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Improvement in the dissolving pulp production process

Two interns will collaborate with Neucel Specialty Cellulose (Neucel), which is located in Port Alice, British Columbia. Neucel is one of the leading global manufacturers of dissolving pulp, which has very high alpha-cellulose content (90 percent and over). The mill has identified the big variation in the solids content in its concentrated red liquor fed to the boiler as its priority project to improve the mill operation efficiency. To minimize the variation and stabilize the solids contents within the mill’s target range, the two interns will determine the cause of the red liquor variation, set up an on-line solids content measurement system for three evaporation lines, and build a database to identify and provide practical solutions to the issue so that the recovery boiler performance, as well as the entire operation efficiency, can be improved.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yonghao Ni

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Computational Fluid Dynamics Optimization of Very High Lift Coe?cient Airfoil

The proposed research project’s objective is to perform analysis on airfoil dimensions and configurations for a crosswind power kite system for wind energy generation. The airfoil will be examined through computational methods to determine how well the airfoil will perform. The airfoil configurations will then be optimized to find better designs for airborne wind energy systems. The The partner will benefit from this work as better airfoil designs may be found, along with further understanding of how changes in airfoil configurations effect the behavior. The partner will also be provided with a method for visual feedback of how the airfoil performs through simulation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raymond Spiteri

Student:

Partner:

Kinetic Intelligence Systems Corp

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

COVID Business Strategy

As we recover from the initial shock of Covid 19, we have had to rehire, several employees and recruit several additional people for new positions. Demand from the US and Canada is so high that we need to increase our head count from 180 to 205 -210 people by the end of July to meet our production targets with the potential of reducing head count in the winter through the used of short term employment contracts or temp labor agencies. In all cases, there will be a big push on bringing in people, training them and review / adapt policies to ensure a safe work environment in a Covid 19 world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Matt Rahimi

Student:

Partner:

Southland Trailers

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

AltumView Marketing Strategy

The product has a high potential of growth in the future because of its unique mission. However, the company has been focusing on the product development and introducing the products in senior care homes. The company now wants to introduce the products to direct customers and expand the product presence as well as brand awareness. In order to achieve this, an on-going marketing plan is needed. Starting with Kickstarter project, the company then focuses on promoting its social media accounts, creating advertisements on these accounts are next steps to maintain customer relationship. As a marketing intern for the company, I could help with preparing the materials, by preparing contents and pictures. By starting with scheduling to update the social media accounts of the company two to three times a week, the moderate frequency will help the company slowly get to the cycle of frequent updates. Moreover, the company should take advantages of the advertisement on social media to reach out to more customers. I have never created an advertisement on Facebook before, so I will have to learn and do research for it.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yupin Yang

Student:

Partner:

Altumview Systems Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

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

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Simulating dynamics of flux qubits with charge and hybrid flux noise

D-Wave Systems has designed processors based on a scalable architecture that aim to implement quantum annealing, an algorithm that can be used to solve a wide variety of optimization problems. A minimal requirement for a device to perform quantum annealing is that it maintains coherence throughout an appreciable fraction of the annealing protocol. In reality, any quantum annealer will be subject to noise, which leads to decoherence in some form. Accurate numerical modelling of environmental noise in quantum annealing is therefore of critical importance to the designing of future architectures, and the study of open quantum dynamics in general. To data, efforts to numerically model quantum annealing in D-Wave devices have ignored the effects of charge noise, focusing only on flux noise. We propose developing an approach that is computationally efficient, numerically exact, and that accounts for the effects due to both charge and hybrid noise.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Malcolm Kennett

Student:

Partner:

D-Wave Systems Inc.

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Technology; Nanotechnology; Quantum Science

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding the Rise of the Right: A Podcast Series

The surge of radical right wing movements is one of the defining characteristics of this political moment, and it has the potential for the most grave repercussions. To date, little critical research about the ideational foundations of modern far right movements and the danger they pose has been effectively mobilized to the public. Our project seeks to reverse this trend by integrating the intern’s ongoing PhD research into a knowledge mobilization (KMb) framework developed by our industry partner Cited Media Productions (CMP), who produce award- winning research-based radio documentaries of the highest calibre. By participating in our project, the intern will simultaneously advance his original PhD research while maximizing its public impact through a widely distributed five-part radio documentary mini-series produced in collaboration with CMP.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ronald Beiner

Student:

Partner:

Cited Media

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating employees racial bias in the workplace using neurophysiological and behavioral measures

