Innovative Projects Realized

Talent and Marketing Associate – Virtual Events

Talent Bureau connects some of Canada’s best talent – athletes, authors, speakers, entertainers with opportunities that enhance their career – speaking engagements, personal appearances, and ancillary opportunities that include brand partnership, literary, podcasting, and television deals. My role is to help implement a new offering from Talent Bureau – VirtualSpeakers.ca by exploring SEO and marketing strategies. Beyond that I will also be helping the Marketing manager with her initiatives and also conduct a brand positioning audit.

Marketing Development Associate

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Complex Biotech Discovery Ventures has had a marked decrease in sales. The company is composed predominantly of skilled scientists that create products and services, and they identified the most pressing lack of skills was in marketing and sales areas. The MBA intern will work with the VP of Operations and Business Associate to develop a professional marketing strategy and sales funnel to improve sales.

thisforest: Developing A Forest Products Traceability Program for the Coast of British Columbia

The research will look at how the ‘thisforest’ program advances the proposed traceability of timber, to
provide a value-add to relevant industry stakeholders, including members of Be Wood and the Be
Log & Timber Building Industry Association . The determination needed concerns the social and
contextual value-added from forest traceability and how same will create revenue for such
stakeholders and to what degree. Alternatively, there is the desire for the creation of a benchmark for
current timber tracking methods and the cost comparison with the thisforest traceability system.
This research will provide landowners, producers, timber brokers, and members Be Wood and of the
Be Log & Timber Building Industry Association with data to make better informed decisions on their
timber traceability needs.

Brand Manager – Marketing Assistant

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected WOW Real Estate Group’s tenants’ ability to pay rent, conduct sale showings, and other industry-stopping challenges in the real estate market. I will be assisting WOW Real Estate Group to target new customers to help keep the company’s rentals filled and completed homes getting sold. I will be conducting an analysis of current sales and current marketing initiatives including social media and the use of brand assets in order to make recommendations on an actionable marketing plan for the company moving forward.

AI-Based Fault Detection system for Mine Dewatering Systems

The removal and movement of water is an essential activity for the safe and productive operation of mines. In the mining industry pumps are often required to operate several km underground. If a pump were to fail in such a location, the results can be costly and potentially unsafe. It can be exceedingly difficult to apply conventional on-line condition monitoring systems to warn personnel of an imminent pump failure. Technosub, the industrial partner in this work, has recognized that there is presently no off-the-shelf, commercially available solution for remotely monitoring the majority of the pumps that they sell for operation in extreme locations. To address this challenge, Technosub is endeavoring to develop a small, self-contained, hardware-based fault detection device that is mounted directly to individual pumps. If a pump is about to fail, the system will then communicate this vital information to maintenance personnel. The proposed project involves the development of the computational framework for the intelligent system that will reside on the monitoring device to determine the pump’s condition. The intern on this project will gain valuable experience developing and applying advanced technologies to an industrial application.

Marketing Strategy & Content Coordinator

Envol Strategies is a people solutions firm delivering agile, cost-effective HR solutions to companies of all sizes across North America. The purpose of this role is to build a marketing strategy for our growing HR and people solutions firm. The intern will help us adapt to a post-COVID world, marketing our new mix of services and solutions to the right customers. The intern’s work will be divided into developing Envol’s marketing strategy, creating meaningful content, and driving audience engagement.

Étude sur la conciliation travail-famille et vie personnelle comme élémentde rétention des chercheurs étrangers établis au sein des territoiresrégionaux. Le cas du Bas-Saint Laurent, du Saguenay Lac St Jean et del’Abitibi Témiscamingue (UQAR, UQAC et UQAT)

Cette étude vise entre autres à mieux comprendre la gestion des dimensions temporelles (travail-famille-vie personnelle) qui conduisent à l’intégration et à la rétention des personnes immigrantes au sein des territoires régionaux du Bas-Saint Laurent/Saguenay Lac St Jean/Abitibi Témiscamingue. Elle a également pour but de favoriser des pistes d’actions desserrant le poids du travail pour favoriser la flexibilité des horaires de travail et augmenter le temps libre des chercheurs, dans une perspective d’amélioration les conditions d’intégration de rétention des chercheurs étrangers dans les universités régionales du Bas-Saint Laurent, Saguenay Lac St Jean (UQAR, UQAC et UQAT). L’objectif est de contribuer à l’avancement des connaissances sur la conciliation entre travail, vie familiale et vie professionnelle au Québec.

