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Optimization of parameters in Blade Element model for Helicopter Training Simulators

Helicopter training simulators are an important part of improving the safety of both civil and military helicopter operations. The most important part of helicopter training simulators is the model of the helicopter dynamics since it drives all the other simulator subsystems. This project aims to provide CAE with a more automated and accurate method for determining the parameters within their blade element helicopter model such that it matches the real helicopter behaviour.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter Grant

Student:

Partner:

CAE;University of Toronto

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace; Transportation (excluding aerospace); Other

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Mobile Health Application Design and Implementation

This research project involves the design and implementation of an anxiety management application for transmission on the iPhone. The application employs cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) methodology and is designed for the 16 to 25 year old demographic. Normally used in face to face therapeutic interactions, the use of a mobile application is unique in that it supplies the patient with just in time access to the therapeutic techniques necessary to manage their anxiety.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bruce Gooch

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Radiation Modulated Nanomedicine Delivery

The current survival times for breast cancer patients with brain metastasis range from 2 to 16 months suggesting a strong need for improvements in their therapeutic care. Although radiation therapy is the standard of care for these patients, combination with chemotherapy has demonstrated promising therapeutic benefits. The hypothesis of this research program is based on the belief that optimizing combination of radiation and chemotherapy has the potential to significantly improve the treatment outcome for patients with breast cancers that have metastasized to the brain. Merrimack Pharmaceutical Inc. has developed a nanoparticle based chemotherapy approach which has shown improved therapeutic activity compared to conventional chemotherapy. In addition, it has shown highly promising results both primary and metastatic lesions in a Phase I clinical trial in patients with metastatic breast cancer. The research described in this proposal is aimed at using non-invasive imaging techniques to better understand the interplay of radiotherapy and nanomedicine-based chemotherapy in order to determine the optimal treatment regimen for brain metastases.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jinzi Zheng

Student:

Partner:

Merrimack Pharmaceuticals;University Health Network (UHN)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Development of the Tat-GluN2BCTM peptide as a novel therapy for acute myocardial infarction

Acute myocardial infarction (commonly known as a heart attack) is a major disease of the cardiovascular system and a leading cause of death and hospitalization in North America. It results in 7.4 million deaths globally per annum. Current clinical medications only prevent the disease but cannot cure it after a heart attack occurs. Scientific evidence suggests that DAPK1 is a vital protein that can cause heart damage during a heart attack, and I have created a compound that is able to reduce the level DAPK1 in the heart so as to prevent heart damage. In this project, I propose to test the efficacy of this compound in various models of heart attack, which may lead to a novel therapy for this devastating disease. This proposed project will not only give me a comprehensive training in scientific research, but also help the partner organization, a Canadian biotechnology company, rapidly grow its product pipeline.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jian Ye

Student:

Partner:

Primary Peptides Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Mesure en temps réel de l’apprentissage dans les jeux vidéo

La première expérience de jeu (les premières 60 à 90 minutes) est déterminante, car c’est durant cette période que le joueur décide s’il aime le jeu, s’il désire continuer à jouer, et s’il peut le maîtriser. Relativement à l’apprentissage du jeu, le jeu propose un tutoriel visant à habileté le joueur au regard des principales fonctions à maîtriser. Ce tutoriel est intégré au scénario, avec le souhait de ne pas nuire à l’expérience de divertissement. Or, il est possible que ces tutoriels ou d’autres éléments du jeu nuisent au divertissement et/ou ne permettent pas de maitriser les fonctions pour jouer, ce qui peut conduire au rejet du jeu, alors que son achat représente souvent une somme substantielle. Le projet vise à répondre à la question suivante : quel est l’impact des tutoriels sur l’affectivité et la cognition du joueur dans sa première expérience de jeu? L’équipement synchronisé à NeuroLab fournira une trace fine dans le temps de l’affect et du traitement cognitif au cours de la tâche d’apprentissage. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Julien Mercier

Student:

Partner:

Ubisoft Toronto

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Education; Technology

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Plant infestation diagnosis using a high-resolution sensory system for detection of biogenic signals

Pests and diseases are major problem that growers face with plants. Ecoation Innovative Solutions Inc. (EIS) is proposing a solution to this problem that turns to plants as reliable source of information about their own health and well-being. EIS will provide data from different sensory measurements for clean and infested plants. We intend to use recent advances in machine learning to build a model that automatically diagnose the plants from these measurements. The intern will work on developing the model and adapting it for different crops and cultivating environments. Moreover, he will focus on advancing research into transfer learning by focusing on more effective training strategies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Schmidt

Student:

Partner:

Ecoation Innovative Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Haptic Trim Actuator Test Bench Qualification for Safety of Flight

Exonetik and Bell Helicopter are developing a new technology providing force feedback to helicopter pilots, improving both safety and quality of flight. The technology will soon be tested in flight but preliminary qualification tests in laboratory must first be performed. In collaboration with Exonetik engineers, the intern will participate in the planning and execution of these qualification test as well as interpreting results and proposing design modifications as needed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Charron

Student:

Partner:

Exonetik Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Quini Data – Changing the wine industry with sensory and behavior wine intelligence solutions

The objective of this project is to develop an analytics platform that will give us an understanding of sensory data in predicting trends and relationships between sales and wine sensory data. The wine sensory data we will use in this project is entered by reviewers and consumers rating various attributes such as Aroma, Appearance and Flavor during wine tasting. The Wine Sales data is gathered by the BC liquor board. We would integrate wine sensory data with sales data from the industry to study the relationship between sensory and sales data and the importance of sensory data in sales outcomes. We would use various techniques on the sensory dataset to establish the importance of each sensory attribute and the overall significance of the datasets individually and when integrated. The analysis will also predict the sales trends of new products based on their sensory analysis and state how various wine reviewers differ in their analysis of similar products. This will lead to new revelations on how research analysis can be conducted on product and market trends, and change the innovation process for new products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fred Popowich;Apala Guha

Student:

Partner:

Quini

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Technology; Commercial Services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Towards personalized surgical spine reconstruction post tumour resection

We aim to develop tools to assess patient outcomes following treatment and removal of bone metastases. We will identify markers for enhanced patient outcomes, so as to predict which patients may benefit from more aggressive treatments to better their quality of life. We also aim to use 3D printed bone implants to help in the treatment of patients with bone metastasis. These implants will serve as a local reservoir for the anticancer drugs that will improve bone regeneration while also preventing tumor recurrence. These agents have been shown to improve the efficacy of bone implants in severe bone fracture repair. Moreover, they have recently been shown to have direct anti-cancer activities. We plan to harness those beneficial activities to the fullest by obtaining local high doses of these drugs at the site of tumor resection that could not be achieved by oral or intravenous administration.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Weber;Lisbet Haglund

Student:

Partner:

Johnson & Johnson Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University; Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating The Microbial Function and Community Dynamics of BIOCORD Technology in a Full Scale waste water treatment Plant in Dundalk County

The Canadian government has increased its focus on regulating wastewater to the environment. The advent of new regulations has resulted in many municipalities requiring substantial upgrades to minimize release of nutrients promoting eutrophic water bodies. Traditional wastewater treatment technologies are in some cases cost prohibitive. Bishop Water Technologies (BWT) provides an ecofriendly and cost-effective technology for treating Canadian wastewater (municipal and industrial) while removing nutrients to rivers and lakes. BWT technology is based on the “BioCord” (artificial support material for microbes to live). To improve this treatment technology BWT will investigate its application in a full-scale wastewater treatment plant in Dundalk Ontario. A detailed genetic study of the biofilms and their performance under seasonal transition (e.g. Winter-Spring-Summer) will be performed. Researchers will identify the conditions to support the microbial species for optimization. Outcomes of this research will provide potential treatment solutions for sustainable management for protection fresh water in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Weisener

Student:

Partner:

Bishop Water Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Clean Technology; Environmental Science and Technology; Water

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Business Process Improvement and Customer Satisfaction

Bombardier, a leading manufacturer of both planes and trains in the world, has become a major contributor to Canada’s economy. Facing today’s competitive market, Bombardier aims to retain existing customers and attract new customers through operational transformation, which focuses on continuous improvement in its internal operational efficiency.
The application encompasses two projects that center around continuous process improvement. The first project is related to Special Attention Plan (SAP)-enabled process standardization, and aims to increase the number of SAPs in the Bombardier Regional Support Offices (RSO) to improve reliability and cost performance. The second project intends to address the existing logbook management process which is manual, time
consuming, inaccurate, and error-prone, resulting in long turnaround times for airline customers and jeopardizing airlines’ ability to solve technical problems in a timely fashion.
By identifying feasible solutions to improve the two processes, the application will help Bombardier increase customer satisfaction and drive sales.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Linying Dong;Aziz Guergachi

Student:

Partner:

Bombardier Commercial Aircraft

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services; Transportation and warehousing

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Community Based Power Sharing

The goal of the proposed project is to explore the concept of how a remote community can share renewable power without the connection to an existing power grid. The scope entails the analysis of the existing scenario of northern off-grid communities in Ontario and the designed system to help them share power. A proposed system for Deer Lake will be analyzed and two components of the system are to be investigated and further developed by the interns. The Power Server, which manages the sharing of power between the residents of the community, is to be conceptualized. The Micro Wind Power Generation System, that will be used to generate electricity, will be optimized for economy and efficiency. Overall, both topics help the realization of the concept of Community Based Power Sharing, which could potentially have large scale impacts on the green energy landscape of the future.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Fleisig

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

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