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BSI Intern

Project objective: Enable Alberta Chambers of Commerce network to promote and expand work integrated learning in Alberta by connecting employers with students to improve labour market outcomes and support COVID-19 economic recovery.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Maier

Student:

Partner:

Alberta Chambers of Commerce

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Management of companies and enterprises; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Business Strategy Intern

Project objective: Enable Alberta Chambers of Commerce network to promote and expand work integrated learning in Alberta, by connecting employers with students to improve labour market outcomes and support COVID-19 economic recovery.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Maier

Student:

Partner:

Alberta Chambers of Commerce

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Management of companies and enterprises; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Work Integrated Learning Program

ACC is implementing and promoting a series of complementary skills development programs for employers to engage students through work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunities. Each program model in the series is scalable and targets a segment of the skills development process from K-12 through post-secondary to reskilling. The purpose of the project is to design a unified and sustainable end-to-end skills development program offering with appropriate templates, tools, processes, and analytics for iterative improvement, enabling chambers to implement and engage employers and students through educators. MBA students will collaborate with School of Retailing with ACC support to develop a brand and marketing campaign to execute a needs analysis and scope project requirements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Maier

Student:

Partner:

Alberta Chambers of Commerce

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Management of companies and enterprises; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Zero+ Fleet Energy Simulation Tool

In many cities, fleet operators are evaluating the potential environmental benefits of replacing gasoline-fuelled vehicles by alternative vehicles, particularly electric vehicles. In this process, reductions in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved. In this project, the company HDR proposes to partner with the Transportation and Air Quality (TRAQ) research group at the University of Toronto to develop the HDR Zero+ fleet energy simulation tool. This tool uses data from Global Positioning Systems (GPS) for a set of vehicles associated with a fleet operator, and quantifies the reductions in energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions associated with electrifying a portion of the fleet. The tool subsequently proposes a charging schedule that enables operators to fulfill their tours using electric vehicles while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marianne Hatzopoulou;Daniel Posen

Student:

Partner:

HDR Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an Al first molecular database to accelerate drug discovery

Using simplified language understandable to a layperson; provide a general, one-paragraph description of the proposed research project to be undertaken by the intern(s) as well as the expected benefit to the partner organization. {100 – 150 words)
The project aims to develop a molecular compounds database to accelerate drug discovery. Compounds shared by chemical providers are currently stored in large library files. Due to their size and number, these files are a bottleneck in virtual screening. The molecular database will gather them in a centralised entity, thus making library processing efficient. The project will also develop partner relationships by offering a better data sharing experience through a user interface and a programmatic client. Besides storing known compounds, the database will implement an unknown compound enumeration feature. Combined with an active learning model, experts will be able to use the database to manually explore chemical subspaces to find hit compounds. The last phase of the project will focus on extending open source work to provide a privacy preserving machine learning framework based on the developed molecular database to enable federated learning pipelines for virtual screening.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Reihaneh Rabbany

Student:

Partner:

Valence Discovery Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Artificial Intelligence; Pharmaceuticals

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

JordanKearns-FinnAI

As a high tech AI company, we are fortunate that our business model has proved to be resilient to COVID. However, we have moved to a fully remote work environment and do not plan on ever returning to an in office company. This proves challenging as our policies, company rituals, customer service and cultural were not designed to meet the demands of a remote work environment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dale Ganley

Student:

Partner:

Finn AI

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Wholesale trade

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Pharmaceutical and microbial removal from Wastewater by Photocatalysis

The increasing consumption of pharmaceutical to combat wide variety of diseases have caused pharmaceuticals as an emerging pollutant (EP) in water bodies and also in wastewater samples. The non-biodegradable nature of pharmaceuticals results their ineffective removal in biological systems including biological wastewater treatment units (BWTU). To combat the problem of secondary effluent from BWTU containing both EPs and un-settled/un-filtered bacteria, it is mandatory to identify a cost-effective hybrid treatment system. Photocatalysis, one of the promising advanced oxidation processes, could completely remove the EPs and microbes. In the present investigation, a novel catalyst having the potential of simultaneous photocatalytic activity, adsorption and microbial in-activation along with good re-usability will be prepared. Titanium di-oxide (TiO2), a well known catalyst can be doped with graphene oxide (GO) having high adsorption capacity and which is itself photocatalytically active and can decrease electron-hole recombination. Silver (Ag) or copper (Cu) nanoparticles having good anti-bacterial property can also be doped in the composite. Chitosan (CS) can be used for composites binding and for recovery purpose. Hence the prepared composite (CS-GO-Ag-TiO2) (a model) can be checked for simultaneous pharmaceutical and microbial removal. Moreover, the applicability of successfully developed catalyst for real-time secondary effluent treatment will be explored.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gopal Achari

Student:

Partner:

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Nanotechnology; Water

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Géologie et minéralisation des Zones Sud de la mine Goldex, Val-d’Or, Abitibi

