Innovative Projects Realized

Transformation de l’?-spodumène en ?-spodumène par torche de plasma à différentes atmosphères.

L’industrie chimique a atteint un point tournant, depuis la fin du siècle dernier, avec le développement des piles de lithium, dans le but de diminuer la consommation des carburants fossiles. Le carbonate de lithium, soit Li2CO3, est un des nombreux exemple de composé chimique utilisé dans les cathodes de piles pour cette industrie. Le Li2CO3 est produit à partir d’un minerai appelé l’?-spodumène, soit ?- LiAlSi2O6, un aluminosilicate de lithium, traité en industrie afin d’en extraire le lithium. Pour procéder ainsi, l’?-LiAlSi2O6 est traité thermiquement à une température de 950 °C dans un four rotatif, afin de lui fournir assez d’énergie, dans le but de transformer cette molécule dans une nouvelle configuration appelée ?-spodumène (?- LiAlSi2O6). Un tel procédé exige énormément d’énergie et cette elle se trouve sous forme de carburants fossiles, tels que le propane, le méthane, et même le charbon.

AVA Industries Ltd. (part 2)

a) Sales Executive – the sales executive will help design and execute a marketing strategy to clinics who are currently not on the AVA platform. This will involve developing small experiments to allow the team to asses what marketing strategies develop the most traction. By the end of the experience the intern will have significant experience in launching a lean marketing campaign and AVA will have further data on how best to reach our prospective customers.

AVA Industries Ltd. – Client Success Representative

b) Clinic Success Representative – this role will be responsible for working with existing customers to ensure they’re getting the most out of the AVA platform. This will include monthly check ins with existing clinics as well as ad-hoc support calls to help troubleshoot concerns. Part of this role will be helping to develop a sustainable customer support and communications strategy to help integrate the development team with the support/feature feedback cycle. By the end of the experience the intern will have significant experience in the lean feedback cycle for software development and AVA will have a further sustainable process in place to allow us to ensure our customers are ecstatic about AVA Platform.

AVA Industries Ltd.

a) Sales Executive – the sales executive will help design and execute a marketing strategy to clinics who are currently not on the AVA platform. This will involve developing small experiments to allow the team to asses what marketing strategies develop the most traction. By the end of the experience the intern will have significant experience in launching a lean marketing campaign and AVA will have further data on how best to reach our prospective customers.

Business Development and Financial Planning Internship

Business Development and Financial Planning Internship

Job Description Overview
As a start-up amidst rail suppliers that have been established for many decades, we are looking for an innovative and concrete strategy for growth, financial planning, pricing, and business development to sustain and grow our operations.
The selected candidate will be involved with day-to-day tasks for evaluation of financial decisions and developing long-term business strategy. The candidate will have a unique and very hands-on opportunity to be involved in company financials and business opportunities. The candidate shall be entrepreneurial, analytical, and forward-thinking. The candidate shall be given the opportunity to attend conferences, manage the work of third-party consultants, and network within the transportation and start-up community of Montreal.

Required Qualifications
• MUST be currently enrolled in an MBA program
• Strong in accounting, finance, and / or business analytics
• Familiarity with MS Office products, accounting or ERP systems, and data analytics
• 1-3 years of work experience in a business environment
• Demonstrated communication and leadership ability
• Professional abilities in at least English and preferably French as well
• Experience in transportation industries is an asset

LITE (Local Investment Toward Employment)

I will be working for LITE and helping organizing hamper boxes for their social enterprise. I will be getting in contact with local NPO’s and communicating with them throughout the spring/summer to come up with a product/craft they can contribute to the LITE Hamper. I will act as a liaison between LITE and the various organizations. LITE will create partnerships with different non profits. Individuals who contribute will gain skills and meaningful employment through LITE

Ocean Allies 9

The Ocean Allies project has a total value of more than $420,000 where the Ocean Supercluster will provide $250,000 with the balance of funding coming from project partners. Led by Pisces Research Project Management Inc together with partners Upswing Solutions, Huntsman Marine Science Centre, Assembly of First Nations, BioNB, Centre for Ocean Ventures and Entrepreneurship (COVE), Irving Shipbuilding, Nova Scotia Business Inc, Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia, Ocean Frontier Institute, OceansAdvance, PanGeo Subsea, Synapse, Mitacs,and Ulnooweg, this project is designed to access, engage, and support a diverse ocean economy through targeted strategic activities.

Marketing Internship at OPA Technologies

An internship at this organization will give me valuable work experience and allow me to network with professionals in the field. I would offer the partner organization input on their social media presence and their marketing strategies and help them further develop their positioning strategies.

Washable wearables for affordable and aesthetic augmentation of visuo-tactile sensory-perception enhancement in mixed reality

The inclusion of touch and physical sensations from within Virtual Reality and other Mixed Reality experiences provides exciting opportunities from both an entertainment and academic perspective. Enhancing immersive integration within these environments is useful, beneficial and thus highly desired- whether we are looking to develop skills for use in challenging technical and medical or dangerous environments; physical-therapy work needing sensitive hand interaction; enhancing creative tools that use gestures and full-body movement; transferring realistic and complex sensations in virtual games or educational settings; understanding our sensory-perception systems under unique circumstances; or even social implications of regaining touch within available digital technologies. This internship addresses the open-problem of touch-based sensations from a perspective that values technical development methodologies focused on solutions that are: low-cost; open-source; accessible; washable; lightweight; and aesthetic. Wearable on the wrist and fingertips- this flexible prototype has the potential to provide greater access to viable developments in increased virtual sensory-perception.

Connected Canadians – Program Coordinator

Connected Canadians is a non-profit organization that helps older adults with free technology support and training. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the demand for their services significantly, as our ways of connecting, interacting, and living have shifted to online. Connected Canadians has been growing its volunteer mentor team significantly to help meet the rising needs of its clients. The proposed research project is to monitor and document the progress of technology mentors from an employability perspective and improve training processes. Many of the volunteers at Connected Canadians are newcomers to Canada and benefit from the conversational practice and cultural awareness when interacting and assisting the clients with their technology needs. The project would involve supporting the technology mentors and utilizing research tools such as qualitative interviews, skills inventory surveys and exit surveys, to gather information and translate them into key learnings and findings. The goal of this research project is to support the professional and cultural growth of the technology mentors and improve Connected Canadians’ future volunteer onboarding processes and volunteer outcomes.

The Pharmacokinetics Evaluation of HDAC6-selective Inhibitors for Use in Therapeutic Strategies

Histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) is a protein known to be involved in a wide array of cancers. Although there are currently 4 approved HDAC inhibitors to date, these drugs lack the selectivity to only target HDAC6, given its high structural similarities with 10 other HDAC proteins, resulting in severe side-effects in patients such as nausea, diarrhea, and cardiac toxicities. Moreover, these approved drugs are also easily eliminated by the body, requiring the patients to take high doses frequently, further worsening the toxicity profile. To mitigate these drawbacks, we have developed >500 molecules with exceptional potency, HDAC6-selectivity, and stability. With promising efficacy in cancer cell models, the next aim of our research is to evaluate the stability of these compounds. We hope to use the pharmacokinetics profiles obtained to guide the development of stable, effective and safe molecules as the next generation of disease-modifying treatment for T-cells prolymphocytic leukaemia.

Application of Viscoelastic Coupling Dampers(VCDs) for Enhanced Dynamic Performance of a60-Storey High-Rise in Downtown Toronto

The biggest challenge faced by structural engineers in the design of high-rise structures is to control the dynamic responses of these structures due to wind and earthquake vibrations. While the traditional techniques of stiffening and adding vibration absorbers can mitigate the vibrational response to a degree, they also increase the construction cost and result in a loss of leasable space in the building structure. The goal of the proposed project is to perform preliminary and detailed design of a 60-storey high-rise structure in downtown Toronto using the Viscoelastic Coupling Damper (VCD) from Kinetica Dynamics Inc, which is a spinoff company from the University of Toronto. The VCD is a novel damping system that controls high-rise wind and earthquake vibrations by adding distributed viscous damping to the building without occupying any leasable floor space. The project is divided into three stages, all focusing on a 60-storey high-rise building in downtown Toronto.