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Federal Nutrition Policy and Advocacy

The Heart & Stroke Foundation (Heart & Stroke, H & S) is a Canadian charitable organization that actively engages in advocacy, education, and funding, and has been dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke (HDS) for over 60 years. These diseases combined are the number one cause of premature death in Canada.1 Diet is one of the main determinants of HDS, with consistently poor nutrition over a number of years significantly increasing the likelihood of occurrence. Strategies for preventing HDS that include targeting younger populations have strong potential for being effective.2 H & S is a founding member of the Stop Marketing to Kids Coalition (SM2K), which aims to build awareness about the effects of food and beverage marketing to children in Canada.3 The practicum student will support the work of the coalition, including taking a lead in the coordination of the Youth M2K Coalition’s advocacy and engagement activities. The student will also support policy research and provincial nutrition priorities. Currently, no clear theory of change for organizing the public to engage in healthy public policy development and advocacy exists in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Erin Pollock

Student:

Partner:

Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (ON)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

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

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Développement d’une plateforme d’accompagnement au loisir autonome en plein air destinée aux personnes ayant des incapacités

L’Association Régionale de Loisir pour Personnes Handicapées (ARLPH) de la Capitale-Nationale souhaite développer une plateforme de ressources et de jumelage destinées aux personnes ayant des incapacités et à des accompagnateurs afin de rendre plus accessible la réalisation d’activités physiques récréatives de plein air par les PAI. L’ARLPH de la Capitale-Nationale s’est associée avec des chercheurs du Centres interdisciplinaire de recherche en réadaptation et intégration sociale du CIUSSS de la capitale-Nationale pour développer et évaluer cette plateforme. Le projet proposé suivra une approche de recherche-action, c’est-dire une approche qui vise à mener, en étroite collaboration avec un ou des partenaires, en parallèle et de manière imbriquée l’acquisition de connaissances scientifiques et des actions concrètes et transformatrices sur le terrain. C’est ainsi que l’équipe de recherche et des représentant de l’ARLPH de la Capitale-Nationale identifieront les facteurs à considérer pour le développement de la plateforme, implanteront la plateforme, exploreront le processus d’implantation de la plateforme et ses effets, et enfin étendront la portée de la plateforme.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Routhier;Krista Best

Student:

Partner:

Association régionale de loisir pour les personnes handicapées de la Capitale-Nationale

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Elevate

Développement d’une stratégie de gestion des actifs Cintech

En raison d’une croissance qui n’est pas constaté qu’en terme de RH mais bien d’actifs divers l’organisation doit se réorganiser et surtout bien se préparer pour valoriser cette période de grands changements. Si à une petite échelle la gestion des investissements en actifs est facile, il en est tout autre lorsqu’on parle d’investissement 5-10 fois plus grand que d’habitude, de façon constante et durable. Tout ceci représente la nécessité du développement d’une stratégie de gestion des actifs qui demeure à développer en totalité. L’efficience des actifs, la rentabilité de l’opération de ces derniers ainsi que la rotation à prévoir pour que l’organisation maintienne une attractivité et utilité maximale aux yeux de ses clientes, les PME, est conditionné par ses employés et ses actifs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mario Bourgault

Student:

Partner:

Cintech Agroalimentaire

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Conversion web de la solution IsoVision

IsoVision est reconnue comme un joueur de calibre international dans le domaine des solutions logicielles intégrées de gestion de l’excellence, de la qualité, de l’environnement, du développement durable et de la santé et sécurité.
Depuis quelques années, IsoVision est confrontée à une rapide évolution des technologies vers le web et la mobilité. Le défi auquel elle doit faire face est donc la nécessité d’un modernisation par la migration rapide vers les nouvelles plate-formes technologiques.
La migration apportera non seulement une mise à niveau des technologies mais également de nouvelles opportunités d’innovation au sein de la solution.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michalis Famelis

Student:

Partner:

Sogi Ltée

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Thales: Description d’images en Langage Naturel

L’interprétation des images dans le sens où on établit la relation et l’interaction des entités de ces images est une étape essentielle dans des tâches comme la description textuelle d’une image. Un graphe de scène est une façon bien positionnée pour établir cette information. Pour cette raison, ce projet proposé par Thales vise à explorer des méthodes pour transformer l’information d’un graphe de scène en texte de langage naturel utile pour supporter la tâche des préposés 9-1-1. Ce projet tentera également de regarder des méthodes pour exploiter l’information et les biais des scènes capturées dans le graphe de scène pour générer des descriptions textuelles avec des inférences contextuelles et des biais de langages.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christian Gagné;Jean-Francois Lalonde

Student:

Partner:

Thales Recherche et Technologie

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Technology; Information and Communications Technology

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Development of solutions for clothing consumption: reduction at the source and recycling of textile waste

It’s very likely that shoppers have experienced many choices when browsing their favorite clothing store, more than they can keep up with. Whether these clothes end up being bought or not, they are likely to have a similar fate, ending up in landfills as waste and contributing to climate change. An alternative to face this undesirable scenario proposed in this research project is to increase the life cycle of clothes through recycling. And for that, these clothes will be shredded in their fibers to be studied for possible new applications. For the partner organization, the main benefit is to increase its expertise in textile recycling, a different source of raw material and develop new applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lucas Hof;Nicole Demarquette

Student:

Partner:

Vestechpro

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Biosurfactants for Greener Consumer Products

