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Identification des paramètres géotechniques clefs et développement d’une application faisant le lien entre chantier, laboratoire et bureau pour les rapports de forages

Groupe ABS fait aujourd’hui appelle à de nombreux sous-traitants dans le cadre de leurs forages pour connaitre la
nature des sols sur les chantiers. La procédure suivie sur chantier pour la collecte des données de foration se
repose principalement sur une fiche papier, et les résultats sont transmis ensuite par le biais de la plateforme de
l’entreprise Géotech, experte en technologie de recensement géophysique. Le Groupe ABS a pour volonté de se
détacher de cette dépendance envers l’entreprise Géotech, et de moderniser le processus de rédaction des
rapports de forages en développant une application interne. Cette application ferait le lien entre les chantiers, les
laboratoires et les bureaux, en permettant aux géologues de chantier de rentrer les résultats des forages, aux
techniciens de laboratoires de consulter ces informations, et aux chargés de projets d’accéder aux données et d’en
faire la validation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gabriel J Assaf

Student:

Partner:

Groupe ABS inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Dissecting signaling pathways mediated by plant immune receptors

Plants utilize their sophisticated innate immune system to fight against pathogens. They have abundant immune receptors to detect the pathogen attack and initiate defense. However, the molecular mechanisms of how these receptors signal downstream of pathogen recognition are largely unknown. Recently, modern metabolomics approach has been developed that allows for unbiased identification of substrates and products of uncharacterized enzymes. This technology opens new avenues of plant immunity research as a portion of plant immune receptors exhibit enzymatic activity upon pathogen recognition. My proposed research project will reveal the substrate and products of these receptors and elucidate how the molecules activate the downstream signaling and defense. My research into the signaling pathways of the immune receptors will contribute to the understanding of the complicated plant immune signaling network.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xin Li

Student:

Partner:

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Dynamical modeling of vortex-induced vibration using frequency-constrained autoencoder neural networks

In most flows around a structure or object, the flow behind the object is characterized by a region of unsteady reverse flow. This unsteady fluid motion in the object wake induces a force upon the object or structure, which can cause flexible structures to vibrate. An ongoing engineering challenge is to understand how the wake and structure interact, and how to minimize these vibrations. This project proposes a novel method for developing simplified models, also known as Reduced Order Models, which capture the underlying mechanisms of these interactions using a combination of statistical and neural network methods. These methods find a simplified representation for the velocity in the structure wake, and then find equations that model how it changes in time. These equations can be used to understand the physics of the interactions, and to design better methods to reduce the vibrations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chris Morton;Robert Martinuzzi

Student:

Partner:

Technische Universität Berlin

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace; Artificial Intelligence; Green/Alternative Energy

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Using Machine Learning to locate geological deposits

Saskatchewan Polytechnic (SP)’s Digital Integration Centre of Excellence (DICE) and geological experts at Peter Lucas Project Management Inc. (PL) will collaborate on the development of a digital system to locate aggregate sources with a large gravel content. Gravel is a non-renewable resource that is used in almost every aspect of construction. The identification of sources of gravel and the corresponding management of it is important to many different industries. The project will examine the use of machine learning (ML) and or neural network algorithms to determine the probability of a location on a map containing gravel. This resulting technology can help find more sources, will increase supply, save costs, and reduce greenhouse gases due to minimized hauling. The work done in this project expands on previous collaborations between SP DICE and PL that have shown promise.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Terry Peckham;Lizeanne St. Pierre

Student:

Partner:

Peter Lucas Project Management

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Mining

University:

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Program:

Accelerate

Television formats and cultural representations at Netflix: the case of Criminal

The project I will undertake at the University of Amsterdam is part of my joint doctorate with Université de Montréal. During the proposed period of project, I plan on:

1) interviewing subjects in the context of a reception study (i.e., a number of viewers of Netflix’s Criminal; the television content I selected as my thesis’s corpus) and a production study (i.e., writers and directors from Criminal’s four local versions in Europe)

2) continue on with my research on recent European audiovisual media policies on on-demand audiovisual services and their impact on one of Netflix’s European local-language original productions specifically.

The expected outcome of this project is to better understand how a service like Netflix—which negotiates global and local components in order to reach a worldwide basis of viewers—can shape these components through its usage of abstract television formats in a way that is economically optimal for them and how this affects the locality of European content like Criminal.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marta Boni

Student:

Partner:

University of Amsterdam

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Particle Size Classification for Gravel Aggregate

McIntosh Sand and Gravel Ltd. (McIntosh) is a Saskatoon based company that performs gravel crushing and processing for industry and municipalities throughout Saskatchewan. McIntosh’s mission is to disrupt the aggregate industry through the application of new technologies that will help decrease costs and streamline processes. Saskatchewan Polytechnic will work with McIntosh to develop a digital method to determine gravel source particulate size. This is traditionally done through a sieve analysis that takes a significant amount of time and cost for each analysis. The application of machine learning and image processing through a low cost, portable system will help to decrease waste, delays in production and reduce analysis costs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tanya Lung;Richard Dosselmann

Student:

Partner:

McIntosh Sand & Gravel

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Mining

University:

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Program:

Accelerate

MPC based Transfer learning for HCCl Optimization

The growing demand for mobility worldwide and the mass use of internal combustion engine drive systems poses major challenges for today’s society. Currently, the CO2 content in the atmosphere is continually increasing and the concentrations of pollutants in many areas exceed the maximum permissible limits in many urban centers. Additionally, these engine emissions contribute significantly to global warming. The proposed research looks to reduce these engine out emissions with the implementation of optimal control, in this case model predictive control (MPC). The research will focus on designing and implementing an MPC controller at RWTH university on a single cylinder research engine. The controller will be tested at various operating conditions. The second phase of the proposed project is the transfer learning of the engine controller that will allow the controller developed in Germany to be used on a different engine in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Charles Robert Koch

