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GOTT Energy Strategic Development Project

Rapid growth in the renewable energy sector has presented both unprecedented opportunity and increasing pressure to keep pace with rapidly growing demand. This project with Gott Energy will involve three stages. First, a comprehensive analysis of the company today will be completed using the Lean business philosophy.
This will establish a baseline, which will support the second phase; creation of a strategic development plan to direct the path forwards. This second phase will involve researching consumer interests, demographics and market trends to capitalize on new opportunities and improve their marketing strategy, and creating a roadmap for the coming year.
Lastly, this project involves the execution of said business development plan which requires ongoing validation and continual improvement of processes.
This project will allow Gott Energy to keep pace with high demand, continue to break fiscal records, and provide an even greater volume of alternative energy products and services to customer of all types, on-grid and off-grid, including rural and indigenous communities – significantly advancing the adoption of renewable technology in the Northern BC region.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Charles Scott

Student:

Partner:

Gott Energy

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Utilities

University:

University of Northern British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

How Can Unions Improve their Workplace Human Rights Practice?

In Canada, existing human rights laws are “read in” to collective agreements. Violations of those terms can thus be grieved and submitted to binding arbitration.
Some key human rights cases began as union grievances. However, unions often refrain from active engagement in employment equity, diversity training and anti-bullying programs, especially where the interests of different groups of members may clash, For years, many unions, in effect, “contracted out” discrimination cases to human rights tribunals.
Recently, however, the Supreme Court of Canada moved the goalposts, ruling that unions had exclusive jurisdiction over such matters.
After almost half a century, the human rights ball is firmly back into organized labour’s court. All unions must start once again to take bullying, harassment and discrimination in the workplace seriously, even where such misbehaviour is member-on-member.
What are “best practices” currently by unions in the human rights domain? How do they currently deal with their legal obligation to fairly represent both perpetrators and victims of discrimination? How do they reconcile the vaunted seniority principle with retention of equity-seeking groups? How and why do they participate in and encourage employment equity programs with employers,or demur from doing so ? What lessons can be taken from these experiences?

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sonja Novkovic

Student:

Partner:

Equity Watch Society

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Accelerate

Photovoltaic Production-Developing new Materials and Approaches

Through the Ontario Green Energy Act, solar manufacturing is rapidly growing in Ontario with S2E being involved in several new initiatives including a new lamination facility in London, Ontario. Several fundamental problems need to be addressed in the lamination procedure and materials required for photovoltaic (PV) panel construction. To increase panel efficiencies, this project will examine new materials and the integration of various light absorbing materials into the poly (ethylene vinyl acetate) EVA encapsulants. We will examine new polymer coatings and films with light harvesting properties in which UV radiation from the sun is converted efficiently into more useful higher wavelengths for higher panel efficiencies. Novel EVA films integrated with nanocrystals such as Quantum dots, mesoporous silica nanoparticles for temperature control, and light harvesting nanowires. The lamination process will also be examined for implementing new technologies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Charpentier

Student:

Partner:

S2E Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

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

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Norda Stelo : Analyse des données qualitatives pour la maintenance prédictive sur une flotte d’actifs

Dans un contexte de gestion de la santé des actifs industriels, l’apport de l’humain dans la détection et la prévention des problèmes est essentiel. Bien que les actifs soient de plus en plus surveillés par télémétrie, tout ne peut pas être détecté par ces mesures et une appréciation humaine reste importante. Une partie importante de la collecte de données se fait encore par un outil de formulaire numérique, qui génère des données textuelles de choix de réponse et des données textuelles libres. Souvent, bien qu’un effort soit mis pour simplifier les réponses possibles par des choix fixes, de l’information très importante se retrouve dans des champs de commentaires et de précisions qui permettent de mieux apprécier l’état actuel des actifs évalués.
L’objectif du projet est donc de pouvoir extraire les informations importantes, un contexte et un sentiment des textes libres entrés dans les formulaires dans le but de ne rien manquer et de pouvoir nourrir d’autres besoins d’analyses plus poussés. Ce projet vise à extraire l’information pertinente de ces commentaires afin de mieux l’intégrer aux prédictions des maintenances nécessaires à la bonne gestion d’actifs industriels.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Gagné;Luc Lamontagne