Sour and Sweet Corrosion Resistance of Alloys and Coatings

The oil and gas industry often contain a certain amount of CO2, H2S and chlorine compounds. H2S can cause sour corrosion and sulfide stress cracking (SSC) of stainless steels. Failures due to H2S are usually sudden with no warning. SSC is the worst type of corrosion in the presence of H2S. Many methods have been suggested to mitigate SSC and other corrosion issues in wet and sour service. Considering the design and the operation environments, the most practical solution is to change the materials of construction and select alternative material and/ coating to suit the specific need. Therefore, this proposal aims at evaluating the sour gas resistance of stainless steels and other potential corrosion-resistant alloys and coatings in sour service. This project will also increase the competitiveness of RGL in oil & gas industry by offering valuable data and experience to enhance the performance of its products for downhole applications.

Biocompatible polymers for optimisation of the production and quality of Beauveria bassiana spores

Le but de cette recherche conjointe UQÀM – Anatis Bioprotection est d’améliorer la production de

spores virulents de Beauveria Bassiana. Il fait suite au travail de formulation du projet CRSNG

Engage 2010. L’amélioration concerne la quantité et la qualité, i.e. survie, virulence et durée de vie…

AI-Based Fault Detection Development for Tele-robotically Controlled Mining Equipment

Recent years have seen many advances in the application of artificial intelligence tools in almost every industry, and the mining industry is no different. HLS Hard-Line Solutions Inc. is a leading developer and manufacturer of systems that allow mining equipment (such as trucks) to be controlled by operators, safely and comfortably from great distances, including several kilometers underground. In order to accomplish this type of control, the company must instrument the target piece of machinery with a range of sensors, cameras and control interfaces. This research aims to employ these same signals and communication systems to detect faults and mechanical problems in the mining equipment. If successful, such a fault detection system will allow maintenance personnel to be able to catch mechanical faults early, before they become serious, costly and potentially unsafe. The intern working on the project will learn how to apply valuable tools required to develop fault detection systems as well as gain a insight to the area of mining machinery and tele-operation systems. The company HLS, will gain market advantage if their products can offer the additional functionality of detecting faults in the equipment that their systems control.

Indigenous Engagement and Consultation Protocols in a Natural Resource and Mineral Rich Region: A comparison of the guidance from Indigenous Nations, Public Governments and Industry in the Golden Triangle Region

This study aims to identify the elements of Indigenous organizations’ engagement and consultation protocols, and compare with government and industry developed engagement and consultation protocols to analyze commonalities, differences and important considerations, and alignment with the United Nations Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Call to Action 92. The outcomes of this project will benefit the partner’s business activities in Canada and enhance knowledge regarding Indigenous consultation and engagement, contributing to strengthen the company’s engagement strategy in the region of the study and in Canada.

Life Cycle Assessment Tool for Comparative Assessment of Sewage Sludge Technologies

Municipalities across Canada are in need of sustainable strategies to manage their sewage sludge. The goal of this project is to create an intuitive, user-friendly software tool to evaluate the environmental and economic impacts associated with alternative sewage sludge management and disposal strategies. The project will support Kerr Wood Leidal Associates, a recognized leader in stormwater and wastewater management, continue to be a progressive leader in the domain. The model will allow Kerr Wood Leidal Associates provide municipalities with insights around the effects of conventional sewage sludge management methods relative to new, innovative ones. A particular emphasis of this project will be the relative performance of sludge-based activated carbon to mitigate the life-cycle costs and environmental effects of existing management techniques.