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Towards an understanding of women’s experiences on well-being in mining communities

Mining operations can have positive and negative impacts on local communities and there are no standardised ways to measure the overall impact of mining operations on community wellbeing. On the one hand, this is because corporate reporting on sustainability related issues is targeted towards investors and other financial stakeholders which are (overall) less concerned with local community concerns. On the other hand, the subjective nature of community wellbeing and the different needs of community members limit the insights a standardized approach could reveal. This study provides the space for marginalized groups to express their lived realities and proposes an in-depth analysis of the conversations with women from mining host communities. The aim of the project is to bring to the fore women’s unique experiences and unique challenges of women in mining communities which in turn will allow the partner organization to address these concerns in a more nuanced way to strengthen the community-company relationships and advance corporate reporting strategies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniela Senkl

Student:

Partner:

Kinross Gold

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Fabricating and Investigating Laser-induced Reduced Graphene Oxide RFID Tag

Transient electronics and their dissolution byproducts, are usually harmless and benign, and hence they are an attractive approach for the global e-waste problem especially for low-cost, one time use devices such as RFID tag antennas. For this research, a straightforward laser-induced method of environmentally friendly reduced Graphene Oxide films is proposed for fabricating transient RFID tags possessing sufficient electrical and mechanical properties for proper functioning. First, the effects of fabricating conditions, such as laser power, exposure time, and laser scanning speed, on the final architecture and electrical/mechanical properties will be investigated using scanning electron microscopy, Raman, and X-ray diffraction. Having optimized the conditions, several hypotheses regarding the reduction process will be tested. First, it is hypothesized that the wider the Graphene Oxide flakes are, the higher the conductivity of reduced part will be. Furthermore, it is proposed that adding nano-additives like Carbon Nanotubes to make hybrids with the precursor (GO) will improve interconnectivity and reduce inter-facial effects between GO’s flakes, resulting in lower resistivity. The final expected outcome of research is a facile method of co-reduction of GO-based hybrids for biodegradable transient RFID tags.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Reza Rizvi

Student:

Partner:

Max-Planck-Institut für Kolloid- und Grenzflächenforschung

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Nanotechnology; Advanced Manufacturing; Clean Technology; Quantum Science

University:

York University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Digital Twin Platform Canada’s Resilience to Climate Induced Risk

Over the past decades, Canada has witnessed a continuous increase in the frequency and magnitude of climate change-induced natural disasters. Flood events are considered the most occurring climate-induced hazards in Canada. Cities rely on a series of Critical Infrastructure Networks (CIN) to perform adequately, flood events can be the reason for serious disruptions in these CINs. City resilience is the capacity of an urban system to recover and reach an acceptable level of functionality after being exposed to a hazard. Up until this stage, city resilience research has been focusing on modeling certain aspects of the built environment, without a mean to model future changes. This calls for a tool that would empower decision makers to predict, visualize, optimize, and run what-if scenarios before tampering with the built environment. The proposed research will contribute to the development of a framework that will assist managers and decision makers develop policies and optimize specified sets of city-flood resilience within specific resources and time constraints, and immediately visualize the consequences and act accordingly, potentially saving Canadians millions of taxpayers’ money.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wael El-Dakhakhni

Student:

Partner:

University of Cambridge

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Aging in Place: understanding the person’s interactions with the human and nonhuman environments / Vieillir à domicile et dans sa communauté – Comprendre les interactions de la personne avec son environnement humain et non humain.

Notre projet vise à compléter le développement d’un instrument d’évaluation conçu pour mieux comprendre le contexte de vie des personnes âgées vivant avec un trouble neurocognitif (ex. maladie d’Alzheimer), afin de faciliter leur maintien à domicile. Le but de cet instrument d’évaluation est d’obtenir une meilleure compréhension de l’interaction entre la personne âgée présentant un trouble neurocognitif et son environnement, tant au niveau humain (ex. son aidant) que non humain (ex. son domicile). Cette compréhension permettra à l’intervenant d’identifier des stratégies d’intervention propres à la personne et à sa situation, dans l’objectif d’améliorer sa qualité de vie ainsi que celle de son aidant. Ce projet répond à trois des priorités de recherche de la Société Alzheimer du Canada, l’organisme partenaire, soit : le soutien aux aidants, la mise en application des meilleures pratiques et les approches non pharmacologiques pour gérer les symptômes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jacqueline Rousseau

Student:

Partner:

Alzheimer Society of Canada;Fédération Québécoise des Sociétés Alzheimer

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Fertilizer Production Using “Oxygen assisted” Composting of Agricultural Wastes

Next Hydrogen company, in partnership with Wellmaster, wants to use by-product oxygen in the water electrolysiindustry as a raw material in another business. The project site proposed, in Bruce County, has many farms producing agricultural wastesThe project will asses whether composting and vermicomposting are the best choices to use this oxygen. One of the most important factors of the composting and vermicomposting condition is aeration. So, the intern will design reactors for these two pathways to transfer the oxygen to the composting and vermicomposting substrates. In this regard, we use the agricultural wastes as a substrate of composting and the mix of agricultural wastes and cow manure as a substrate of vermicomposting.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Satinder Kaur Brar

Student:

Partner:

NEXT HYDROGEN CORPORATION;Wellmaster Pipe and Supplu Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Self-Assembly of Nanocluster-based Colloidosomes via Click Chemistry for the Formation of Inorganic Prototissues

Protocells are synthetic, cell-like microcompartments designed to mimic key aspects of living cells to provide researchers with deeper insights into primitive cellular functions and behaviours. This research project is aimed to design and synthesize functional polymer coated gold nanoparticles and clusters (AuNP and AuNCs) that are capable of self-assembly into gold inorganic functional colloidosomes. The photo-responsive nature of AuNPs allows for the conversion of light into localized heat through surface plasmon resonances. The localized heat triggers the lower critical solution temperature of the thermo-responsive polymers coating the AuNPs to control the permeability of the protocells. AuNPs are electrochemically addressable and may lead to electro-responsive protocells. These protocells can then be covalently cross-linked into tissue-like constructs, termed prototissues, capable of collective photo-regulated contractability that can be enzymatically modulated.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Workentin

Student:

Partner:

University of Trieste

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Biotechnology; Life Sciences (not health); Nanotechnology

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Testing the informativeness and analytic capacity a samplefree synthetic data to inform mental health and addictions policy makers in Canada

Western Canada is facing an opioid related health epidemic. Canadians are dying and experiencing mental health problems characterised by chronic drug and alcohol use. The overdose, misuse, and abuse of drugs/opioids leading to deaths is happening in the backdrop of significant medical, social, psychological, and economic causes. Income inequality and ill-balanced labour forced participation are factors which could be reasons behind this crisis. Health authorities the lack data which is needed to find root causes of the problem and to formulate new health policies. The aim of this work is to generate the synthetic data using existing data as a reference. The goal of this research is to broaden information-sharing and support public health stakeholders and policymakers to find ways that can be adopted to uproot this lethal epidemic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Piper Jackson

Student:

Partner:

Approach Analytics Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program:

Accelerate

Critical care outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic

The goal of the proposed project is to examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for reasons unrelated to COVID-19 (e.g., person injured in a car accident). We hypothesize that, due to high occupancy caused by COVID-19 and the resulting strain in health care delivery, patients admitted to the ICU will present with more severe illness and be at increased risk of rehospitalization and death. To address our hypothesis, we have planned an analysis of data from ICUs in the greater Vancouver area that have played a major role in managing patients with COVID-19. Our partner organization urgently needs this information to prepare for future high occupancy ICU events (e.g., environmental crises).

