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Performance Evaluation of Solvent Co-Injection Scenarios in Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD)-Based Bitumen Recovery

ConocoPhillips Canada (CPC) is evaluating transformational technologies to reduce GHGs by up to 90% allowing for efficient Alberta resource development on a per barrel and supply cost basis in a carbon-constrained, globally competitive market. Warm applied solvent process refers to pre-heated solvents that are injected/co-injected with steam as an elimination/evolution of the current Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) process for bitumen mobilization which provides potential for absolute emission reductions. Solvent applications have potential added benefit of enabling value-add by partially upgrading in-situ. The objective of the outlined project is to develop, and in-depth understanding of the solvent assisted bitumen recovery processes through conducting series of advanced numerical simulation studies on various solvent injection/co-injection scenarios (Dimethyl Ether (DME) and conventional propane or butane), evaluating present technologies, analyzing the results of the field scale pilot application of the emissions reduction process, and studying the customized laboratory scaled Physical Model Experiments (PME).

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Faculty Supervisor:

ZhangXing John Chen

Student:

Partner:

ConocoPhillips Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

NEZU Study—An Indigenous Designed Sensory Intervention for Stress & Anxiety

Aurora Heat, Inc. is a seasonal social enterprise that earns the bulk of its revenue during the Fall and Winter months. In order to curb seasonal influxes of cash flow, the organization has prototyped and informally tested a new to market sensory intervention product called the NEZU™. The NEZU™ is an Indigenous-designed sensory intervention made from sheared beaver fur that soothes symptoms of stress and anxiety. Wholly innovative, the design solves a market gap as natural and biodegradable sensory interventions rooted in traditional knowledge and materials currently do not exist. Offering an unparalleled sensory experience due to the velvety and cloud-like softness of sheared beaver fur, the NEZU™ is also smudged with healing intentions for the recipient. Current options are designed to distract users to bring them out of distressing sensations. In contrast, the NEZU™ offers comfort, allowing the user to fully process difficult emotions or uncomfortable physiological sensations.
An opportunity in achieving market acceptance in western-dominant cultures lies in the scientific-validated efficacy of the NEZU™. In order to achieve this, Indigenous academic partners from the University of Calgary have designed an ethics-approved study to test the sensory intervention’s efficacy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pamela Roach

Student:

Partner:

Aurora Heat Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Wholesale trade

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

3Common Strategic Marketing Research for B2C and B2B

3Common is a social scheduling application that looks to solve the problem of scheduling and finding activities ideas within our users’ social lives. This tool will be like a Microsoft teams’ group where you can view your friends’ schedules, send invites, track RSVP’s, retain event details, and see which events your friends are attending. In addition, there will be an explore page and home feed where you can scroll and look for activity ideas posted by 3Common, local businesses, or your friends on the platform to be the one stop shop for social life management. Our research project objective is to collect data through our backend databases, surveys, and interviews, and characterize the ideal users and use cases of 3Common. We want to know who our target market is, our ideal marketing channel, features that our users want/need, what each demographic uses the tool for, and what generates the most user adoption and growth for 3Common. We also want to know if our growth in social scheduling an advantage is we can use when implementing business profiles onto the platform to integrate ticket sales, bookings, and reservations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathan Greidanus;Claudio Sousa

Student:

Partner:

North Forge

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education; Management of companies and enterprises; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba; University of Winnipeg

Program:

Accelerate

Morphai

Dream’s continuous landscape of consciousness in science, technology and culture opens up to the gamification of sleep and potential of avatars. Eponymous of the human shapes dream god Morpheus sent to dreamers in Greek mythology, “Morphai” is a trans-consciousness multi-realities game where the animated character’s body movement is controlled by the signals from the sleeping human subject’s motor cortex captured by BCI devices. During the MITACS residency, Yiou will run a workshop for up to 40 participants on the project Morphai as a part of Sociability of Sleep. Based in both the Moving Image Research Lab and the Sleep Lab at McGill, project Morphai will explore the breadth of sociability across participants of various states of consciousness, where a waking player and a dreaming player share the same VR space and engage in prosocial behavior and be in each other’s company, through a player-controlled character’s interaction in game space with a dream-consciousness-controlled morphai.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alanna Thain

Student:

Partner:

Harvard University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Physics-informed Machine Learning for Turbulent Separated Flows Using Smart Sensors

Real-time prediction of incoming turbulence has important practical utility in the control and monitoring of fluid systems. Flow estimation using smart sensing techniques will improve our ability to predict and control these flows. However, current sensor-based flow reconstruction methods have not been tested to effectively resolve multi-scale, chaotic and unsteady turbulent phenomena that are commonly encountered in industry. Moreover, the relatively more powerful machine learning (ML) methods still require large amounts of data to train these models on real turbulent flows, rendering their potential to be used in deployed systems impractical. The proposed 24-week multi-disciplinary project involves the development of novel physics-informed ML methods that use sparsely placed wall pressure sensors to predict entire three-dimensional unsteady turbulent flowfields. The success of the project will lead to a robust ML-driven framework that (1) requires significantly less training data, (2) yields more physically consistent predictions and, (3) can predict missing dimensions from limited information.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Martinuzzi

Student:

Partner:

Université de Poitiers

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Perceptions on opioid prescribing after total joint arthroplasty among surgeons practising in Canada, Japan, and the Netherlands: an interpretive description study

