Innovative Projects Realized

A novel analgesic in a surgical model of osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis is the most common form of joint disease affecting over 80% of the human

population above 75 years old and burdening health organizations worldwide. Osteoarthritis is

characterized by progressive joint degeneration resulting in chronic pain and loss of joint

function. Currently there is no cure for osteoarthritis; available treatments are only symptomatic

targeting pain and are associated with significant side effects, emphasizing the need for new

treatments.

Isovaline is a novel analgesic which showed remarkable effects in several pain models

without producing central nervous system side effects. The current study will examine the

analgesic profile of isovaIine in mice; we will assess the efficacy of isovaIine in alleviating the

signs of osteoarthritis and restoring the ability of the mice which underwent surgical

destabilization of the knee joint to exercise voluntarily. The effect of isovaline will be compared

to dicIofenac, and morphine the currently drugs of choice for osteoarthritic pain.

Characterization of powder materials for additive manufacturing (3D printing ability) using machine learning methods

Metal additive manufacturing (AM), also known as 3D Printing, is a technology that produces three-dimensional metallic parts layer by layer as opposed to conventional subtractive techniques. The qualities of 3D parts are significantly influenced by the characteristics of the feedstock materials, which depend on the manufacturing processes and also vary between batches. Powder pack density and flowability are often used to evaluate the 3D printability of the powder. The two metrics are currently determined by experiments and/or numerical simulations. However, the existed methods are often time/labor consuming due to the repeated sampling/testing processes and/or generate poor knowledge in the predictions of a new powder batch due to the sophisticated physics behind particle contact/interaction. The machine learning (ML) methods, especially deep learning (DL) method has already been widely used in object detection and segmentation. In particular, neural networks (NNs) are able to learn the relationship between the input features and output targets based on previous data. Compared with traditional methods (experiments and simulations), ML methods feature high objectivity and prediction accuracy and efficiency. Once the dataset between powder characteristics and processing is established, ML can realize in-situ monitoring of powder characteristics and real-time control the powder manufacturing processes. TOBECONTINUED

Business Development

The Business Development project will play a critical role in the growth of Hypercare and directly impact the company’s revenue targets. In addition to helping build the sales pipeline and increasing the Hypercare brand awareness, the Business Development project can truly make a positive impact in the Canadian and USA healthcare landscape by helping clinicians save time, improve operational efficiencies, and ultimately deliver better patient outcomes.

LBB Stratégies

LBB Strategies est une firme de services conseil et de planification stratégique qui intervient auprès de clients locaux à internationaux principalement en sport, loisir et vie active. LBB a connu une croissance soutenue de son chiffre d’affaires et est maintenant reconnue comme un chef de file au Canada en sport et vie active. Œuvrant auprès de clients du sport amateur et olympique, sport professionnel, gouvernements, municipalités, entreprises privées, événement sportifs, LBB désire consolider et rehausser sa présence dans l’industrie du sport. Parallèlement, LBB cherche à ouvrir de nouveaux marchés dans des industries qui expriment des besoins similaires.

LBB a ainsi créé une nouvelle division œuvrant en dehors du domaine du sport qui sera déployée à l’automne 2020 dans le marché québécois. LBB aura donc à mettre en œuvre une stratégie de marketing et de pénétration de ces nouveaux marchés tout en consolidant celui du sport, le tout dans un mode adapté de développement d’affaires.

Operations Analyst

As an operations analyst at AVA Technologies, I am responsible for taking on projects that improve the efficiency and effectiveness of AVA’s core business: providing consumers with the world’s most advanced smart home garden. Projects include:
– Procurement of a Bill of Materials & Parts Order Forecasting solutions
– Costing and making strategic recommendations on building a microgreens farm inside the workspace
– Aggregating and organizing venture capital fund and accelerator information -> implementing widespread use of a relationship manager
– Other ad hoc tasks

Design Science et PME : modernisation des systèmes d’information de Projet Point Final

Le projet en question est de type Design Science. Il éclot dans un contexte d’expansion où le système d’information (SI) de l’entreprise expose ses limites. Plus spécifiquement, son caractère manuscrit lui proscrit coordination et automatisation : coordination car l’information demeure figée sur feuille et donc inaccessible à des parties éloignées; automatisation, dans la mesure où la compilation de données – notamment à des fins de production statistiques – demeure un processus manuel. Par ailleurs, les capacités computationnelles du seul artefact technologique qu’utilise l’entreprise (Excel), ne suffisent plus à traiter les requêtes qu’on lui ordonne. Autrement dit, le système opère avec une lenteur excessive et comme se profile une masse supplémentaire de clients, cette cadence amorphe risque de devenir point d’arrêt. Parallèlement à cela, les capacités d’investissements de l’entreprise demeurent limitées à l’instar de son expertise en TI. Le mandat du stagiaire inclut donc aussi une composante de conseiller en TI.

Business Strategy internship

My role as an Intern is to create, in collaboration with Reid, an effective go to market (customer acquisition) strategy. I will evaluate and prioritize a list of potential new-customer generating techniques and will work with the Reid on an implementation strategy and schedule. This strategy will include a content creation and delivery component to drive long-term organic traffic to the Aquatell website. Other potential components include social media development, paid ads, and the augmenting of the Aquatell product catalog. Some of my key projects include combing through historical Google Analytics data to create a list of marketing content pieces that will attract new customers. My main focus will be content creation so over the course of the internship author a total of 50 marketing content pieces, each with associated graphics, and queue these on our website content management system (Shopify) so that we launch one piece a week for the following 50 weeks. Then I will be modifying these same content pieces and queue them for Facebook & Instagram release. The next task will be identifying product catalog opportunities for our Canadian, U.S., and Australian websites and work with manufacturers to acquire product copy, imagery, and specifications.

Development and Execution of Advisory Services for Small and Medium Enterprises with Wentworth Strategy Group

Wentworth Strategy Group is a diversified management consulting business whose direct mission is supporting small and medium enterprises. As a business strategy intern with Wentworth, our student will be directly helping support projects with clients in non-profit, health and nutrition, real estate, manufacturing, and other industries. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic impacts, our clients are facing unique circumstances and need rapid and insightful assistance.

Additionally, small and medium enterprises have a difficult time finding high quality consulting and advisory services. Our business strategy intern will also be actively working on refining and disseminating our value proposition to the market in this formative stage of our development as a firm serving this market need.

E2 Adventures

E2 Adventures est une OBNL œuvrant dans le milieu des sorties éducatives pour les étudiants du secondaire. Dans le cadre de la pandémie, l’entreprise a dû changer drastiquement son modèle d’affaires afin de répondre aux normes de sécurité et d’éloignement social. Ils offrent maintenant des visites guidées en entreprise sur Zoom, ce qui leur permet d’ailleurs d’offrir les visites à plus de jeunes et à plus faible coût.

KDS Sale Strategy

Kings Distributed Systems (“Kings”) is a Canadian corporation with the mission to make computing more affordable, secure, and interoperable. Its core offering is a software platform that makes running modern applications cheap and easy through a global ‘marketplace’ for computing resources. In May 2020, a consortium led by Kings was awarded $2.2m to build a COVID-19 modelling and decision support platform called Project Looking Glass. Funded by Canada’s Digital Technology Supercluster, Looking Glass allows municipalities to forecast the spread of COVID-19 in their community given local datasets, as well as the costs & benefits of various mitigation strategies. Before its completion in Q4 2020, Kings must learn which are the best municipal audiences to approach and build an effective process for doing so. This Mitacs project will engage an experienced sales professional and master’s candidate from Queen’s University to achieve this. By doing so before the platform launches, Kings hopes to implement it across a larger number of municipalities in a shorter amount of time and reduce the cost of doing so. The company looks forward to this 16-week opportunity to grow its business while protecting the health and well-being of the Canadian public.

Business Strategy Internship + FutureVault

FutureVault is an industry-leading provider of secure, cloud-based document management solutions that was founded in Toronto in 2014 by veteran finance and technology executives. Through FutureVault’s powerful white label platform as a service offering, organizations can securely manage document collaboration and deepen client relationships. The platform also allows end clients to digitize, deposit, store, and manage all their most important business and personal information providing significant value and peace of mind. Organizations leverage FutureVault to acquire and retain clients, unlock new revenue streams, improve operational efficiencies and maintain compliance obligations. The firm’s active client base includes diverse financial services firms. FutureVault is fueled by a dynamic team of 30+ staff and has invested heavily in technology with three patents pending. FutureVault was awarded the Business Excellence Award for Smart Solutions by the Toronto Region Board of Trade in 2018.
The student will join the FutureVault sales team at a critical juncture as the company now seeks to expand its sales base to include new market verticals. The work performed in building this strategy will help lay the foundation for a new go-to-market plan and pipeline expansion in 2020/2021.

Développement d’une méthode de segmentation et de reconstruction semi-automatique des structures hépatiques à partir d’images CT et IRM pour leur intégration dans la plateforme ORS Visual

La segmentation du foie est une demarche consistant a delimiter les contours de I’organe des les images
medicales volumiques, telles que Ie CT-Scan et I’IRM, afin d’estimer son volume a des fins de planification
preoperatoire. Cette operation, typiquement realisee manuellement par un technicien ou un radiologue, est
une demarche fastidieuse qui requiert entre 45 et 90 minutes par cas. Nous proposons de developper une
methode de segmentation semi-automatique permettant de realiser ce travail avec une economie de
temps substantielle tout en preservant la precision de la segmentation 3~. Ces outils de haut niveau
seront transferes dans la plateforme de visualisation d’images medicales de notre partenaire ORS, leur
permettant de se demarquer face a leur concurrents en offrant des outils de traitement d’image novateurs.
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