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Business Technology Management (BTM) Body of Knowledge (BOK)

Business Technology Management (BTM) is a rapidly emerging trans-disciplinary research area and professional discipline in Business Administration. It seeks to provide an integrated framework for the strategic use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the digital transformation of organizations. This research project will develop the first BTM Body of Knowledge (BOK) and provide a systematic, exhaustive, and evolving framework for professional practice standards. An innovative Semantic Web application will be developed to enable a highly structured and well-indexed contents. It will help make BTM job knowledge easily accessible, customizable, and reusable for decision-making by professionals, employers, higher education, and other associations involved with IT-related standards, certification, and accreditation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stéphane Gagnon

Student:

Partner:

Information Technology Association of Canada (Mississauga, ON);TechNation

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université du Québec en Outaouais

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding the role of trees and topography in determining power outage frequency across London, ON

While trees are regularly maintained to prevent damage from branches to power lines, power outages caused by vegetation still occur, and these outages are more common in some areas of London than in others. This work will correlate tree species-specific growth rates, tree species distribution maps, and topographical maps with the frequency of vegetation-related power outages across London, ON to determine potential drivers of tree growth (such as species identity, tree size, and indices of water availability) that should be accounted for in future vegetation maintenance plans. The potential of incorporating this key information into one interactive electronic platform that also captures the activities and observations of the forestry team would be a valuable asset to London Hydro. This tool would be the foundation of a continuously improving Vegetation Management Plan that would ultimately reduce the potential risk to reliability and safety and increase operating efficiency. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Danielle Way

Student:

Partner:

London Hydro Inc;Western University

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Utilities

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Tracking the effects of neonicotinoid insecticides on migratory birds

Declines in migratory bird populations have been linked to a range of complex environmental factors, including the dramatic increase in application of neurotoxic neonicotinoid insecticides in recent decades. Neonicotinoids are used as seed treatments in a wide variety of Canadian crops, and consumption of treated seeds could result in poor navigation and migration delays in migratory birds. However, the influence of insecticides on cognition and patterns of movement is poorly understood. To assess whether neonicotinoids affect the ability of birds to successfully migrate, we will use Bird Studies Canada’s (BSC) automated tracking network (Motus) to track seed-eating migratory birds experimentally exposed to environmentally relevant concentrations of neonicotinoids during spring migration. This work will contribute to BSC’s mandate to conserve Canadian birds through sound science by tracking priority species and conducting research on population threats. This project will also advance the application of Motus to derive location and orientation of migratory movements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christy Morrissey

Student:

Partner:

Birds Canada (ON)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Sustainability & the Environment; Life Sciences (not health)

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Improved Plastic to Oil Pyrolysis Process Technology with Advanced Plasma Technology

The field of plastic waste management is essential for sustainable society that utilizes plastic waste for energy production. Land filing and incineration of plastic waste has large environmental impacts due to GHG emissions. Thus, pyrolysis is considered a low environmental impact process with high value end products. RF thermal plasma technology will help reduce operating cost, cleaner thermal source, shorten reaction time and provide high quality hydrocarbon gasoline and diesel. The research project involves developing a highly efficient RF thermal plasma system that can work in pyrolysis reactors. The partner organisation will start to utilize thermal plasma systems in their chemical reactors and drive the waste management industry forward by reducing operating cost of plastic to oil.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hossam Gaber

Student:

Partner:

Pro-Flange Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

Refinement of a Bioelectric Sensor to achieve real-time quantification of BOD

The necessity of cost-efficient and reliable wastewater treatment processes has increased in order to meet more stringent levels of environmental regulations, increased system reliability requirements and tightening operational budgets. To aid in meeting these operational goals, a strong market for low-cost, high-fidelity sensor technology that can relay real-time information to system operators on all aspects of wastewater treatment system performance has developed. This project looks to advance an existing prototype biosensor to the point of marketable as an end-of-pipe regulatory Biochemical Oxygen Demand monitoring device. The success of this project will produce a technology with the capability of reducing the duration/incidence of environmental contamination events, and future development of the biosensor and platform would allow for improved management of wastewater infrastructure and treatment processes. This sensor technology will well support the aforementioned goals and reduce the impact on ecosystem and human health from incompletely treated wastewater.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rob Jamieson

Student:

Partner:

Island Water Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding the root causes of record-breaking production

Recently at one of its mines, the partner has experienced a period of unprecedented production. Through its automated production data gathering systems, huge volumes of data are generated on a moment by moment basis at the mine. The goal of this project is to see whether data from this period hold an understanding of the root factors that led to the high production levels and indicate best practices to be implemented on an ongoing basis. This is a big data analytics project. The project will involve applying data and advanced business analytics approaches to analyze the mine’s production data.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Harish Krishnan

Student:

Partner:

Silver Standard Resources Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Polymer Composites and Thermoformed Thermoplastics for Engine Fire Zones

