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Adapting Wearable Technology to Monitor Pilot Fatigue

The objective of this research proposal is to develop a framework to track and manage the fatigue of pilots involved with aerial firefighting. Interns of different backgrounds (neuroscience, engineering and statistics) will work together to achieve this goal. The neuroscience intern will collect physiological data to identify how a pilot’s physical and cognitive performance is impacted by the demands of aerial firefighting. The engineering and statistics interns will use these and other relevant data to create the framework to manage pilot fatigue. The partner organization, Conair Group Inc, will use this framework to improve both pilot safety and the efficiency of aerial firefighting operations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chris McNeil;Homayoun Najjaran;Jason Loeppky

Student:

Partner:

Conair Group Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Transportation and warehousing

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Impact of a rehabilitation program on EMG-EMG coherence in stroke patients

Stroke is the third leading cause of death in Canada and France, and a major cause of disability world wide. Physiotherapy rehabilitation programs are used to improve movement through neural adaptations, also known as neural plasticity, in stroke patients. During this project stroke patients, will be performing individualized rehabilitation programs that include weekly clinical assessment of movement abilities, as well as, the performance of walking exercises on a treadmill, while the electrical activity in the muscles of the leg that dorsiflex (flex) the foot at the ankle, and muscles that plantar flex (extend) the foot at the ankle are measured. The purpose of this research is to quantify the magnitude of muscular electrical activity coherence (EEG-EEG coherence) between muscles that flex or extend the foot at the ankle, as well as, assess any relationship between clinical evaluation and EEG-EEG coherence. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Olav Krigolson

Student:

Partner:

Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Implementing Factor Models in Investment Management

The internship will consist of studying, building, implementing and testing so called factors that are used to characterize the equities, commodities and currencies that the company invests in. These factors can be thought of as characteristics relating a group of securities that is important in explaining their returns and risk. My task will be first to understand the risk factors that are of particular importance to the company’s investment strategy. Following this, I will use literature on the subject to construct proxies, or representations, of these risk factors that can be explicitly defined using quantitative information of different industries. Once this is done I will also build models that involve combinations of many factors as well as test different such models against each other for efficiency. Finally, I will also attempt to design new factors based on knowledge and expertise acquired through literature as well as implementing existing models.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Manuel Morales

Student:

Partner:

IPSOL Capital Inc

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Production of Canola Oil Based Healthy Food Emulsifiers Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Media

Emulsifiers, specifically diacylglycerides and monoacylglycerides, have the potential to replace fats and oils high in saturated fats such as palm and thus provide healthy and low-caloric food products. Canola based DAGs and MAGs not only can reduce the saturated fat content and food calories, they also can improve the functionalities of food products. However, they are produced using costly and environmentally unfriendly “enzyme in solvent” systems, and have shortcomings when utilized in certain food applications. This research will investigate the feasibility of manufacturing DAGs and MAGs from canola oil based on enzymatic reaction (ER) using supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2). Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) technique will be used to analyze the final product. The SC-CO2 and NMR are “green” solutions compared to current solvent systems and have to potential to be more cost effective. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Scanlon;Peter Jones

Student:

Partner:

Canola Council of Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Capture and utilization of heat and CO2 from in-vessel composting of municipal source-separated organics in a modular vertical greenhouse

Municipal composting of source separated organics is a costly process that utilizes significant energy and labour. The potential exists to capture and take advantage of by-products generated from the biological decay of the organics, including CO2 gas and heat. We are proposing to have a PhD and a MSc student investigate the potential of capturing these by-products from the composting process to be utilized in a vertical stacked greenhouse system to promote urban agriculture and food sustainability.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gordon Price;Paul Arnold

Student:

Partner:

Hatch Ltd (NS)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Social welfare systems analysis of road capacity expansion options

Cintra Canada Inc. has conducted several research studies on the advantages of implementing managed lanes (lanes where operational/management strategies are implemented in response to varying travel demand/supply conditions) with the focus on the travel speeds, road capacity, and air quality benefits. However, no study to date, has conducted a comprehensive analysis of the system-wide welfare benefits/costs of managed lanes. Cintra, as one of the major providers of managed lanes in North America, is eager to understand the fundamental and broader implications of various managed lane options. With the help of three intern-students and through the partnership between Cintra Canada and the PI (Omid M. Rouhani), we will examine the system-wide impacts of managed lanes projects, taking into account various pricing options (fixed, time-varying, and dynamic tolls), funding options (general taxes or user fees), and types of provision (private or public).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Omid M Rouhani;Luis F. Miranda-Moreno

Student:

Partner:

4352238 Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Transportation and warehousing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Predictive Content Marketing Analyses