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Kramer

Student:

Partner:

Vancouver Coastal Health

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Amélioration des modèles d’intelligence artificielle pour la détection d’objets en agriculture de précision : le cas de la détection des laitues

Le projet porte sur une application en ligne (QuickCount) dédiée au traitement d’image agricole de drone par l’intelligence artificielle (IA). L’équipe de Drone des Champs a développé des modèles IA permettant différents types de traitement (indice de végétation, détection d’objet) sous forme de code Python. L’entreprise souhaite améliorer les modèles IA, et plus particulièrement la détection des laitues, qui seront ensuite intégrés dans QuickCount, permettant ainsi facilement de réaliser la détection sur des images de grande taille.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mickaël Germain

Student:

Partner:

Drône des champs

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Oxydation avancée de l’azote ammoniacal dans les effluents miniers au moyen du procédé électro-Fenton

Les contaminants émergents dans les effluents miniers, tel que l’azote ammoniacal, font partie des sources principales de la toxicité aquatique. Ainsi, les priorités futures des industries minières en matière de gestion de l’eau devraient améliorer et développer des technologies de traitement durable pour traiter l’azote ammoniacal dans les milieux les plus sensibles tel que le Nord du Québec. Plusieurs types de technologies traditionnels existent pour traiter que l’azote ammoniacal mais elles ont toutes leurs avantages et limites. Les basses températures de la région du Nord du Québec rendent parfois ces procédés moins efficaces. Ce projet avait pour objectif de traiter l’azote ammoniacal de plusieurs effluents synthétiques et réels provenant de différentes mines avec des procédés d’oxydation avancée en utilisant la technologie de l’Electro-Fenton. Les essais sont réalisés en mode batch avec des effluents synthétiques puis avec des effluents réels en utilisant les meilleures conditions. Les résultats obtenus permettront une meilleure application de la technologie Electro-Fenton à grande échelle pour traiter l’azote ammoniacal.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carmen Mihaela Neculita

Student:

Partner:

Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Isolation gazeuse environnementalement neutre comme la solution verte dans la production des disjoncteurs autrement isolés avec le gaz SF6

Le but de cette recherche est le remplacement du gaz SF6 actuellement utilisé dans les disjoncteurs moyenne tension dont la fabrication vient d’être transférée de l’entreprise Schneider Electric à l’entreprise CO7 Technologies, inc., par l’isolation gazeuse environnementalement neutre.
La nouvelle technologie d’isolation recherchée vise l’élimination des effets nocifs pour l’environnement dans les disjoncteurs fabriqués sur les lignes de production, actuellement en transfert, adaptation et installation dans l’usine de CO7 Technologies, inc. à Lachine au Québec.
La recherche d’une solution verte inclus étude, conception, modélisation, simulations, fabrication du prototype, ainsi que les essais et validation empirique de modèles numériques. Un prototype sera fabriqué et un banc d’essais sera conçu et réalisé dans les locaux de l’entreprise. Les résultats de mesure seront utilisés pour la calibration et la validation de modèles numériques. La conformité aux normes applicables sera adéquatement vérifiée et les recommandions pour la production de série seront inclut dans le rapport final.
La formation du personnel hautement qualifié fait partie importante de cette recherche en intégrant les expertises de chercheurs et spécialistes industrielles avec la formation académique offerte dans une université canadienne.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adam Skorek

Student:

Partner:

CO7 Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Étude comparative des coûts de construction pour les bâtiments selon le type de matériaux (bois, béton, acier)

Dans le contexte actuel, l’industrie de la construction fait face à une rareté des données tangibles publiques et indépendantes sur les différences des coûts de construction de bâtiments selon le type de matériaux (bois, béton, acier). L’objectif du projet est de définir un modèle économique reproductible dans le temps sur les coûts de construction selon les types de matériaux, le type de bâtiments et de donneurs d’ouvrages. Pour atteindre cet objectif, l’étudiant récoltera une base de données conséquente sur les coûts de construction et concevra un modèle d’estimation capable d’établir une analyse comparative selon le type de matériaux. La connaissance des coûts relatifs permettrait aux professionnels de la construction d’avoir une vue plus éclairée pour prendre des meilleures décisions pour leurs futurs projets.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon;Adel Francis

Student:

Partner:

Conseil pour le développement de l'industrie du béton

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

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