Research in organizational behavior studies suggest that racial discrimination and bias exist in the workplace. Although explicit forms of racism are in decline, new forms of racial discrimination (i.e., implicit and unconscious) continue to compromise the inclusion and diversity in organizations. One of the challenges that HR specialists face is evaluating employees’ unconscious bias. This project offers a multimethod assessment tool to capture explicit and implicit racial discrimination in organizations. Neurophysiological data, including brain activities and facial expressions, are collected while subjects watch a dynamic stimulus to capture their unconscious cognitive and emotional response to various races. This data will be triangulated with the traditional self-perceived measures of racial bias to yield a comprehensive assessment tool of racial discrimination.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mahdi Mirhoseini

Student:

Partner:

StoryBolt Corporation

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Optimal Design and Performance Analysis of Building Level Microgrids with Battery Energy Storage

In order to accelerate the transition of our electricity system to renewable sources, it is important that buildings participate effectively as distributed generators. However, traditional integration methods for solar energy often add complexity to our electricity system. With the rapidly declining costs of battery systems, building-level microgrids are becoming a viable alternative allowing buildings to generate and use renewable energy locally rather than exporting to the grid, enhancing the resilience of energy supply and improving demand profiles. The proposed work is to develop an optimization methodology to minimize the cost of energy provided by a building-level microgrid. The optimization will be applied to a set of case study buildings in order to assess the benefits of the microgrid on building performance measures including greenhouse gas emissions and grid integration indicators. This work contributes important insights to the overall smart building ecosystem being developed by WZMH Architects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alan Fung;Kristiina Valter Mai

Student:

Partner:

WZMH Architects

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Building capacity in support of wastewater-based epidemiology to aid public health decision-making in southwestern Ontario

Novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an acute respiratory disease induced by SARS-CoV-2. To date >1,000,000 deaths have been reported worldwide. Although testing capacity has expanded, Canada still faces challenges to realizing wider scale testing. A promising alternative to large-scale population testing in Canada may lie literally beneath our feet in our municipal sewer systems. This Mitacs program will measure SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA signal in wastewater system to track the trends in community infections of Windsor-Essex area and expand into London-Middlesex region. Wastewater-based epidemiology will provide an early-warning of re-emergence of infection in a community thus aiding in public health decision-making.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael McKay

Student:

Partner:

SM Research Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’un modèle de pronostic pour la maintenance prédictive des éoliennes à partir d’une modélisation hybride basée sur données et sur modèles physiques.

La transition énergétique est un des efforts nécessaires pour ralentir et limiter le réchauffement climatique et ses impacts. La mission de ce projet commun entre l’École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) et Power Factors est de favoriser l’énergie éolienne par une réduction des coûts d’opération et maintenance de ce type d’énergie. Plus précisément, notre ambition est de mieux comprendre comment les défaillances s’amorcent et évoluent dans les composants des éoliennes. Cela permettrait de bien choisir les moments des inspections et maintenances dans les parcs éoliens, ce qui a deux principaux avantages : la diminution des coûts avec maintenance, puisque ces interventions seraient moins fréquentes et plus pertinentes, et aussi le prolongement de la vie utile des machines, puisque les failles seraient corrigées avant qu’elles deviennent dangereuses. Les aboutissements de ce projet doivent permettre à l’ÉTS de faire avancer l’état de l’art en pronostic des machines et enrichir l’expertise de Power Factors dans la gestion des parcs éoliens, engendrant donc des retombés technologiques, environnementaux, et économiques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Souheil-Antoine Tahan

Student:

Partner:

Power Factors

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Business Analyst Intern

In the current Covid 19 pandemic, HackHub moved all our HackHub Class programs from Offline learning to Online learning. For the past 4 years, HackHub Classes were well known for programming and design programs in Mandrian speaking communities. Students from the lower mainland received mentorship from our industry experts, built their project base and successfully found full time positions in the tech industry. However, we are facing more competitors after we moved our programs online; competitors from North America which are well-known in the online learning field and competitors from China that we cannot compete with their pricing. We are also dealing with “online overload” from most of our target market as 90% of the HackHub students are university students, with close to100% online learning at most universities, they are reluctant to add more online learning. While we see a decrease of sales from our HackHub Class, we see increased inquiries on our HackHub Event platform. Our tech team recently added multiple new features on our Event platform to make our Event platform more current and better fit Visual Online competition and Hackathon events.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Gemino

Student:

Partner:

Hackhub

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

COVID Business Strategy – Lopez

The student will benefit by working with a fast-paced, innovative company that is making a difference in organizations. The student will be in a collaborative environment and will be encouraged to experiment with fresh marketing concepts. The student will also benefit from being immersed in our culture that is committed to growing the leadership capability in each member of our organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Matt Rahimi

Student:

Partner:

Level 52 Inc.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

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