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13270 Completed Projects

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Driving Down GHG in Toronto: Factors Shaping Electric Vehicle (EV) Ownership, Drive Patterns, and Behaviours

With the ongoing threat of anthropogenic climate warming, understanding how stakeholders in Ontario can accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) to maximize their environmental and economic benefits is of great importance. The large-scale adoption of EVs requires further research to understand consumer demand and social valuations. Ontario has over 5,000 EV drivers on the road that make up 32% of Canada’s total EV drivers. However, there is virtually no information about their demographic profile, where they drive or why they bought an EV. The survey will identify the behaviours of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area’s (GTHA) EV driving community and thereby: provide information about EV usage patterns to Ontario’s electricity distributors, inform practical EV policies and programs, and identify optimal regions to install public charging stations. Transportation is the largest source of Ontario’s GHG emissions and is responsible for approximately 40% of the city’s total emissions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philip Walsh

Student:

Joshua Goodfield

Partner:

Plug’n Drive

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

Bow Valley Innovations Carbon Capture Technology

Using solids to trap carbon dioxide is an alternative to the conventional and expensive solution based method. The Shimizu group at the University of Calgary has developed an outstanding candidate solid for CO2 capture from flue gas streams based on laboratory studies. This proposal will expand the experience of three interns to bridge science to process and system level engineering while offering expanded professional experience through networking with Bow Valley Innovations, the patent licensee, and their partners.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Marriott

Student:

Roger Mah

Partner:

Bow Valley Innovations Inc

Discipline:

Chemistry

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Familiar Faces: Evaluating the Implementation and Effectiveness of a Diversion Support Program for People Who Are Heavy Users of Emergency Rooms and Hospitals

The research project will assist the Ottawa Branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA-Ottawa) with the evaluation of new innovative mental health services intended to divert individuals from their overuse of emergency rooms and having further hospitalizations for mental health problems. The project will involve three separate studies over a two-year period: (1) an implementation evaluation intended to examine if the targeted population is being served in the manner that was planned, (2) an outcome evaluation using ICES OHIP and CIHI data to examine service utilization of service recipients compared to a matched anonymized control group of individuals, (3) an outcome evaluation of client functioning using CMHA administrative data collected on clients by service providers. The project will provide training to Ph.D. graduate students and a Post-Doctoral Fellow in applied health service research in the community. As well, the research will assist CMHA-Ottawa to develop effective services.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tim Aubry

Student:

Alexia Pollio

Partner:

Canadian Mental Health Association

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

GPN-EMV: Emulation and visualization of game private networks and game servers performance

Proprietary technology developed by WTFast allows global network services to distribute and manage the load for massive multiplayer games despite their logically centralized architecture. In the proposed project, we plan to evaluate this architecture and the potential for predictability and scalability of the server and ”arbiter” components. Another goal is to utilize the infrastructure created by WTFast as the framework on which to test and build game server software that can optimize and monitor WTFast game services in real time. This infrastructure will allow new servers to be automatically deployed and configured for use as private game servers, while also monitoring their performance and usage statistics. By developing new innovative predictive models, new servers may be automatically added when traffic levels require more resources to maintain optimal performance. The tests will also serve to identify the capacity of the game servers and their host virtual machines in terms of the number of players they can support.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ljiljana Trajkovic

Student:

Zane Ouimet

Partner:

WTFast

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Building Community Capacity on Local Energy: Extending the Community Energy Explorer Web-tool

(CEE) is a unique, interactive and visually compelling web-resource to build capacity of citizens, decision-makers, and local government staff on community energy and related land use issues. The objective of this 2-year project is to improve, expand and launch a public version of CEE in the Metro Vancouver region, and initiate a process to foster uptake and replication across BC. If successfully adopted by practitioners and NGOs, CEE should seed new conversations within communities, and embolden municipal staff & decision-makers, accelerating community action and decision-making for better land-use management and meet provincial energy/GHG reduction targets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Sheppard

Student:

Jonathan Salter

Partner:

Real Estate Foundation of BC

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Control of Imploding Metal Liners

This project will help the industrial partner design tests to prove a concept for fusion energy production. In the tests, metal cylinders (and other shaped liners) are dynamically collapsed to compress a high temperature plasma to fusion conditions. This highly dynamic event, however, may result in some of the metal from the cylinder contaminating the plasma. A strong shock wave can result in material leaving the wall of the cylinder, or the impact of one metal surface on another can result in jetting of metal. The metal liner can also buckle or rupture. All of these undesirable processes would contaminate the plasma and terminate the test. The process by which this metal debris is generated will be studied and techniques to control it developed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Higgins

Student:

Jason Loiseau

Partner:

General Fusion Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Study of mobile maintenance related asset utilization in mining operations at New Afton Mine Site

This project corresponds to a study of utilization of assets at the New Afton mine, in Kamloops, BC. With the collaboration of New Gold’s conglomerate and Thompson Rivers University this will collect sufficient data internally and by comparing it with publicly related information of similar companies and using statistical tools and optimization models, will provide recommendations that can be used in the whole mining sector.
The benefit for New Afton will be understanding the proper way to manage its resources and how to function proactively with to the economic cycles that arise in the industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bernie Warren

