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Human Resources Assistant

Berrymobile is a marketing and distribution company for local fruit. They have been around for 20 years and are a seasonal business from late May to early September. As the Human Resources Assistant I am responsible for all the seasonal fruit stand and driver employee hiring for the lower mainland and whistler, scheduling, assisting with payroll, OHS programming, writing weekly newsletters, creating an employee manual/handbook and any other duties that are assigned to me.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Helsley

Student:

Partner:

Berrymobile

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Wholesale trade

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Strategic Business Assessment – Nautel Limited

As Nautel develops new products for its core markets, the company is also weighing its options to develop products which can take the company into new markets. This is an important decision for Nautel as the company must then determine where to allocate and invest the company’s finite engineering capacity. This project will carry out Nautel’s need for strategic assessments of various opportunities, including whether or not the company should transform its current business model. Presently operating with a direct sale of manufactured products model, Nautel focuses heavily on customer support. Based on the existing market environment, this model alone seems unsustainable. Therefore, this project will also assess whether it is in Nautel’s best strategic interest to incorporate the delivery of subscription services supported by Nautel products as well as Nautel technical capabilities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Morse

Student:

Partner:

Nautel

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of Western Ontario

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Advancing Climate-mediated Wetland Assessment and Change Detection using Earth Observation Data Fusion and Advanced Analytics

Quantifying the current extent of wetlands and how they have changed over the last number of years is important for understanding how wetland ecosystem services (including flood mitigation, food services, and migrating bird habitats) are sensitive to climate change. In this project, we will work with the partner organization to develop accurate methods for wetland identification and areal coverage using satellite and airborne remotely sensed data. The methods will be evaluated by the Mitacs Intern using ecological data collected at numerous boreal and parkland wetlands. In addition to this, the Mitacs Intern will quantify how wetlands are changing and the combined environmental characteristics that may make wetlands sensitive to climatic changes. The methods developed during this Mitacs internship will enable the partner organization to develop state-of-the-art methods for wetland characterization and monitoring, which are expected to increase revenue streams and continued collaboration with future industry partners.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laura Chasmer

Student:

Partner:

Hatfield Consultants

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program:

Accelerate

Pattern classification of flow limited breathingvia acoustic measurements

Snoring during sleep is common and is sometimes indicative of a mechanical impediment to
breathing. The condition, called high upper airway reSistance, is thought to be relatively
common affecting roughly 15% of the population. It is characterized by complaints of day1ime
fatigue and/or sleepiness and is associated with a myriad of disastrous effects on a patient’s
health such as high blood pressure, depression, atrial fibrillation, migraine, bruxism,
temporal-mandibular jOint disorders, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. The exact
incidence of HUAR is unknown with the majority of patients undiagnosed and left untreated.
The principal reason for this is the lack of a convenient, non-invasive method for making the
diagnosis of HUAR. The proposed research will use a complex analysis of snoring sound to
identify the occurrence and distinguish it from simple snoring.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Qiao Sun

Student:

Partner:

Zephyr Sleep technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Implementation of an Optimal System for the Detection and Avoidancesystem on an Unmanned Aircraft System

Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) will be essential in developing and monitoring Canada’s territories. This is in part due to a lack of suitable human pilots due to skill shortages and difficult conditions making recruitment difficult; there are also “dull, dirty and dangerous” aspects of the missions that make a remote pilot operation safer. Miniaturization, machine learning and robotics are all fields which may contribute to overcoming these challenges in new and affordable ways. In this research project, we propose to research and implement an obstacle avoidance system which allows the unmanned aircraft to detect and avoid flying obstacles using an air-to-air radar setup.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Witold Kinsner

Student:

Partner:

Aurora Solutions

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Modeling Ekona’s H2 production and carbon capture process

Ekona Power Inc is developing a technology to convert natural gas into H2, electricity and a pure CO2 stream. The CO2 stream will them be removed using underground carbon sequestration. Their approach uses two processes. The first uses pyrolysis to convert natural gas to hydrogen and solid carbon. The second uses a fuel cell to convert the solid carbon to a pure CO2 stream. This proposal concerns the first process.
Ekona is currently finalizing the design of pyrolysis unit and preparing for the pilot scale testing. However Ekona doesn’t have expertise in the detailed chemical kinetic modeling the pyrolysis of natural gas which includes the formation of solid carbon particles. The Thomson Lab at the University of Toronto has over a decade of experience in developing and validating models of hydrocarbon pyrolysis and carbon particle formation. The proposed modeling approach will allow Ekona to better understand its pyrolysis design and anticipate the performance of the prototype unit.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Murray Thomson

Student:

Partner:

Ekona Power

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

CBCT dose planning for adaptive radiotherapy solutions

Adaptive radiotherapy (ART) consists of adjusting irradiation at each treatment phase in response to changes in the patient’s body (such as weight loss) or from the patient’s change in position. Indeed, since initial dose plans are determined from standard CT, the initial dose distribution may vary and yield sub-optimal dose delivery. Intra-procedural imaging such as cone-beam CT (CBCT) can be used to adapt plans on a daily basis, but requires real-time performance with the patient on the table. In this project, we propose a set of software tools based on deep learning to simplify the clinical workflow by automatically fusing the initial plan determined from CT, with the latest CBCT acquired right before treatment. We also plan to improve the delineation of the patient tumours using multimodal imaging. As a result of this project, we plan to streamline the radiotreatment process and improve patient outcomes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Samuel Kadoury

