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Degradation of compostable plastics with the FoodCycler: an on-site food waste recycler

This research will develop protocols and identify enzymes to break down compostable plastics using the FoodCycler system. The FoodCycler is a household device that accelerates the breakdown of organic waste, leaving behind a sterile soil-amendment-like by-product, and is a practical solution for rural, northern, and remote areas without municipal compost systems. Use of compostable plastics such as bioplastics could reduce the accumulation of fossil-fuel-based single-use plastics in our environment. Unfortunately, compostable plastic materials are not readily composted under normal food waste handling systems and are seen as contamination by many composting systems. Through this research we will identify commercially available enzymes along with processes to accelerate the degradation of compostable plastics in the FoodCycler system. Use of enzymes will be optimized in laboratory settings and then adapted for simple use with the FoodCycler. The research has broad applications in waste management and reducing CO2 emissions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Myron Smith

Student:

Partner:

Food Cycle Science Corporation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Clean Technology; Sustainability & the Environment; Biotechnology

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Building an affordable Security Operation Center (SOC)

Castellan Information Security provides scalable security services and products that can benefit all organizations of size and scope from smaller professional service firms to large corporate entities. Castellan provides solutions, products and professional services that will enable and empower you to protect your information in all forms (physical and digital) against internal and external threats.
Castellan wants to broaden its current service catalogue by offering Security Operation Centre (SOC) capabilities. To accomplish this, Castellan is planning to complete a Pre-study/research on the steps and resources needed for building an affordable SOC. This research will be the baseline to create the strategy and the design of the solution.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jesse Wilson

Student:

Partner:

Castellan Information Security Services

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Red River College Polytechnic

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Experiences, Barriers, and Factors Influencing Career Advancement Among Internationally Educated Nurses in Home Care

The home care sector suffers from workforce inefficiencies with many of its healthcare providers not working to their full potential. This includes internationally educated nurses (IENs) who have obtained their education in a foreign country but are not certified in Canada. In addition to their professional expertise, IENs have multilingual and multicultural skills and perspectives, which position them to provide culturally competent care. Despite investments to improve hiring and integration practices, we still do not know about the effectiveness of career advancement initiatives for IENs in home care. IENs from disadvantaged groups face significant barriers to meaningful employment and are disproportionately affected. As part of an evaluation study of a career development program at VHA, this project aims to explore the experiences and challenges of IENs with career advancement and certification in Canada. This will inform homecare organizations to tailor programs to support career advancement and certification of IENs and leverage an underutilized human resource in healthcare.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lianne Patricia Jeffs

Student:

Partner:

VHA Home Healthcare

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

A Community First Approach to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) at See Change Initiative

The intern will work alongside the Organizational Development Operations Lead at See Change Initiative on the development of a DEI charter and the proposition of practical guidelines and training. To do so, she will perform a literature review, research some of the best practices which are currently being adopted by similar organizations, and conduct multiple interviews both within the organization (with employees and Board members) and potentially outside of it (with specialists in the DEI and cross-cultural management fields). She will be supervised by HEC Professor Gwyneth Edwards, whose expertise includes strategic management in an international context and knowledge transfer in international organizations. The partner organization, SeeChange Initiative, will benefit from the novel recommendations that ensue from her research, as most publicly available DEI research and guidelines are directed towards larger and for-profit businesses. The intern will be able to provide the non-profit organization with innovative and practical ways that they can embed a DEI lens, in a way that is truly culturally sensitive and aligned with the “Community First” approach at its core.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gwyneth Edwards

Student:

Partner:

SeeChange Initiative

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Vers des pratiques de consommation et de mobilité plus responsables : inciter au changement des comportements par des « nudges »

Face aux changements profonds de comportements de mobilité et de consommation liés à la pandémie, le Centre d’écologie urbain de Montréal (CEUM) souhaite mettre en place un projet innovant de transformation d’artères commerciales locales en rues conviviales et à faible émission carbone. La question des leviers du changement de comportement est complexe et la littérature scientifique n’arrive pas pour l’instant à un consensus clair, ce qui limite l’efficacité des initiatives mises en place.
Ce projet de recherche a pour objectif de développer un dispositif « performant » d’interventions de changements de comportements sur la mobilité douce et l’achat local via l’emploi de « nudges », une approche née de l’économie comportementale.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fabien Durif

Student:

Partner:

Centre d’écologie Urbaine de Montréal

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Digitizing the Financial Advisory Process (Software Development) – AdvisorFlow

