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Seismic Fragility of Existing Precast Buildings with non-Seismic Connections

Connections for existing precast buildings built in the 1960s to 1970s in Alberta were not detailed for earthquake loads. These connections exclusively rely on the friction between the floor (double tees) and the corbel in resisting lateral movement. The original design considered possible lateral movement due to thermal effects and shrinkage but did not consider the relative movement due to earthquake loads. Under earthquake excitation, the beams may lose support by falling off the corbel or by causing the corbel to fail under increased eccentricity. The objective of this research is to develop a framework of analysis for examining the seismic capacity of precast buildings without mechanical devices at the beam-corbel interface and apply the developed framework for assessing the structural safety of a typical precast building in Alberta.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yi Liu;Fadi Oudah

Student:

Partner:

NOEL Consultants

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Développement de bio-emballages pour des applications agricoles et industrielles

Le projet consiste à développer des bio-emballages pour des applications de stockage et transport pour les secteurs agricoles et forestiers. Ces matériaux biosourcés permet de substituer les plastiques conventionnels largement utilisés comme des emballages. De plus, les bio-emballages permettent de résoudre plusieurs défis, d’un côté environnemental, de recyclage et de biodégradabilité, mais aussi à l’égard des performances de ces matériaux en service. En effet, les bio-emballages seront formés à partir des biocomposites qui associent à la fois la flexibilité des bioplastiques à la résistance des fibres naturelles de chanvre. Le projet permettra à l’organisme partenaire de développer ses propres bio-emballages et avoir un rapport détaillé sur la procédure complète de développement et caractérisation de ces matériaux biosourcés. De plus, l’organisme aura une idée sur les différents défis de recherche et technologiques qui interviennent lors de la procédure de fabrication des bio-emballages. Ceci lui permet de diminuer les risques environnementaux et optimiser ses procédés.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ahmed Koubaa

Student:

Partner:

Pellichanvre Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating Physical Climate Risks to Alberta’s Key Industrial Sectors

This project is a study of the impacts of climate change on the economy of Alberta. The partner organization is a financial services company. They need information on climate risks to the largest and most climate-sensitive sectors, such as the oil and gas and agricultural industries. To assess these risks, the intern will collect information on how climate variability and extreme weather events affect these industries. She also will analyze data from weather stations and from models that forecast Alberta’s future climate. The climate changes and their potential impacts will be discussed with representatives from each sector. By combining information on the likelihood of these changes and their consequences, we will provide ATB Financial information about physical risks resulting from climate change.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Sauchyn

Student:

Partner:

ATB Financial

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Using AI to Help First Responders Assess Skin Burns

Burns are a common type of skin injury that cause numerous deaths around the world every year. Timely assessment of burns plays an important role in a successful treatment. Traditionally, burns are assessed through visual and tactile observation by clinicians. This method of assessment is highly inconsistent as it depends on the
availability of a clinician and the clinician’s level of experience. Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have the potential to offer an alternative for burn evaluation that is accurate, fast, inexpensive, and can be performed easily by the first-responders. The objective of this research is to build a widely accessible deep CNN model for
burn assessment that takes advantage of an efficient architecture, suitable for small burn image datasets and resource-constrained devices, and also an integrated saliency mapper for accurate localization and measurement of burn areas.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Liu

Student:

Partner:

Skinopathy Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Artificial Intelligence; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Technology

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Synthesis of Three Minor Cannabinoids

The recent legalization of marijuana across the globe has sparked new interest in studying the health benefits of non-psychotropic cannabinoids. The majority of the studies have revolved around cannabidiol as it can readily be isolated in high quantities from hemp. Preliminary medicinal studies into CBD have revealed its promise as a treatment for anxiety, and chronic pain. Encouraged by this success, investigations are now shifting to the minor cannabinoids. For example, tetrahydrocannabinol quinone is showing early promise as a medicinal candidate, but further biological studies and commercial applications are hampered by the small quantities available from biological sources. Some minor cannabinoids, such as cannabitwinol, were isolated in such small quantities that biological testing was not possible. The difficulty in accessing the products also has hampered structure elucidation. For example, the isolated quantities of cannabichromene are so minute that the absolute configuration of the stereocenters still has not been determined. The goal of this project is to synthesize cannabinol, cannabitwinol, and cannabichromene for future biological testing and structural evaluation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Glenn Sammis

Student:

Partner:

Delic Labs Inc

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Sentence Objectivity Analysis in Social Media

As more and more people record their lives and actions in Social Media, it has become an invaluable resource for the study of
society’s opinions and sentiment. From individual life events (e.g., someone’s purchase of a digital camera) to collective events of
major societal impact (e.g., the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic), social media has it all recorded and covered. A crucial step in
understanding social media is separating objective sentences, which state facts, from subjective ones, stating opinions. While
much progress has been made in identifying subjective sentences in product reviews, applicable to the e-Commerce domain, not
as much work exists for other kinds of text. This project will help close this gap by developing Machine Learning methods capable
of adapting tools for subjectivity detection in product reviews to other domains, by leveraging linguistic patterns and already
existing datasets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Denilson Barbosa

Student:

Partner:

Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Artificial Intelligence; Information and Communications Technology; New and Digital Media

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Journeys through Early Learning and Care

