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Sustainable and Resilient Neighbourhood Design

This research investigates how a neighbourhood in London, Ontario may be designed to be both sustainable and resilient, where “resilient” means capable of dealing with future shocks and stresses. One major future shock/stress will be climate change impacts, such as extreme temperature or precipitation. This research will also conduct preliminary energy modelling of a simplified community using both current and future London temperatures.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chris Kennedy

Student:

Partner:

S2E Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Finance and Insurance; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

DECAP – Marketing Summer 2022

DECAP’s market, which is needle safety devices, has few competitors with little to no online presence. Market data on these products is difficult to find, or non-existent. The intern will be conducting marketing activities including SEO, Advertising, Digital Marketing, and Marketing Research, and will be responsible for creation of all components for these activities. The goal of these activities is to create exploratory campaigns to discover what the best marketing options and solutions are for this type of product, in an effort to learn more about this market and fill a gap in the marketing research space.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Matthew Larson

Student:

Partner:

DECAP Research and Development Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Douglas College

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

CTRS Solutions Limited-Market Intelligence Intern-Anna (Lukmeesa)

CTRS is an impact business. A market intelligence agency doing work throughout North America, we are also a certified B Corporation that gives more than 5% of its billable hours as pro bono contributions to eligible non-profits such as the Downie Wenjack Fund and Food Banks of BC. Our pro bono community work is far ranging in portfolios such as homelessness, immigrant services, sexual violence, education, services for children, community economic development and entrepreneurship. We take environmental stewardship very seriously and we are a living wage employer.
This project is designed to support our leadership team to rethink and streamline some of our market intelligence offerings, so that we can better support non-profit and government business incubators throughout Western Canada. Although we have completed a significant number of small scale projects for these incubators over the past two years, we still have several challenges and this project’s scope would be to support us in overcoming these difficulties. This project will involve looking for new machine learning and AI-driven software tools, developing templated reports, re-defining our normal process, as well as piloting this new deliverable with some of our actual clients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Harrison

Student:

Partner:

CTRS Solutions

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Summer Analyst – Impact Investing, Acceleration, and Advisory – Simon Fraser University

The Social Innovation Academy will be working with a network of Mitacs interns to develop national-scale backend infrastructure resources for incubation and acceleration organizations across Canada. These resources may include (but are not limited to): initiatives for advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion; impact measurement frameworks; In addition, interns will provide marketing, research, and financial analysis for social purpose organizations over the duration of the 14-week internship.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Geoff Mann

Student:

Partner:

Propel Impact

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Social Innovation; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Westland Insurance-Learning & Career Development Intern-Komal

Westland Insurance has grown into one of Canada’s largest independently owned insurance distribution businesses. Our head office is located in Surrey, British Columbia and we have over 190 locations across Canada. This internship project will involve identifying the best local and national practices around talent acquisition and employee retention and will support our organization to maintain its place as an employer of choice. As part of this project, the Learning & Career Development Intern will create career pathing documents, record and catalogue findings, launch materials, present reports to our human resources team, and develop content for appropriate career paths at national level, for positions such as: Branch Manager, Senior Personal Lines Broker, Commercial Account Manager, Claims Advocate, Underwriter, Senior/ Specialty Underwriter and others.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Harrison

Student:

Partner:

Westland Insurance

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Using novel approaches to understand mountain pine beetle impacts on upper elevation sites in Jasper National Park

This proposed research will evaluate changes to ecosystem composition and configuration in the subalpine and alpine zones from the recent unprecedented outbreak of MPB in Jasper National Park (JNP), Alberta. New extended time-series data and innovative spatial assessments will be used to consider the impact of novel disturbances on species-at-risk, including whitebark pine, limber pine, and mountain caribou. An integral part of the proposed research will be building relationships with the Indigenous Peoples whose traditional lands JNP occupies to facilitate project co-design and knowledge co-production. The outcomes of this research will support decision-making by Parks Canada on restoration interventions in JNP as part of a larger assessment of the implications of rapid ecological change for environmental management in Canada’s mountain landscapes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Higgs

Student:

Partner:

fRI Research

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Agriculture; Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a CRISPR screening platform for the oncology market

Preliminary clinical trials harnessing the immune system of cancer patients to combat disease have shown to have impressive efficacy. Immune cells
isolated from a patient are genetically altered to allow for improved detection of cancerous cells and subsequently re-introduced into the patient. Yet despite its promise, rapid and cost effective manufacturing of this therapy remains a barrier to widespread adoption. This collaboration will refine a lab-on-a-chip approach, allowing for automated liquid handling and optimization of experimental conditions specific to the genetic engineering of primary breast cancer cells at scale. Streamlining the process will reduce costs and allow for screening targets at scale, while automation will improve standardization and reproducibility.

