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A woman on the frontiers of existence: Judith Merril activism in 1970’s Toronto

Judith Merril was a renowned writer, critic and documentarist within the field of science fiction. While most of her writings have been connected to a variety of political movements, her Canadian years have been particularly engaged with anti-war and environmental issues. All throughout 1970, Judith Merril was an active advocate for peace and sought solution for environmental problems such as pollution, overpopulation and the risk of climate change, debating this problems on radio. Moreover, Merril argued for a science fiction aligned with the issues of its time, utilizing speculative imagination and futuristic narratives to debate current problems and how they affected women. Therefore, the present proposal aims to investigate Judith Merril’s activism during 1970’s Toronto, as well as the relationship between her work within the field of science fiction and her political engagement. Analyzing sources available in conversation with Gender Studies, Intellectual History and Literary Anthropology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mayurika Chakravorty

Student:

Partner:

Federal University of Parana

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Entertainment and Media; Sustainability & the Environment; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Investigation of CO2 phase behavior in flowlines for CCS processes

Carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) is a practical solution for reducing the overall green house gas (GHG) emission and environmental footprint of the civilization. The CoFlow simulation software developed by CMG is one of the only tools available for predicting the performance of the CCS applications. Generally, there are technical challenges and prediction deficiencies associated with processes involving injection of high-pressure CO2. These include sudden phase changes effecting the pressure profiles in the process, vaporization of liquified CO2 causing solid formation which may result in significant risk. The objective of this process is to improve the flow and pressure prediction which enables the engineer to operate the process at optimized conditions while minimizing the hazards and potential downtimes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sudarshan Raj Mehta

Student:

Partner:

Computer Modelling Group Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Mitigating gas emissions from permafrost via the concrete-filled geosynthetic technology

The goal of this project is to assess the effectiveness of Concrete Canvas® in mitigating the radioactive radon gas exposure as well as methane infiltration into northern houses due to degrading permafrost. The outcomes of this research can provide northern communities with a relatively low-cost climate adaptation strategy to deal with toxic soil gas exposure in northern buildings. Radon is known to be the second most important cause of lung cancer after smoking. Smoking also exacerbates radon-acquired lung cancer rates by about 26 times while smoking is up to 4.4 times more prevalent in Arctic communities. Furthermore, the application of geosynthetic can provide the stakeholders with a promising technology to mitigate methane release from permafrost and landfills in local scales. The outcomes of this research project can enhance societal benefits in northern communities by improving public health
and housing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pooneh Maghoul

Student:

Partner:

Titan Environmental Containment

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Élaboration d’un système basé sur des capteurs textiles sans contact de signaux biométriques pour la détection de la somnolence au volant chez les travailleurs-conducteurs

Le projet proposé vise à réduire les accidents de conduite dus à la fatigue au volant en particulier pour les chauffeurs routiers. Pour cela, des capteurs intégrés dans la housse du siège du conducteur, serviront à mesurer la respiration et le rythme cardiaque du conducteur. Le but de la recherche proposée sera de réussir à déclencher une alarme lorsque des signes de somnolence seront perçus à partir des capteurs biométriques installés dans le siège. Pour atteindre cet objectif, nous devrons concevoir des capteurs textiles et toute l’électronique requise ainsi que les algorithmes servant à éliminer le bruit des signaux perçus. De plus, des algorithmes d’apprentissage machine seront entrainés pour être capables de détecter les signes de somnolence le plus tôt possible pour envoyer des alarmes afin d’alerter le conducteur. Cette recherche est importante pour l’IRSST dont la mission est d’éliminer les risques d’atteinte à la santé et à la sécurité des travailleurs. En outre, cela permettrait de réduire le fardeau économique du aux arrêts de travail. Par ailleurs, les capteurs développés durant ce projet pourront faire l’objet d’une évaluation pour leur valorisation commerciale soit par l’octroi de licences ou la création de start-ups.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ghyslain Gagnon

Student:

Partner:

IRSST

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

CBSR – Sustainable Procurement Analyst – Julian

Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR) Association is partnering with the CBSR Education Foundation to deliver a Sustainable Procurement Fellowship (SPF) program. The SPF program aims to educate and empower corporate sustainability professionals to deliver on corporate sustainability goals through improvements and integration of sustainable procurement practices. Carbon mitigation, circularity, and sustainable information technology (IT) are some of the featured components of this new SPF program. The Sustainable Procurement Analyst will be responsible to support the program administration and the development of program design, preparing marketing and communication assets, coordinating with program speakers, creating participant feedback surveys, and summarizing pre-survey and post-survey insights into reports, as well as reviewing and analyzing focus group sessions’ results. The Sustainability Research Analyst internship project, lead with a strong understanding of the business case supporting the integration of the environmental and social principles, will provide cross-cutting results and will further influence CBSR’s programming and future research initiatives.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Harrison

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Business for Social Responsibility

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Clean Technology; Education; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Optical beamforming solutions for 6G

The project will develop a 6G silicon-based beamforming network incorporating optical technologies. Such a technology may increase the performance of the 6G wireless systems and to reduce the power consumption. The use of photonics to perform beamforming has a key advantage of wide instantaneous bandwidth with no beam squint problem. Since the signals are already modulated on an optical carrier, the use of photonics to perform beamforming will simplify the system since no additional electrical-to-optical conversion is needed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jianping Yao

Student:

Partner:

Ericsson Canada Inc (Quebec)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Analyse d’un surnageant résiduel appauvri issu d’une production de levures liquides en bioréacteur en vue d’élaborer des voies de valorisation