Student:

Partner:

Norda Stelo Solutions

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Capturing Common Ground: Exploring Notions of Environmental and Ecological Justice Among Protestors Opposed to the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project

This research project focuses on individuals engaged in protest and direct action against the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX), an interprovincial oil pipeline project that starts in Alberta and ends in the Burrard Inlet of the Salish Sea, British Columbia. It explores how religious and nonreligious activists conceptualize nature-related harms of the TMX project, and to what extent these conceptualizations reflect notions of ecological justice. Ecological justice holds that nonhuman entities have the inherent right to flourish and be legally protected from human harm. Accordingly, it offers a way to restructure human-nature relations that is becoming increasingly common across the globe as a response to climate change. This project will offer new perspectives grounded in social scientific research on how Canada can respond to the climate crisis. Empirical data will be collected through semi-structured interviews with activists. This project has been approved by the University of Ottawa Research Ethics Board.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lori Beaman

Student:

Partner:

Uppsala Universitet

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Designing a moving service-based gig platform

The rapid emergence of gig economy platforms that use digital technologies to intermediate workers on a per-task basis has triggered a debate over its
ramifications on the tech sector. This research question addresses this emerging trend. Based on this trend, we intend to develop a web application to help industries easily outsource certain services contracting the global pool of talents in the web without necessarily needing to worry about the hiring process and offering competitive packages.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dima Marachi

Student:

Partner:

404MOVERS

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Bow Valley College

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Indigenous Women’s Healing Centre – Intake Forms

The first objective that I will be working on is understanding the intake forms and processes. I will learn from my supervisors how they fill out the forms when meeting new women. Intake forms are important to ensure that they are accepting women who are willing and wanting to get help. That being said, it is important that these forms are being filled our properly and truthfuly. This is a necessary step to refining the intake process.
The second objective that I will be focusing on is participating in any daily programs or acitivties that are on the agenda. I will take a look at the schedule each day in order to see where I can be a helping hand throughout the day. Each day there are a few programs ran, and I will make sure that I am participating in as many programs as I can to help out when needed and one day maybe run my own program or activity. These activities will be documents and linked back to the data collected during the intake process. This will help to ensure that the data collected during the intake process matches the needs of the clients, with the appropriate servicesa and programs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shauna MacKinnon

Student:

Partner:

Indigenous Women's Healing Centre

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Winnipeg

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Thales : Application de Graph Neural Network (GNN) pour la représentation d’énoncés de problèmes techniques dans les domaines à faibles ressources

Depuis les dernières années, différents modèles de réseaux de neurones furent développés afin d’améliorer l’apprentissage de connaissances, pour fin de recommandations et de répondre à des questions. Thales utilise présentement des modèles de Knowledge Graph Embedding (KGE) afin de créer des bases de connaissances de domaine techniques et faire ensuite des recommandations ou questions-réponses à l’aide des modèles appris. Les KGE se sont avérés capables d’apprendre les grandes tendances et relations sémantiques émergeantes du domaine, mais leurs performances prédictives demeurent limitées. Plus particulièrement, leur utilisation par Thales étant fortement axée sur l’apprentissage des connaissances à l’aide de base de « cas » historiques, et aux vues des performances récentes des modèles apprenant avec un mécanisme d’attention, Thales souhaite explorer l’utilisation de Graph Neural Networks (GNN) afin de remplacer les KGE dans leurs applications de recommandation. Ce projet visera l’étude des publications et plateformes de GNN, l’entrainement de GNN pour un cas représentatif de leur application et la génération de résultats comparatifs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Gagné;Luc Lamontagne

