Innovative Projects Realized

Durham Community Energy Plan – Implementation Governance

In 2018 the Region of Durham created the Durham Community Energy Plan (DCEP), Durham Region’s strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and transitioning to a green economy. Achieving the goals of the DCEP will provide multiple economic, environmental and social benefits to Durham Region. Successful implementation of the DCEP however requires multiple groups and sectors to work together (e.g. government, community organizations, postsecondary institutions, and utilities). Previous attempts to develop a platform to work together on tackling climate change have failed due to the difficulty in aligning the priorities and resources of all of these different groups. The goal of this project is to develop a governance structure for the DCEP that will be stable, benefit everyone involved. Doing this successfully will ensure that the goals of Durham Region’s DCEP are met.

FOGS – Forensic Genetics for Species protection

In-plane Performance of Masonry Shear Walls Year Two

A. Overall Project Objective Recent research at the University of Calgary has focused on shear walls and on evaluating the influence of various parameters on in-plane shear capacity. The reason for this is that, for example, while it is recognized by most researchers that compression on walls increases the shear strength of masonry, the quantification of this effect has been reported to vary from 40 to 70% [1,8] and the factors adopted by various design standards range from 0.25 up to 0.4. Compression on walls is just one of many factors affecting the shear strength and failure mode of shear walls, but illustrates that balancing an understanding of the complex failure modes with the simplicity required for design codes is difficult. Therefore, the overall goal is to provide recommendations for the improvement of design guidelines for shear in masonry. In working toward this goal, the following have already been or are near completion: 1. Thorough review of the literature and existing design guidelines for on shear in masonry. 2. Development of a database of published in-plane shear and material property test data. 3. Preliminary analysis of the data for the effects of the common parameters in shear models.

Deep Learning-based Imaging in Radio Interferometry

Medical Robotics and AI

Engineering of responsive materials for drug delivery in brain

Design and Fabrication of Smart Materials for 3D Printing

Fair Resource Allocation for Shared Manufacturing

Attenuation and Agency: Understanding Perception through the Examination of Sensory Phenomena

Predictive coding during path-integration

Vesicle transport in hydrogel environments

High-rate laser surface texturing of 3D injection molds