Total hip and knee replacement surgeries are the second and third most common surgical procedures in Canada, respectively. Opioid analgesics are routinely prescribed to manage pain after these procedures, making orthopaedic surgeons the third-highest opioid prescribers in Canada. However, opioids are not typically more effective than alternatives (e.g., NSAIDs) and are associated with addiction, overdose, and death. Compared with Canada, Japan’s opioid use is sparse. Likewise, opioid misuse and opioid-related death are substantially lower in the Netherlands than in Canada, but greater than in Japan. Accordingly, these three countries represent high (Canada), moderate (Netherlands), and low (Japan) “cases” of opioid prescribing. Using a qualitative research methodology, interpretive description, and semi-structured interviews, this study compares the perceptions of orthopaedic surgeons on postoperative opioid prescribing, and explores facilitators and barriers. The insights obtained from this study may help to identify potential drivers of practise variations, which can be used to inform system-wide initiatives supporting safer opioid prescribing practises.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jason Busse

Student:

Partner:

Deventer Hospital

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Designing a user-friendly platform for a water conservation device using behavioural science

Canada is one of the largest per capita users of fresh water in the world. A blind spot in water consumption is that people are often unaware of how much water is being used. One solution is to provide instant feedback on water consumption to users and use behavioural interventions to promote water conservation among users. In this project, we will conduct a literature review on behavioural interventions that promote water conservation. Based on the literature, we will design and test prototypes of an interactive dashboard (target application: mobile) and display device (hardware accessory) to identify the optimal design for a water conservation device. This project will ultimately help Canadian and international consumers to conserve water.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jiaying Zhao

Student:

Partner:

Altimus Design Inc.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Designing and Prototyping an Isolated Three-Stage GaN-Based Bidirectional 6.6 kW On-Board Charger (OBC)

Galium Nitride (GaN) technology compared to the conventional silicon and silicon carbide technologies gives better switching performance in terms of switching losses and switching speed. Also, since GaN Fets do not have intrinsic body diode as in Si and SiC based switching MOSFETS, they can work at much higher frequencies in room temperature, leading to using more compact passive components for power electronics devices. Production of bidirectional onboard chargers (OBC) are boosted due to the increasing demand for electric vehicles. GaN Systems Inc. provides high-efficient GaN Fets which can facilitate reaching more efficient and compact OBCs. The production of a 6.6 kW bidirectional OBC with above 96% peak efficiency is projected using GaN products of GaN systems Inc. The final design will facilitate the usage of GaN technologies in automotive industry, increase the system efficiency, and encourage the more exploitations of GaN Systems products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xiaoyu Wang

Student:

Partner:

Infineon Technologies Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Automotive; Technology; Energy and Utilities

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

The Dramaturgy of Education: Digital and Textual Avenues for Stratford Festival Student Enrichment

The post-doctoral fellow will act as an academic liaison between the Stratford Festival’s Education Department and the University of Waterloo, including contributing to the Games Institute’s joint project on a series of Shakespeare-themed video games and apps, academic support for future Festival artistic endeavours, and development of the Education Department’s distribution materials. The Festival will benefit from a development of new games, collection of metadata, and dramaturgical support. This project also offers numerous scholarly products as output, including a growing partnership between the Stratford Festival and the University of Waterloo, a collection of research articles, transferable tagging protocols and ongoing interface design

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jennifer Roberts-Smith

Student:

Partner:

The Stratford Festival

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Lighthouse Coffee Strategic Review and Digital Transformation

Lighthouse Coffee Roasters is a company that focuses on supporting the small town farmers in the rural Myanmar, by importing coffee cherries every year from the harvest, and selling it post roasting in the local Canadian market. Currently, they have built a loyal customer base that has a sustainable return ratio, but want to have a long term brand image, growth strategy, and continued online presence that will build a stronger market space for continued trade with the Myanmar farmers, with potential growth.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian Angell

Student:

Partner:

Lighthouse Coffee Roasters

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

New and Digital Media; Technology; Agriculture and Food

University:

Trinity Western University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

MechMonkey Business Marketing Internship

MechMonkey is an innovative technology platform dedicated to facilitating Auto repair shops’ appointment management system. With MechMonkey, Auto repair shops can manage their appointments and interactions with their customers. Additionally, a mobile app allows their customers to schedule services, save invoices, and have reminders set for their vehicle maintenance. MechMonkey is a one-stop solution for both garages and their customers. This project will help in speeding up the process of launching our application. Additionally, this version of application needs to have additional features and integrations than our old one. By conducting market analysis, this project can assist the business in determining what features and integrations will provide us with a competitive advantage. Additionally, MechMonkey needs to speak with the auto repair shops to learn more about the difficulties they are currently facing with scheduling appointments and interacting with their customers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alex Stewart

Student:

Partner:

MechMonkey

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Automotive; Technology

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Susciter l’engagement au partage récurrent de données multimériques et biologiques

Le domaine de la santé connectée ne cesse de se développer et des outils à la fine pointe technologique sont proposés pour faire le suivi de l’état de santé des individus et prédire certaines maladies. Ces nouvelles technologies présentent des avantages indéniables tant pour les individus que pour les professionnels de la santé, accès instantané aux données médicales, suivi en temps réel de l’état de santé du patient et poser de meilleurs diagnostics permettant ainsi de garantir une plus grande efficacité du système et réduire les risques d’erreur. Or, ces dispositifs de santé connectée font face à un manque d’adhésion de la part des individus qui se manifeste à travers le manque de motivation et d’implication à fournir leurs données. Ce projet consiste donc à analyser les facteurs motivationnels qui amènent les individus à s’impliquer davantage dans l’utilisation des outils de santé numérique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sebastien Tremblay

Student:

Partner:

Biotwin

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

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