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Characterization of Parasitic Lead Inductances of E-mode pGaN HEMTs to Debug the Early Drain Breakdown Problem

In the field of power electronics, it is vitally important to fabricate transistors that can work under high-voltage regimes, that are more energy-efficient. Our sponsor Crosslight has a customer, GaNPower, which is a Canadian company that designs and makes GaN transistors for this purpose. However, the transistors break down more easily when used on circuit boards after packaging. Crosslight is responsible to debug this problem. In this project, we will work with Crosslight build a test board and its circuit model to test its first hypothesis of the problem.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Guangrui Xia

Student:

Partner:

Crosslight Software Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Assessment of the feasibility of manufacturing and marketing carvacrol-incorporated natural health products

Antibiotic therapy has been the primary approach for strep throat. Although various antibiotics, including penicillin, are effective, bacteriologic, and clinical treatment failures have been reported. Patients are more concerned about soothing the pain during the infection, and green/natural drug therapy with less or no adverse side effects are becoming popular. From preliminary studies and literature, carvacrol has been identified as a potential candidate for antibiotic therapy alternatives. Carvacrol, a bioactive found in several herbal plant extracts, show quick anti-bacterial activity against strep throat causing bacteria. However, it is still a need to understand the feasibility of using carvacrol in safer doses, stability under the manufacturing conditions and potential customer acceptability of carvacrol incorporated throat lozenge. The objectives of the project are to assess carvacrol’s feasibility incorporated dehydrated honey lozenge in manufacturing and marketing. Anti-bacterial activity of incorporated carvacrol in pre- and post-manufacturing will be investigated. Safety concerns, maximum incorporated doses and sensory factors will be assessed by literature search and consumer survey. These findings will help to explore the application of carvacrol as an effective and safe natural health product (dehydrated honey lozenge) in soothing painful inflammation in patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vasantha Rupasinghe

Student:

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Agriculture and Food; Technology

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Identification and assessment of bioactive yeast strains and cell wall components

Since yeast probiotics and their cell wall components (CWC) are being used to treat enteric inflammatory diseases in different species including humans, they may be useful for preventing Johne’s disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease of ruminants caused by Mycobacterium avium spp. paratuberculosis (MAP). Considerable variation in the efficacy of different yeast probiotics and their CWC has been reported; therefore we are proposing to develop in vitro assays that will allow us to assess potential anti-adhesive properties of yeast strains and CWC using MAP as a target pathogen. Additionally, bovine macrophages will be used to assess potential yeast strain and CWC immunomodulatory properties. These assays may be useful for high throughput screening of probiotics and their bioactive compounds, studying their mechanisms of action, and for product quality control.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Niel Karrow

Student:

Partner:

Lallemand Health Solutions Inc (Montreal, QC)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Advanced Plastic Recycling: New generation catalyst development for direct synthesis of lower olefins using waste derived syngas

Ethylene is an important building block for the chemical industry and is most widely produced at global production scale of 200 million metric tonnes. As a typical chemical feedstock, ethylene is used to produce plastics, consumer goods, solvents, paints, among many others. Ethylene is predominantly produced by steam cracking which is run at very high temperatures and releases up to 2.7 kg CO2 eq./ kg of polyethylene produced. In Alberta, the production of ethylene and derivatives results in more than 4.5 million tonnes CO2 eq. / year; this is equivalent to more than 33% of non-energy sector CO2 emissions in Alberta.
This project focuses on an advanced recycling process of waste plastic to ethylene (circular plastic). This will be achieved by using the Enerkem Gasification Technology Platform that allows all such waste (like waste plastic, municipal solid waste with significant amount of single-use-plastic as well as biomass that may include agricultural waste and forestry waste) to convert in to syngas. In in this project a catalyst will be developed for syngas to ethylene and propylene conversion.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Natalia Semagina

Student:

Partner:

Enerkem (Edmonton, AB)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Rare-earth element doping of dielectric thin films using ion implantation

The requirement for online communication continues to grow exponentially, primarily a result of the increased demand for information sharing bandwidth. This demand is driven by video-over-internet applications used for both entertainment, and conferencing (felt most recently in the need for remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic).
Integrated optical components fabricated in silicon are receiving particular attention as a means to provide this bandwidth in a cost-effective way. In this proposal we address the specific need for optical amplification (signal boosting) which benefits from the properties of rare-earth elements in contrast to the limitations of semiconductor optical amplifiers. These optical amplifiers will contribute to allow the stringent link budgets of communications systems to be met.
The industrial partner, Kinectrics, has a significant interest in the development of high current, ion implantation for exploitation is a number of areas such as optical amplification, modification of thin films and isotope separation for medical applications. This proposal will advance their development program.
The intern will spend up to 50% of the grant period on-site at Kinectrics, There, they will use the results from experimental work at McMaster to guide the design of a high current ion implanter for use by Kinectrics at their site.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Knights

Student:

Partner:

Kinectrics Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Advanced Manufacturing; Information and Communications Technology; Technology

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Experimental and numerical evaluation of the electromagnetic, mechanical and thermal behaviour of Kimberlite under microwave irradiation

