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COVID-19 Screening MVP Launch of Animated Virutal Agent by CloudConstable

The COVID-19 Screening launch is CloudConstable’s latest innovation to implement Artificial Intelligence to protect members of an organization and the public through technological advancements of both hardware and software design. This includes the usage of temperature sensors, facial recognition, data security through cloud solutions, and present AI to direct and ask questions of the users. Implementing AI technology can have a both societal and organizational challenges. By being involved within their screening solutions at the Ontario Regiment RCAC museum in Oshawa, being potentially involved with one or more local customer, and giving meaningful testing and feedback will ensure safe launch of the AI Cloud tool. In addition, using relative knowledge of Human Resource and Business Functions will help understand the challenges of implementing A.I. as well as help the partner organization create and assist with business planning and commercialization. This in turn will be both a learning opportunity for both parties as well as making a larger impact for the future of Canada and its people.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Podolsky

Student:

Partner:

CloudConstable

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

York University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Business Development intern

TrustD.space is a digital community hub for organizations where members connect to share skills, knowledge and events online. Their software is tailored to various community stakeholders from students to entrepreneurs and residents and aims to provide a safe, secure and innovative online platform to stay connected. TrustD provides the tools to increase member engagement by making it easy for members to share skills, crowd source knowledge and find engaging events. The project primarily comprises of Business development focusing on improving sales margins and bolstering their marketing plan. The role encompasses identifying ways to improve marketing efforts, developing and maintaining content and designing and presenting new social media campaign ideas. It also requires conducting due diligence through industry analysis and engaging with potential customers by running project demos and preparing promotional presentations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yolande Chan

Student:

Partner:

TrustD.Space

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Quinn Min_Titan Boats

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected Titan Boats on many different levels throughout the company. We have lost contracts from clients in the Tourism industry with multiple boats that were in the progress of being made now sitting half-built with no buyer. Aside from this immediate affect in sales, it has also forced us to unexpectedly invest in extra personal protective equipment for our staff. Being moved to remote working has challenged our ability to communicate and caused delays due to reorganization and creating new setups. An internship student would be a huge boost to our company during this time. We need help creating new HR policies and procedures to adjust to all the changes as well as help analyzing general workflow issues caused by COVID.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ignace Ng

Student:

Partner:

Titan Boats Ltd.

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Drug Free Kids

Drug Free Kids Canada (DFKC) is a Canadian, independent, registered charity whose vision is to ensure that all young people will be able to live their lives free of problematic drug use. DFKC accomplishes this by educating and empowering parents and supportive adults to have non-judgemental dialogue with kids at every stage. The organization is a leading curator of information that is evidence-based, current and credible and provides information and resources to prevent problematic substance use among kids. Anna-Maria will aid in creating sustainability for the organization by providing valuable data to the funding efforts. This will be achieved by updating and quantifying the Social Return on Investment of DFK’s education/prevention activities to provide credibility to support ongoing funding efforts. Moreover, she will determine what services, information, education and/or support can be monetized. Importantly, the questions of how to best to market this engagement and to whom will need to be answered. Collectively, this information will be leveraged to create a business case to build a foundation for a revenue stream that is sustainable and impactful by engaging organizations to become stewards of the health for the next generation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leonard Waverman

Student:

Partner:

Drug Free Kids

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Qubit Systems Business Development Intern

Qubit Systems designs and builds instrumentation for research and teaching in the biological sciences. Founded 25 years ago, the company sells equipment to universities, research institutes and commercial entities worldwide. Products are used across the entire spectrum of the biological sciences including bioreactors to cultivate algae and bacteria; respirometers to monitor the metabolic activity of fish; insects and mammals; portable systems for monitoring photosynthesis in plants; analysers for measuring greenhouse gas emissions; and wearable systems for evaluating the cardiovascular fitness of human subjects. A current focus is the development of a low-cost line of products for monitoring personal fitness by direct measurement of metabolic rate. Such cardiopulmonary exercise (CPX) equipment measures the rate of O2 consumption (VO2) and/or CO2 production (VCO2) by a person wearing a face mask, and is the only scientifically proven method for fitness evaluation. To date such equipment has only been available at considerable cost, but Qubit aims to bring it into the realm of the recreational athlete and also make it available for individuals concerned about weight loss and diet.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elspeth Murray

Student:

Partner:

Qubit Systems

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

A case study exploring the experiences of Black students in Canadian Higher Education studying English or Science

An exploration of undergraduate Black students’ experience of higher education at the Univerisity of Calgary. In order to explore the experiences of Black students who specifically study English or Science at the univeristy, we intend to recruit at least five undergraduate students from each subject, and conduct a group semi-structured interview with each group about their experiences of the universitiy. These interviews will be video recorded in order to distinguish the speakers. Discourse analysis will be used to analyse all of the data and it will be used to write a paper and findings will be shared in a conference.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jennifer Adams

Student:

Partner:

University of Oxford

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Entertainment and Media

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Remote sensing for understanding air-ice-sea gas exchange over landfast sea ice during spring melt season in the Canadian Archipelago

