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Simulator for Distributed Quantum Computation

Distributed computing is a model in which components of a software system are shared among multiple computers to improve efficiency and performance. The growing interest in cloud computing scenarios that incorporate both distributed computing capabilities and heterogeneous hardware presents a significant opportunity for network operators. The aim of this Research is to develop a purpose-built discrete-event simulator for distributed quantum computing and identify further challenges and open problems arising from the design of a Distributed Quantum Computing ecosystem. In addition, the intern participating in this project will develop applicable protocols for blind computing. which, in itself, is a research challenge since Quantum Internet is being developed in parallel. This research is of central importance for Ericsson as it allows the integration of quantum computing into Ericsson distributed processing environment in order to fulfill the performance requirements of next generation of telecom networks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anne Broadbent

Student:

Partner:

Ericsson Canada Inc (Quebec);Mitacs - Vancouver

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Elevating the health and safety of vulnerable road users: Care, equity, and the built environment

The goal of this project is to enhance the safety of vulnerable road users (VRUs) by elevating our knowledge of equitable changes to the built environment (BE). It includes three sub-projects: 1) prioritizes the knowledge of public health professionals and their experiences making BE changes to enhance VRUs’ safety; 2) will evaluate a road safety micro grant program in British Columbia (Vision Zero in Road Safety for Vulnerable Road Users) to gain insight into best practices for future cycles; and 3) will examine road safety injury prevention policies and the current design of the BE in Canada through a care ethics lens, which will illustrate whose safety is served by the BE and who is excluded. Overall, this project will contribute to our growing knowledge regarding the links between people’s safety and the BE, with an emphasis on the health of VRUs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alison McPherson;Ian Pike;Sarah Richmond

Student:

Partner:

Parachute

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Developing Crop Consulting App

This project is to build a mobile application that will allow partner’s clients to use it on their mobile device to access their farm data and receive ongoing recommendations from consultants. The project will benefit the partner organization by improving the communication between consultants and their client farmers. Currently, consultants print out their recommendations for farmers or sent it through mail. It is not easy to get timely or reliable feedback from farmers using paper and regular mail. After this project is completed, consultants can forward their recommendations to the farmer via the mobile device application directly and get farmer’s feedback as soon as the farmer confirms from their device. This will improve the quality of their service and attract more customers for them, which can increase their market share.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ralph Deters

Student:

Partner:

CropPro Consulting;Springboard West Innovations Inc (Saskatoon, SK)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Information and Communications Technology

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Confocal imaging of Arabidopsis defense related proteins involved in PI4P homeostasis

Plants face various challenges when they grow. They are attacked by numerous diseases and this can negatively affect their growth and productivity. Plants have complex means of defending against diseases. In order to create disease resistant crops it is important to first understand how plants are able to defend against these diseases and understand how these complex plant defense reactions work. In our research we use a plant belonging to the mustard family, called Arabidopsis. This plant is easy to grow and perform research in indoor lab settings. Lipid molecules located in the membranes of plant cells have been shown to be involved in plant immunity. Alterations in the levels of these lipid molecules have been shown to impact plant immunity. One such immunity related lipid molecule is PI4P. PI4P lipid homeostasis is important for a balanced plant immunity. Numerous proteins are involved in PI4P synthesis (such as the PI4KBetas) and degradation (such as the SAC domain containing proteins). In my PhD I am investigating the role of Arabidopsis SACs in plant immune regulation. The pi4kbeta mutant that does not produce functional PI4KBeta proteins display enhanced immunity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xin Li

Student:

Partner:

The University of Göttingen

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Biotechnology; Life Sciences (not health)

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Effect of corrosion defect on hydrogen atom diffusion, trapping and the resulting cracking of existing pipelines for hydrogen transport

Repurposing existing natural gas pipelines is “a low-cost option for delivering large volumes of hydrogen”, accelerating the realization of full-scale hydrogen economy for energy transition. Hydrogen-steel interactions would induce the so-called hydrogen embrittlement, causing cracking and pipeline failure. The corrosion defect present on the existing pipelines tends to facilitate occurrence of the hydrogen-induced cracking. The project will investigate the effect of corrosion defect on hydrogen diffusion, trapping and the resulting cracking of “aged” pipelines, filling knowledge and technical gaps and providing an assessment technique to support safe transport of hydrogen by pipelines. The research is original, novel and highly relevant to implementation of the national hydrogen strategy. The project will improve InnoTech Alberta’s knowledge and technical expertise in hydrogen pipelines and better enable the organization to develop a reputation and competitiveness in engineering innovation community and pipeline operators.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frank Cheng

Student:

Partner:

InnoTech Alberta

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Energy and Utilities; Sustainability & the Environment; Technology

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Growth Strategy Associate

Green Tire Print Canada is a newly established partnership between TREV Technology, a Turkish company, and EMVC to produce and sell electric medium and heavy-duty vehicles in North and South America. Over the last 20 years, TREV Technology has developed a proprietary, fully-integrated EV system offering superior battery utilisation, safety, adaptability and cost to produce. They are the premier EV company in Turkey, having produced taxis, buses, airport refuelling trucks and tractors. Green Tire Print Canada is focused on commercialising 3 vehicles – a 318HP tractor (the only electric tractor in the world with more than 100HP), airport refuelling trucks and transit buses. Green Tire Print Canada aims to focus on Tractor first. The project involves working directly with the Chief Strategy and Growth Officer to map the North American tractor and transit bus markets, develop a Go-to-market strategy and prioritise future growth opportunities. The primary focus will be on tractors where Green Tire will have first-mover advantage as the only company worldwide with a high horsepower offering.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sandy Staples

Student:

Partner:

Green Tire Print Canada

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Transportation and warehousing

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Project and Marketing Development Officer

Currently our organization is facing challenges with having the resources to continue our marketing strategy including completing market research, improving our company’s marketing processes and procedures as well as maintaining a social media presence. Applying for this funding will allow us to give a student a meaningful work experience while also benefitting Insight’s marketing department.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Young;Kennedy Farnell

Student:

Partner:

Insight Psychological Inc.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Création de projets guidés en Science des données

Création de projets guidés (études de cas) qui montrent les applications de la science des données dans fonction RH (people analytics)
L’objectif est d’aider les entreprises à améliorer la compétence de leurs employé.e.s en Data et à bien les outiller dans la mise en place d’une stratégie IA/Data et de transformation numérique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Denis Larocque

Student:

Partner:

Plateforme Uluumy inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Leadership in Engineering Consulting: a qualitative study on the unique leadership skillsets of top performing engineering consultants, and what companies can do to develop them

Engineering consulting is a unique occupation that requires professionals to possess both strong technical and non-technical abilities. Engineering consulting organizations have identified the the gap between top performers and their peers to pertain to be social, relational and leadership skills. Our work seeks to identify the leadership skillset that differentiates top performers in engineering consulting organizations by taking a qualitative exploratory approach, collecting data through interviews and focus groups with engineering consultants at various stages of their career. We will examine the associated organizational and team-based supports that contribute to leadership and non-technical skill development in collaboration with our industry partners. We approach our work by first defining leadership as a process, rather than a trait or belonging to positional authority. The engineering profession across North America has been issuing calls to action to incorporate leadership learning as part of engineering education, but there remains a gap between engineering leadership needs in industry and the leadership skillsets of engineers. Our work will support understanding leadership skills and development in the unique context of engineering consulting to allow engineering organizations to better facilitate development of their staff.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emily Moore;Elham Marzi

Student:

Partner:

Hatch Ltd;Morrison Hershfield Group Inc.;GraySolutions, LLC

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an image-guided navigation platform for an automated and MRI-compatible robotic needle guiding device for percutaneous procedures

Prostate cancer is the second most cancer related death in men, accounting or over 111 M$ yearly in Canada. Current prostate biopsy or therapy procedures such as transperineal brachytherapy use transrectal ultrasound guidance and a template to guide needles along parallel trajectories. However, pubic arch interference (PAI) with the implant path obstructs part of the prostate from being targeted by the brachytherapy needles. Image–?guided robotized surgical interventions, and in particular MRI–?guided, can solve these problems by combining high precision robotics with high- resolution and accurate imaging, leading to targeted biopsies and focal therapies that will enable simpler treatments with lower side effects. This project will propose a novel and FDA approved navigation platform for the robotic needle steering device developed by Polymer Robotics. The navigation platform will include a comprehensive, reliable and time-efficient pre-procedural planning which can be easily integrated in the intra-procedural workflow, using an automated multimodal registration procedure.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Samuel Kadoury

Student:

Partner:

Polymer Robotics

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Manufacturing and Assessment of High-Performance Bicycle Frames

High performance bicycle frames are commonly manufactured using carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP). CFRP bicycle frames are commonly manufactured using a hand-layup process. Due to the manual nature of this manufacture method, defects such as voids, fiber misalignment, or resin rich/resin poor regions can occur. Micro-computed tomography is an X-ray based measurement method that is ideally suited for the inspection and assessment of high-performance CFRP components. This work will involve a collaboration between Bridge Bike Works and York University. The trainee will assist Bridge Bike Works with optimizing their manufacturing process using micro-computed tomography. This project will provide the trainee with hands on experience with the manufacturing of advanced CFRP parts. Bridge Bike Works will benefit by using high resolution micro-computed tomography to assess bicycle frame component manufacturing quality and consistency.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Garrett Melenka

Student:

Partner:

Bridge Bike Works Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Blade Fragmentation modeling in hard-wall containment systems

According to the existing airworthiness standards, aircraft turbofan engine certification must demonstrate its ability to contain a fan blade should the blade accidentally separate under critical operating conditions. P&WC has established a full engine computational analysis process. In the continuing evolution of this modelling process, several areas requiring improvement have been identified as critical. One of them – which is the focus of this research proposal – is the ability to capture accurately in modeling the fragmentation of the released blade that can happen upon its collision with rotor casing. Applicability of several simulation techniques for blade fragmentation modeling will be investigated in this study. Outcomes of simulations will be ranked based on (i) their ability to predict fragmentation of the blade observed experimentally, and (ii) computational time required. The study will result in development of best practices for conducting blade-off simulations that can accurately represent the fragmentation of the released blade.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aleksandr Cherniaev

Student:

Partner:

Pratt & Whitney Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace; Transportation (excluding aerospace); Other

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

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