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Model Development for Ground-Engaging Tools using Real-Time Numerical Terramechanics and Discrete-Element Method

This Ph.D. study will focus on simulating and validating soil flow behavior models using numerical terramechanics for three distinct applications of soil flow behaviors from operations of construction equipment: hauling loose material (wheel loader), excavation of soil (backhoe loader/excavator) and pushing large quantities of soil (bulldozer). Numerical terramechanics models will be compared with DEM models in terms of prediction of forces on ground-engaging tools and to quantify soil flow behavior. The main advantage of this type of real-time simulation allows for direct control of the equipment to quickly observe the general soil behavior (for design optimization) and for training purposes of operators.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Viacheslav Adamchuk

Student:

Partner:

CNH Industrial

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Deep Subduction Zone Dynamics: Implications of deep tremor and slow slip from the rock record

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives under the other, host large earthquakes. Recently, scientists detected faint tremors coming from deep parts of subduction zones and termed them as deep tremor and slow slip. These tremors were accompanied by a minor land shift toward the ocean. These signals appear to be revealing deep, slow, silent earthquakes that transfer stress up into the locked zone, where large earthquakes originate. Ancient subducted rocks are found in a few places at the Earth’s surface can reveal the mechanisms of locking and slip that produce slow earthquakes. Through field studies and microstructural analyses, I will determine which processes cause these events and investigate the mechanisms of slow earthquakes. These estimates can be used to constrain stress accumulation which controls the size of the earthquake and time till the next large earthquake. Notably, this project will contribute to the advancement of forecasting methods necessary for developing effective disaster mitigation plans.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christie Rowe

Student:

Partner:

Sonoma State University

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Other

University:

McGill University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Farm Management Canada Internship

Assisting Farm Management Canada, a not-for-profit organization, to overcome business challenges that have been created due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The intern will be researching new ways to effectively deliver Farm Management Canada’s programs and services, provide alternatives for maintaining company moral and assist in a solution for the office space that Farm Management Canada currently has.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lorelei Nickel

Student:

Partner:

Farm Management Canada

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Agriculture; Education

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Determination of net calorific value of fresh and aged wood pellets

In this project, the effects of storage time on the heating value of wood pellets are investigated. During relatively long-term storage and transportation, pellets may lose part of its heating value, which could
translate to financial losses. However, for a limited and shorter storage time, studies have shown that pellets could have a slight gain in heating value. Thus, this project aims at resolving this ambiguity by
conducting lab experiments and fitting the data to a mathematical model for prediction purposes. In this collaborative project between Pinnacle Renewable Energy Group (PREG) and UBC Biomass and Bioenergy Research Group (BBRG), the intern will be involved in the laboratory investigation of the wood pellets using specific instrumentation. The partner organization would be able to use the outcomes of this project to calculate the expected changes in heat value and hence make adjustments on their logistics accordingly.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shahab Sokhansanj;Anthony Lau

Student:

Partner:

Pinnacle Renewable Energy Group;BioFuelNet

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Marketing Strategy Development Project

Mech solution Ltd is a fast-growing start-up led by engineers and developers with mostly technical background. As we grow, we are in need of business experts to help us get our innovative product to the market in the most efficient and effective manner. This project is critical to Mech Solutions Ltd.’s growth plans for “Cloud 3D Print”. The company has made significant investment in R&D over the last few years to develop this innovative product and a marketing strategy is key to the successful launch of the product nationally and internationally. The launching time is early 2021, it is perfectly matching the winter BSI timelines. We are going to run massive marketing campaign and let the candidate run a challenging project to let them stand-out through a practical campaign.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Cynthia Bishop

Student:

Partner:

Mech Solutions Limited

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Financial Analyst Intern

Currently Allos Bioscience is looking to due extensive market research on each of these fields to determine industry-specific technology requirements and which industries are currently facing a problem that the initial biosensors can help solve. With this information, Allos will be able to evaluate where to prioritize resources and expertise over the next year and develop prototypes for a specific industry. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Allos Bioscience was unable to access the rented research laboratory space at the University of Lethbridge to continue product development, losing one year of runway. Ensuring that technical development is focused on aspects industries desire, specifically those industries more likely to utilize the biosensors soon, will more effectively utilize the financial runway of Allos.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stacey Gaudette-Sharp

Student:

Partner:

Allos Bioscience Ltd.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Delphi Tecnologies 2 – Asper school of Business

It is forecast that by 2023, Canada will be facing a critical shortage of pilots. If the launch of Delphi technology’s MVP is successful, it is predicted that the project will significantly aid Canada in this critical shortage. The main challenge with this project is raising the desired amount of awareness for the brand, given the strict timelines of the launch. Delphi’s launch of the campaign must be executed carefully. If the campaign is executed successfully, Delphi will be able to address the predicted shortage of pilots in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Subbu Sivaramakrishnan;Kelly Mahoney

Student:

Partner:

Illumia Labs INC.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Aerospace; Artificial Intelligence; Education