The goal of this project is to further digitize the financial advisory process for Canadian financial advisors and their clients. AdvisorFlow is an integrated software allowing financial advisors to streamline first-mile client discovery, document collection, report generation, and more. In its first year of operation, the focus was developing a minimum viable product and gauging market interest. Through hundreds of client discovery calls, the product was deemed valuable by many individual financial advisors, insurance brokers, and wealth management firms. Early adopters of the product were also constantly asked for feedback in order to continue enhancing and iterating the software. With AdvisorFlow developing a more user-friendly interface and entering the process of ISO 27001 certification (the international standard on how to manage information security), the product has become more appealing for enterprise firms. Upon re-engagement with many enterprise firms in the industry, they have expressed interest in signing with us.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simon Ford

Student:

Partner:

Flow Advisor Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Multi-sensor fusion for continuous vitals monitoring, sleep characterization and fall detection

The proposed research project focuses on multi-sensor such as heart rate, body temperature, oxygen saturation level, and inertial sensor data-based sleep stage classification, and tremor detection in real-time for preventive health devices. The goal of the proposed research is to build robust and energy-efficient machine learning and deep learning-based approaches that extract and analyze the significant information from the multisensor data coming from wrist-based health devices to help Parkinson’s patients with tremors and an individual with sleep quality tracking. Further, the developed algorithms will be deployed on an iMD Research Zenzer bracelet to enhance its capability for monitoring sleep quality and detecting tremors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kristiina Valter-Mai;Sridhar Krishnan;Reza Samavi

Student:

Partner:

iMD Research

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Hosted VOIP – Sun Peaks Resort LLP

Sun Peaks Resort is introducing a hybrid VOIP (Voice over IP) solution for Sun Peaks Resort LLP in 2022. This solution would see business critical land lines migrated from our on premise VOIP system, to a cloud based VOIP system. The current phone system is aging and unsupported, replacement parts are also difficult to find. The current system also does not offer modern guest service features such as IVR, interactive voice response. Another limitation of the system is due to its on-premise installation, this makes remote work difficult and expensive to implement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emad Mohammed

Student:

Partner:

Sun Peaks Resort LLP

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Accounting Process Narrative Development

The intern will assist Techni-Craft (TC) in creating new process narratives for our new accounting software set to launch in early 2023. The intern will work collaboratively with the accounting team to determine what the process narrative should look like and then will be responsible for executing the final report. This project will have an enormous benefit to TC as we are a small business with limited capacity, so the opportunity to have an intern available to help prioritize updating the process narratives will result in a successful implementation and execution of our new accounting software.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Young;Kennedy Clayton

Student:

Partner:

Techni-Craft Equipment Services Ltd

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Criterium Group – Cabrini DelCorro

Digitization and technology are becoming crucial to understanding and meeting customer needs, and ultimately surviving in this rapidly changing marketplace. As such, Criterium has recognized the need to build a more robust, innovative, and competitive consulting capability around digital transformation (a marketing and organizational innovation project). This is crucial for Criterium’s economic viability and growth aspirations for 2022 and beyond. Further, by more robustly building out this capability, we will be better equipped to support our clients with their digital transformation efforts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Halek

Student:

Partner:

Criterium Group

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

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

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Improving Cognitive and Collaborative Support for Security Threat Hunters

Threat hunters play a critical role in ensuring the security of Canadian corporate and government agency systems. Threat hunters monitor how data, systems, and networks are accessed to be aware of possible threats that may occur before systems or data sources are compromised. Working in teams, threat hunters generate hypotheses and proactively analyze massive amounts of system and network data to detect and isolate impending threats. Current tools are developed without a good understanding of the cognitive and collaborative needs of threat hunters. Through this collaborative project, we will develop an understanding of the different types of threat hunter personas, the tasks they do and the challenges faced. Using these insights, we will design, develop and evaluate novel tools for threat hunters to more effectively visualize, analyze and share information on possible threats. These findings will directly help Micro Focus to improve the threat hunting tools they develop.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Margaret-Anne Storey

Student:

Partner:

Micro Focus Software (Canada) ULC

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Adapting to digital platforms: Strategies of small tourism businesses in the Counties of Bruce, Grey, and Simcoe

Regional Tourism Organization 7 (RTO7) and Community Futures South Georgian Bay have partnered over the past two years on the T3 Accelerator Tourism Professional Development Program. The intent of this project is to assist small business tourism operators identify their IT needs and gaps, evaluate the broad range of IT systems and services to help them evaluate which program is the best fit for the organization, identify tools and resources to help them with implementation and integration, and identify any gaps in tourism IT tools and offerings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Salimur Choudhury;Yuanyuan Wu;Yuanyuan Wu

Student:

Partner:

Regional Tourism Organization 7;Community Futures South Georgian Bay

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Public administration

University:

Lakehead University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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