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High-heat-flux microprocessor cooling using microgaps

Just as every computer needs a processor, every processor needs a cooling system. Without one, the significant heat generated by the processor will overheat the system. As time has advanced, this heating issue has only become more critical, thus necessitating the advent of more effective cooling solutions. Microgaps, which pass coolant through, as the name suggests, a microscale gap, are uniquely suited to meet the ever-increasing cooling demands of modern processors. Moreover, they are capable of doing so in a compact and reliable manner. The research project being proposed would investigate various alterations to the typical straight channel microgap geometry in an attempt to advance the maximum performance of this technology. The success of this pursuit would provide the partner organization with an improvement over their current processor cooling technology, and thus a competitive advantage in the high-performance computing market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laurent Mydlarski

Student:

Partner:

Hypertechnologie CIARA Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Production et caractérisation de nouveaux ingrédients enrichis en constituants actifs issus du jaune d’œuf et étude de leur digestibilité

Malgré la forte croissance des protéines émergentes et alternatives, la consommation de protéines conventionnelles telles que issues de l’œuf continue d’augmenter. Le jaune d’œuf reste très peu valorisé du fait de ces propriétés fonctionnelles limitées. Néanmoins, dernièrement, des travaux ont démontré que l’application des hautes pressions hydrostatiques (HPH – technologie mature et à faible impact environnemental) sur le jaune d’œuf permet de générer des fractions fonctionnalisées et enrichies en constituants actifs (protéines, phospholipides, vitamine, etc.) ayant de potentiels bénéfices pour la santé humaine. De plus, considérant l’impact de la température sur la structure, fonctionnalité et digestibilité des protéines, le fractionnement du jaune d’œuf suite à un traitement de HPH seul ou couplé à la température semble donc être une voie prometteuse pour la production de nouveaux ingrédients à haute valeur ajoutée. Le stagiaire étudiera l’impact des HPH et de la température sur la structure de ces constituants actifs, notamment les protéines et leur digestibilité et bioaccessibilité. Finalement, l’organisme partenaire aura ainsi la possibilité de développer un produit innovant issu du jaune d’œufs et enrichis en constituants actifs, lesquels représentent une voie d’avenir au Québec et au Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alain Doyen

Student:

Partner:

Egg Farmers of Canada

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Covid-19 et gestion d’une PME : Impacts sur la santé mentale des entrepreneurs

La pandémie COVID-19 offre une occasion unique d’observer l’impact d’un facteur exogène qui crée une grande incertitude dans la gestion des entreprises, d’une part, et génère des conditions pouvant avoir un impact sur la santé mentale (ex. confinement prolongé, perte d’un emploi, peur de la maladie, etc.), d’autre part. Comprendre comment les entrepreneurs vont affronter la crise et maintenir leur entreprise en activité tout en s’assurant de conserver une bonne santé psychologique dans le contexte constitue une occasion unique pour produire des connaissances originales qui auront une contribution majeure sur les plans social, économique et intellectuel. Nous cherchons ainsi, à comprendre les effets de la pandémie COVID-19 sur les activités des entreprises dirigées par des entrepreneurs et de tester l’impact de ces changements sur les dimensions de la santé psychologique.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Étienne St-Jean

Student:

Partner:

Regroupement des jeunes chambres de commerce du Québec

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Characterization of Free/Bound Water of Mature Fine Tailings Using Differential Scanning Calorimetry

Oil sand tailings could take ages to naturally dewater enough to be reclaimed. Finding ways to accelerate dewatering fluid tailings is crucial to improving overall reclamation planning and performance. The goal of the proposed project is to establish a new thermoanalytical technique for quantification and analysis of free and bound water contents in both individual MFT clays and flocs using Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). These techniques will be beneficial in the study of the effectiveness of different concentrations of flocculant, coagulant or a mixture of both on the tailings settling rates. A higher grade of effectiveness of these substances results in a larger amount of water that could be reincorporated immediately into the recovery process. This work will also contribute to the design of novel water-soluble polymer compositions to achieve rapid flocculation and dewatering, therefore to increase the efficiency of tailings separation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Seyed Hossein Hejazi

Student:

Partner:

Suncor Energy Inc (Calgary, AB)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining; Wholesale trade

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Truck Safety Survey

Fleetmetrica is a new business startup that offers an innovative and patent-pending technology called SafetyMonitor for monitoring and controlling fleet safety of large commercial vehicles. Fleetmetrica has achieved success with initial fleets, including improved driver habits using their product and are interested in formally quantifying the effectiveness of their technology. Fleetmetrica is also interested in testing their product in conjunction with a fuel efficiency training program called SmartDriver offered by Natural Resources Canada to assess combined benefits of these technologies. The project will include designing the setup of the experiment, counselling the partner on testing guidelines, and analyzing and reporting on the results. It will examine effectiveness of the SafetyMonitor and SmartDriver technologies on fleet safety and fuel consumption. Fleets participating in the testing will be given the opportunity to expand the use of these technologies to the remainder of their fleet following the analysis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Braun

Student:

Partner:

Fleetmetrica Inc

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Cold Garden Beverage Company – Marketing and Events Intern

Intern will be managing Cold Garden events, and working with Digital Asset team updating Cold Garden’s website and making social media posts. The benefits to Cold Garden will be having additional team member to provide support to the owner and other teams within the organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Halek

Student:

Partner:

Cold Garden Beverage Company

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Circular Solutions

An intern will play a key role in conducting research and synthesis for a feasibility study of Circular Solutions, a Food-X led R + D consortium that aims to reduce reliance on single-use packaging in the food industry. Built on a circular economy ethic, the project will develop a business case for returnable packaging across a variety of categories including reverse logistics, material design, software systems and consumer psychology to reduce packaging waste from the food industry.
An intern from the Sauder School of Business will be a vitally important aspect of our team.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

FoodX Technologies

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

South Asian Canadian Legacy Project

The South Asian Canadian Legacy Project, first of its kind in Canada, showcases the valuable contributions of the South Asian Canadians in British Columbia to our economy, history and culture, and responds to community needs for a robust historic Canadian record. Upon completion of this project, communities will have access to new educational supports, exhibits and online resources showcasing the history and contributions of South Asian Canadians in B.C. as part of the government’s commitment to building a welcoming and inclusive province free of racism and hate.
The proposed project presents opportunities for a four-dimensional partnership-The University of the Fraser Valley’s South Asian Studies Institute (SASI), the Abbotsford Community Foundation, local and regional communities and the participating intern. The SASI will be able to collaborate with its institutional and community stakeholders and other networks to promote its work on the South Asian Canadian Digital Archive which will assist in in digitizing new collections and build community awareness around the South Asian Canadian Legacy Project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Satwinder Bains

Student:

Partner:

Abbotsford Community Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of the Fraser Valley

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Optimisation d’un système électrique distribué de rotor de queue d’hélicoptère à l’aide d’un modèle simplifié

L’objectif de cette recherche est d’étudier et améliorer les performances d’un rotor de queue d’hélicoptère novateur. Le concept à l’étude fait usage de plusieurs hélices fixées sur des moteurs électriques pour générer une poussée. Ce concept se veut intéressant pour plusieurs raisons notamment la réduction des émissions sonores, la réduction de la consommation énergétique et la sécurité des usagers. Pour mener à bien le projet, des simulations de l’écoulement d’air à travers les hélices sont effectuées. Préalablement à l’optimisation du système, les résultats des simulations sont comparés à des résultats expérimentaux pour vérifier leur validité. En plus de s’inscrire dans l’initiative d’électrification des transports du gouvernement du Québec, ce projet bénéficie à Bell Textron Canada Limited en contribuant au développement d’une technologie novatrice pouvant représenter un avantage concurrentiel important.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Guy Dumas

Student:

Partner:

Bell Helicopter Textron Canada (Inactive)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Electronically Tunable and Fixed Filters for TVWS and 5G Wireless Systems

TV Whitespace (TVWS) designates the inactive or unused space between TV channels actively used in UHF and VHF spectrum :470 MHz to 700 MHz. The TVWS band performs best in the most rural service areas. This is due to the characteristics of TVWS, and how it’s shared with powerful analog TV stations Such TV transmitters can have up to hundreds of kilowatts of transmit power creating strong interference. Due to spectrum sharing with these powerful analog TV stations the reliability of wireless communications in TVWS is affected. Tunable receive channel filters are needed to provide enough rejection to deal with the interfering signals. The purpose of this project is to develop an electronically tunable band-pass filter that can be inserted between the antenna and the receiver of a TVWS system. The industrial sponsor of this project is Redline Communication. The project will provide training to two PhD graduate students.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raafat Mansour

Student:

Partner:

Redline Communications Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Timber-based DfMA Façade Components for Factory-in-a-Box(FIAB) based DM technologies

Digital Manufacturing is expensive due to the initial capital costs related to the digitally able machines and robots. This entails that the segment of the construction sector that is rapidly adopting these technologies to meet the productivity and ecological goals of the Construction Sector is largely restricted to large businesses – large Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) firms. More importantly, it entails that the Small Medium Enterprises (SME) are unable / unwilling to participate in the rapidly digitizing economy. This forms the driving motivation behind the proposed research: Timber-based DfMA Façade Components for Factory-in-a-Box (FIAB) based DM technologies adapted to meet the needs of the SME sector in construction.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alicia Nahmad Vazquez

Student:

Partner:

DIALOG

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Advanced Manufacturing; Manufacturing and Construction; Construction

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Predicting demand and inventory shortages for better inventory management in health care institutions

This project aims to predict demand and inventory shortages for better inventory management in health care institutions. This will initially allow for a reduction in the expenses generated by emergency orders placed during a stock shortage. Indeed, it will be possible for the establishment to order a larger quantity of the product from the supplier or to place an order with another supplier. In a second step, placing orders at the right time based on demand forecasting will reduce out-of-stock situations but also optimize the minimum and maximum quantities in inventory.
Better inventory management through greater proactivity indirectly provides peace of mind for the staff and therefore for the patient being cared for.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ioannis Mitliagkas

Student:

Partner:

Logibec

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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