield significant reductions in carbon emissions. However, the corresponding economic costs of these projects can regularly result in a balancing act between environmental benefit and affordable energy consumption. Smart Energy Network, SEN, systems could provide a solution to this dilemma. This proposal is about cost analysis of integration of the energy sources electricity (E), natural gas (NG), heat (or thermal, T) and end use devices at a community to residential level. Economic justification of integration of advanced storage, on-site generation, end-use devices, and large penetration of renewable energy sources will be studied. The main reason for integration of the energy sources is to deliver end-user services in the most affordable, reliable and sustainable way and to relieve grid congestion by conversion of energy sources, storage and multifunctional/multifuel end-use devices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Croiset

Student:

Lena Ahmadi

Partner:

Canadian Gas Association

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Desvenlafaxine in Opioid-Dependent Patients

NATURE AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROJECT
Patients who suffer from addiction to opioids often experience depression. Furthermore, data concerning the use of effective medication to treat depression in patients addicted to opioids is insufficient. Desvenlafaxine is an antidepressant that has been approved in Canada to treat depression within the general population. We hereby intend to conduct a research project to evaluate whether Desvenlafaxine is a tolerable and acceptable treatment for opioid-dependant patients undergoing methadone treatment at the CHUM addiction clinic and other methadone clinics in the Greater Montreal region. Presently, we are posting project research’s information at the CHUM addiction clinic, the Centre de recherche
et d’aide pour narcomanes (CRAN) and the CRD Le Virage. We will also assess the effects of this medication on depressive symptoms.
NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS AND DURATION OF PARTICIPATION
The study will include 20 patients undergoing methadone treatment and suffering from opioid addiction and depression. Your participation will last 8 weeks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Didier Jutras-Aswad

Student:

Cynthia El Hage

Partner:

Pfizer Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Construction and validation of the interRAI 0-3

The purpose of this study is the construction of the interRAI 0-3 to: 1) improve identification of developmental, behavioural and emotional problems in young children; 2) enhance evidence-informed care planning; and 3) facilitate access to early intervention and individualized, tailored treatment based on the needs of the child and the family. The expected benefit to the partner organization will include cost reduction through improved triaging and prioritization. Collaboration and use of a common language with multi-disciplinary community partners can reduce the overall costs in avoiding the duplication of services. These strategies will contribution to wait list reduction strategies and reduce frustration for families trying to navigate the mental health service system. Data driven decision-making will also provide information for accreditation and program evaluation to support improved mental health for children and their families and ultimately improved service system integration.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shannon Stewart

Student:

Yvonne Asare-Bediako

Partner:

Merrymount Children's Centre

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Budget impact analysis of Rapid Endovascular Treatment of Ischemic Stroke

The return on investment for medical imaging, interventional radiology, is not well understood, with limited existing research on the value realised from the funds spent. It is expected that the Hot Stroke Intervention by interventional radiologists will not only add direct value to the health care system but will have far reaching and significant impact on the Canadian economy. According to the Canadian Heart & Stroke, an estimated 62,000 strokes occur in Canada each year – one every nine minutes. More than 400,000 Canadians are living with long-term disability from stroke. In the next two decades, the number of people living with long-term stroke disability will increase by 80 per cent to 726,000. Currently, based on 2014-15 figures, stroke costs the Canadian economy $3.6 billion a year in physician services, hospital costs, lost wages and decreased productivity. Early anecdotal clinical results in hot stroke management are promising with examples of patients whose lives are typically altered forever are now walking of hospital within a couple of days with minimal to no neurological deficit. The potential economic impact at the local, provincial and national level is staggering. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fiona Clement

Student:

Laura Sevick

Partner:

British Columbia Radiological Society

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding and Reducing Community-Based Personal Support Workers’ Risk of Occupational Injury

Personal Support Workers (PSWs) provide 70-80% of all paid home care. Unfortunately, community-based PSWs experience occupational injuries at more than twice the rate of the general population. This internship centres on three complementary studies to improve our understanding of why these injuries happen and how they might be prevented:
1) An 18-month study of 930 community-based PSWs to build a risk factor model that relates their risk of pain and injury to daily client care activities, working organizational/social environment and personal circumstances.
2) Direct measurements of physical risk factors for back injury as PSWs assist clients with activities that are known to be stressful (e.g. bathing, transferring).
3) Workshops and interviews with stakeholders in the home care sector (workers, schedulers, management, ergonomists, policy makers, etc) to identify promising avenues for developing interventions to reduce injury.
Collectively, these projects will make a substantial contribution to understanding how to prevent PSW injuries.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jack Callaghan

Student:

Emily King

Partner:

