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Data driven intelligent programming tutor

Korbit Technologies Inc. is developing an e-learning platform to teach artificial intelligence (AI), data science and coding skills. The student interacts with a virtual, personalized AI tutor, through a web-based chat interface. The main objective of this research project is to investigate how a personalized, data-driven learning experience based on the student’s profile, needs, and performance, can improve the comprehension of programming languages and learn practical skills. The project will propose, design and develop concrete tools to enhance the learning experience for students on the Korbit e-learning platform. First, by improving the message generation system used by the AI tutor to assist the student in the completion of the coding exercise (e.g. hints, prompts, explanation of errors, explanation of missing or incorrect code etc.). Second, by creating a recommendation system, to propose the most appropriate exercise (including exercise difficulty, type and feedback) for a specific student using machine learning techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Esma Aimeur

Student:

Partner:

Korbit Technologies

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Work improvement for steel fabrication shop by using dynamic value stream mapping

The steel industry in Canada encounters some challenges to have sustainable and efficient steel production. One of these challenges is identifying bottlenecks accurately in steel fabrication workstations. The goal of the proposed research project is to improve work productivity for the partner company (Ocean Steel). The research work included conducting a literature review to evaluate what are the current applied solutions to resolve the same issue encountered with Ocean Steel. However, most of the solutions found were not applicable to Ocean Steel case (some improvement is required). Consequently, the work will include activities such as data collection automation, time studies, simulation modelling, and lean-based optimization. The partner company will benefit from this project by having an accurate information about their productivity and having a better opportunity of production and work improvement. Eventually, the partner company will be able to use the final deliverables from the research as a decision support syste

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zhen Lei;Ala Suliman

Student:

Partner:

Ocean Steel & Construction Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Using a smart audio device, Tochie in a long term care home

This project will engage seniors, family members, and care staff, a total of 53 participants in a long-term care home to adopt a new technolopgydevice, Tochie for familyconnection. Participants will use the assistive audio speakers named Tochie over one month. Ongoing support and assistance will be provided to all participants during the one month to maximize the device’s potential benefit. After one month, all participants will be interviewed in focus groups to explore their experience and feedback on using the smart audio device. This project intends to explore user experiences of technology adoption. The findings of this project will provide helpful insight into specific needs and preferences of LTC residents and their families. Technology adoption barriers and challenges will be identified. Tochtech will use research reults to improve their product design on Tochie.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lillian Hung

Student:

Partner:

Tochtech Technologies Ltd.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Performance Evaluation of Solvent Co-Injection Scenarios in Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD)-Based Bitumen Recovery

Through the outlined objectives and methodologies, this project aims at evaluating the performance of the solvent assisted bitumen recovery techniques under various operation scenarios and in presence of reservoir heterogeneities. The objectives are fulfilled through advance numerical reservoir simulation studies, detailed review of the present technologies, and analyzing the laboratory/field production results. Ms. Fazlyeva will be accomplishing the outlined tasks under direct supervisions of senior reservoir engineering and technology developers. By building a solid and comprehensive understanding of the physics and fundamentals of solvent aided bitumen recovery processes, COP can optimize its future solvent applications to ensure maximized bitumen recovery and substantial reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sudarshan (Raj) Mehta

Student:

Partner:

ConocoPhillips Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Oil and Gas; Sustainability & the Environment; Energy and Utilities

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Generation of small molecule from pharmaceuticals waste via thermochemical conversation

In the shadow of a worldwide pandemic, the importance and need for pharmaceutical research is abundantly clear. In Canada alone, 25 billion units of pharmaceuticals are dispensed every year, and of that 30% of the total product ends up as waste, about 1.1 million kilograms per year. How these pharmaceuticals are wasted has impacts both economically and environmentally. Thermochemical conversion is a method to thermally decompose the waste pharmaceuticals in order to convert them into high value added materials. This process leads to obtain a carbon based material called char and a rich oil. Char is high surface material which can be utilize in lots of application such as water/air treatment etc. On the other hand, the generated oil has shown a great potential for recovering the pharmaceutical precursors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephanie MacQuarrie

Student:

Partner:

UnBound Chemicals Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Cape Breton University

Program:

Accelerate

Mental Wellness Application for Current and Post COVID 19 Self Help Training and Assessment Continued

People who experience mental wellness challenges or mental illness often struggle to obtain or maintain a position in the workplace. Furthermore, lack of employment means individuals lose out on a myriad of mental, emotional, and physiological benefits that are generated through work. This is extremely relevant given the current COVID crisis where personal distancing and isolation are required for the greater societal good. In response to this problem, the Digital Integration Centre of Excellence (DICE) at Saskatchewan Polytechnic (Sask Polytech), Refresh Enterprises, Inc. (Refresh), and the Canadian Mental Health Association, Saskatchewan Division (CMHA-SK) are collaborating to finalize the development of the Mental Wellness App (RWA), a multifaceted lifestyle program that will promote healthy mentality and facilitate relational support through peers and professionals. RWA will leverage artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and automatic personality recognition (APR) technology in order to automatically respond to users’ mental and emotional states, offering helpful suggestions and resources. With the individual user’s permission, this information could be shared with involved health care workers, who will also be able to use the app to inform their services.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Terry Peckham;Susan Blum

Student:

Partner:

Refresh Enterprises Inc.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Information and Communications Technology

University:

Saskatchewan Polytechnic

Program:

Accelerate

Addressing the best strategies for Yukon non-profit organizations to mitigate the impact of COVID-19, and move forward toward recovery, resilience, and innovation.