In an environment of high risk and competitive, the mining industry needs continuous innovation and productivity enhancement. One of the major issues with present hard rock deposits is the cyclic mining operation associated with the drill and blast method. Another major obstacle in the extraction and processing of such rocks is the relatively high wear rate on the cutting tools which leads to low rate of penetration and low performance in conventional mechanical hard rock excavation machines. Also, it has made the comminution of such rocks extremely energy intensive and costly with high wear rates. Consequently, sustainable development of mineral resources requires reduced wear on both rock cutting and comminution equipment. This research work aims to extend the study and develop the engineering know-how and numerical simulation tools needed for successful integration of microwave-assisted technique in excavation and processing of rocks as well as reduction of equipment wear and energy from mine to mill. This comprehensive study will be beneficial for DeBeers in operation optimization in terms of energy efficiency, carbon footprint, costs related to equipment wear and tear and associated downtimes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ferri Hassani;Agus Sasmito

Student:

Partner:

De Beers Canada Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Biosurfactant Production from Seafood Processing Waste

This project aims at developing an innovative technology through the utilization of fish waste as substrates for biosurfactant production. Through the proposed approach, fish waste will be recovered into fishery peptone and being used as a nutrient substrate for the synthesis of biosurfactant products with promising market values. The outcomes of this project will directly provide the fishery industry a new model of fish waste reuse and management by “turning waste into valuable products”. It will also help reduce waste discharge and protect the environment. Last but not least, it creates revenues by producing high value-added products and consequently promote the sustainable development of fishery and seafood processing industries in Canada and beyond.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Baiyu (Helen) Zhang

Student:

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Biotechnology; Environmental Science and Technology; Aquaculture and Fishing

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Quantolio Insights: Augmenting the investment management process through AI & ML

The project consists of developing new methodologies to augment the investment management process through AI & ML. To this purpose, the project will be divided in two subprojects :
1) Optimization of error detection and error correction in the data cleansing process.
In every data science project, data scientists and analysts spend a considerable amount of their time cleaning the data they have. The objective is to automate the error detection and error correction processes, with the goal of integrating the models in a user-friendly platform. The end product, Quantolio Data Doctor, will allow users to significantly improve the quality and precision of their data, and speed up the data cleaning process by at least 50%.
2) Development of machine learning algorithms to improve different phases of the investment management process.
The objective of this part is to develop a platform called Quantolio Insights, that will allow portfolio managers to efficiently integrate AI solutions in every phase of the investment management process – allowing them to take better data-driven decisions and improve the performance of their portfolio

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frédéric Godin

Student:

Partner:

Quantolio Financial Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University; HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Membrane processing of fermented fish waste for enrichment of bioactives

Development of a scalable, flow-through membrane-based processing platform for producing enriched fractions of bioactives from marine by-product extracts generated by bacterial fermentation. The proposed technology uses the conventional membrane filtration approach using pressure in tandem with applied voltage for increasing the value and application of the sustainably sourced, bioprocessed crude fish by-product protein extracts. Peptide fractions with desired properties namely uniform charge and size can be obtained using this processing approach.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Beth Mason

Student:

Partner:

Springboard Atlantic Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Biotechnology; Agriculture and Food; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

The Verschuren Centre Inc.

Program:

Accelerate

Adaptation psychosociale des enfants vivant en contexte pandémique – Étude longitudinale

Le 11 mars 2020, l’Organisation mondiale pour la Santé déclare que l’éclosion de la COVID-19 est désormais une pandémie. Face à la propagation du virus et à la mortalité qui l’accompagne, le gouvernement Québécois met en place les mesures de confinement strict. Les premières études établissent que l’adaptation globale des enfants est peu compromise par la pandémie, mais que certains groupes d’enfants s’adaptent moins bien que d’autres. Alors que la seconde vague sévit et que de nouvelles restrictions sont mises, l’adaptation des enfants peut avoir changée depuis mai 2020. Ce projet vise à comparer les niveaux d’adaptation psychosociale et scolaire des enfants 6-17 ans vivant en contexte de pandémie à court, moyen et long terme. Il est attendu que les enfants puissent démontrer des niveaux d’adaptation psychosociale et scolaire variables selon la durée de la pandémie et les mesures qui sont associées mais aussi selon leur niveau de vulnérabilité et leurs caractéristiques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Claire Baudry

Student:

Partner:

Fondation Jasmin Roy Sophie Desmarais

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Tourisme généalogique. Créer des souvenirs de famille

L’histoire et le patrimoine font partie des ressources territoriales que peut mettre en valeur une destination pour attirer les visiteurs. Lorsqu’il s’agit précisément du patrimoine familial des visiteurs, la destination acquiert toutefois une distinction tout à fait unique. La région du Kamouraska, où de nombreuses familles pionnières québécoises se sont installées, a choisi de mettre en valeur ces patrimoines par le développement d’activités de tourisme généalogique. Ce projet vise à contribuer au développement de l’offre de tourisme généalogique de la région du Kamouraska par l’étude de l’écosystème touristique qui doit être en place pour développer l’offre, mais également par l’étude des visiteurs qui viennent y chercher et y forger leurs souvenirs de familles.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pascale Marcotte

Student:

Partner:

Municipalité régionale de comté de Kamouraska

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public administration

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Predicting click-impression dynamics by an epidemic model

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jianhong Wu

Student:

Partner:

InferSystems

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

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Mitacs is funded by the Government of Canada, the Government of Alberta, the Government of British Columbia, Research Manitoba, the Government of New Brunswick, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Government of Nova Scotia, the Government of Ontario, Innovation PEI, the Government of Quebec, the Government of Saskatchewan, and the Government of Yukon.