Le Labo – Solutions Brassicoles est une entreprise qui produit à grande échelle des solutions de levures liquides à des fins brassicoles, c’est-à-dire qu’elle fournit aux microbrasseries du Québec, et bientôt d’ailleurs, les petites bêtes nécessaires à l’élaboration des bières, celles qui rendent possible la production d’alcool lors de l’étape qu’on appelle ‘fermentation’, mais permettent aussi le développement de certaines saveurs et odeurs recherchées dans les bières. De cette production, il résulte la récupération du volume d’un sous-produit près de neuf fois supérieur à celui des levures qui seront vendues. Ce sous-produit ne peut actuellement pas être proposé à la vente puisque sa composition ne le rend pas utilisable. L’objectif du projet ici est de trouver un moyen de valoriser ce sous-produit et de permettre à l’entreprise de s’inscrire dans une dynamique durable et circulaire afin de composer avec les enjeux environnementaux auxquels l’on doit faire face aujourd’hui.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frédéric Monette

Student:

Partner:

Le Labo - Solutions Brassicoles;Société d’Aide au Développement de la Collectivité du Kamouraska

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Application of design thinking to optimize social participation after stroke.

Social participation is a key outcome of rehabilitation and is enhanced by social support and exercise. Stroke symptom management with at-home products is now more critical than ever because of decreased rehabilitation services during COVID-19 and the need for more self-management. In partnership with lululemon, researchers will adapt an evidence-based and theoretically guided intervention program that operationalizes social support and physical activity to a new virtual rehabilitation hardware to optimize social participation in people who experienced a stroke. The proposed research will make a unique contribution to social participation in stroke patients and virtual rehabilitation research in Canada. Furthermore, the partner organization will be able to use this research to inform the further development of their product.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brodie M. Sakakibara;William Miller

Student:

Partner:

Lululemon

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Manufacturing; Retail trade

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Pinchin Ltd – Marketing Coordinator Intern – Charlene

Pinchin is one of Canada’s most prominent firms when it comes to environmental, engineering, building science, as well as health and safety consulting. With over 900 employees in 42 offices across the country, Pinchin has started with providing consulting services to the asbestos abatement industry and it has developed into one of today’s leaders in the industry. This internship project will provide creative support to our professional teams, utilizing the intern’s knowledge and skill set. The selected intern will identify and support all regional and internal business development events such as client socials, complimentary sessions, paid training, industry and association events, tradeshows, conferences, sponsorships, as well as professional speaking engagements. In addition, the intern will contribute to creating and managing proposal content for various business development projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Harrison

Student:

Partner:

Pinchin Ltd.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Cueillette aléatoire robotisée à l’aide de deux caméras stéréo abordables

Les systèmes de cueillette aléatoire robotisée (« 3D bin picking ») existent sur le marché depuis plus d’une décennie, mais sont toujours difficiles à configurer, lents, et très dispendieux. Avec les avances de la librairie libre de vision artificielle OpenCV et les caméras stéréo abordables, telles que OAK-D, le développement de systèmes de « 3D bin picking » devient plus accessible. RoboDK, une entreprise qui développe un logiciel abordable d’interaction avec de simulation de robots industriels souhaite offrir un système de « bin picking » abordable, en tant qu’option dans leur logiciel.
Ce projet de quatre mois posera les bases pour un projet de maîtrise dont l’objectif sera de développer les outils nécessaires pour l’estimation de pose dans RoboDK à l’aide de deux caméras stéréo. Pendant son stage, le stagiaire étudiera la faisabilité d’utiliser la caméra OAK-D, une montée sur un robot industriel et l’autre au-dessus du bac à objets, pour la cueillette.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ilian Bonev

Student:

Partner:

RoboDK

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Zonage du milieu urbain en fonction des impacts socio-économiques associés aux travaux sur les infrastructures urbaines

La réalisation des travaux sur les infrastructures urbaines peut générer des nuisances qui affectent le bien-être et causent des pertes économiques aux citoyens. Afin de gérer ces impacts, il faut connaître leur nature et leur intensité, ce qui dépend, parmi d’autres facteurs, des caractéristiques du milieu environnant. Ce projet propose donc de classifier le milieu urbain dans des zones selon la sévérité des impacts à laquelle elles sont assujetties lors des interventions sur les infrastructures. Cette classification sera appliquée à la Ville de Montréal. L’objectif est de développer un outil visuel et géoréférencé qui identifie les zones susceptibles aux impacts les plus importants. Cet outil sera intégré aux fonctionnalités du logiciel de gestion de projets OPA.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adel Francis;Michèle St-Jacques

Student:

Partner:

OPA Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Acme Fire & Safety – Finance, Planning, and Supply Chain Internship Project

Over the last 45 years of successful business and continued growth, our established customer base has kept on adding renown names such as McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada, Royal Arch Masonic Care Homes, BC Ferries, A & W Restaurants, White Spot Restaurants, MDA, YVR Airport, Finning Inc., City of Vancouver Fire Department, UBC and Vancouver Hospitals, and many other commercial buildings, restaurants, and residential complex building. Acme Fire and Safety has recently acquired Nutech Safety Ltd. This merger has closed only a couple of months ago and the acquisition builds on Acme’s existing geographic coverage that’s spread across British Columbia. Our current locations include Richmond, Kamloops, and Kelowna. This internship project will support the organization to integrate the three acquisitions that have happened over the past two years, while identifying the largest value creation opportunities, risks, and constraints. Our business needs the support of talented accounting and operations and supply chain students to create a roadmap for costs and growth synergies and to develop an integration scorecard that measures the post-merger impact to the business.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Harrison

Student:

Partner:

ACME Fire & Safety Company Ltd

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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