The Mitacs project will build on the findings of a 2019 study and explore the experiences of newcomer families—specifically those in the cultural minority—with children 0-5 years old in community-based early learning and child care (ELCC) in Edmonton. The study will look at the lived experiences of these families as they access and receive ELCC in Edmonton, and see what opportunities exist to bridge the gap between cultural minorities and mainstream ELCC to shift approaches and practices. This will ultimately help identify how ELCC service providers can utilize evidence to inform systems change to meet their organizational goals and client needs. Hence, the Mitacs project will benefit the United Way in one of its three primary focus areas, namely breaking the cycle of poverty through early learning and development support, as well as the ECN’s and SSHRC PG’s goals and foci in knowledge creation and evidence discovery for action. ECN will particularly be able to use this Mitacs project to explore the impacts of a community-driven and culturally relevant evaluation practice that supports families and children and contributes to the long-term well-being and development of children.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rebecca Gokiert

Student:

Partner:

United Way of the Alberta Capital Region

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

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

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Proof of Concept Electrical and Colorimetric Detection of Bacteria and Bacteriophages using Molecularly Imprinted Polymers in Microfluidic Sensors

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the whole world by the spread of a new respiratory virus (SARS-CoV-2), posing a significant burden on the society and the health system. Rapid and selective detection of pathogens, like SARS-CoV-2 virus, in clinical samples, food, water and the environment at large is crucial in diagnosis and breakout prevention. Conventional lab-based biodetection methods lack sensitivity and are expensive, time-consuming, and non-specific in comparison to the newly developed portable biosensors. Our long-term aim is to design cost-effective and simple microfluidic sensors based on stable polymeric biorecognition materials called Molecularly Imprinted Polymers (MIP). MIP-coated fluorescent microparticles and conductive microelectrodes will be integrated into two microfluidic devices and tested for bacteria and bacteriophage capturing. We will perform colorimetric and electrical transduction of captured targets after binding to MIP-coated microparticles and microelectrodes, respectively, in these devices. The outcome of this project will help our partner company, SIXW, to accelerate the commercialization process of these technologies in 2022.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pouya Rezai

Student:

Partner:

Sixth Wave

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Guidelines for Evaluating Service Programming for Autistic Adults: A Patient-Oriented Perspective on Service Evaluation using Functional Criteria

Currently there are few standards for evaluating service delivery, and since health care service delivery is a domain of the provinces, new health care services need to be tested and evaluated in each province before being widely offered. This leads to inefficiency in evaluations as well as unequal access to new services across the country. Also, the evaluations that are done are usually based on what the service delivery organization values about the programming rather than what the patient community served by the programming values. This project proposes creating sets of guidelines for evaluating service programs for autistic adults using functional criteria, criteria based on functional needs rather than diagnosis, determined by stakeholder engagement, including engagement with autistic adults, clinicians, and service providers, via focus groups. These guidelines would account for the variability of symptoms that can present in autistic adults, due to the focus on functional needs rather than diagnosis, and these guidelines would also increase efficiency and comparability in service evaluation and health care service delivery to the autism community.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stelios Georgiades

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorder Alliance

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Elevate

Real-time, high-availability digital-twin models for supervisory control and energy demand optimization of intelligent buildings

The overall goal of this project is to approach the concept of “smart buildings” from a novel perspective by creating a new building automation and controls technology that unifies smart buildings with data centres, with a focus on interaction between digital models and human operators. Data centres pose unique agility, reliability, security, and efficiency requirements which represent an as-yet unexplored perspective for building automation. Data centres have a wide array of different types of equipment installed to handle electrical power, cooling, security systems, fire alarms, and computer networking. However, these systems typically operate independently and do not share information with each other. We propose introducing a decentralized control system which is able to automatically gather, analyze and act on live data to allow a building, its operators, and its occupants to adapt to changing situations. If successful, this will reduce the total cost of ownership and increase reliability, utility, security, and energy efficiency of building control syste

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chi-fu Wu;Mark Wlodyka

Student:

Partner:

HYNES GROUP

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

Capilano University

Program:

Accelerate

Business Analyst (BA) Impact on Business Agility and Data Analytics

Digital Transformation of business, combined with globalization through outsourcing, has create an increasingly fast-paced, competitive environment for most businesses. Additionally, new disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain are just beginning to open new opportunities for the next wave of Digital Transformation. Agile concepts have accepted in information systems (IS) development for more than two decades. Today, many organizations dedicate agile teams to create new digital products for rapid implementation, while many business units have begun to adopt an agile approach to accelerate how the business unit operates.
In parallel with agile business, the rise of data analytics (sometimes called Big Data) has been apparent for over a decade. 80% of executives believe their businesses will be disrupted by digital technology soon, about two years, and they believe that data and analytics will be the key to their corporate survival. This research will explore how business analysis can contribute to enterprise agility and data driven decisions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ron Babin

Student:

Partner:

IIBA

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Hyivy device as non-hormonal therapeutic for endometriosis

Hyivy Health and McMaster University are collaborating on a research study around the effects of the Hyivy Therapy Device as a non-hormonal therapeutic for people with endometriosis. The goal is to track the effects on chronic pelvic pain while exploring the impact on quality of life, usability, and sexual function. Results of this study will provide a new strategy for people suffering with endometriosis to manage their pain.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mathew Leonardi;Jocelyn Wessels

Student:

Partner:

Hyivy Health Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Retail trade

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

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