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Faculty Supervisor:

William Muller

Student:

Partner:

Dropgenie

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Développement d’un cadre d’accompagnement à la stratégie et mesure d’impact social et environnemental

Depuis plus de 7 ans, Rhizome accompagne des projets entrepreneuriaux, à travers 3 accélérateurs partenaires stratégiques (l’Esplanade, la Piscine et La Vague). Un des enjeux majeurs des organisations accompagnées est de pouvoir mieux définir quelle est leur stratégie de développement afin de maximiser leur potentiel d’impact social, environnemental et économique sur leur communauté et territoire.
Le projet de recherche proposé vise à développer une méthodologie d’accompagnement structurante pour jeunes organisations innovantes pour les aider à maximiser leur potentiel d’impact social et environnemental à travers la définition d’une stratégie d’impact et une méthodologie de mesure et évaluation d’impact. Ce projet se penchera sur deux secteurs en particulier : les systèmes alimentaires et la santé communautaire. Le but est de pouvoir proposer une méthodologie qui soit assez standardisée pour pouvoir augmenter les capacités d’accompagnement mais assez flexibles pour s’adapter aux besoins sectoriels et individuels de chaque organisation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martine Vézina

Student:

Partner:

Stratégies Rhizome

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

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

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Optimal Placement of Fault Circuit Indicator to Improve the Reliability of Distribution Systems using CYME Reliability Module

Within the past decades, there has been a significant growth in the electric power systems that have resulted in a large increase in the development of transmission and distribution lines. Distribution system is the final connection between the utility provider and the customers and constitutes a major component of the power system. However, since most distribution lines are overhead and spread over a wide area, they are susceptible to unexpected events such as short circuit fault or an open circuit fault. These unexpected events which manifest themselves as interruptions in the customer side lower the reliability of quality of service, and consequently decrease the power quality. In order to quantify the reliability in large scale distribution systems, system engineers invoke reliability indices for analysis and design. To improve and enhance the capabilities of these reliability indices, utilities are installing fault indicators (FIs) on their distribution systems. The objective of this project is to design, develop, and implement a new analysis capable of determining the optimal location of the FIs that improves and enhances the utility of the reliability indices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Khashayar Khorasani

Student:

Partner:

CYME International T&D;Concordia University

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Penrose Partners BSI Mitacs Internship Summer 2022

The primary focus of the internship program will be assisting Penrose Partners in the development, programming, and execution of education launchpad and perform research into the DeFi industry. The educational launchpad is similar conceptually to other launchpads except entrepreneurs who choose to enroll into the rigorous educational program will have the opportunity to receive funding for their ideas related to the educated protocols. The intern will support the creation of the launchpad and the educational materials. Also, the intern will perform research applicable to the DeFi industry which will complement the educational materials required for the launchpad.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sandy Staples

Student:

Partner:

Penrose Partners

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Predictive phenotyping of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease from multifactor biomarker and neuroimaging data

Individuals diagnosed with either Alzheimer’s disease (AD) or Parkinson’s disease (PD) typically exhibit a distinctive profile of progressive impairments. AD primarily affects cognitive functions (e.g., dementia), whereas PD affects motor functions (e.g., tremor). However, in many cases, this symptomatic distinction is not apparent, because some AD and PD patients experience a mixture of cognitive and motor functions of varying severities. These observations have called into question our current definitions of AD and PD as being two separate diseases. An alternative framework proposes that AD and PD may represent extreme phenotypes of a continuum where mixed AD/PD subtypes lie in the middle. To test this, we will obtain longitudinal neuroimaging, protein pathology and clinical test data of AD and PD patients from the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and the Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative (PPMI), respectively. Then, we will use a novel data integration technique called similarity network fusion to combine all of the different data types, producing networks of patients who share common patterns in their data. We expect to see unique clusters of patients corresponding to the distinct disease subtypes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Taylor Schmitz;Marieke Mur

Student:

Partner:

Parkinson Society Southwestern Ontario

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Accelerate

Stryker Boats-Social Media Manager Internship-Alexis

Since 2004, Stryker Inflatable Boats has been building the toughest, safest, most well equipped, and most versatile boat model in the industry. Our customers include Fire & Police departments, Search & Rescue, Military, Industry Professionals, Fishermen, Hunters, and Nature Guides. Through this project, we will be able to deliver our message to the young generation and engage them through social media and other digital marketing tactics. We plan to improve our content on all different channels (Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok) and start using our experiences on the water to create short edited reels for our brand promotion. This project will allow us to have on-site support, conduct a specific market research, develop new products, and improve our filming abilities. This will be a great learning experience for the intern as they will learn about the benefits & impacts of the marketing strategy they have implemented.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Heather Harrison

Student:

Partner:

Stryker Boats

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

Kwantlen Polytechnic University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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