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30508 Completed Projects

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Formulating and solving the multi-calendar resumable and non-resumable Naval Surface Ship Work Period Problem

This project deals with the development of a new mathematical model and a fast solution method to optimize the multi-calendar naval surface ship refit scheduling problem with resumable and non-resumable operations. The Naval Surface Ship Work Period Problem (NSWPP) is a highly complex resource-constrained project scheduling problem (RCPSP) with many work orders that are equivalent to small projects. Planning, scheduling, and executing NSWPPs are very challenging, and a large volume of planned and scheduled work is typically never achieved for a variety of reasons such as unexpected discovery of damages, high variability in work scope and duration, unavailability of human resources or equipment, logistical delays.
This project will extend the existing formulations and matheuristic solution methods to the more realistic case of activities following different calendars such as 8-hour shifts 7 days a week and 12-hour shifts 5 days a week. Activities that span the weekend can be allowed to resume on Mondays with or without penalty.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Claver Diallo;Alireza Ghasemi

Student:

Partner:

Thales Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

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

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Project HYBRHIB (Hybrid Rigid-Hulled Inflatable Boat)

Rigid Hulled Inflatable Boats (RHIB) are one of the most versatile Inshore boats. These are the vessel of choice for law enforcement, rescue, security, Naval Forces and multiple marine industry and science sectors. The cost of fuel always impacts budgets, operations, and the ability to adapt to an ever-changing economy. To reduce carbon and other air pollutant emissions and noise, our project will research the technical requirements for an electric Hybrid RHIB and measure reductions in noise from electric propulsion.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Wayne Groszko;Alfred White

Student:

Partner:

Sma’knis Maritime Safety & Security Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

Nova Scotia Community College

Program:

Accelerate

Developing the local economies of food in northern Indigenous communities

Communities in Canada’s North face a series of complex barriers to food accessibility and sovereignty. The Dene community of Kakisa in the Northwest Territories is partnering with Wilfrid Laurier University to research and implement solutions to food security and sovereignty. Kakisa leadership and residents plan to leverage their community economic development arm – Noda Enterprises Ltd – to create a food hub, where food can be grown, harvested processed, and distributed in ways that build economic resilience while promoting cultural resurgence, and respecting traditional customs of harvest and food sharing. Through the project, Noda will also strengthen its overall economic viability while supporting the health and wellbeing of the community.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Spring

Student:

Partner:

Noda

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Wilfrid Laurier University

Program:

Accelerate

Arts’ Civic Impact: Researchers in Residence

In conjunction with Mass Culture and Emily Carr University of Art and Design’s Aboriginal Gathering Place, The Arts’ Civic Impact: Researchers in Residence, BC cohort focuses on developing a qualitative arts impact framework through a decolonized, Indigenous research lens for Indigenous focused, BC arts organizations in concert with four other researchers from across the country.

The BC Cohort will infuse the research with Indigenous protocols, way and knowledge to bring deeper engagement and understanding the complex relationship that Indigenous organizations and communities in the civil art and culture sector and how indigenous artists, filmmakers, ECU art/design/media alumni that have utilized cultural production to create other forms of value (social, ethical, communal, identity vs economic or state-sponsored, extractionist).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Steven Lam;Nadia Beyzaei;Connie Watts

Student:

Partner:

Mass Culture Canada

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Emily Carr University of Art + Design

Program:

Accelerate

City of Markham Inclusive Community Engagement Research Project

The proposed research project will explore how cities can do a better job at engaging everyone in the community planning process. This research will result in a collection of best practices and recommendations to help the City of Markham better engage with individuals in the community that are traditionally excluded from the planning process. This may include racial and ethnic minorities, youth, older adults, low-income residents, and individuals with mental and physical disabilities, among others.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Katharine Rankin

Student:

Partner:

The Corporation of the City of Markham;Ontario Professional Planners Institute

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Des astres au territoire: recherche au service d’un film immersif sur les savoirs autochtones

Les Premiers Peuples partagent tous une relation viscérale, intime, organique et sacrée au Territoire. Avec le Territoire, le Ciel, les Astres, la Nature, les Animaux, les Oiseaux, ils ne font qu’un. Malgré qu’ils aient été dépossédés de leurs territoires et parqués dans des réserves, ce lien et cet attachement demeurent. En ces temps de recherche de sens, de crise climatique, d’éco-anxiété, l’humanité peut apprendre des savoirs et pratiques autochtones. Ce projet de recherche vise à explorer et documenter cette interconnexion au territoire chez les Autochtones afin d’appuyer la réalisation d’un film immersif qui plongera le spectateur au coeur du lien qui unit les Autochtones au territoire, aux astres et aux rêves.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mélanie Chaplier

Student:

Partner:

Terre Innue

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Exploring the Reconciliatory Potential of Marketing Processes in the Book Publishing Industry

There is a growing recognition in the publishing industry that standard supply chain marketing strategies have not been effective in promoting Indigenous materials and reaching Indigenous audiences. This problem has prompted us to explore how marketing processes can be amended or augmented to ensure that Indigenous organizations and educators are introduced to the resources that are being created to support their objectives of cultural revitalization. The question we are posing is (how) can marketing be a strategy that contributes to the national project of reconciliation? Using the Six Seasons Series as a case study, this research will be undertaken with Portage & Main Press, an industry partner on the Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw ?thiniwak Partnership Project, and contribute to their goal of making visible works by and for Indigenous artists, educators, and young peoples through the development of a marketing strategy that intentionally seeks to create and strengthen relationships and networks with Indigenous organisations and educators.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Linda DeRiviere;Mavis Reimer

