Innovative Projects Realized

Monark Leadership Application: Early Product Development and Innovation

Monark is a mobile-first, on-demand, self-led leadership development platform that combines psychology-based learning with a community of practice, empowering leaders to own their growth anywhere, anytime. By integrating timely educational content with learnings and experiences from a network of growth-oriented leaders, Monark prepares high-performers for the challenges of tomorrow. Our holistic training model engages users in personalized, evidence-based development by utilizing 360-degree assessment, microlearning, on-the-job practice, behavioural nudges, real peer feedback, and the first-hand knowledge that lives outside of textbooks, all with the goal of driving measurable and lasting behaviour change. This project will help Monark address the current challenges of the iteration and expansion of the product in its early form, by focusing on the collection, analysis and interpretation of early data trends and habits from our pilot users.

Statistical Analysis of Prostate Brachytherapy Treatment Data

Using data obtained over a period of 15 years from Brachytherapy procedures used on patients to treat prostate cancer, statistical analysis will be carried out to confirm the hypothesis that Brachtherapy treatments offer the best outcomes at the lowest cost in comparison to other treatment modalities. The first stage of the project will be to review the scope and objectives of the study with the stakeholders and finalize the methodology for this analysis. It is suggested that this analysis start initially with logistic regression, which would be used for estimating the probability of being in remission after a certain period of time following treatment. We then propose to continue with a more detailed analysis using transition models. Such models are used to analyze the data where a strong dependence is suspected between successive observations on a patient. These models distinguish themselves from survival models by allowing for transitions into and out of a set of states defined by the response variable instead of focusing on the time for a certain event to occur. TOBECONT’D

New Works XR (eXtended Reality)

New Works XR advances creative digital literacy of Canadian dance artists. It is a multi-faceted project supporting dance makers and companies working with or in early stages of exploring creation involving XR technologies. Designed by artists and XR technicians the project provides catered support: mentoring and consulting, test projects, workshops, virtual community building, peer-to-peer learning, and access to equipment, partnership, and information resources.New Works XR prioritizes affordable barrier free access to new digital creation tools for advancement of the artform and career development of Canadian dancers.

Mathematical model for electric arc welding process selection based on static and dynamic characteristics

Welding plays an important role in fabrication and assembly manufacturing. Selecting the appropriate process of electric arc welding is a task assigned to the experience of those who manufacture. The materials selection for applications is as important as the selection of the manufacturing process. The consequences of not perceiving this scope cause affectation in the performance or in the life of the element. This work proposes the study of the microstructures formed in materials affected by welding processes and the changes in their mechanical properties that contribute to the performance of the fabricated elements. It is expected to identify numerically these changes and thus formulate mathematically the influence on the expected performance. It constitutes an element of analysis for the selection of the adequate electric arc welding process.

Analyse granulométrique et teneur en matière résiduelle par technique d’analyse d’images

La proportion de déchets dans les sols contaminés a une grande influence sur leur gestion. Les méthodes standards pour déterminer ces proportions sont visuelles et subjectives. L’émergence récente des réseaux de neurones convolutifs (RNC) a révolutionné l’analyse automatique des images dans différents domaines. Ces réseaux de neurones peuvent recevoir des données complexes, comme des images, pour les classer et les interpréter. On rencontre encore très peu d’applications en géotechnique et en géoenvironnement. Dans ce projet, nous proposons de créer une base de données de photographies de sols contaminés et d’entrainer un réseau de neurones convolutifs pour prédire la taille des particules et le pourcentage de déchets dans les sols contaminés à partir de photographies. Cet outil permettra d’améliorer les méthodes de caractérisation des sols contaminés et la réhabilitation des sites contaminés.

Market Research Analyst: Total Addressable Market for Consumer Goods Made from Captured Carbon Emissions

Oco is a consumer division of Carbon Upcycling Technologies, a Canadian carbon utilization company and winner of the XFactor Award in the Carbon XPRIZE. Oco uses Carbon Upcycling’s technology to offer our partners some of the easiest to integrate material decarbonization solutions on the market. Oco offers low carbon material solutions to consumer products brands and helps them take the first steps toward reaching their ambitious, world-saving climate goals.

Oco has already partnered with 25+ companies and developed 300+ CO2-embedded materials, but Oco must apply market research to further their collaborations and development. The challenge faced by the company is a limited understanding of the plans consumer goods companies have to reach their net-zero targets. This project will help Oco address this challenge by analyzing the current market for consumer products and other companies’ net-zero carbon emission goals. Furthermore, this will help Oco strengthen its knowledge of recent innovations and possible future partnerships to grow as a company to further decarbonization.