Covid-19 has already changed how we see the world, the ways in which we think, and how we conduct our lives. The consequences of this pandemic are personal, emotional, psychological, societal, economic, and cultural; and it will leave scars. For nonprofit organizations, however, this is mostly about employee’s mental health, and significant loss of earned revenues, tightening funding environment and recruiting volunteers, growing competition for donors and grants, rising demand for services and increasing call for accountability. Against this background, I aim to help VBI to realize and formulate the best strategies and mechanism to not only mitigate the impact of Covid-19, but also to build a substantial resilient and innovative organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joel Bothello

Student:

Partner:

YUKON VOLUNTEER BUREAU

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Making the Business Case for Using Development Cost Charges for Climate Mitigation

Budgetary constraints are one of the biggest obstacles to local government action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. A climate change mitigation development cost charge (DCC) could greatly assist local governments in overcoming this barrier. Planning and legal scholars have outlined the broad contours of such a fee and discussed the policy and technical issues involved in implementation. However, academic work has fallen short of working through these issues practically, even though DCC programs require very careful analysis to be legally defensible and practically feasible. This research project addresses this gap in research by fully developing the concept of a climate mitigation DCC; creating a framework and methodology to put the concept in practice; and demonstrating its practical application by using the City Centre area in Surrey, British Columbia as a case study. The goal of this project is to inspire planners to creatively use DCCs for environmental protection.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tim McDaniels

Student:

Partner:

City of Surrey;BC Hydro (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Community-based planning for a Just Inner-City Winnipeg COVID Recovery

Winnipeg’s inner city is home to low-income Indigenous, Black and people of colour communities that have long struggled with homelessness, poverty and the ongoing impacts of colonialism (CCPA-MB and CCEDNet, 2015; Silver, 2016). These challenges are now compounded by high COVID-19 rates and COVID-19-related barriers to accessing basic needs (CCPA-MB, 2020). Community-based organizations in the inner city have identified the inclusion of the needs and priorities of inner-city residents and communities as central to the social and economic recovery from the pandemic. Given the long-standing challenges facing low-income residents in the inner city, and the increased inequalities resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, this research will use precedent studies and document analysis to generate a framework and process for a just recovery from the pandemic in Winnipeg’s inner city.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sarah Cooper

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Life Sciences (not health); Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Expert explanations via video: The key to unlocking scientific journal articles for STEM students?

Scientific research papers are complex, dense, and filled with jargon, so traditionally the valuable knowledge they contain has been accessible to only a handful of experts. SAGE publishing, one of the world’s largest academic publishers, and Dr. Adam Frost, a cognitive neuroscientist, independently created video formats that help scientists directly communicate their discoveries and practices in approachable ways so that that knowledge can reach a much wider audience. Both SAGE and Dr. Frost designed these videos to help train new scientists to understand complex scientific documents, which is a very difficult task that has stood as a barrier to careers in the sciences for many promising students. These video explanations, delivered by the same scientists who conducted the original research, should substantially improve learning outcomes for the students who view them, but since this is a new solution to a longstanding problem, it needs to be validated. With this project, we will deploy these videos in a large psychology course at the University of Toronto and collect data throughout to measure how they impact student learning, which will contribute to both the theory and practice of science education.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steve Joordens

Student:

Partner:

SAGE Publishing

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Validation of CIDS System to detect and prevent corrosion under insulation

Using simplified language understandable to a layperson; provide a general, one-paragraph description of the proposed research project to be undertaken by the intern(s) as well as the expected benefit to the partner organization. (100 – 150 words)
A series of laboratory tests and field trials will be carried out to validate the capability and performance of CIDS (a novel new paint-based digital intelligent skin) to: remotely self-monitor coating integrity, to detect and locate coating barrier damage or failure; provide ongoing impressed current cathodic protection (ICCP) of protected surfaces in the event of coating barrier loss; and to protect against hydrogen damage associated with conventional ICCP technologies. The project will advance CIDS Technology Readiness Level from TRL 4-5 to TRL 7.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Caines;George Jarjoura;Faisal Khan

Student:

Partner:

CURRACH CONSULTING LIMITED

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University; Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Functioning and Needs of Subnational Legislatures in Ukraine

The overall goal of this research project is to analyse and understand the gaps and needs of the functioning of the subnational legislatures in Ukraine concerning their mandate, composition, and the performance of their legislative, oversight and representation roles, including their engagement with the civil organizations and the local communities. Based on the analysis, recommendations will be provided on the key needs and types of support that subnational legislatures need in order to be able to play their meaningful part in the implementation of full-scale decentralization reforms in Ukraine in line with European norms. This collaborative research between the Parliamentary Centre and Carleton University offers a unique approach, bringing together the most recent academic research findings and practical knowledge of one of Canada’s leading CSOs in promoting inclusive democratic development. This type of work will inform the PC’ work in Ukraine, it will allow us better design our programming work in Ukraine, make more informed decisions, and better respond to the local needs, thus contributing to the increased wellbeing of citizens of Ukraine.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joan DeBardeleben;Milana Nikolko

Student:

Partner:

Parliamentary Centre

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

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