Saint Elizabeth Health Care

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Next Generation Engine

The next generation of engines will needs to comply with increasing stringent pollutant emissions legislation. These engines will also have to be able to accept a wide range of gaseous fuel composition and have the capability to operate on liquid fuel either for emergency backup or for full baseload operation. Additionally, they will need to able to burn alternative fuels, both gaseous and liquid, and either as blends or as pure fuel. These requirements impose significant technical and modeling challenges.
The proposed research project aims to enhance modeling capabilities and to progress the development of clean combustion technology.
The students participating in this project will be an integral part of the development team. They will acquire a comprehensive understanding of gas turbine combustion systems and solve real engineering problem using their engineering and scientific knowledge.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adam Steinberg

Student:

Jan Palecka

Partner:

Siemens Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding Co-located Attendance with Technology in Classrooms

Recent technological advancements led to the emergence of technology-enabled collaborative environments in which students work together on different activities. In such settings, the first step is to determine the participants who are present and take part in the collaborative activities. We are interested in the attendance-taking process itself as a collaborative activity, and plan to learn more about its theory and practice, and to study new ways in which it can be applied using cutting edge collaborative technologies. Our research project with SMART would allow us to use their existing classroom applications and to reflect on how they currently take attendance (e.g. via SMART interactive games apps). Based on the insight we will gain, we will then move to improving the existing interactive attendance taking techniques, to implementing new attendance apps and mini-games and to evaluating them with teachers and students using the SMART technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anthony Tang

Student:

Hesam Alizadeh

Partner:

SMART Technologies

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Digital media

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Applying visual analytics to effect real-time decision making in manufacturing environments

Along with industry partners, including NGrain, Convergent Manufacturing and Boeing, we are proposing to develop state-of-the-art visualization and interactive techniques for exploring sensor and manufacturing component data, in-situ. Through a combination of user research and user-centered design techniques, this project proposes the development of a technical demonstrator of a mobile manufacturing job aid as the foundation for evaluating the usability and effectiveness of novel 2D and 3D visual analytics techniques that could be suitable for use as a decision-support aid in a real-world manufacturing environment with end users who constitute a broad range of roles and skill sets. The expected outcome involves the design of novel interactive visualizations for temporal sensor datasets generated by Convergent for objects manufactured by Boeing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pourang Irani

Student:

William Delamare

Partner:

NGRAIN Corporation

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Aerospace and defense

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Real Time Monitoring of Water Content in Reclaimed Mine Waste using Cone Penetration – Time Domain Reflectometry

The research includes the development of a device that will measure the water content in soils. This device will be pushed into the soil and will provide a reading related to the volume of water stored within the soil. The device senses the dielectric properties of the soil, properties that are strongly controlled by the volume of water within the soil. The device is advanced into the soil using a conventional geotechnical engineering investigative test called a cone penetration test. The device will be used to obtain rapid, real-time profiles of stored water volumes within reclaimed mine waste. As a consequence, it can be used to rapidly map out the distribution of water over large areas of the reclaimed landscape – a measurement that is critical in assessing the migration of water into the mine waste and the performance of the closure design.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lee Barbour

Student:

Spencer Chuhaniuk

Partner:

O'Kane Consultants Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Predictive Model of Steel Prices for Decision-Making

The goal of this project is to create a statistical model to forecast the future price of steel, which will rely on sector indexes and material prices. We will identify which variable has the most explanatory power. Multiple models will be created to identify the one that performs best. In order to increase the accuracy of the information generated by the model, risk forecasting will be added. The resulting model is meant to aid internal buyers in decision making. As our partner buys over 100 M USD worth of steel annually, an improvement in profits will be of great benefit to him.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Labib

Student:

Gabriel Laprise

Partner:

Acier AGF Inc

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Recovery of minerals as value-added products from source-separated urine

The Aerosan Urine-Diverting Dry Toilet is a dry toilet with urine diversion that is designed to be deployed in the field for humanitarian aid and to provide safe and affordable sanitation in a variety of settings worldwide. This source-separated urine contains almost 80% of the nitrogen, 60% of the potassium and 55% of the phosphorus that humans excrete, and these are the main minerals required by plants. Therefore, extraction of these minerals in the form of struvite, which has commercial value as a solid, storable, slow-release fertilizer, would be one opportunity offered by this aspect of source-separated urine. Recovery of urea nutrients in the form of struvite pellets also prevents the breakdown of urea (ureolysis) and production of various ammonia compounds, which result in undesirable pungent odors. This project, will evaluate the effect of two different industrial struvite precipitants and the solution temperature and pH, on struvite precipitation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Su-Ling Brooks

Student:

Farshad Khademi

Partner:

Aerosan

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

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