This project is intended to develop the technology to form high performance plastics reinforced with carbon fibre (polymer composites) in order to produce lighter parts to replace conventional metallic parts. As the parts may be exposed to fire during use, a comparison between different material systems under fire exposure is also required to have a better understanding of those materials in this condition and if they would withstand the necessary requirements. The proposed project may contribute to accelerate the integration of plastic composites in gas turbine engine components of the partner organization, and offer potential cost savings coupled with possible component weight reductions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pascal Hubert

Student:

Partner:

Pratt & Whitney Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace; Advanced Manufacturing; Transportation (excluding aerospace)

University:

McGill University

Program:

Elevate

Improvement of the fire resistance of Discontinuous Long Fiber Thermoplastic Composites for gas turbine engine applications

Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) is interested to further investigate the use of novel Polymer Matrix Composites (PMC’s) technologies, in order to improve their products by reducing weight and increasing performances of their engines. Current applications of PMC’s in P&WC’s engine are mostly limited to cold section parts (< 100°C), nonstructural external components, and nacelle skin panels. Most of the parts are manufactured using a traditional hand lay-up process, and are consolidated using autoclaves, which involves high cost and long manufacturing time. Thermoplastic composites are an interesting alternative to reduce the processing time, and manufacturing costs of complex engine parts. Recent development showed that thermoplastic composites with Discontinuous Long Fibers (DLF) manufactured by compression molding can lead to significant weight and cost savings. TO BE CONT"D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pascal Hubert

Student:

Partner:

Pratt & Whitney Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace; Advanced Manufacturing; Transportation (excluding aerospace)

University:

McGill University

Program:

Elevate

Variable selection for uplift modeling

Insurance companies heavily fund marketing campaigns such as, for instance, customer retention or cross-sell initiatives. Uplift modeling aims at predicting the causal effect of an action such as medical treatment or a marketing campaign on a particular individual by taking into consideration the response to an action. Typically, the result of an uplift model is used to call customers for marketing some products based on important attributes of a customer. The general objective of the research project is to develop an automatic method that will enable practitioners to save time and to follow precise guidelines in order to choose attributes of a customer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alejandro Murua;Vahid Partovi Nia

Student:

Partner:

TD Insurance

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation and Identification of Gaps and Technical Challenges in Candidate Carbon Capture/CO2 Conversion Technologies Part 2

In the wake of the Paris meeting on global climate change in December of 2015 (COP21), commitments to drive down greenhouse gas emissions have escalated around the world. Man-made carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are accepted as the largest contributor to climate change. Promising next-generation technologies for decreasing CO2 emissions are being investigated at the lab scale. Unfortunately, the technology developers often lack next-step projects and connections with industrial end-users to allow the technology to advance and become commercialized. CMC is committed to accelerating innovations associated with industrial greenhouse gas emissions. The overall approach is to focus on rapid and cost-effective reduction of uncertainties to enable earlier decision making. This project will focus on working with technology developers to identify critical limiting uncertainties and develop pathways to address them, including through integration, adaptation, application development, pilot testing, and scale-up projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

George Shimizu

Student:

Partner:

CMC Research Institutes Inc

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Isolating and characterizing lytic bacteriophages for applied use against pathogenic Escherichia coli for the poultry industry

The proposed project is to identify and characterize bacteriophages (bacterial viruses) that can reduce presence of E. coflbacteria that are an important cause of disease and production loss to the poultry industry. The reduction of levels of E. coli that can cause disease in poultry by use of bacteriophages would be an important means of controlling this economically important disease and also reduce use of antibiotics to control such infections. Reducing use of antibiotics is also importantas decreased use of antibiotics in livestock should limit increases in emergence antibiotic resistantE. coli and other bacteria associated with foodborne infections in humans. As the industrial partner, SyntBiolab Inc. will pursue the possibility of upscaled production and marketing of such a product, the isolation of such bacteriophages and development of an effective alternative to antibiotics would be a definite benefit to the partner organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Charles Dozois

Student:

Partner:

SyntBioLab Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Accelerate

Novel formulation for the treatment of interstitial cystitis

Interstitial cystitis is an inflammatory disease of the urinary bladder and is recognized as a serious medical condition associated with a profoundly negative impact on patients’ quality of life. Currently, there are no widely acknowledged causes of this disorder and no effective treatments available. Panag is a Halifax based drug company which focuses on development of novel therapeutic treatments which can be used to alleviate both pain and inflammation associated with IC. The goal of our research is to provide IC patients with symptom and pain relief, as well as to improve outcome. Previous research showed that the immune system is regulated by another system within our body, called the endocannabinoid system. Our approach uses special drugs, called cannabinoids, which are designed to target this system and as a result, provide symptom and pain relief and improve patients’ quality of life. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Juan Zhou

Student:

Partner:

Panag Pharma Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

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