Student:

Partner:

Elekta

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Manufacturing

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Elaboration d’une analyse fonctionnelle technique pour un système de pompage constitué de plusieurs stations en réseau et pour un système SCADA appliqué aux stations de pompage d’eaux usées

Le présent travail de recherche vise à élaborer une analyse fonctionnelle technique pour un système de pompage constitué de plusieurs stations en réseau dans un environnement informatique spécifique dénommé SCADA appliqué aux stations de pompage d’eaux usées. Une synthèse bibliographique sera réalisée sur les études antérieures et les systèmes utilisés pour l’optimisation du fonctionnement des pompes, de même qu’une étude comparative sur les systèmes SCADA utilisés dans la gestion des infrastructures d’eau.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Musandji Fuamba

Student:

Partner:

Maid Labs Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Contribution de l’eau souterraine aux cours d’eau dans la région des Laurentides

Dans la région des Laurentides, plus de 40% de la population s’approvisionne en eau potable à partir de l’eau souterraine. La région est sillonnée d’un vaste réseau hydrographique. Toutefois, très peu de données sont disponibles sur la connectivité nappe-rivière dans cette région qui subit une forte pression environnementale en provenance du développement urbain et de la villégiature. Le but du projet est de fournir à l’organisme de bassin versant (OBV) Abrinord, et aux gestionnaires des MRC et des OBV voisins des nouvelles données sur les échanges entre l’eau souterraine et les cours d’eau. Les objectifs spécifiques sont 1) de développer de nouvelles méthodes de cartographie du degré de connectivité des cours d’eau avec les eaux souterraines et 2) d’appliquer cette méthode à l’échelle de la région des Laurentides. Quatre sous-bassins versants instrumentés seront utilisés pour tester l’approche. Des mesures de débits amont-aval et de 222Rn (un traceur de l’eau souterraine) permettront d’identifier les zones de connexion entre la rivière et la nappe. Les données topographiques de haute précision et les informations géologiques seront utilisées pour développer une approche cartographique de la connectivité nappe-rivière. L’approche sera testée sur les sous-bassins, puis appliquée à l’ensemble de la région.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie Larocque

Student:

Partner:

Abrinord

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Studying Empathetic and Emotive User Interfaces for Data Collection During Disasters

In times of crisis or disaster, there is a need for software features and functions to be empathetic to the circumstances of the person who is using that software. Having empathetic software features and functions is particularly important when the software is being used to collect data about the health status and information needs of the person who is completing an online survey tool during a crisis such as a global pandemic. In this research we develop and validate design guidelines that can be used to make survey tools more empathetic to the circumstances of the user providing the information.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elizabeth Borycki;Andre Kushniruk

Student:

Partner:

Tickit Health

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Direct Lithium Extraction (DLE) from brine solution using electrochemical method

The demand for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) is on the rise, mainly due to increased interest in portable devices, electric vehicles and grid-storage applications. The key component in such rechargeable batteries is lithium, which is trivial from the name itself as well, as lithium-ions shuttle back and forth during charging/discharging process. Consequently, lithium production demand has increased significantly as well over the past few decades. Lithium is usually extracted from minerals or water sources etc. Due to the limited availability of minerals and high-production cost. Therefore, most of the lithium is extracted from its water sources (such as salt lakes, seawater etc.). Likewise, most of the current industries extract lithium via solvent-evaporation method. This method takes a long time (12 – 18 months) to produce battery-grade lithium, which is inefficient, costly and highly weather dependent. Therefore, over the past few decades, new methods have been developed. Among them, using an electric force to capture and release lithium-ions selectively has gained interest of several investigators due to its simple operation, low cost and eco-friendly nature. Similarly, LiEP energy has recently used this technique to develop a cost-effective method to produce battery-grade lithium.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Venkataraman Thangadurai

Student:

Partner:

LiEP Energy

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Modélisation statistique de l’érosion de cavitation selon les paramètres d’opération des turbines hydrauliques

Avec la demande croissante d’énergie renouvelable et l’ouverture des marchés de l’énergie,
on observe une augmentation de la sollicitation des équipements et un changement dans le
mode opératoire des centrales. Il devient ainsi primordial pour les producteurs de caractériser
la durée de vie des turbines et de cibler précisément les délais pour l’arrêt, la maintenance et
la réparation de celle-ci. La cavitation, phénomène d’érosion dû à l’éclatement de bulles d’air
près des parois, est un des modes principaux de dégradation des turbines. Le projet de
recherche proposé vise à aborder la caractérisation de ce phénomène par le biais d’un
modèle probabiliste : on cherche à comprendre de quelle manière modéliser le phénomène
en s’appuyant sur les conditions opératoires de 4 groupes turbine-alternateur comme
l’ouverture de vannage, le débit et la puissance, et à en quantifier l’incertitude. La mise au
point d’un tel outil aidera à prédire la progression de la dégradation due à la cavitation et…

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-François Angers

Student:

Partner:

Institut de Recherche Hydro-Québec

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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