L’or est un métal critique dans l’exploration et l’exploitation minière au Canada. La mine d’or Goldex est en opération depuis 2008 dans la région de l’Abitibi. Mines Agnico Eagle limitée y exploite un gisement d’or relativement typique en milieu souterrain. Toutefois des nouvelles zones minéralisées (Zones Sud), aux caractéristiques distinctes de celles présentement en exploitation, ont récemment été découvertes. Le but du projet est d’établir quels sont les contrôles principaux sur la géométrie des zones minéralisées et la distribution de l’or dans les Zones Sud. La méthodologie inclut un volet terrain à la mine, et un volet laboratoire à l’université. Les avantages pour l’organisme partenaire incluent : (i) aborder des questions fondamentales quant aux contrôles sur la distribution du minerai et la géométrie des Zones Sud et ainsi optimiser les opérations et l’exploration, à la mine comme ailleurs dans le district; (ii) participer à la formation pratique de la relève et potentiellement former un futur employé hautement qualifié.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre-Simon Ross

Student:

Partner:

Groupe MISA;Agnico Eagle Mines Limited

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Mining; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec : Institut national de la recherche scientifique

Program:

Accelerate

Feasibility Study for Indigenous Women’s Second-stage Housing in Canada

The partner organization, the National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence (NACAFV), is conducting a Feasibility Study for constructing on-reserve second-stage housing. A section of the Study is on the technical aspects of this type of housing which is for women who wish to leave their homes permanently because of domestic violence. The design of the housing unit emphasizes safety and security because an ex-partner or ex-spouse may be stalking a woman—since one of the most dangerous times for women living in domestic violence is when they are leaving. The work entails the different building codes and standards for each province/territory and how they are interpreted onreserve; designing several options of what single units could look like, the main floor layout with an office (it will be staffed 24/7) and a larger meeting space for compulsory programming/services; and, security features both inside and outside the building (e.g., security cameras, fencing, fire escapes).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shirley Thompson;Shauna Mallory-Hill

Student:

Partner:

National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

A Deep Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning Framework for Portfolio Management

In Finance, the use of Automated Trading Systems (ATS) on markets is growing every year and the trades generated by an algorithm now account for the majority of orders that arrive at stock exchanges. Historically, these systems were based on advanced statistical methods and signal processing able to extract trading signals from financial data. However, the recent successes of Machine Learning have attracted the interest of the financial community. The Reinforcement Learning method is a subcategory of machine learning and has been broadly applied by investors and researchers in building strategic asset allocation (Sequential) Decision Making systems. In this work, we explore performances of Risk-Sensitive Reinforcement Learning agents on the sequential and volatile data of financial markets by using concepts from Operations Research, Machine Learning and Finance to make the learning process of the agent immunized from adversarial impact of uncertainty.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Yumeng Li

Student:

Partner:

Brane Capital

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Dino Island: Improving Executive Functioning in Very Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Many children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) have problems with attention and executive functions (EF). Cognitive interventions have great potential to improve attention/EF and related skills (e.g., academic learning, social function, behaviour etc.), but few such interventions exist with even fewer that can be delivered at home. In light of COVID-19, parent-delivered interventions are crucial for continuity of healthcare for children with ASD. We will evaluate the efficacy of a new attention/EF intervention (Dino Island), as delivered by parents at home to their children with ASD. Half of the children will complete a 12-week attention/EF intervention whereas the other half will complete a control intervention. We will conduct pre- and post- testing to assess cognitive, academic, and behavioral outcomes. We will also gather information on the use of an on-line telehealth tool (TelerooTM) for delivering home-based interventions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sarah Macoun

Student:

Partner:

The Uncomplicated Family Inc.

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Enhanced RF-ICP thermal torch for waste to energy and radioactive waste material treatment

The fields of plastic waste management and radioactive waste treatment are essential for sustainable society that utilizes plastic waste for energy production and radiation safety. Land filing and incineration of plastic waste has large environmental impacts due to GHG emissions. The mentioned challenges could be eliminated using a more reliable and controllable thermal source such as inductively coupled thermal plasma (ICP) torches that enhance the chemical reactivity and operating parameters using radio-frequency thermal plasma jets. In this project an advanced 1100 W RF-ICP will be simulated, designed and constructed to generate RF thermal plasma jet which is integrated in Pro-flange stainless steel reactors at a pilot plant scale to enhance the chemical reactivity and produce clean gasoline and diesel fuels suitable for usage in ignition engines. This integration shall improve the quality of end-products, eliminate tar and wax content, provide better temperature control in chemical reactors, as well as enhance the chemical reactivity and thermal cracking reaction parameters. It is expected that thermal plasma torch temperature will reach to almost 8000 degree Celsius using Argon gas.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hossam Gaber

Student:

Partner:

Pro-Flange Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Ontario Institute of Technology

Program:

Accelerate

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