Establishing Carbon Rights and Jurisdiction as a Key Enabling Condition to Facilitate Indigenous-led Natural Climate Solutions in Canada

Indigenous-led conservation areas require an economic heart. One approach could come through natural climate solutions (NCS) – activities which protect, restore and manage lands to maximize carbon sequestration and storage. Indigenous Peoples have been managing their lands and waters for thousands of years, and they have a wealth of knowledge to continue to steward these lands in healthy and resilient ways. However there are legal and regulatory challenges to be overcome in actualizing Indigenous-led NCS . Clearly delineated right to manage the carbon in lands is a necessary precursor to creating Indigenous-led NCS as part of thriving conservation economies in Canada. Working with the Seventh Stream of the Conservation Through Reconciliation Partnership the intern will conduct research, convene conversations and gatherings to determine action steps to achieving carbon rights.

605 Main Street set up

Sara Riel is partnering with Ogijiita Pimatiswin Kinamatawin (OPK) to provide services to individuals who find themselves in a place of need. OPK provides a variety of services such as counselling, crisis intervention, case management, consultation, employment oppurtunities and community service. Sara Riel and OPK provides these services to a wide variety of individuals. OPK specializes in aiding individuals who are facing complex problems such as gang involvement, sexual exploitation, addictions, self-harm, mental health issues, and problems with the law to name a few. The internsjop will increase the staff of OPK and in turn increase the organizations ability to provide aid in the community.

Tracking Support and Maintaining Housing

At this placement I will be assisting on many tasks which will benefit society and specified communities. Part of my work will be tracking supports, items, or services that are needed at the location. Doing this will help other interns and volunteers in the future so they know what kind of support is needed regularly. I will also help to build and expand the relationships with other organizations and partners that will facilitate our delivery of services. Logging and tracking this information will also allow us to find gaps in the types of services offered and items needed which will allow us to build additional relationships and predict future needs. This is especially important for people who need assistance to maintain their housing.

3D Ultrasound Volume Reconstruction from Inside-Out Tracking of a 2D Probe

Small, handheld, point-of-care ultrasound devices (POCUS) have been increasingly used in recent years by non-specialists for a wide variety of diagnostic and treatment tasks. Since POCUS devices produce two-dimensional (2D) images, but anatomical structures are three-dimensional, we would often like to construct 3D volumes from a sequence of 2D US scans. We can measure the location of a 2D probe using external cameras, but this is not clinically convenient, so instead we propose to use outward-looking cameras to determine the probe’s location based on objects the camera can see from the probe’s location. We will test the accuracy of this approach in a model of a key clinical application of interest – meas-uring the hip structure of newborn infants suspected of having a congenital abnormality. The partner organization will benefit by gaining insight into how effective “inside-out” tracking might be in a selected clinical application, which might help them determine whether this approach could be used in a variety of other applications.

Multimodal Representation Learning from raw data to detect customers emotional state in the financial industry with Attention Mechanism

Currently, call centres effort in this matter is largely reactive. Someone calls in, they are upset, and agents respond accordingly. However, this approach is not always most effective, especially with difficult customers. Therefore, knowing the customers current emotional state is very important for appropriate problem solving. Affective computing can be used to detect and evaluate the client emotion rapidly, for example if the customer is angry or frustrated the algorithm will find out that emotional state and alert the agent to be more patient, understandable, and most importantly know how to deal with the client.

Prototype d’une bourse du carbone citoyenne

Nous proposons un système de bourse du carbone qui offre l’opportunité aux citoyens de participer à la lutte aux changements climatiques. Dans ce système, tous les humains ont le droit d’émettre une certaine quantité de carbone chaque année. Ce quota d’émission diminue graduellement d’année en année, de façon à respecter l’Accord de Paris. Un citoyen responsable qui choisit de participer à cette bourse du carbone se voit attribuer sa part d’émissions de carbone, qui correspond aux émissions de son pays par habitant. Si vous décidez de participer à cette bourse du carbone, et que vos émissions dépassent votre quota, vous pouvez acheter des crédits carbone (quotas non utilisés) à d’autres personnes qui habitent dans des pays qui émettent moins de carbone par habitant. Notre projet d’innovation consiste à concevoir une application web simple et agréable d’utilisation qui servira de prototype pour cette bourse du carbone citoyenne.