Innovative Projects Realized

The Impact Society – Operations Apprentice

The project to be undertaken by the intern is to work with the executive team in the development and execution of strategies that promote the sustainability and financial health of the organization, and enhance its ability to engage clients. The focus will be on documenting vital business functions in order to create a system of processes to respond efficiently to any scenario. The benefit to the Impact Society is to have the roles, resources, and processes established to position Impact to scale the delivery of our mental health programs.

Environmental, Social, and Economic Impact Study

The goal of the project is to gain insight into AFTeR member organizations’ impact on the textile reuse industry in Atlantic Canada, the future of the industry, and the significance of the industry from the standpoint of social enterprise. By expanding the scope to include the Atlantic Canadian provinces, the project will aim to decipher industry best practices in each region and to find ways for AFTeR to forge stronger connections. The project aims to better understand how the textile reuse industry can be developed into a circular economy, and to recommend ways in which this growth can be leveraged into meeting the goals of AFTeR members.

Business Intern – DECAP

This project intends to prepare DECAP’s minimum viable product (MVP) and ancillary designs for market-readiness, including building out a manufacturing and logistics pipeline, beginning the process of regulatory approval, and assist DECAP team members in completing a beta-test of our products in-the-field, in a COVID-19-safe manner. The expected project benefits are understanding the market, approaching potential customers, estimating the product demand, proposing its manufacturing and logistics planning, and researching the health authorities requirements to meet Canada’s and US’s product regulatory processes.

Applications of Fiber Bragg Gating (FBG) Sensing Technologies on Power Utility Systems

The primary objective of the lab demo system is to interface the FBGs sensors for monitoring of electrical parameters of a demo power grid network equipment prototyped in the lab and the second objective is to interface, multiple electrical parameters of a demo power system grid network over a single module of FBG sensor and send it remotely for the performance monitoring and control purpose.

NL Eats Supply Chain Management Co-Op

1. Establishing the foundation for a steady supply of sponsorship to keep our fundraising efforts sustained and developing a relationship with our current and old sponsors for long term mutually beneficial partnerships and collaborations.
2. Consulting other departments (Innovation and Administration) as a Supply Chain Manager and implementing standards that will automate the processes.
3. Work closely with Innovation Team to create sustainable supply chain system for the Food Management Application to implement standardized processes and guidelines to help manage the inventory system of the application and create a route map for how the donations and inventory compliment each other.

Development and Validation of a Needle Decompression Simulator to Support the Acquisition and Maintenance of Advanced Care Paramedics Skills

Paramedics perform a range of services in pre-hospital patient care, often being the first responders for the most critically ill patients. As such, it is crucial for them to learn and retain life-saving clinical procedures throughout their career. Simulation has been designed to provide a way to paramedic training. This project focuses on the development of a 3D printed simulator for training and re-training of the needle decompression procedure, a life saving yet rarely performed procedure. Once developed, we will test whether the 3D printed simulator leads to improved performance in paramedics relative to standard training. We anticipate that this project will result in a novel, effective and low-cost training solution for paramedics.

VOG Calgary App Developers Inc. – Sales & Marketing Coordinator

1) Marketing and Sales Coordinator
This position will support the sales and marketing strategy of the organization as well as as provide support to our clients to market their products. This provides a huge value add to existing clients to be able to support them in content creation, graphic design and strategy. It will also help support new sales generation and growth of the company.

2) Project Coordinator
This position will coordinate one or two software development projects but also support a wide variety of projects by carrying out custom research and creating business cases around the ideas of perspective clients. This will help to convert leads into customers and create a value add for our clients.

VOG Calgary App Developer Inc. – Project Coordinator

1) Marketing and Sales Coordinator
This position will support the sales and marketing strategy of the organization as well as as provide support to our clients to market their products. This provides a huge value add to existing clients to be able to support them in content creation, graphic design and strategy. It will also help support new sales generation and growth of the company.

2) Project Coordinator
This position will coordinate one or two software development projects but also support a wide variety of projects by carrying out custom research and creating business cases around the ideas of perspective clients. This will help to convert leads into customers and create a value add for our clients.

Characterization of insoluble minerals in the conventional potash mines of Saskatchewan: Implications for the origin and paragenesis of the Prairie Evaporite Formation

Potash, a group of potassium bearing minerals, is an essential crop nutrient. The use of potash-based fertilizers increases crop yields while making plants more resistant to extreme climate and disease. It is essential to meeting the food needs of the growing human population. Canada-based Nutrien Ltd. extracts potash from underground mines across Saskatchewan and is the largest producer in the world. The potash deposits Nutrien mines formed in a vast salty sea that stretched across western Canada 385 million years ago. Nowhere do analogous potash deposits form on the planet today. Understanding their origin requires detailed description of the potash rocks, which are found deep beneath the Canadian prairies. This project will conduct high-resolution sampling within Nutrien’s mines followed by high-precision analytical work to further characterize and understand their origin. The results will ensure Nutrien is able to continue efficiently mining Saskatchewan’s potash, which is among the highest quality on the planet.

The use of Social Media to promote grassroots advocacy for the Living Wage

This project will engage a graduate student in communications to conduct research on usage patterns directed at social advocacy initiatives with the goal of conceptualizing how social media can be utilized to raise public knowledge and spur discourse about the living wage issue.

GlenxRose – Linking the Clinic and Industry to Improve Patients’ Adherence to Therapeutic Interventions Using eXtended Reality

The present proposal is focused in extended reality technologies applied for the rehabilitation of brain injuries and voice-related disorders. The prevalence of these two conditions are high in the Canadian population. The adherence in the rehabilitation of these medical conditions are low. The University of Alberta (CogPro lab) in collaboration with the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital has created an extended reality system called the ‘GlenxRose program’ for improving patient adherence to therapy for brain injuries and voice-related disorders. The general objective of this research design and implement clinical research in order to foster the adoption of a new rehabilitation technology, i.e. ‘GlenxRose program’ in the standard care services at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital.

Apprentissage continu par modulation de paramètres d’incertitudes

L’intelligence artificielle et l’apprentissage profond font leur entrée dans notre vie. Que ce soit par le biais de moteurs de suggestion de film, d’assistant vocale ou d’aide à la conduite automobile, il est désormais pris pour acquis que cette technologie est là pour rester. Mais les modèles d’intelligence artificielle que nous connaissons aujourd’hui souffrent tous du même défaut. Ils peuvent être entraînés pour effectuer une tâche donnée, mais ils cessent d’apprendre dès que cet entraînement est terminé. Or, nous évoluons dans un environnement changeant et dynamique. Une voiture autonome entraînée pour reconnaître certains panneaux de signalisation ne saura pas quoi faire si un nouveau panneau fait soudainement partie du paysage. Le but de ce projet est de doter les modèles d’intelligence artificielle d’une composante permettant de moduler leur fonctionnement après leur période d’entraînement initiale. Les modèles ainsi modulés auraient donc une plus grande durée de vie et seraient plus performants.