Innovative Projects Realized

Delivery Optimization for Post-Secondary Clients & Associated Communications

Aligned Outcomes’ leads organizations to solve complex business optimization problems by clearly assessing the firm’s current state and identifying symptoms with evidence. AO rapidly iterates on effective solutions, building virtual operating models of a client’s organization. AO’s innovative Enterprise Digital Twin platform integrates work unit alignment, processes, technologies, governance, costs, and customer journey satisfaction. Opportunities for this MITACS project sit within the enhancement of AO’s Platform and integrated delivery method. Specifically, the Intern Project will be focused on data capture and analysis within client live engagements adding clarity to AO client’s business problems and identification of available solutions. Further, this client-facing experience will contribute to AO’s upcoming product re-development initiatives and, the intern will also contribute to AO’s storytelling – sharing valuable generic insights to the marketplace. The project will support AO’s innovations within the post-secondary industry. As AO continues to grow in the post-secondary sector, additional capabilities from our Platform are required.

The Gaia Project: Communications and Marketing Coordinator

The Gaia Project (“TGP”) is a New Brunswick-based charitable non-profit with the mission to empower youth to take action on climate change through education. For over 10 years, TGP has been providing in-class support to teachers across New Brunswick and the unceded territory of the Wabanaki peoples by delivering hands-on experiences that ignite student curiosity, enhance skill development, and provide meaningful and developmentally appropriate information related to the causes of and solutions to climate change.
The Gaia Project’s target audience has traditionally been teachers, but with the addition of new and innovative educational programming, the organization hopes to get more information and resources directly engaging youth. To do this TGP will hire an intern with specialization in communications and marketing. This individual will work very closely with both The Gaia Project and St Thomas University to implement exciting new strategies to steer the not-for-profit into brand new pathways for empowering youth. These new tools will include Youtube promotions, tiktok trends and sharing, new marketing campaigns and more not yet identified approaches. The intern will have the opportunity to influence thousands of youth with important messaging around sustainability and climate change education.

Génération d’une banque de lipocalins synthétiques

Génération et criblage d’une banque synthétique de lipocalins

Material Textualities: Literature between Collecting and Hoarding

In light of an urgent ecological demand for attentiveness to the non-human; outcomes. this proposal stresses the importance of the literary medium in addressing eco-critical questions. In essence, this project explores the interdependency of human and non-human entities through literary-material desires: collecting, hoarding, and discarding. My research thus asks how we can read literature under the distinct material configurations of collecting and hoarding, and how eco-material concepts like waste, reusing and recycling can be applied to literary analysis.

Marketing and Sales Coordinator

We are looking for a Marketing and Sales Coordinator to help us share the story of Chocolat Voyageur, a bean to bar chocolate company based in Hampton, NB. The position will focus on our three main objects including adding a more in-depth strategy to the existing marketing plan, create a spreadsheet that identifies further potential partners and stakeholders for Chocolat Voyageur and helping to further grow and share its story.

The coordinator will work closely with the chocolate maker and owner to learn about bean to bar chocolate, its philosophy and goals. They will have a chance to work with people in a market and boutique situation to share their knowledge and the products as well as independent time to build, learn and create the strategies above.

CFD simulation of a solar nano photocatalytic cavity reactor for hydrogen production by water splitting

The challenges and problems concerning the energy crisis, environmental protection and also global warming force human societies to use alternative green and renewable energy resources instead of conventional resources. In this regard, hydrogen gas as an important energy carrier has been noticed seriously. This project aims to concentrate on the CFD simulation of a solar photocatalytic reactor for hydrogen production by water splitting. The results of the model can be used to optimal design of photoreactors for efficient hydrogen production.

Expert explanations via video: The key to unlocking scientific journal articles for university students?

