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3-D imaging of plants and vegetables

The agriculture industry is a labour intensive industry. Using a reliable method of plant monitoring can greatly help farmers to reduce their labours and consequently their production costs. Creating an accurate 3-D model of each plant or vegetable provides farmers with more information about the growth stage of the plant which helps them to make smarter decisions for irrigation and harvesting. There are various 3-D technologies available in the market. The aim of the current project is to explore a variety of 3-D image processing techniques to create the accurate 3-D model of selected plants and vegetables. The partner organization would benefit from this project by having a reliable 3-D model of plants for automated irrigation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kenneth McIsaac

Student:

Partner:

Vineland Research and Innovation Centre

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture and Food; Life Sciences (not health); Technology

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

La redéfinition des relations économiques par l’administration Trump et son impact sur le secteur de l’aluminium au Canada

Le secteur de l’aluminium se hisse au deuxième rang en terme d’exportation au Québec. Les règles du libre-échange apportent une plus value importante aux produits exportés, par exemple, lorsque ceux-ci peuvent bénéficier de droits de douane avantageux, voir nuls. À ce titre, les accords commerciaux régionaux de libre-échange permettent à l’industrie de l’aluminium de tirer son épingle du jeu. Or, le 22 janvier dernier 2017, le nouveau président des Etats-Unis a annoncé qu’il entendait rouvrir les négociations de l’ALENA avec le Canada et le Mexique. Le lendemain, Donald Trump annonçait son retrait du Partenariat transpacifique (PTP). Ces annonces déstabilisent le marché en réduisant la prévisibilité, une des raisons d’être des règles du commerce international. Le secteur de l’aluminium n’échappe pas à cette déstabilisation. En effet, soixante-quinze pourcent de l’aluminium produit au Canada est exporté vers les Etats-Unis. Dès lors, plusieurs questions se posent pour le secteur de l’aluminium.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Geneviève Dufour;David Pavot

Student:

Partner:

Association de l'aluminium du Canada

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation and Strategic Review of the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation’s Environmental Management Plan

The Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation (NSLC) is a crown corporation and the sole purveyor of alcoholic beverages in the province of Nova Scotia. As part of their commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) the NSLC is looking to update their sustainability targets of their environmental management plan (EMP). Now in the third year of a five-year strategic plan, the NSLC is looking to begin planning objectives for 2020-2025 and has contracted Revolve, a marketing company to re-evaluate the sustainability pillar of their EMP to strengthen the NSLC’s CSR mandate by including feasible environmental targets for NSLC to achieve as part of the corporation’s goal to be a leader in environmental stewardship and the green economy. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tony Walker

Student:

Partner:

Revolve Branding Inc;Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

The “CARE” (Clinical Analytics for Real-World Evidence) Platform

The healthcare industry is shifting from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) care to real world data (RWD) to understand how well an intervention performs in clinical practice. The best source of RWD is source data – that is, data that are collected at the interface of the patient and the health care system. The University of Waterloo in partnership with Roche Canada, are therefore proposing to develop the “CARE” (Clinical Analytics for Real-World Evidence) platform, a holistic cloud-based data analytic solution capable of consolidating clinical data obtained from disparate data systems . This project begins the initial steps to address relevant clinical research objectives by providing the tool and infrastructure required to process and analyze the enormous amount of scattered data within an institution and across multiple institutions. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Helen Chen;Plinio Pelegrini Morita

Student:

Partner:

Hoffmann-La Roche Limited

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services; Wholesale trade

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Centre for Operations Excellence Industry Projects 2017

The Centre for Operations Excellence Industry Projects consists of six sub-projects sponsored by five different industry partners. Each sub-project represents an important challenge for its sponsor. These sub-projects include assessing the effects of traffic interventions at airports (Boeing 1), simulating demand for flight simulator training (Boeing 2), predicting return to work outcomes using unstructured data (WSBC), using process analysis to experiment with capacity during the check-in process (YVR), measuring throughput at a ferry terminal using process analysis and simulation (BC Ferries), forecasting future capacity at a Canada Post facility (Canada Post)

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Faculty Supervisor:

Harish Krishnan

Student:

Partner:

Boeing Vancouver (Richmond, BC);WorkSafeBC (Vancouver, BC);Vancouver International Airport;British Columbia Ferry Services Inc;Canada Post

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Aerospace; Transportation (excluding aerospace); Finance and Insurance

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Benchmarking Indigenous/Non-Indigenous Employment, Business and Social Development Partnership Capacities in Major Resource Projects

Indigenous communities continue to be excluded from the mainstream economy due to a lack of successful partnerships with non-Indigenous businesses. In this project, we will conduct ‘partnership benchmarking’ with resource companies and Indigenous communities establishing the organizational competencies and capacities needed to accelerate economic development. This project will conduct research resulting in Indigenous communities and mainstream companies to accelerate and grow their partnerships together and thereby build incremental Indigenous employment, business and social development.
We will also develop a learning program and certification system which will catalyze Indigenous/non-Indigenous partnerships. This project has the potential to be transformational by growing opportunities for Indigenous communities to participate more fully in the Canadian economy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ken Coates