Surfactants (including emulsifiers) are a group of molecules that are critical for the function of many industrial processes and commercial products. Conventional surfactants are produced from non-renewable sources (e.g., petroleum products), can persist in the environment for long periods of time, and can be toxic to various plants and animals. “Biosurfactants” are surfactants that are naturally produced by harmless bacteria and have the potential to provide the same functionality as conventional surfactants, while also being environmentally compatible. This project aims to enable and advance the use of these biosurfactants in place of conventional surfactants, which will result in cleaner technology over a wide range of commercial sectors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John M Frostad

Student:

Partner:

BC Research Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Biotechnology; Biomanufacturing; Clean Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Novel Specific Coagulant/Flocculant Pairs for Mineral Tailings Treatment

Water management and treatment of mineral tailings and oil sands tailings are becoming critical challenges for the sustainable development of natural resources exploration. Reclamation of these tailings is challenging due to a solid phase composed mainly by very fine particles and many other chemicals. With these characteristics, the tailings form a very stable colloidal system and needs to be stored in open ponds. If left untreated, these tailings take decades to settle the recovery of water and large areas occupied by the tailing’s ponds. Coagulation and flocculation have been used to promote the sedimentation of these particles and enable the separation of released water and solid sediments. Duo to its complex composition, there is no mature technology capable of effectively treating tailings and completely eliminating the use of tailings ponds. This project aims to develop an innovative method that selectively bridge the fine particles suspended in tailings, forming aggregates with low water retention, precipitating at the bottom of the pond.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joao Soares

Student:

Partner:

CarboNet Nanotechnologies Inc.

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Water; Sustainability & the Environment; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Elevate

Hydraulic-Kinetics Model Development for Sewer Network Management and Chemical Dosing Optimization

The proposed project is to develop a comprehensive tool for mathematical modeling of the hydraulics and biochemical conversions in the sewer network. This tool will be used for the optimization of the control strategy of the chemicals dosing in sewer networks to efficiently and economically mitigate the harmful emissions, such as hydrogen sulfide and greenhouse gases, resulting from the biochemical reactions in the sewer network. The proposed tool will have the capability to determine the hot spots of the harmful emissions in a large-scale sewer network, e.g. a sewer network of a city. In addition, optimization of the chemical dosing strategy and control will be developed using this tool by determining the locations, times, and amount of dosing chemicals to achieve the highest effectiveness and completely eliminate the gases emission. In order to develop a robust optimization tool that can be used for different conditions, rigorous validation should be conducted using extensive measurement data from large-scale real sewers and pilot-scale experiments. Therefore, in a collaboration with the other researchers in USP Technologies, a huge number of measurements will be conducted and fed to the mathematical model.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yuri Lawryshyn

Student:

Partner:

USP Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

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

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Elevate

Momentum Materials Solutions – Cameron Armstrong

This project aims at developing an innovative and efficient marketing strategy for acquiring customers and building a good customer relationship which would help Momentum Materials Solutions to overcome the market-entry barrier and achieve its sales goal.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Halek

Student:

Partner:

Momentum Materials Solutions

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

A Holistic Framework to Evaluate Energy Consumption of Heritage Buildings

The outcome of the proposed research on heritage buildings could benefit the industry, including EVOQ Strategies’ work as they have been involved in a number of projects on heritage buildings. Keeping the above in mind, the following general objectives are identified for the current research:
– Provide a detailed overview of existing technologies as well as the opinions of experts in the field of energy performance sustainability assessment for heritage buildings. Thus, in a sense, it serves as a benchmark for different researchers looking to design their own assessment tool.
– Develop a comprehensive model that is targeted towards the assessment of the sustainability-focused on energy efficiency criteria and life cycle analysis of heritage buildings. Although different tools exist that are employed to measure the sustainability of different buildings, the value of this work lies in its type-specific approach and novelty.
– Compile results from the comparative study and design, evaluate and test an assessment tool that takes into consideration the limitations of the existing tools and opinions of experts. For that, the following activities would be performed: 1) propose novel attributes including Heritage Value, heritage built form and Structural Condition that was not considered in any of the existing tools; 2) develop a scoring system to quantify the importance and added value of each of the identified attributes to the energy performance of heritage buildings; 3) develop a more informative sustainability scale that is representative of the actual sustainability rating for the energy performance criterion of the building.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ashutosh Bagchi

Student:

Partner:

EVOQ Strategies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Elevate

Analysis of initially curved composite wing-stabilizer structure of eVTOL using dimensional reduction method; simulation, and optimization

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircrafts are being developed to revolutionize the transportation industry. They fly over traffic industry to their destination, drastically reducing commuting time. Limosa Inc. is a leading company to design and manufacture eVTOLs in Canada. This research is devoted to design, analyze and manufacture a composite initially curved wing-stabilizer of eVTOL LimoConnect. To design a composite wing-stabilizer of the aircraft, new methodologies, including Computational Fluid Dynamics, is employed to determine the loading conditions such as aerodynamic loads and flutter on the curved wing-stabilizer of the aircraft. A new computational method for analysis of composite wing structures named as Variational Asymptotic Beam Sectional Analysis (VABS) will be employed. Eventually the optimization process will be performed to find the best configuration of the curved wing-stabilizer of the aircraft. This technique saves computational time drastically. The 3D finite element method will finally be used to validate the optimized curved wing-stabilizer structure.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Suong Van Hoa

Student:

Partner:

Limosa

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Elevate

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