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Using CanCoast 2.0 to model and map coastscapes of Canada’s Arctic

Canada’s Arctic includes the world’s longest Arctic coastline, and is experiencing the direct effects of rapid climate change, including rapid erosion in some areas, changes to stream inflows and a warming ocean with less sea ice. A longer ice free season also means more shipping activity which can also threaten coastal species and the communities that rely on those species as a major food source. These changes have direct consequences for coastal Arctic species such as seals, whales, polar bears, coastal fish, as well as waterfowl and shorebirds. This project is Canada’s contribution to an international collaboration under the Arctic Council that aims to assess coastal ecosystems and provide assessments of the status and trends of coastal species around the circum-polar Arctic. The international group worked with Indigenous Knowledge and coastal science experts to develop an Arctic coastal monitoring plan, and the first step in plan implementation is the development of a map that shows the distributions of 7 types of coastscapes – segments of the Arctic coast with similar properties and so supports similar wildlife.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandre Langlois

Student:

Partner:

Arctic Research Foundation

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Architecture résiliente aux inondations : développement d’expertise et transfert de connaissances

Le projet génèrera des connaissances sur les mesures d’adaptation du cadre bâti aux inondations à l’échelle des bâtiments et des communautés. Ce projet comble un manque d’information sur les manières d’habiter et de planifier les zones inondables constructibles au Québec.
L’analyse de cas de défaillance de mesures de protection contre les inondations permettra le développement d’outils de communication destinés à sensibiliser les parties prenantes au risque potentiel. La modélisation de typologies architecturales adaptées à différents scénarios d’inondation contribuera aux réflexions entourant la conception de la résilience des
communautés aux inondation.
Les contributions des stagiaires s’inscrivent dans un des objectifs du programme de résilience diluvienne d’ASFQ : valoriser le rôle de l’architecture dans la protection du cadre bâti contre les impacts des changements climatiques. ASFQ utilisera les connaissances colligées et les modélisations réalisés par les stagiaires lors d’activités de communication grand public et de formation professionnelle sur l’adaptation du cadre bâti aux inondations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Isabelle Thomas

Student:

Partner:

Architecture Sans Frontières Québec

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

An image-guided, highly tunable hydrogel delivery device for novel minimally invasive therapies

Minimally invasive treatments have greatly changed the clinical landscape for a variety of disorders. A catheter is navigated through the body to the target site where a multitude of interventions can be performed, including drug delivery and therapeutic embolization and in the near future delivery of tissue-engineered constructs. However, there are still limitations for treatment safety and efficacy due to the less direct control physicians have over the diseased site compared to traditional surgeries.
We have engineered a new type of catheter device capable of accurately delivering and monitoring hydrogels in various parts of the body. Hydrogels are a common material class considered safe to be used as a vehicle for various therapeutic agents but are difficult to optimally formulate. In this project we aim to perform design refinement and testing to prove our technology’s efficacy both in vitro and in vivo. This new technology represents a safer and more effective method of embolization, drug delivery and potential for minimally invasive tissue engineering approaches.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Victor Yang

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Hidden Champions Businesses II: A Survey of Recent Theory and Empirical Evidence

This investigation will examine real-world potential Canadian hidden champions through a survey to gain further insight into what characteristics enable hidden champions to thrive. This survey will also expose a need for a more thorough case study (titled “A case study on Hidden Champions in North America, Europe and Asia) to examine the nuances of regional hidden champions and how they express themselves differently around the world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chansoo Park

Student:

Partner:

Husky Centre

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Education

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Invivo and insilico evaluation of multi organ variability for the detection of critical physiological changes of patients in Intensive Care Units

The project focuses on the characterization of the evolution with time of the properties of physiological signals recorded in different clinical settings, describing sepsis shock and other clinical complications that are common features in Intensive Care Units. Changes in heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure and oxygen saturation will be studied through an array of more than 70 techniques; some will consider the signals one-at-a-time, others will analyze the signals simutaneously. The final objective is characterizing the interrelationship between different techniques and their clinical relevance in the detection of changes in the physiological conditions of patients in the ICU. The long term goal is using the collect results to create predictors of those changes, promoting a shift from descriptive medicine, where the disease is cured only when its pathological effects are “visible” to physicians, to a predictive medicine, where the disease is detected before having deleterious effects on the patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

André Longtin

Student:

Partner:

Therapeutic Monitoring Systems Inc (Ottawa, ON)

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Conception et développement de grappins pour la récupération de casiers de pêche au crabe perdus sur le fond marin en utilisant la fabrication additive

Le projet consiste à concevoir des nouvelles formes de grappins pour récupérer les casiers à crabe des neiges dans le cadre de la pêche fantôme. Ce type de pêche permettra à des espèces marines tels que les baleines noires d’éviter tout empêtrement à cause des cordages. Ceci va permettre de réduire les conséquences de la pêche fantôme, et assurer une meilleure cohabitation entre les pêcheurs et les baleines. Comme ça, l’activité de pêche peut avoir lieu sans interruption même pendant les périodes où il y a un afflux important de baleines dans les eaux canadiennes, permettant la poursuite de l’activité de pêche. Les grappins conçus vont être optimisés pour réduire les couts d’investissement au niveau d’équipements de pêche. Ces grappins vont être développés, en utilisant la fabrication additive basée sur des matériaux plastiques et métalliques, pour la récupération de casiers de pêche au crabe dans le fond marin.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Noureddine Barka

Student:

Partner:

Merinov (Gaspé, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Rimouski

Program:

Accelerate

Gestion de l’eau en Grèce à l’époque romaine

Je m’intéresse au sujet de la gestion de l’eau, particulièrement à l’époque romaine. La période romaine est l’âge d’or de l’hydraulique urbaine. J’ai choisi de faire une étude comparative entre les systèmes de gestion de l’eau en Grèce, en Égypte et en Syro-Palestine. À la Grèce, je vais me consacrer à deux régions, la Thessalie et la Macédoine. Les Romains ont utilisé les aqueducs pour se procurer une plus grande quantité d’eau à côté des autres moyens utilisés par leurs prédécesseurs comme les puits et les citernes. À Thessalonique, trois aqueducs furent construits par les Romains. L’objectif principal de cette recherche est double. D’abord, de me familiariser avec les techniques de construction régionales et les particularités architecturales liées à la gestion de l’eau grâce à un stage sur le site archéologique d’Argilos, dont les recherches sont menées conjointement par le ministère grec de la Culture et l’Université de Montréal. Ensuite, de faire des études de cas spécifiques, grâce à la visite et à l’analyse, sur place, des installations hydrauliques conservées sur les sites archéologiques d’époque romaine.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jacques Perreault

Student:

Partner:

Université de Patras

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Water; Natural Resources; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Agri-food processing opportunities for Indigenous farmers -Optimization of fish waste fertilizer sourced from local integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) operations

Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) is a technique by which the environmental impacts are minimized while efficiency is increased. However, these aquaculture activities can put a strain on their surrounding environment, as operations encroach on valuable wetland areas, act as a stressor on local water resources, and effluent waste can increase the concentrations of pollutants in nearby waterbodies. Hence, development IMTA system that can produce fish and marketable co-products without drastic water demands will improve operations. This project seeks to optimize an in-tank IMTA process designed for remote northern populations, providing economic opportunities, a source of healthy nutrition, and increased sovereignty over food sources for First Nations. We will develop an algal remediation protocol that will treat aquaculture wastewater that can then be used to produce a highly nutritious wild rice, historically harvested by Indigenous people as a traditional food source. Outcomes will be leveraged to develop agri-food processing opportunities for Indigenous farmers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pascale Champagne

Student:

Partner:

Myera Nu-Agri-Nomics Group Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Novel method of propulsion pattern recognition in a manual wheelchair simulator

Propulsion pattern recognition in a manual wheelchair (MWC) simulator contributes to better identify the users’ propulsion techniques. It can provide them with appropriate feedback and training, in order to prevent chronic shoulder pain. Recent work in our lab has focused on the development of an affordable wheelchair simulator, which provides force feedback (gravity, inertia) during propulsion in a virtual scenario, as well as visual feedback on propulsion performance. We now aim to add important feedback information about propulsion style, using a low-cost approach. Objective. The first objective will be to track and find the coordinates of the user’s wrist in a recorded video. The second objective will be to classify the set of wrist coordinates, which is associated with one push cycle, to one out of four possible patterns. Methods. We will use a simple webcam to record users from the side view, while they propel the pushrim. Then, by using the open-source DeepLabCut library, we will track and extract the wrist position.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe Archambault

Student:

Partner:

Université Paris-Saclay

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Machine Learning for Auto-Scaling Corda Node Containers

We are looking to drive the operational cost down for Corda R3 nodes. Corda R3 is a smart-contract Distributed Ledger technology. Our strategy is to do so by minimizing the cloud computing resources. Using machine learning and historic data we can proactively orchestrate a large number of nodes on behalf of our clients. The interaction between nodes is a type of social network lending itself to machine learning. In our first phase we are aiming at setting up the simulation environment.
Ultimately by brining the operational cost we can provide a more compelling value proposition to our customers and an easier entry to the market by offering a freemium service.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andriy Miranskyy

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development;Interactive Event Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Remediation and recovery of metals from mine effluents using genetically engineered microbial systems

Mines generate metal-contaminated wastewater that needs to be cleaned before it can be re-used by the mine or discharged into the environment. There are several ways to remove this metal, but many of these technologies are expensive and require non-renewable materials to work. Biological methods to remove these metals are promising renewable alternatives, but they have their limitations too: a lack of specificity for metals and the need to destroy the biomass to recover the metal for profit. The goal of this project is to use synthetic biology to engineer microbes to specifically capture low concentrations of nickel from Sudbury mine wastewater and return it to the mine in a concentrate that can eventually be purified.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Radhakrishnan Mahadevan

Student:

Partner:

I-INC Foundation for Business Development

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Adaptation et optimisation d’une machine de dépôt et degravure par pulvérisation cathodique

Le dioxyde de titane (TiO2) est un oxyde d’un métal de transition. Le dépôt en couches minces de ce matériau trouve différents domaines d’applications tant dans le domaine de la catalyse qu’en électronique ou en optique. Dans cette étude, le matériau sera déposé par pulvérisation cathodique à partir d’une cible de TiO2-x ou de titane combinée à un plasma d’oxygène. Les propriétés du matériau dépendent fortement des conditions de dépôt. Il sera donc important de contrôler les conditions opératoires telles que la température du substrat, la tension de décharge, la polarisation du substrat, le flux de gaz O2, la vitesse de dépôt, etc, pour déterminer les propriétés structurales (stoechiométrie, structure cristalline du matériau, porosité, rugosité) mais également les propriétés optoélectroniques. Les caractérisations seront réalisées in situ (spectroscopie d’émission optique) et ex situ (conductive AFM, Raman, DRX, XPS) afin d’identifier les propriétés du plasma et du matériau déposé, respectivement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andreas Ruediger

Student:

Partner:

Plasmionique Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Accelerate

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