Student:

Felipe Castillo

Partner:

New Gold Inc.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Natural resources

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program:

Accelerate

The Evolving Legal Services Research Project, Phase II, Stage 3

How can public legal education and information help Canadians get justice in our legal system? With the demand for publicly-funded or low-cost legal services far exceeding the supply, public legal education and information (PLEI) is filling an increasingly larger role in meeting the legal needs of people with modest means. Yet we know relatively little about how PLEI can help people deal with their legal problems. examines the effectiveness of PLEI in helping low- and modest-income people address their legal problems. The research, conducted at legal clinics, will look at PLEI provided at various points along the legal services continuum, with the goal of identifying when PLEI is effective on a primarily stand-alone or self-help basis and when a fuller continuum of legal services, including PLEI, is required. This research will provide Community Legal Education Ontario / Éducation juridique communautaire Ontario (CLEO) with insights into the effectiveness of PLEI in helping low- and modest-income people address their legal problems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lesley Jacobs

Student:

Diana Tsui

Partner:

Community Legal Education Ontario

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Can Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) developments in Northwestern BC contribute to social and financial sustainability in First Nations communities?

This thesis seeks to investigate initiatives that address the enhancement of benefits to indigenous people in northwestern BC while minimizing socioeconomic effects from LNG construction phase developments through to operations. Detailed education, training, employment, housing, health, mobility and business aspirations data and information from one community provides an example of the necessary detailed information is required for good baseline characterization for future monitoring and for the development of target specific programs to enhance benefits for First Nations and minimize socioeconomic effects. Interviews with industry, government, First Nations and special interest groups resulted in a list of common approaches to modify and add to the tools developed by others to address the very important issue of working towards reconciling past colonization effects and improve First Nations overall standard of living and financial and economic sustainability. The partner company is trying to increase local participation in its workforce and expand or establish new business opportunities with leverage provided by the LNG construction phases anticipated to occur in the near future in the Region.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marcello Veiga

Student:

Debra Stokes

Partner:

Kitsumkalum Economic Development Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Oil and gas

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Interactive Agent-based eLearning Environment

Mentorina is launching an intelligent learning system that helps teachers observe, measure, and improve each student’s individual performance in the classroom. Teachers can design individualized assignments or exams and through cognitive and metacognitive assessments, they can accurately measure how quickly students are learning the material and can determine each student’s level of comprehension. Through an interactive social media platform, teachers can then help improve a student’s performance on an individual basis. Intern’s activities at Mentorina facilitates the interaction and data collection process, which is an important feature for the company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jamal Bentahar

Student:

Roya Aminikia

Partner:

Mentorina Research and Development Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Design and Implementation of Real-Time Platform for Beehive Monitoring and A Mite Extraction System

As one of the oldest forms of agriculture, apiculture (i.e. beekeeping) plays an essential role in contributing to people’s livelihoods and the survival of the environment. However, beekeepers are faced with challenges such as Colony Collapse Disorders (CCD), swarming (queen bee leaving with the majority of the worker bees), and queen loss. Unfortunately a constant monitoring of the hives by the beekeepers is demanding and it disturbs the activity of the hive. The objective of this project is to design a remote real time platform that enables the study of the colony’s behavior. The study will be performed with the cooperation of HoneyView Farm Ltd. on the bee colonies. The results will help the development of an intelligent system that will be able to recognize the colony and queen bee’s condition by observing different factors such as sound, temperature, vibrations, and other factors. The system will then inform or warn the beekeepers about the condition of the hive and the queen bee. In addition, an automated system will be designed to extract the Varroa Mites that have been known to be one of the causes that lead to CCD.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Farid Golnaraghi

Student:

Behzad Abdi

Partner:

Honeyview Farm Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Environmental industry

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of impact of technological advancement in positional MRI on measuring cerebrovascular reactivity

With the advancement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques, an exciting time has emerged for research in the field of cerebral anatomy and physiology. The basis of this proposal is to employ a one of a kind imaging technique to drive forward our basic understanding of regional blood flow regulation in the human brain. The circulation of brain blood flow is profoundly influenced by the local prevailing pH (acid-base balance). An increased pH (reduced acidity) of cerebral extra-vascular tissue reduces blood flow, while a decreased pH (increased acidity) increases the cerebral blood flow. Changes in cerebral extra-vascular pH occur daily – determined in large part from variations in breathing frequency (and in turn changes in arterial partial pressure of CO2). The natural ‘reactivity’ of the cerebral vessels to changes in pH appear to be a surrogate for cerebral health. That is, the more the blood flow changes for a given change in pH, the ‘healthier’ they are. Indeed, those with lower reactivity are at higher risk of cerebrovascular disease. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philip Ainslie

Student:

Katelyn Norton

Partner:

Welcome Back Pain Management & Upright MRI Centre

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Program:

Accelerate

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