Scientific research papers are complex, dense, and filled with jargon, so traditionally the valuable knowledge they contain has been accessible to only a handful of experts. SAGE publishing, one of the world’s largest academic publishers, and Dr. Adam Frost, a cognitive neuroscientist, independently created video formats that help scientists directly communicate their discoveries and practices in approachable ways so that that knowledge can reach a much wider audience. Both SAGE and Dr. Frost designed these videos to help train new scientists to understand complex scientific documents, which is a very difficult task that has stood as a barrier to careers in the sciences for many promising students. These video explanations, delivered by the same scientists who conducted the original research, should substantially improve learning outcomes for the students who view them, but since this is a new solution to a longstanding problem, it needs to be validated. With this project, we deploy these videos in a large psychology course at the University of Toronto and collect data throughout to measure how they impact student learning, which is contributing to both the theory and practice of science education.

Designing and Implementing a Communication Plan for Purpose Homes

The Purpose Homes Pilot project, an initiative of Purpose Construction, focuses on building affordable 5+ bedroom homes to accommodate larger and blended family models. Purpose Homes also aims to create a zero-barrier pathway to homeownership for low income Indigenous and Newcomer Canadian families. The objective of this Mitacs project is to implement a communications plan for Purpose Homes that prioritizes accessible and informative materials to be used for stakeholder engagement, community consultations, marketing, and fundraising purposes.

IMII E&T Road Mapping Assessment Project

The IMII held a strategic “road mapping” workshop with its industry, government, academic and other innovation ecosystem members in October 2021. The workshop identified this project as an immediate/priority need. IMII and its members support a number of programs meant to help attract and develop a qualified workforce. However, the program offerings have historically not been coordinated and the degree of overlap and duplication, or gaps in what is being offered is not known. As the minerals industry is facing increased competition for skilled persons, and particularly those of diverse backgrounds, a baseline is required from which improvements can be developed. The project will help IMII and its members address the challenge of efficiently and effectively addressing gaps in the local workforce system (organizations and activities that prepare people for employment, help workers advance in their careers, and ensure a skilled workforce) for Saskatchewan’s minerals industry as it strives to develop a digitally talented workforce that is more diverse and inclusive and representative of the communities in which the industry operates.

Geological and Geophysical Studies of Source and Reservoir Units in the Flemish Pass Basin, Offshore Newfoundland

Suncor Energy Inc. and Memorial University will collaborate on a research program for three Master’s student interns to study the crustal structure and geological history of the petroleum-bearing Flemish Pass Basin and adjoining Central Ridge, offshore Newfoundland and Labrador. The goal of the research is to understand the large and small-scale tectonic processes that formed and modified the basin and underlying crust; reconstruct the ancient drainage system that deposited the sedimentary rocks in the basin; and define the timing and distribution of fluid and oil migration after the rocks were deposited. Geophysical, mineralogical and geochemical techniques will be employed. Suncor holds interests in several exploration and significant discovery licenses in the study area. The internships will provide the company with data and interpretations that will be useful for planning their exploration program in the licensed areas.

Social Value Internships (Arnaud, Cara & Lara)

This series of internships will draw heavily upon the expertise within SiMPACT, towards the purpose of developing Social Value Canada as a non-profit professional network that is more equipped to operate independently, including generating ongoing and future revenue. Benefits to SiMPACT include the opportunity to embed its knowledge into a vehicle that can further the dissemination of that knowledge to a wider audience, and for the greater good, in a revenue generating and sustainable manner.

Automatic Analysis of SOTI SNAP Application Data by leveraging Natural Language

You might have asked Google Assistant what’s the weather like today, or a choice for Valentine’s Day dinner; have you imagined whether Google Assistant could be your assistant at work too, answering questions such as “Hey Google, what day generates the most revenue?”? At SOTI, we are turning this idea to reality, by integrating our industry leading mobility solution SOTI SNAP with Natural Language Querying and AI technologies, adding smartness to your business. SOTI SNAP is a product developed by SOTI Inc. that allow users to create applications by drag and drop without programming language expertise. The aim is to leverage voice, to eliminate the need to view and analyze several reports to decipher the data coming from the SOTI SNAP applications.