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A System for Credit Risk Assessment to Match SMEs Financial Needs to Most Suitable Financial Option

More and more small and medium enterprises these days rely on continuous cash flow for the survival of their business. Current pandemic has made their survival with reduced business activities worse by relying on government support and brought down many businesses creating domino effect of joblessness and adverse economic impacts. The overall goal of this project is to match businesses needing financial support (loans) to appropriate financial institutions (lenders). To achieve this and make this decision seamless, we propose to develop a platform wherefrom an agent at Shaffer Capital will be able to analyze a clients need (through financial ratio and credit score computed based on their input data) and then an appropriate financial institution who would provide the finance to the client.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Parimala Thulasiraman;Ruppa K Thulasiram

Student:

Partner:

Shaffer Capital

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

In-plane Performance of Masonry Shear Walls

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.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shelley Lissel

Student:

Partner:

Canada Masonry Design Centre (ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Elevate

Nonlinear photonics applications of tellurite-coated silicon nitride waveguides

This project is about integrated photonics. Similar to integrated electronics, both have many applications in our lives such as in communications, biosensing, security, display and imaging. Interestingly, photonic circuits are poised to replace electronics circuits in telecommunications and data centers. Compared to electronics, they will reduce cost, increase speed and bandwidth of the future Internet coping with constant increasing demand that will not be met by the electronics-based systems. Particularly, this project’s goal is to bring bulky top of the table optical systems into a nanoscale integrated photonic chip. Using the novel tellurite glass, on-chip model locked lasers (MLL) and supercontinuum generation (SCG) will be explored. Mode locked laser is a high power pulsed laser that has interesting applications for example in distance measurements, material processing (e.g. micromaching) and laser surgery. Whereas, supercontinuum generation is widening of light spectrum with prospective applications in frequency measurements, fluorescence microscopy, bio-imaging and ultra-precise time keeping.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Bradley

Student:

Partner:

Technische Universität Hamburg

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Regional Quaternary Geology and Glacial History in the Iskut Area

Canada’s modern landscape has been strongly influenced by the formation and subsequent melting of glaciers during the last glaciation. Glaciers have a wide range of effects on near surface sediments including moving and reworking them to form new deposits. Understanding the actions of the glaciers and the shape, characteristics and variability of the resulting sediments is important to the work of scientists and engineers. This project focusses on using a combination of drill hole data, imagery taken from airplanes and surveys of the shape of the earth’s surface to piece together the story the history of glaciers in the area to the southeast of Iskut in Northern British Columbia. A map of the various sediments observed at surface will be produced. This work will help scientists and engineers with future projects in the area and add another small piece to the story of this history of glaciers in BC.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brent Ward

Student:

Partner:

BGC Engineering Inc (BC)

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

High Performing Canadian SaaS Company Metric Performance – What Great Looks Like

In this project, SaaSCan will leverage and expand its market research data on Canadian SaaS startup metric performance to create an innovative, online-self assessment tool. Unlike some other tools that require founders to upload detailed financial data or complete complex financial spreadsheets, the SaaSCan “Metrics Sherpa” tool will enable founders to type in data points and learn how they compare to their high performing peers on key SaaS metrics for startups. Given the broad reach of SaaSCan’s distribution network to 100’s of 1000’s of people, access to this online tool will democratize availability of performance metric assessments for minority and underrepresented Canadian SaaS founders from coast-to-coast, who may not have access to a network of experienced advisors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sandy Staples

Student:

Partner:

SaaSCan

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Establishing a world-class biophysics platform that will enable and accelerate the discovery of leads for launching drug-discovery programs and biotech start-ups

Challenge: The most critical step in discovering future medications is the identification of the initial hit compounds (“leads”) that interact with target proteins and which have the desired properties. The search for and validation of potential lead compounds is a major challenge for launching drug discovery programs as this process requires highly specialized expertise, expensive equipment and infrastructure, and vast chemical resources. Moreover, classical screening assays are often contaminated with false-positives and false-negatives, and available experimental techniques are notoriously unreliable at properly characterizing weak hits at the high concentrations required.
Solution: Here, we propose to develop cross-technology strategies that take advantage of a thorough exploration of the advantages and limitations of a broad range of biophysics tools to reveal typical and unusual natural phenomena of ligand and protein targets.
Expected Impact: This will build the foundation for establishing a world-class biophysics platform that will enable and accelerate the discovery of leads for launching new drug discovery programs and biotech start-ups. Moreover, this project will train multiple HQP that will contribute to and have a significant impact on Québec’s biotechnology industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven LaPlante;Salim Timo Islam

Student:

Partner:

NMX Research and Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of solute interactions in multi-component steel using diffusion couples