Student:

Partner:

Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Le potentiel subversif de la pratique de la boxe contre l’essentialisation de la violence des femmes. Ethnographie dans deux clubs de boxe à Tunis

À travers l’étude de la pratique de la boxe par les femmes, mon travail vise à interroger le caractère dépossédant de l’essentialisation de la violence féminine, particulièrement l’assignation des femmes à l’a-violence, et à reconnaître en elles des actrices capables de mobiliser leurs corps pour se défendre, voire agresser. Ma recherche vise également à questionner le lien entre féminité, boxe et violence/autodéfense, au niveau des pratiques et de la représentation. Je me demanderai quel rapport entretiennent avec leurs corps des boxeuses à Tunis et comment leur pratique agit sur leurs comportements au quotidien. Comment, outillées pour réagir à la violence, elles réagissent de fait à celle-ci? À quel point la pratique sportive impacte-t-elle leur rapport avec leur entourage, leurs corps et leur mobilité? Quel est le potentiel subversif de la boxe pour les femmes, au niveau des représentations, du corps et des pratiques ?
La trajectoire biographique des boxeuses sera au cœur de mon travail, ce qui me permettra de comprendre ce qui les a poussées à s’adonner à cette pratique et leur conception, ainsi que celle de leur entourage, de la violence et de la féminité.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tamara Vukov

Student:

Partner:

Institut Supérieur des Technologies de l’Environnement, de l’Urbanisme et du Bâtiment

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

New and Digital Media

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Using of Peptide Nucleic Acid as Novel Antibiotic Alternative to Control Clostridial Infections

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xin Zhao

Student:

Partner:

University of Colorado Boulder

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Contrôle de la qualité en chantier des matériaux de fondation pulvérisés et stabilisés

Le procédé de réhabilitation des chaussées de type retraitement en place avec stabilisation est fort intéressante puisqu’elle permet le réemploi complet des matériaux de chaussée en place, ce qui engendre une économie des ressources naturelles et d’énergie, de même qu’une réduction de la production de déchets CRD. Ce procédé existe depuis longtemps, mais son potentiel est sous-exploité au Québec, notamment dû au manque de techniques de contrôle de la qualité en chantier et de suivi de l’évolution de la cure.
Ce projet de recherche vise à accroitre le potentiel d’utilisation du procédé de retraitement en place avec stabilisation. Pour ce faire, il est proposé d’évaluer l’applicabilité de certaines méthodes d’essais existantes pour effectuer le contrôle de la qualité des matériaux pulvérisés et stabilisés et le suivi de la cure et ce, de manière in situ (en chantier). À ce jour, il n’y a aucun méthode ou essai normalisé utilisés au Québec pour contrôler la qualité des matériaux pulvérisés/stabilisés et suivre la cure en chantier.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Éric Lachance-Tremblay;Michel Vaillancourt

Student:

Partner:

Groupe Conseil SCT

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Coastal pan-Canadian biodiversity mapping using eDNA

Canada’s marine ecosystems are biologically rich and provide essential goods and services to about seven million people living along the longest coastline in the world. Facing significant challenges to conciliate economic development, human well-being, social equity and ecological stability, Canada developed an ambitious “Blue Economy” framework, in which this project falls. In the face of biodiversity loss worldwide, monitoring marine biodiversity has been identified as a priority by the government of Canada to meet its objectives to protect 25% of its oceans by 2050. Compared to traditional biomonitoring approaches, environmental DNA is non-intrusive, have a high rate of species detection and is accessible to non-specialists. Taking advantage of this new technology, our project aims to provide a framework for a pan-Canadian database of coastal marine biodiversity, ranging from microbes to marine mammals. By analyzing the dataset collected during the Canada C3 expedition, we will identify shifts in biodiversity along Canada’s coastline across multiple taxonomic categories. We hypothesize that latitudinal trends of biodiversity along the Canada’s coastline will be different across taxonomic groups and does not always follow the global scale paradigm of a poleward decrease of biodiversity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Connie Lovejoy;Kristi Miller-Saunders;Brian Hunt

Student:

Partner:

SOI Foundation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Education; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Stratégie d’implantation de la personnalisation de masse dans une PME manufacturière québécoise

Avec la mondialisation des marchés, la rareté de la main-d’oeuvre et l’expansion du réseau de vente des
entreprises, certains phénomènes économiques, sociaux et environnementaux en place dans des pays
contraignent les entreprises à revoir leurs modèles d’affaires et leurs plans de croissance. Afin d’augmenter la
compétitivité, d’accroître l’agilité et la réactivité d’une entreprise face à une demande de masse personnalisée, il
faut revoir l’ensemble des processus industriels de l’entreprise en question. Ce déplacement vers une
personnalisation de masse passe par une révision de la conception du produit, une optimisation complète des
processus de fabrication, la création d’un nouveau réseau de vente ainsi que l’intégration d’une nouvelle suite
logicielle permettant d’arrimer le produit, le procédé et les fournisseurs. La recherche proposée étudiera donc
l’interaction, la synchronicité et la séquence d’implantation des objectifs à mettre en place afin de se déplacer
vers une demande de masse personnalisée.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sébastien Gamache;Georges Abdul-Nour

Student:

Partner:

Micro Bird Girardin

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate