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Using systems engineering as a framework to evaluate a Pre-residency program for international medical graduates

Evaluation is a key element to assure the high quality of programs. The Pre-Residency program is meant to prepare the international medical graduates to be at the same level as any locally trained Medical graduate in Canada for their specialty training rotations. In this project we are using an innovative engineering approach to conduct an evaluation of the Pre-Residency program. Our goal is to provide a more objective evaluation using engineering to help assure the high quality of the Pre-Residency training program offered by the Touchstone Institute.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Brydges

Student:

Partner:

Touchstone Institute;University of Toronto

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

GCS (Ground Control Station) Ergonomic Research

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are known to have the ability to acquire large amounts of data from on-board devices such as sensors and cameras during flight. Majority of the data is typically stored on-board during a flight mission while a small amount of important data is transmitted to the Ground Control Station (GCS) over available communication links. The main role of the GCS is to control and monitor the UAV in flight, streaming a live video from the UAV cameras, and uploading new mission commands and setting parameters. Presagis is a global provider of commercial off-the-shelf advanced software tools for development of graphical interfaces for mission-critical avionics and embedded displays for UAVs. Using the available high-fidelity Presagis modeling, simulation and visualization software, the proposed project will improve the ergonomic of the existing GCS development tools and provide support for retrieving, verifying and analysis of data from highly sophisticated custom devices.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joon Chung

Student:

Partner:

Presagis Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Conception du système de la logistique inverse pour la valorisation et le recyclage des équipements de télécommunication en fin de leur vie utile

Ce projet de recherche consiste à effectuer des études d’ingénierie pour permettre au SIT Maurice à développer et construire une nouvelle unité de valorisation et de recyclage des équipements de télécommunication. La remise en état des produits désuets et la récupération des métaux précieux sont les principales motivations pour ce projet. La réalisation de ce projet va permettre à l’entreprise de créer de l’emploi dans la région et être le chef de file dans ce domaine.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Georges Abdul-Nour

Student:

Partner:

Service d’intégration au travail - Mauricie

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Improving decision-making by reducing anxiety

Performance anxiety has been shown to negatively impact decision-making as well as academic performance, but it is unclear whether the effect of anxiety on test performance is due to impaired decision-making. Audio-Visual Entrainment (AVE), which involves exposure to rhythmically pulsating light and sound, has been shown to relieve anxiety symptoms — thus, AVE may be able to improve decision-making by alleviating anxiety, which may translate to better academic test scores. We predict that participants who undergo AVE treatment will perform better on a multiple-choice intelligence test than participants who undergo a sham treatment or no treatment. This research will advance scientific understanding by helping to clarify the relationship between performance anxiety and test performance. It will also benefit the industry by highlighting the wide applicability of AVE technology, including in academic and professional settings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amir Raz

Student:

Partner:

Mind Alive Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Software Defined Security Orchestrator for Content Delivery Networks

Denial of service attacks deny a service, such as visiting a website or access to a network, by deliberately congesting the server or the network resources. In addition to delivering digital contents to end-users, content delivery networks (CDNs) are supposed to protect the content origins, such as Netflix or Amazon Video, against denial of service threats. However, denial of service attacks not only evade a CDN’s protection but also exploit its resources to damage content providers and the CDN itself. As such, traditional security mechanisms are no longer sufficient. This proposal presents the design and implementation of a security orchestrator that protects a CDN and its content providers using more sophisticated and more effective techniques. In collaboration with our partner, Ericsson Canada, we aim at building a system that provides an improved defense compared to traditional approaches.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raouf Boutaba

Student:

Partner:

Ericsson Canada Inc (Montreal, QC);University of Waterloo

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Applying longitudinal social network analysis to water governance; informing climate change adaptation for resilient communities

Water is one of our most precious common goods. In order to improve our governance of water we may learn from current decision-making and identify improved management processes. This research project will apply innovative social network analysis and other decision management tools to support benchmarking, characterizing and improving water governance. Water events, flood and drought, are intimately linked to human health and institutional prosperity. As our climate changes, the intensity and timing of water events change thereby increasing the complexity and uncertainty of water management. Benchmarking today’s water governance networks and identifying new decision support tools is an integral part of this research project. Improving water governance tools and their application supports resilient decision-making in indigenous and western communities throughout Canada and globally.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bernard Schissel;Siomonn Pulla

Student:

Partner:

Clinical Investigation and Teaching Institute British Columbia

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Royal Roads University

Program:

Accelerate

Stand and stock table projection system for Interior Douglas-fir in the central interior of British Columbia

Forest management in Canada will be more and more constrained by species habitat requirements as well as the risks and results of natural disturbances. The recent, sever Mountain Pine Beetle outbreak in the interior of British Columbia resulted in a harvest shortage of lodgepole pine in this region. Forest managers now rely heavily on non-pine harvests, mainly within the Interior Douglas-fire forest type. This forest type requires partial cutting and is further constrained by several ecological and social forest management objectives. Sustainable forest management of the Interior Douglas-fir forest type requires the ability to predict responses to forest management activities. There is currently no tool that allows making these forecasts at both the stand as well as forest level. We are proposing to develop a stand and stock table projection system that will allow forest managers to easily predict possible outcomes to planned management activities at both the stand and forest level scale.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bianca Eskelson

Student:

Partner:

West Fraser Timber Co Ltd (Williams Lake, BC);Tesera Systems Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Forestry; Natural Resources; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Élaboration d’une méthode de développement de tableaux de bord de gestion soutenant la conscience de la situation

Le tableau de bord de gestion (TBG) est un outil visuel de plus en plus courant auprès des gestionnaires pour réaliser le suivi de la performance organisationnelle. Il consiste à afficher de l’information portant sur l’état de l’organisation afin de soutenir le gestionnaire dans ses décisions. Ainsi, le TBG doit permettre au gestionnaire d’obtenir une représentation mentale véridique et complète de la situation. Le cadre théorique de conscience de la situation (CS) caractérise cette représentation mentale en trois niveaux : perception, compréhension et projection. Une analyse de cinq méthodes de développement de TBG a permis de constater qu’aucune n’aborde la CS. À partir d’une approche de recherche en science de la conception, ce projet a pour objectif d’élaborer une méthode de développement de TBG soutenant la CS du gestionnaire.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandre Moïse

Student:

Partner:

Fondation CHU Sainte-Justine

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Minimizing crop stress with micronutrients: Agronomics

When plants are stressed they produce “reactive oxygen species” (ROS). Plants manage ROS with specific enzymes, many of which require micronutrients for activity. In the case of herbicide tolerant crops, the application of herbicide kills weeds in the crop but also stresses the crop for a time. The proposed work will test the hypothesis that crop plants will be better able to deal with stress resulting from herbicide application, when they are given additional micronutrients, in the form of Axter products spray-applied to crop leaves. The crops used in this work will be soybean and corn. The herbicide evaluated will be glyphosate. We will investigate the interaction between herbicide stress and micronutrients under field conditions. The results of this work will enhance our understanding of the mechanisms that underlie the efficacy of Axter products, leading to improved application of Axter products and development of improved formulations or products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Donald Smith

Student:

Partner:

Axter Agroscience Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Conception et réalisation d’un système d’imagerie des tissus biologiques marqués avec des nanosondes Raman

Une nouvelle nanotechnologie développée par l’équipe du Professeur Richard Martel à l’Université de Montréal combinée à la technologie d’imagerie Raman de Photon etc. permet de développer une nouvelle voie de lutte contre le cancer. L’immunothérapie vise une rééducation du système immunitaire lui permettant de combattre les cellules tumorales, mais doit être personnalisée selon le système immunitaire de l’individu, le type précis de cancer et l’environnement tumoral. L’analyse simultanée de 12 à 15 biomarqueurs est requise pour en obtenir une compréhension adéquate, ce qu’aucun système actuel d’analyse ne permet. Lors de ce projet, le stagiaire aura pour but de développer un système d’imagerie Raman permettant de visualiser et d’analyser jusqu’à 20 biomarqueurs simultanément. À court et moyen termes, ce projet s’inscrit dans la stratégie de développement de Photon etc. auquel le stagiaire pourrait se greffer à la fin de son stage.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Martel

Student:

Partner:

Photon etc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Chiffrement basé sur les attributs (ABE) des données privées dans les applications mobiles des villes intelligentes

L’entreprise Métix a lancé début 2016 le produit B-CITI dont la mission est de simplifier la relation numérique entre les citoyens et leur ville, en leur mettant à disposition un ensemble de services transactionnels, informationnels et interactifs leur permettant d’accéder aux services de la ville en tout temps. En tant que mandataire des villes, B-CITI se doit de respecter les plus haut standards en matière de sécurité et de traçabilité informatique, ainsi qu’un ensemble de processus et bonnes pratiques, le tout dans un contexte nouveau non traditionnel. Ce projet s’inscrit donc dans ce contexte et vise à renforcer la protection des données privées manipulées par les applications mobiles de B-CITI. Ceci engendre l’intégration d’un modèle de chiffrement non conventionnel (ABE) qui a fait ses preuves dans la communauté scientifique oeuvrant dans le domaine de la cryptographie.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chamseddine Talhi

Student:

Partner:

B-CITI Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Cocktail party in a box: Spatializing multiple talkers over a headphone based intercom system to improve speech comprehension

During live event shows, event operators rely on industry-grade intercom systems to communicate with each other and coordinate the progress of the event. Depending on the size of the event, they may need to monitor up to dozens of audio feeds and react on the commands when necessary. We hypothesize that enabling users to spatially separate the sound sources helps them better follow the commands. Our objective is to perform user experiments under simulated work environment using 3D audio instead of standard audio. We expect the 3D audio technique to improve the user performance, as well as improves the usability and pleasantness of overall user experience.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ilja Frissen

Student:

Partner:

Clear-Com Research Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

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