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Quini Data – Changing the wine industry with sensory and behavior wine intelligence solutions

The objective of this project is to develop an analytics platform that will give us an understanding of sensory data in predicting trends and relationships between sales and wine sensory data. The wine sensory data we will use in this project is entered by reviewers and consumers rating various attributes such as Aroma, Appearance and Flavor during wine tasting. The Wine Sales data is gathered by the BC liquor board. We would integrate wine sensory data with sales data from the industry to study the relationship between sensory and sales data and the importance of sensory data in sales outcomes. We would use various techniques on the sensory dataset to establish the importance of each sensory attribute and the overall significance of the datasets individually and when integrated. The analysis will also predict the sales trends of new products based on their sensory analysis and state how various wine reviewers differ in their analysis of similar products. This will lead to new revelations on how research analysis can be conducted on product and market trends, and change the innovation process for new products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fred Popowich;Apala Guha

Student:

Partner:

Quini

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Technology; Commercial Services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Towards personalized surgical spine reconstruction post tumour resection

We aim to develop tools to assess patient outcomes following treatment and removal of bone metastases. We will identify markers for enhanced patient outcomes, so as to predict which patients may benefit from more aggressive treatments to better their quality of life. We also aim to use 3D printed bone implants to help in the treatment of patients with bone metastasis. These implants will serve as a local reservoir for the anticancer drugs that will improve bone regeneration while also preventing tumor recurrence. These agents have been shown to improve the efficacy of bone implants in severe bone fracture repair. Moreover, they have recently been shown to have direct anti-cancer activities. We plan to harness those beneficial activities to the fullest by obtaining local high doses of these drugs at the site of tumor resection that could not be achieved by oral or intravenous administration.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Weber;Lisbet Haglund

Student:

Partner:

Johnson & Johnson Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University; Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating The Microbial Function and Community Dynamics of BIOCORD Technology in a Full Scale waste water treatment Plant in Dundalk County

The Canadian government has increased its focus on regulating wastewater to the environment. The advent of new regulations has resulted in many municipalities requiring substantial upgrades to minimize release of nutrients promoting eutrophic water bodies. Traditional wastewater treatment technologies are in some cases cost prohibitive. Bishop Water Technologies (BWT) provides an ecofriendly and cost-effective technology for treating Canadian wastewater (municipal and industrial) while removing nutrients to rivers and lakes. BWT technology is based on the “BioCord” (artificial support material for microbes to live). To improve this treatment technology BWT will investigate its application in a full-scale wastewater treatment plant in Dundalk Ontario. A detailed genetic study of the biofilms and their performance under seasonal transition (e.g. Winter-Spring-Summer) will be performed. Researchers will identify the conditions to support the microbial species for optimization. Outcomes of this research will provide potential treatment solutions for sustainable management for protection fresh water in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Weisener

Student:

Partner:

Bishop Water Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Clean Technology; Environmental Science and Technology; Water

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Business Process Improvement and Customer Satisfaction

Bombardier, a leading manufacturer of both planes and trains in the world, has become a major contributor to Canada’s economy. Facing today’s competitive market, Bombardier aims to retain existing customers and attract new customers through operational transformation, which focuses on continuous improvement in its internal operational efficiency.
The application encompasses two projects that center around continuous process improvement. The first project is related to Special Attention Plan (SAP)-enabled process standardization, and aims to increase the number of SAPs in the Bombardier Regional Support Offices (RSO) to improve reliability and cost performance. The second project intends to address the existing logbook management process which is manual, time
consuming, inaccurate, and error-prone, resulting in long turnaround times for airline customers and jeopardizing airlines’ ability to solve technical problems in a timely fashion.
By identifying feasible solutions to improve the two processes, the application will help Bombardier increase customer satisfaction and drive sales.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Linying Dong;Aziz Guergachi

Student:

Partner:

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services; Transportation and warehousing

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Community Based Power Sharing

The goal of the proposed project is to explore the concept of how a remote community can share renewable power without the connection to an existing power grid. The scope entails the analysis of the existing scenario of northern off-grid communities in Ontario and the designed system to help them share power. A proposed system for Deer Lake will be analyzed and two components of the system are to be investigated and further developed by the interns. The Power Server, which manages the sharing of power between the residents of the community, is to be conceptualized. The Micro Wind Power Generation System, that will be used to generate electricity, will be optimized for economy and efficiency. Overall, both topics help the realization of the concept of Community Based Power Sharing, which could potentially have large scale impacts on the green energy landscape of the future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Fleisig

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

RF Characterization of High Frequency Channels for 5G Dense Indoor Small Cells

The NSERC Strategic Network for Smart Applications on Virtual Infrastructures is a five-year partnership between Canadian industry, universities, researchers, research and education (R&E) networks, and high performance computing centres to investigate the design of future application platforms that will deliver software applications of greater capability and intelligence. These application platforms will be supported by an extended computing cloud, encompassing a virtual converged infrastructure and control software that also serves as a live testbed for exploring novel concepts in application-oriented networking, cloud computing, integrated wired/wireless access, and smart applications. Novel software applications will build on advanced services provided by the platform, including context, mobility, location, identity, social network, media recognition, and intelligence. The SAVI network will involve the academic community in the creation of new content and novel applications.
This MITACS proposal is to support a SAVI internship program that will strengthen the Canadian industrial base in information and communications technology through the preparation of highly qualified manpower with expertise in the design and operation of globally competitive ICT infrastructure and the creation of innovative and disruptive products, services, and applications. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian Marsland

Student:

Partner:

Ericsson Canada Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Physical simulation of light sources for integrated photonics

The objective of this proposed project is to develop a prototype numerical simulation software that can simulate the physical processes inside semiconductor lasers and exchange information with a simplified compact model. The combination of these two models can better balance the trade-off between accuracy and simulation performance. The resulting integration will be suitable for studying issues arising from the integration of semiconductor lasers in photonic integrated circuits with 1000s of elements, which is a critical challenge for the next generation of optical communications devices. This work will be carried out as part of Lumerical’s R&D efforts focused on developing comprehensive physical simulation tools for integrated photonic systems. The developed software from this project will be integrated into Lumerical’s existing software to enable it of simulation of complete photonic integrated circuits.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xun Li

Student:

Partner:

Lumerical Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Nanotechnology; Technology

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Maladies chroniques et santé au travail : un partenariat pour favoriser le bien-être collectif au travail et la productivité

Le nombre de personnes en emploi atteint d’une maladie chronique (problèmes musculosquelettiques, santé mentale, diabète, etc.) ne cesse d’augmenter au Canada. Les milieux de travail sont confrontés à cette réalité dont les effets certes perturbent les travailleurs, mais c’est aussi toute l’organisation du travail et la production qui en sont affectées. Ce projet a pour objectif de mieux comprendre comment contribuer au maintien au travail des personnes atteintes de maladies chroniques en vue de favoriser le bien-être au travail de l’ensemble du collectif de travail et l’efficacité des entreprises. Ces informations seront utiles pour l’amélioration des conditions de réalisation du travail et le développement d’interventions visant la prévention des maladies chroniques en milieu de travail.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Eve Major;Alain Delisle

Student:

Partner:

Bombardier Produits Recreatifs

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Transportation (excluding aerospace); Automotive; Manufacturing and Construction

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Les effets de l’intelligence compétitive et de la capacité d’absorption sur la performance de l’innovation des PME québécoises

L’incertitude et la complexité de l’environnement externe incitent les entreprises, notamment les PME à performer en innovation afin de développer un avantage concurrentiel et de rester compétitives. L’innovation requiert des idées créatrices. Toutefois, la majorité des PME ne disposent pas de ressources suffisantes pour la recherche et développement ce qui rend sa survie difficile. L’intelligence compétitive peut combler ce manque de ressources par la collecte d’information pertinente au processus d’innovation. Cependant, les PME doivent être dotées des capacités et des compétences permettant d’aller au-delà de l’acquisition de l’information, rendant possible la conversion de l’information externe en connaissances utiles et applicables au processus d’innovation. Cette recherche vise donc à étudier les effets des processus d’intelligence compétitive et de la capacité d’absorption sur la performance de l’innovation au sein des PME québécoises. Les résultats visent la compréhension de ces liens afin de développer des recommandations en ce qui a trait à la performance de l’innovation pour Les PME québécoises.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elaine Mosconi

Student:

Partner:

Merkur Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Underwater Acoustic Channel Characterization for Ultra-Sonic Communication Applications

There is an increase in commercial subsea activity, as well as a growing need to monitor the health of our oceans and rivers. Remote sensors must be deployed underwater. Because of the high level of activity along the coast, in harbours, and even in rivers, the sensors are often deployed in shallow environments. To reduce the costs, small untethered nodes are preferable, and the remote data is transmitted to the surface via a wireless technology. In this work, underwater ultra-sonic communication is proposed to enable a short range telemetry link. A shallow water channel model will be developed, and will be used to predict the communication link reliability in specific environmental conditions. Further, channel coding will be applied to maintain a reliable communication link in a channel that suffers from multipath and Doppler spread.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Francois Bousquet

Student:

Partner:

Amirix Systems Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an Industrial Design Workflow to Incorporate 3D Scanning for Manufacturing Tooling Processes

Today’s modern industries aim at supplying premium quality products that can offer added performance value, lower weight, less environmental impact, decreased manufacturing and maintenance costs, increased durability and safety, and eventually higher customer satisfaction and market competitiveness. To achieve these goals, new-engineered materials such as glass fiber reinforced polymers (GFRPs) are rapidly replacing traditional single materials such as steel and aluminum. The proposed MITACS research will develop best-practice engineering and management workflows to improve the efficiency, controllability and profitability of the polyester gelcoat and acrylic-coat glass-fibre reinforced polymer composite spray-up process, used in the manufacture of tub shower units at a leading composite manufacturer in B.C., Canada. Namely, research will focus on an emerging application of 3D scanning technology to accurately model and document GFRP moulds used in the tub shower manufacturing process, which have traditionally been ‘hand-made’ by senior technicians, and not based on a sustainable engineering approach

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Faculty Supervisor:

Abbas Milani

Student:

Partner:

Hytec Plumbing Products - Division of Kohler Canada Co

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Running simulated networks in a public cloud environment

Ciena is a manufacturer and a provider of networking solutions. The company wants to be able to emulate the different software and hardware components in a very flexible way so that the emulation platform can be available to any user. The emulation allows the user recreate a networking environment to be able to know, beforehand, what the performance of the system will be. At the moment, CIENA has different emulation software that are mostly implemented in local machines but they plan to move the different components into the public cloud so that the emulation will be accessible anywhere. The move into the public cloud implies different research challenges such as nested virtualization and performance bottlenecks. The research that will be carried out in this project deals with those challenges arising when three different software platforms are considered. Three interns will be assigned to those platforms to emulate and carry out a thorough methodology that can provide an answer to those research challenges.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brunilde Sansò

Student:

Partner:

Ciena Corporation (St-Laurent, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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