Student:

Partner:

Portage & Main Press Ltd.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Winnipeg

Program:

Accelerate

Impacts d’une intervention visant l’augmentation du niveau d’activité physique sur la santé cardiométabolique de femmes autochtones

La prévalence de l’obésité est plus élevée chez les peuples autochtones qu’au sein de la population adulte canadienne non autochtone ce qui augmente leur risque de diabète de type 2 et de maladies cardiovasculaires. Ainsi, pour réduire les risques inhérents à l’obésité, il est pertinent de développer des programmes d’intervention qui favorisent l’adoption d’un mode de vie actif. L’objectif principal de ce projet est d’évaluer l’impact d’un programme d’intervention de 6 mois sur la pratique d’activité physique ainsi que sur les facteurs de risque du diabète de type 2 et des maladies cardiovasculaires chez des femmes autochtones qui présentent une obésité. Ce projet permettra à l’organisme partenaire de démontrer l’importance d’un mode de vie actif pour la santé de femmes autochtones à risque de développer un diabète de type 2 ou une maladie cardiovasculaire.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patricia Blackburn

Student:

Partner:

Puakuteu Comité de femmes de Mashteuiatsh

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Program:

Accelerate

Earth Diver: Digital Land-based Worlding

This project pilots “Earth Diver” an online digital ‘land-based’ creation, curation, and exhibition site in the virtual world platform Second Life. The project re-imagines the digital gallery space as a virtual expression of Indigenous pedagogies, land relations, and sovereignty. Guided by Ojibwe Anishinaabe philosophies our team of artists, philosophers and environmental scientists work together to create a series of immersive and interactive environments, habitats, stories and objects that express, enact, and reflect Indigenous thought, relationships to land, ancestral teachings, languages, cultural traditions, pasts, presents and futures. The project will culminate with a virtual exhibition of the work, and series of 5 community-based workshops. Programmed by Native Women in the Arts (NWIA), the project’s processes inform NWIA’s digital strategy, and advance their goals to support Indigenous women, gender non-conforming and transgender artists.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mary Bunch;Dolleen Tiisawii’asii Manning;Dolleen Tiisawii’asii Manning;Mary Bunch

Student:

Partner:

Native Women in the Arts

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Queen's University; York University

Program:

Accelerate

Développement de méthodes pour évaluer une prothèse d’épaule innovante.

Actuellement les prothèses d’épaules dites inversées sont préconisées dans le cas de coiffe des rotateurs endommagée. Ces prothèses assurent la stabilité de l’articulation, mais limitent la mobilité articulaire, notamment en élévation du bras. Pour pallier cette déficience, Statera Medical propose un design de prothèse innovant avec un degré de liberté additionnel. Ce concept de prothèse doit donc démontrer une amplitude articulaire plus grande, particulièrement en élévation du bras, face à la prothèse inversée. Cette démonstration devra aussi considérer l’aspect physique pour être reconnue comme une preuve valable dans l’industrie. L’objectif de ce projet vise donc de démontrer la capacité de la prothèse SM à améliorer les amplitudes de mouvement par rapport à la prothèse inversée et à évaluer l’impact de cette dernière sur les charges transmises à la scapula lors d’une abduction comparativement à la prothèse inversée.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicola Hagemeister

Student:

Partner:

Statera Medical Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Optimisation de l’utilisation du glycérol chez la vache laitière; quantification des impacts et des facteurs de variation par méta-analyse; publication et valorisation des résultats

En début de lactation et pour subvenir à ses besoins énergétiques (production du colostrum et du lait pour son veau), la vache laitière a toujours et naturellement eu recours au glycérol en mobilisant ses propres réserves de gras (stocké sous forme de triglycéride). Cependant, cette mobilisation excessive et répétée (après chaque naissance) répondant à l’amélioration constante des performances laitières compromet le cycle de vie des vaches laitières. Le glycérol alimentaire permettrait de répondre à ce défi en fournissant une source d’énergie supplémentaire qui en même temps peut améliorer le statut énergétique et prévenir l’incidence de maladies métaboliques observées au début de lactation chez la vache
La méta-analyse a été choisie comme outil pour résumer et quantifier les connaissances acquises sur le glycérol dans l’alimentation des vaches laitières. Les facteurs de modulation de réponse (ex. ; forme, niveaux d’apport et mode d’apport) seront ainsi identifiés, quantifiés permettant d’établir des recommandations d’utilisation utiles pour le nutritionniste et rentables pour l’éleveur laitier.

La première étape a permis de construire la base de données, de l’étudier, de concevoir des sous-bases permettant de répondre à certains objectifs particuliers et de faire de premiers modèles.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie-Pierre Létourneau Montminy

Student:

Partner:

Probiotech International Inc;Centre de recherche en sciences animales de Deschambault

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding Indigenous Graduate Students and Their Motivations to Pursue a Career in Research

The research project that will be conducted by the intern will enable the creation of a questionnaire that will later be deployed to the indigenous researcher (and graduate student) community. Most of the activities will involve gathering and analysis information from databases (i.e., Aboriginal People’s Survey) and interviews (and focus groups) to ensure that we are asking the right questions. The aim is to better understand the enablers and constraints facing indigenous researchers in Canada, in order to help design interventions that could boost the former and mitigate the latter. The intern will work closely with both the academic and partner mentors to complete the work.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andre Laplume;Michael Mihalicz

Student:

Partner:

Indigenous Works

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Indigenous Affairs; Education; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate