Innovative Projects Realized

TouchTech Startup Project – Communitech

This project will focus on the building and rollout of a member portal to support idea and discovery stage firms who do not have a dedicated resource on the Communitech team. Our goal is to provide these founders with better navigation to resources, a deeper sense of community and access to our advisory services during office hours. We’ve selected a software platform and are now looking to build a unique environment for our founders, along with a training guide and a rollout and adoption plan. A full business case for the selection solution can be found here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eu-804l_Au3wd4KuOy1ngpJiLIN5uNIfmfomvvTDqF4/edit?usp=sharing

Vish Limited / Vish Limitee – Customer Onboarding Analytics Project

This specific project includes bringing on a MUN business intern with a Customer Success focus. The focus of this project is to assess our customer onboarding and to find ways for operational improvements and innovation. There is a need for analysis of our data to ensure we are going about it properly as we scale. We require someone with the business knowledge and analytical skills to ensure all newly acquired customers are onboarded onto our platform smoothly and are trained to 1) use the software and 2) understand how to read the data extracted throughout the salon in order to make strategic decisions, recommendations, implement changes to increase salon productivity and the bottom line.

This project would foster additional analysis and result in innovative strategic recommendations to ensure our customer onboarding is effective as we scale globally.

Bounce Health Innovation – International MedTech Innovation Exchange

Bounce has a number of incubating companies in our portfolio who are interested in developing relationships with stakeholders in the UK and ultimately developing and executing a go-to-market strategy for market entry. Bounce Partner Companies are Canadian companies operating in the medtech and digital health sector and as such, a potential relationship with the UK is very valuable given the relevant similarities between the UK and Canadian state-funded health care systems and procurement models. The 6 companies do not have in-house marketing and business development expertise. They need business interns who have the knowledge, expertise and innovative ideas on how to develop relationships in the UK market to fuel their growth.

Six Memorial University undergraduate business students have been selected who have expertise and interest in working with the 6 innovative health tech companies. Each student will be matched with a health tech company. The interns will have the opportunity to work directly with emerging leaders in a growing and thriving technical industry as they build a direct connection with a beachhead international market.

ProNotes Internship

The summer internship student will be responsible for computing, presenting, and performing the verification of the design of the design. Prior to being able to test the usability of the application the signal processing feature must be developed so that it is deployable on a mobile device that first obtains the raw data from the devices microphone in the form of a signal, converts that signal to a fraction of a note, and displays that note to the user in real-time. Following successful runs on the verification data, usability testing will be used to assess whether to proceed to the next step in the verification or refine certain aspects of the design.

At present, ProNotes has developed a propriety technology for integrating this component of the technology into the full framework of the application. The challenges presented are for developing the testing, testing criteria, de-bugging, and improving the existing technology so that it can be used by real world music students for tracking vocalized music.

Conception d’un outil intelligent, chatbot, capable de valider des auprès des utilisateurs des changements de comportement financiers

Le projet consiste à aider un partenaire à développer un coach de bien-être financier. Ce produit, qui prend la forme d’une application mobile, sert à guider ses utilisateurs à atteindre des objectifs financiers.
L’objectif du projet est de concevoir un chatbot intelligent, capable de valider auprès des utilisateurs des changements de comportement financiers.
L’application doit être en mesure de détecter des changements dans la vie de l’utilisateur qui pourraient affecter leurs objectifs financiers. Le coach financier, sous forme de chatbot, permet d’effectuer un suivi des changements de comportements auprès de l’utilisateur.

New Brunswick Rural Housing Data

The New Brunswick Non-Profit Housing Association (NBNPHA) represents 180 non-profit and co-op housing organizations. The NBNPHA provides fee for service consulting to help develop rejuvenation, renovation, and new build projects. Services include writing funding proposals, project management, building design, and construction owner’s representative.

With this project, interns will create a housing data and asset map of important rental data information from 26 rural communities around New Brunswick to provide vital information for NBNPHA’s projects, required in grant proposals with CMHC about the state of availability and rising costs of rental units in NB.

Integrating autonomously recorded audio data with traditional field surveys to improve detectability estimates for North American birds

Around the world, birds have been declining at an alarming rate. It is therefore important that conservationists use as many resources as they can when making informed conservation decisions. Autonomous recording units (ARUs) have become an increasingly popular choice for monitoring bird populations, because they can be left in highly remote regions (such as Canada’s Boreal Forest) and automatically record birds throughout their breeding season. The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute (ABMI) is a national leader in ARU research, and have collected thousands of data points across Canada for hundreds of birds. This project will seek to synthesize these ARU datasets collected by ABMI and improve previous estimates of detectability, which allow for conservation managers to decide exactly where and when to monitor. By improving monitoring decisions, the limited budgets set out for conservation can be more efficiently spent year after year.

Developing a Farm Management System: Migrating from iOS to Android platform

The project conducts a research to explore and investigate ways in developing a farm management tool that will assist farmers to have instant and secure access to information, and have the ability to update those information. Information updated on a device outside the coverage of wireless connection will be updated and synchronized when the device is within a coverage using application level synchronization technique. The research result will benefit partner organization in making an informed decision on their future development efforts as well as deliver a more complete solution to their customers, allowing them to optimize their service according to the customer need.

Conception de Réseau réflecteur large bande opérant aux bandes Q-V pour des applications spatiales

Les CubeSats sont des satellites de petite taille qui requièrent des antennes occupant un très faible volume au lancement. Les antennes paraboliques typiquement utilisées sur de plus gros satellites ne sont pas une option dans ce cas étant donné leur réflecteur courbé et volumineux. Les antennes réseau-réflecteur (ARR) se sont positionnées ces dernières années comme une solution intéressante pour les CubeSats grâce à leur réflecteur planaire pouvant être replié sur lui-même au lancement puis déployé en orbite. Cependant, les ARRs existants en orbite fonctionnent sur une bande de fréquences limitée et couvrent une seule bande. Ce projet vise à explorer ces limitations avec une conception qui couvre deux bandes de fréquences avec une grande largeur de bande. Le stagiaire bénéficiera de l’expertise d’ingénieurs spécialisés en conception d’antennes de satellite de la compagnie MDA, chef de file mondial dans le domaine des charges utiles de satellites de communication et de télédétection.

Persévérance scolaire en contexte multiculturel – Étude de cas de la commune de Léogâne: Comprendre les enjeux locaux afin de déployer des stratégies interprofesionnelles ancrées dans un soutien macrosystémique

Des enjeux majeurs affectent la persévérance scolaire des élèves à l’école primaire en Haïti. Le stage de l’étudiante va contribuer à expliciter en quoi les conditions scolaires non dites teintent l’acceptabilité communautaire de l’école.Le projet vise cerner ces enjeux dans le but d’améliorer le parcours scolaire au niveau primaire en Haïti. Cela pemettra de trouver dea moyens variés pour offrir des choix aux élèves en vue d’une vie citoyenne autonome, adaptée à leur milieu. Pour y arriver, il faut un inventaire des besoins d’apprentissage à prendre en compte et vérifier les perceptions touchant des pistes de carrière qu’ils ouvrent. Cet inventaire permettra 1) de mieux mobiliser les communautés durant le développement des jeunes durant leur école primaire 2) de soutenir ces futurs adultes à une vie active productive dont ils seront fiers.

Influence de la salinité sur la toxicité d’un effluent minier lors de l’enlèvement de l’azote ammoniacal par nitrification-dénitrification

L’exploitation des sites miniers nécessite une importante consommation d’eau. En cas de rejet en milieu naturel, les contaminants (dans le cas présent, l’azote ammoniacal, mais aussi les nitrites et nitrates) présents peuvent avoir des impacts sur l’environnement. La mise en place d’une filière de traitement est alors nécessaire. Celle-ci doit permettre de répondre aux normes de rejet définies par la règlementation. Aussi, dans le cas d’une filière biologique, certains paramètres de l’effluent (dont la salinité) peuvent avoir un effet inhibiteur sur les performances de l’enlèvement et rendre ainsi les procédés de traitement inefficaces. L’objectif de ce projet est alors de réaliser des essais d’enlèvement de l’azote ammoniacal d’effluents salins par nitrification-dénitrification au sein d’une succession de réacteurs à lit fluidisé afin d’essayer de déterminer quels sont les paramètres opérationnels optimaux à mettre en place pour assurer un traitement efficace, robuste et économique applicable aux exploitations minières et ainsi d’étudier l’impact de ce type de traitement sur la toxicité de l’effluent.

Effectiveness of Vibration Massage in Automotive Seating

This research study will examine the effectiveness of a vibration massage system in automotive seating. The vibration parameters of the massage system will be tested by examining different vibration frequencies, types of vibration exposure, and location of the vibration while occupants are sitting in an automotive seat. The intern will measure biometric data of the participants, including electrocardiogram (ECG), galvanic skin response (GSR), and facial expression following different vibration massage patterns. Subjective surveys will be administered to the participants to determine what their vibration massage preferences are. The completion of this research project will further inform the partner organization regarding the bene