Our ability to model the air-sea exchange of CO2 with confidence in the Polar Oceans, a key component of global climate systems, is currently limited due to critical gaps in our understanding of the relationship and interactions between the air, sea, atmosphere and ice. This includes ice-driven CO2 fluxes during Spring melt season. Eddy covariance techniques provide the best available method to measure direct air-ice-sea fluxes of CO2. Qikirtaarjuk Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago hosts the only permanent eddy covariance system in the world; the site continuously measures fluxes over landfast sea ice. During the placement drones and fixed point cameras will be used to collect fine-scale in-situ observations of sea ice and melt ponds in the footprint of the EC equipment over the Spring melt season. Combining these with direct CO2 flux measurements made by the tower will provide a dataset from which new understanding of the relationship between Arctic oceanic CO2 uptake, sea ice and melt pond dynamics can be obtained.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brent Else

Student:

Partner:

University of Exeter

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Quantifying the impact of 3D effects on 3D Electrical Resistivity Tomography data at Mactaquac Dam, New Brunswick

Geophysical techniques are being increasingly used to monitor the structural conditions of dams, due to their widespread coverage and ability to detect subsurface issues, such as the development of seepage pathways. One such technique is Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT), which is sensitive to moisture content and porosity, meaning it can be useful for detecting areas of potential seepage, and therefore parts of the dam which are failing.
Analysis of geophysical data often requires computer models. In my PhD I have been exploring how such models can lead to incorrect interpretations if the 3D geometry of the site or dynamic variation in water levels adjacent to the dam are not accounted for. This exchange will allow me to apply some of the approaches I have been working on to an established site in Canada where geophysical techniques have been applied. I anticipate that the work will enable greater certainties in data interpretations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Karl Butler

Student:

Partner:

Lancaster University

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Energy and Utilities; Environmental Science and Technology; Water

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Social Lead Identification

Millions of people post information on social media sites about their interests, preferences, opinions etc. on a daily basis. LeadSift mines this data stream in real-time to generate incredibly accurate and targeted sales leads. Given the short text and ambiguity around a social post, it gets very difficult to accurately identify intent. This project will explore different Natural Language Processing techniques to analyze the inherent semantic structure of social posts. Due the real-time nature of the social data, the algorithms need to be extremely efficient and scalable. The expected benefit to LeadSift will be dramatic improvement in the quality of the sales leads we can generate from socia media

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vlado Keselj

Student:

Partner:

LeadSift

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Elevate

La prise en compte des enjeux associés à l’eau dans l’élaboration d’un plan d’adaptation aux changements climatiques d’une MRC rurale, étude de cas de la MRC des Sources

L’ampleur et la vitesse des changements climatiques nécessitent une intervention forte en matière de réduction des émissions de GES mais aussi, à court et moyen terme, le déploiement de plans d’adaptation permettant une réduction des impacts environnementaux, sociaux, économiques et de santé humaine. Ces plans d’adaptation ont une forte assise régionale et les organismes régionaux, notamment les MRC, ont un rôle stratégique à jouer dans la conception et le déploiement de ces plans d’adaptation. Le présent projet vise à identifier et documenter les enjeux stratégiques associés à l’eau et proposer des mesures d’adaptation et d’outils d’aide à la décision permettant une meilleure prise en compte de ces enjeux dans le cadre de l’élaboration d’un plan global d’adaptation aux changements climatiques pour la MRC des Sources. Pour réaliser à bien ce projet, la stagiaire bénéficiera de l’appui scientifique et logistique d’Ouranos, le consortium de recherche spécialisé sur les questions de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alain Webster

Student:

Partner:

Ouranos Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Accommodation and food services; Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Placemaking and cosmology in Tsimshian rock art

A close relationship with the land is an integral part of the worldview of Tsimshian people, whose territory is on the northern coast of North America. Key places were marked as pictographs and petroglyphs (rock art), many of which are recorded as specific events in Tsimshianic oral tradition. This project seeks to advance the understanding of these places and landscapes by developing more advanced methods of digital recording using 3D modelling from photogrammetry at rock art locations and Geographical Information System (GIS) for regional patterns. The result will be a richer understanding of these locations, landscapes, and histories. One of the most important outcomes of this project is that it will strengthen the relationships between Indigenous communities, the scientific community and the public by sharing our gained knowledge. Archaeology has a remarkable way of bringing people together.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Martindale

Student:

Partner:

Durham University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Demystifying Maritime Governance:Analysis of the frameworks and emerging issues for the governance of shipping in Canada

This project will undertake research on the governance of shipping Canada (a) to explain its global and domestic structures, frameworks, actors, interconnections, and processes in the simplest terms possible and (b) to analyse contemporary major drivers of change in the system. Four transformative issue areas will be addressed, namely the interface between shipping and Indigenous rights, the significance of marine spatial planning for shipping, the growing role of risk governance and self- regulation, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the occupational health and safety of seafarers. The project will draw upon the continuity between international and domestic regulation and administration of shipping, highlighting differences in approaches in the Atlantic, Arctic, Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway, and Pacific regions, as well as roles for federal, provincial, territorial, and Indigenous governments.
The project aims at enhancing general understanding of the complexity of governance of shipping to better inform decision makers, rights holders and stakeholders tasked with shipping issues and to better contextualize public debates on such issues. Accordingly, the principal impact of this project is educational. The project anticipates a range of deliverables for the various audiences.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aldo Chircop;Desai Shan

Student:

Partner:

Clear Seas

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Transportation (excluding aerospace)

University:

Dalhousie 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.