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

iSpace – Bringing asset heavy sectors into the future – Industry 4.0

The pandemic has forced companies in asset heavy sectors to work on wafer thin margins. This is especially true for oil and gas sector which was plagued by a huge drop in oil prices between March-August 2020. This has directly impacted their spending on R&D and other overheads. Algo8 brings into play ace class engineering techniques, merged with deep learning to deploy advanced pre-built and customised Artificial Intelligence tools. Their mission is to transform and organise the
industrial value chain and processes using artificial intelligence. They have served over 30 customers and multiple Fortune 500 companies in sectors like Oil & Gas, Metals and FMCG. To optimise the utilisation of resources by humans, they have developed an enterprise AI product suite called iSpace. The objective of the project is to find the correct product market fit for the predictive maintenance and visual analytics modules in Canada. This will also include understanding the role of artificial intelligence in the post pandemic world, especially in asset heavy sectors. This project requires the understanding of both the market and the product, and I believe that Systems Design Engineering has given me the unique flexibility to explore topics outside traditional engineering disciplines.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Norah McRae

Student:

Partner:

ALGO8 AI

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Identifying Data Analytics Capability for Canadian Community Pharmacy Error Reporting

Safe community pharmacy practice involves highly complex decision making in high-risk, high reliability situations (Zhao & Olivera, 2006). Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, regulatory safety initiatives for Canadian community pharmacies have been rapidly evolving throughout the last decade and now feature requirements for expanding pharmacy offerings, implementing on-line error reporting, assessing quality improvement analytics, and incorporating comprehensive safety enhancement practices (Mossialos et al., 2015). However, though safety measures such as mandatory Medication Incident (MI) reporting continue to be implemented across Canada, there has been no research conducted on the data collected through these processes. In partnership with Pharmapod Ltd, our research will utilize in-kind data collected from Community Pharmacies. This is the first time these data sets will be used in a research product and will facilitate the sharing of enhanced safety practices and data analytics methods more broadly across Canada, which will increase the capacity of all pharmacies to meet these evolving and escalating demands for patient safety. The proposed research will fund a student contribute to a ‘first of its kind’ analysis as a means to enhance the knowledge translation of the actionable learnings from the Pharmapod data.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit A Aubert;James R Barker

Student:

Partner:

Pharmapod Ltd

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

GaN applications in high efficiency, high power density AC adapters

The ever-growing market of portable electronic devices (e.g., laptop computers, tablets, smartphones) has resulted in the penetration of AC adapters in households greater than ever. Accordingly, the portability of such devices entails substantial demands for light-weighted and compact devices. This necessitates the critical need for high power density and highly efficient adapters. In particular, consumers continuously expect to have a more compact adapter with higher efficiency. Besides, the current technology has reached mature stages. At this point, a new era of wide-bandgap semiconductors, specifically gallium nitride (GaN) based transistors, wins the competition to enhance the power density and efficiency exponentially. This is due to the superior GaN’s characteristics compared to former silicon transistors. Thus, this research aims to address the design and implementation of GaN transistors in high-power-density, high-efficiency converters for AC adaptor applications. This research will tremendously impact the industry as the GaN transistor applications are revolutionizing the world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Majid Pahlevani

Student:

Partner:

Infineon Technologies Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing and Construction; Energy and Utilities; Technology

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Efficient massive spatial data search with version control

In large scale earth observation systems, data is gathered in short duration surveys returning massive numbers of point data observations (often millions) covering significantly sized regions. To maintain
up-to-date products (e.g. navigation charts in harbours with continuous silt build-up), successive surveys are performed that often cover overlapping areas. Searches to find all the data in a specific region are expected to return only the most recent data in any given area, and must ignore any older, overlapping versions. In some cases, the data has errors that are difficult to correct; we would like to ignore or exclude this data during retrieval so that products derived from the data (e.g. contours on navigational charts) are accurate. This MITACS project investigates how to build a spatial data structure that efficiently supports this use case, termed “exclusion persistence range search”, over multiple versions of data covering the same area.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bradford Nickerson

Student:

Partner:

CARIS

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Design and Development of Next-Generation Electronic Pocket Notebook for Law Enforcement Agencies

Mobile Innovations Co-Notes Electronic Pocket Notebook (EPN) solution not only replaces pen and paper – it connects the officer and enables them to securely gather rich data securely using their mobile device. It allows users to include text, audio, video; statements, evidence, signatures and tickets as well as traditionally recorded notes. Everything is time-stamped, geo-tagged, uploaded, stored and shared.
With EPN’s bigger and better dataset for supervisors, other officers, crown and defense attorneys, new areas of research are required for: (1) user first UI/UX, (2) scalable Architecture, (3) Integration to a range of existing ERP systems, Blockchain for evidentiary use, and Machine learning for recognizing patterns and trends. This proposal addresses these topics and related areas of interest exclusively for mobile law enforcement in Canada and across the globe.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Akramul Azim;Qusay Mahmoud

Student:

Partner:

Mobile Innovations

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

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