Student:

Partner:

Thales Canada Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

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

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Optimal Planning of Microgrids under Uncertainty

Utilizing advanced tools for optimal planning of Microgrids with high renewable energy penetration. Our models would be robust to handle uncertainty in supply, demand and technological changes. The inputs to our model would be demand, supply data (meteorological data) and technological costs for the specified location for the past. Statistical analysis of the data would empower us to develop robust probabilistic models to encompass the uncertainty in supply (wind and solar) and demand. The outcome shall be an optimal configuration of the microgrid with the number of PV, wind turbines, micro-hydro, bio mass, and storage (battery, pumped hydro etc.) to be installed to have a reliable power supply(reliability is specified by expected energy not met) in the community. Life cycle costs and other economic and environmental aspects will also be revealed as a part of the study. This would enable S2E to perform a detailed and comprehensive feasibility analysis and planning for the sustainable community

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kumaraswamy Ponnambalam

Student:

Partner:

S2E Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

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

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Toxic Intimacies: The (Bio)Politics of Disposability in Africa

This study interrogates the environmental and existential implications of toxic waste disposal in Africa. Situating the politics of toxic waste disposal within Western imperial and neocolonial oppressive histories in the continent, the study examines the despoliation of Africa’s natural ecosystems and various lifeforms through the outsourcing of toxic ruins to the continent. Drawing on close and comparative analysis of various cultural materials such as literary texts, films, photographs, ethnography, and the media; I employ insights from Black feminist environmental humanities and postcolonial criticism to read toxic sites in Africa as a contrast to the idealized technological progress represented by Silicon Valley high-tech economy. The study asks questions about who bears the brunt of the toxic wastes of our high tech, consumerist, and capitalist present. Consequently, this study sits at the intersection of environmental humanities, Black feminist theory, science and technology studies, and postcolonial criticism.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sarah Brouillette

Student:

Partner:

Cornell University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; New and Digital Media

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Le travail des jeunes filles et jeunes femmes dans les institutions charitables (ca. 1845-ca.1920)

Ce projet propose d’interroger le fonctionnement des institutions de charité pour jeunes filles et jeunes femmes pauvres en les considérant comme des lieux de travail. Le séjour de recherche qui est envisagé à Montréal s’inscrit dans le cadre d’un doctorat financé par la bourse Mini-Arc de l’ULB. Ce doctorat consiste en une analyse comparative à l’échelle microhistorique de plusieurs institutions belges pour jeunes filles pauvres. L’étude d’institutions similaires au Canada aux XIXe et XXe siècles constituera un contrepoint permettant de comprendre certains enjeux, mais aussi certaines spécificités et/ou récurrences de ce type d’établissement. Les institutions visées sont des refuges pour jeunes filles, des orphelinats, ou encore des écoles ménagères et professionnelles. La problématique de recherche interrogera la place du travail au sein de ces établissements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Petitclerc

Student:

Partner:

Université Libre de Bruxelles

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Investigating the relationship between genetic mutations for neuroplasticity and the musician genome

The purpose of this research is to compare the musicians’ genetics to the general population to understand the role of genetics in how music training influences brains changes. Neuroimaging research, behavioural studies, and music-based interventions show that music training influences neuroplasticity (i.e., the brain’s ability to change and adapt) because it is a special type of motor learning that involves multiple sensorimortor and cognitive functions. However, evidence has yet to account for the role of genes in music training-induced neuroplasticity. For example, genes variants can account for differences in neuroanatomy, motor behaviour, and how the brain develops and adapts. This project aims to examine genetic variants related to neuroplasticity and motor learning in musicians compared to the general population. This project will allow future neuroimaging research and clinical studies to account for the role of genetic variants and support the development of music-based interventions for motor rehabilitation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Thaut

Student:

Partner:

Vanderbilt University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Life Sciences (not health); Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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