There is an increasing demand for advanced high strength steels in the manufacturing and automotive industries. The use of these steels in cars can lead to weight reduction, improved fuel efficiency and enhanced crash worthiness. The development of these new steels requires the alloying of Fe with increasing amounts of manganese (Mn), silicon (Si) and aluminium (Al). As these elements are added in greater amounts, interactions between these elements become more likely to occur. The interaction of Si with Carbon (C) for example has been well-documented and Si content is carefully controlled to promote the development of steel microstructures that lead to high ductility. Much less understood is the interaction between Al and C in steel. Understanding this interaction is essential as industry attempt to increase the Al content in steel in order to reduce the density of the steel and enhance the strength. The proposed work will create model alloys in which the Al content is systematically varied. The diffusion of Al within these alloys will be studied using an electron probe micro-analyzer (EPMA) which is a device that can detect the distribution of Al at a fine scale within the steel.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hatem Zurob

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Étude comparative de deux approches participatives implémentées dans deux établissements universitaires lors de la définition du projet

La définition du projet représente la première étape d’un projet architectural où les besoins des usagers sont définis et la solution architecturale est proposée. Elle représente une étape importante dans la création des espaces utiles et efficaces. Cependant, la définition du projet est une tâche difficile surtout lorsqu’il s’agit des projets complexes tels que les universités, car non seulement les besoins varient selon les différents usagers, mais encore ils évoluent constamment dû à l’évolution technologique. Afin de pallier à ces défis, différentes solutions participatives ont été proposées. Cette recherche vise donc, à comparer deux projets HEC Centre-ville et ÉTS campus-DOW qui implémentent deux approches participatives-non-traditionnelles afin d’aligner les besoins des usagers avec les espaces conçus pour leurs nouveaux pavillons. L’objectif de cette comparaison est de documenter les avantages et les enjeux ainsi que de proposer des pistes d’amélioration concernant la mise en place de ces deux types de démarche participative.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maude Brunet

Student:

Partner:

Groupe Solutions Systémiques

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Mapping bovine Tuberculosis dynamics in the South-African wildlife and livestock reservoir

In Sub-Saharan Africa, bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) is known to infect nearly all mammals, and is a threat to wildlife and livestock. However, the roles of biodiversity and host community composition on outbreak dynamics are still not clearly understood. Close contacts and the sharing of resources, such as food and water, are thought to be drivers of spillover and spill-back from the main reservoir host, buffalo (Syncerus caffer), to wildlife and livestock species. I propose to investigate the species contact networks and environmental reservoir of bTB in the Kruger National Park using camera traps and environmental DNA samples of water and soil. These data will be used to inform statistical models of disease spread, allowing us to quantify the effect of host community composition on bTB maintenance and outbreak potential in the Park. Understanding these dynamics will help in guiding policy on bTB prevention in spaces shared by livestock and wildlife.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Davies

Student:

Partner:

University of Johannesburg

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Intelligent Intrusion Detection Systems for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) can be vulnerable to various attacks at different levels. The malicious attacks not only result in loss of confidentiality and user privacy, but also lead to more serious consequences such as bodily injury and loss of life. Intrusion detection system (IDS) is an effective way to detect different threats, and trigger alerts to mitigate the attacks. To ensure the safety of CAVs, it is extremely important to detect various attacks accurately in a timely fashion. The goal of the partnership between TELUS and University of Windsor is to investigate and develop intelligent IDS to safeguard CAVs from various security threats by exploiting deep learning. Pursued in close collaboration with TELUS, this project will overcome the core technical challenges, generate novel ideas and techniques for intelligent IDS in CAVs, generate a CAV oriented dataset and develop testbeds to secure CAVs and advance the state-of-art solutions

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ning Zhang;Arunita Jaekel

Student:

Partner:

TELUS (Calgary, AB)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an eco-friendly adsorbent for selective removal of selenium in uranium mining wastewater

While the benefits of uranium production bring economic and strategic advantages for Saskatchewan and Canada, the legacy of its tailings, waste rocks, flooded mines, and industrial wastewaters are the drawbacks. To safeguard both human and environmental health, the mining waste streams need to be treated prior to their release to the environment. The current research project aims to use agricultural residue-based materials (e.g., wheat and canola straws) as a cost-effective and eco-friendly alternative to the more expensive commercial adsorbents for removal of selenium from mining wastewater. Agricultural residues in Canada can provide an abundant source to develop inexpensive adsorbents and benefit the agricultural economy by increasing the value of the agricultural residues. The prepared agricultural residue-based adsorbents will offer an eco-friendly system for removing metal(loid)s from mining water with an initial focus on Se treatment. Investigation of the application of these biomass-based adsorbents will potentially reduce the cost of treatment of Se, and other metal(loid)s, in mining wastewater.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jafar Soltan;Kerry McPhedran

Student:

Partner:

Orano Resources Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Minpraxis Tester signal processing automation and validation

The most energy intensive component of mineral processing is comminution (crushing and grinding), consuming, on average, about 50% of the total electric energy of a mine site. To optimize and thereby improve the energy performance, accurate measurement of the ore hardness is critical. The proposed study is aimed at developing a new test apparatus that represents an improvement over existing methods. The test apparatus has the ability to generate data for larger sample sets than present methods and thereby represents a significant improvement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bern Klein

Student:

Partner:

Minpraxis Solutions Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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Mitacs is funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, Innovation PEI, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan, and the Government of Yukon.