Student:

Partner:

Indigenous Works

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Aboriginal Affairs; Mining; Oil and Gas

University:

University of Manitoba; University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Applying Machine Learning Techniques to the Identification and Correction of Anomalies in Transaction Sale Data

SAP provides software infrastructure and tools to help companies, big and small, realize their business. SAP Labs Montreal, focuses on supporting the consumer products industry. It provides these industries with the software infrastructure that allows its customers to run end-to-end processes including the capturing and analysis of sales transactions. Sales transactions include for example purchases made by each and every customers of the retail industry. Sales transactions are generated by point of sale systems used by cashiers and sent to a central server for validation and consistency checks. Many issues can lead to inconsistencies in transaction data, for example, an incorrect transaction date, an incorrect product price, or an erroneous product code, etc. Currently, because of there are no semi-automated approach and because this process has not been studied in details, erroneous sales transactions data are verified manually, which is a time-consuming, labor-intensive, error-prone process. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yann-Gael Gueheneuc;Foutse Khomh;Foutse Khomh

Student:

Partner:

SAP Canada Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Segmentation automatique des artères coronaires dans les séquences angiographiques par apprentissage profond

La séparation visuelle automatique des artères coronaires dans les images médicales, appelée segmentation, est un prérequis pour le diagnostic et l’évaluation automatisée de pathologies cardio-vasculaires. C’est également un outil très important pour les cliniciens dans la planification des interventions. Nous proposons dans ce projet d’améliorer la segmentation automatique des artères coronaires en profitant des récentes avancées en intelligence artificielle. Une technique semi-automatique, ayant déjà fait ses preuves, permettra de sélectionner les données nécessaires au processus d’apprentissage de l’algorithme. Par la suite, avec ces données, l’intelligence artificielle pourra être entraînée à reconnaître automatiquement les artères coronaires avec une précision très élevée. Le stagiaire mettra en oeuvre plusieurs méthodes développées durant son doctorat. Pour l’organisme partenaire, la technique de segmentation actuellement intégrée dans son logiciel sera significativement améliorée par cette avancée

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Faculty Supervisor:

Farida Cheriet

Student:

Partner:

Corstem

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Genetic profiling of disease progression in myeloma

The intern will be studying the way genetics are changed during the progression of multiple myeloma and cancers in general. The changes in the genetic profile will help understand the disease. Throughout the project, genetic alterations of chromosome ends, known as telomeres, will be analyzed through complex mathematical and computational 3D architectural softwares to predict how certain cancer patients will do in the future or even if they will respond to certain medications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Cattini

Student:

Partner:

3D Signatures Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Design and construction guidance for composite geomembrane/clay barrier systems

At landfills and industrial waste containment facilities, synthetic polymer membranes (known as geomembranes) are placed along the bottom and sides of the containment cell to prevent leakage of contaminants to the environment. These geomembranes are subject to large loads from the overlying waste, resulting in bulging of the geomembrane due to the overlying particles. By adding a protection layer between the waste and the geomembrane, the deformations in the geomembrane can be limited and failure can be prevented. However, the degree of deformation may be highly dependent on the stiffness of the soil below the geomembrane. The goal of the research is to provide industry with a better understanding and design guidance to minimize the failure of geomembranes and prevent leakage from waste containment facilities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian Fleming

Student:

Partner:

1219146 Alberta Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Pilot scale process flow sheet development for sustainable recycling of LED lamps from the waste stream

Lamps and lighting products are the most commonly used electrical product around the globe. With the improvement in lamp technologies, from incandescent bulb to compact fluorescent lamp to LED bulbs, the products have grown complex and hence they require an improved recycling process. In general, lamps consist of various valuable metals such as iron, copper, aluminium, chromium, silver, gold and some hazardous metals such as lead, mercury and arsenic. It also contains plastic and glass. A proper recycling process should be able to recover the valuable metals, plastic and glass while it should be able to deal with the hazardous materials in an environmentally friendly manner. Using the previous study results, this project aims at developing a pilot process flowsheet for sustainable processing of used electric lamps.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maria Holuszko

Student:

Partner:

Contact Environmental Inc

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Preparation and testing of a sawdust-based phosphate filtration matrix

High concentrations of phosphate in the waterways cause algae blooms which are detrimental to water quality and fish habitat. The research project conducted by the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Upper Thames River Conservation authority, is attempting to alleviate this problem by chemically altering sawdust so that it can act as a phosphate filter thus removing excess amounts of phosphate. This filtration system is being tested with phosphate-rich wastewater produced from manure at a truck wash operation in the Upper Thames river basin. The expected benefit of this research is the availability of simple and inexpensive phosphate filtration units for use by the agriculture and food industries.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bulent Mutus;John Trant

Student:

Partner:

Upper Thames River Conservation Authority

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Public administration

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

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