Globally, companies now spend upwards of $200B per year on on-line content marketing (CM) materials and strategies, with this expending rapidly year-over-year at double-digit rates. These activities and efforts are changing how traditional corporate sales funnels function as now, in CM driven markets, clients and customers chose to arrive into a given company’s sales funnel after having already become well-acquainted with the markets available products and services, their expected price points, and their available reviews and social media commentary. For companies active in CM it is, therefore, becoming increasingly critical to produce the right and effective CM materials at the right time in order to attract clients and customers into the sales funnel. Poor, mediocre, missing, or indifferent CM materials can even act to drive clients and customers towards competitor offerings. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Neville;Thomas Darcie

Student:

Partner:

Wesley Clover (Victoria, BC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Technical debt in software-intensive systems

Technical debt is a metaphor used in software development to describe the price to pay now for earlier design and coding decisions that were “not quite right”. It is different from defects or bugs: the software functions correctly. But any subsequent development is progressively more and more expensive, to the point where they cannot be reasonably extended or maintained anymore. The proposed research is to investigate a form of technical debt hard to detect by source code analyzers, called structural or architectural debt, and to investigate the use of artificial intelligence techniques to analyse internal software documentation (in English and Chinese) to flag potential technical debt.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe Kruchten

Student:

Partner:

Istuary Innovation Labs Inc (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Portable Web-based GIS to Improve Deployment of GPR Investigation in the Field

Prior doing any type of construction that causes soil disturbance (digging, trenching, etc.), it is imperative to acknowledge which infrastructures such as water ducts, sewerage, electricity cables are buried. The GPR approach is recognized as performing to obtain the location and depth of underground objects but it shows some drawbacks. The proposal is to improve field survey and spatial data integration of GPR investigations by providing interoperate web and GIS capabilities available on portable device as smartphone or tablet. The solution is to add GPR data handling options in an existing Web-GIS platform called GVX. GVX-GPR will facilitate engineering and land surveyors to execute GPR surveys, allowing them to visualize in the field all relevant data from past documentation of that area as well as helping them to geo-annotate the location of objects. TO BE CONTD

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jacynthe Pouliot;Richard Fortier

Student:

Partner:

Géovoxel Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Design and fabrication of transmon qubits

Despite the monumental advances made in classical computing technology over the past decades, computationally expensive tasks are still presenting daunting challenges to researchers and industry. Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize many facets of information technologies by pushing the frontiers in various fields ranging from machine learning to cryptography. This research project aims at designing and fabricating the fundamental building block of a quantum computer, a qubit, using industry standard nano-fabrication techniques. Among the many architecture candidates, we have chosen one based on Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics, arguably one of the most promising technologies. This project focuses on a specific qubit design named transmon qubit. First, a computer assisted design (CAD) will be made using Anyon Systems Inc. in-house software tools. Second, a fabrication recipe will be elaborated and tested in the University facilities. Third, the proper functioning of the device will be validated using state-of-the-art experiments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bertrand Reulet

Student:

Partner:

Anyon Systems Inc

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Achieving aspirations of Canadian aboriginal communities through participatory cultural mapping and dynamic decision modelling – Year two

The Aboriginal housing situation in Canada is in crisis with a lack of culturally and environmentally appropriate housing. To address this need, this Mitacs Elevate project involves a collaboration between the Heiltsuk Nation (in Bella Bella, BC), the University of British Columbia, and FPInnovations. Through this project, a Participatory Approach towards Holistic Solutions (PATHS) framework was created and applied to help assess pathways with which the Heiltsuk Nation may effectively develop and implement community-led housing solutions. The PATHS framework is comprised of five steps: 1) Identifying aspirations; 2) collaboratively creating housing designs; 3) developing opportunities for housing innovations; 4) implementation of housing designs and related innovations; and, 5) reflection on the work. This Mitacs Elevate project will enable the development, implementation, and impact-benefit assessment of a Heiltsuk community-led home design. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Gaston

Student:

Partner:

FPInnovations (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

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

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Achieving aspirations of Canadian aboriginal communities through participatory cultural mapping and dynamic decision modelling

The aspirations of aboriginal communities are a critical part of decision making regarding land and resource use, policy and community development, and strategic planning. To help achieve aboriginal aspirations, this project aims to
develop, apply, and evaluate a novel approach to aid aboriginal community decision making and solution creation/implementation. This approach builds upon current research with the Heiltsuk Nation of Bella Bella, BC, who will be the project’s partner community.
This project will use participatory action research techniques to: 1) identify community aspirations and assets, 2) spatially represent community assets, 3) co-develop housing options towards achieving aspirations, and 4) implement
and assess the selected housing options.
Benefit to Partner Organization: The post-doctoral researcher, under the mentoring of the principal investigator, will develop strong academic skills in participatory research and hands-on experience helping Aboriginal communities
achieve their goals. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Gaston

Student:

Partner:

FPInnovations (Vancouver, BC);University of British Columbia

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

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

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

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