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Ajustement de la stratégie de planification des opérations de balayage printanier pour faire face aux principales sources d’incertitudes et d’aléas de la COVID-19

Le projet vise à aider la PME à ajuster sa stratégie en matière de planification de ses activités de balayage printanier afin de faire face à la nouvelle réalité d’affaires en gestion des opérations causée par la COVID-19. À terme, la stratégie proposée doit aboutir à une meilleure gestion par une planification efficiente de la logistique de ses opérations. Ce stage présente une opportunité pour le partenaire industriel pour améliorer ses processus internes dans le contexte de crise et par conséquent, procurer au secteur plus d’immunité à confronter les aléas conjoncturels et systématiser la gestion opérationnelle au niveau de la planification des opérations de balayage.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-François Audy

Student:

Partner:

Arseno Balayage

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Fortune Label Inc. – Digital Marketing and Transformation

The overarching goal of this project will be to strengthen organic, and possibly paid, traffic to build company credibility and generate leads for the sales pipeline by developing an online presence within the B2B manufacturing market prior to a Merger and Acquisition. The project will include website development, Search Engine Optimization, User Experience maximization, as well as content creation and Social Media Marketing campaigns integrated with sales channels. The specific contributions that the project will provide is setting up the company with the tools and resources to maximize sales and profits by the time the acquisition process begins. Since Fortune Label does not currently have any online presence, that adds a layer of difficulty to an M&A because the brand is unknown and not fully credible to the market, and there’s also little ability to consistently generate leads. Thus, Fortune Label’s potential to generate revenue will be undervalued in the event of an M&A. Through the project, however, we will be able to provide a family-owned business with the ability to maximize its market value, thus providing a robust platform to negotiate the best possible price for the company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Arcan Nalca

Student:

Partner:

Fortune Label

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Smith x Mitacs Internship

The vast disruptions to modern supply chains and customer channels due to the implications of COVID-19 are forcing many small-medium enterprises to adapt and alter business models. This project will seek to research, create, and deploy alternative supply chain models and customer selling channels for the partner organization in order to access new customer demographics and adapt to changing consumer behaviors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elspeth Murray

Student:

Partner:

AllPlus

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Wholesale trade

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Business Strategy Internship

Accurate Image Geo-Localization using Smartphones

To improve traveller services in train stations, SNCF and Keolis Canada seek to develop a mobile application for real-time geo-localisation based on still images captured by the user on its smartphone. This would allow guidance through the station and provide key information. This project will develop a Deep Learning (DL) model for accurate and real-time image-based geo-localisation, relying on novel computer vision and trained by image datasets previously collected and anonymized by SNCF. The DL model will allow for context-aware recognition, and for progressive pruning and knowledge distillation of deep networks. A mobile application compatible with Android and iOS operating systems, providing 2D classical visualisation, will also be developed with the constraints of limited processing resources (memory complexity and energy consumption). This cross-disciplinary project will train highly qualified personnel to face challenges in areas of strategic interest. It will intensify the exchange of ideas around new DL models in visual recognition applications, using large and unlabeled datasets. Findings will be disseminated in high caliber scientific journals and exploited in SNCF and Keolis applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Éric Granger

Student:

Partner:

Keolis Canada;SNCF

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Research on Data and Operation Transformation Techniques

Considering the fact that software is deployed on open devices (such as PCs, tablets, smartphone, etc.), White-Box Cryptography (WBC) that protects security software is becoming an essential technology. In the software security industry, there is an ongoing research on new methods to perform WBC and, more specifically, to design data transformation algorithms that are robust against tampering and attacks in the open software context. This internship will familiarize Irdeto, a software security company, with the new topics and advancements in digital communication and information theory concerning data transformations. This internship also aims to develop new methods and techniques utilizing new literature, as well as integrating the new ideas with the current methods available at Irdeto. Prototyping, documentation and contribution to the literature are essential parts of this internship as well.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amir Banihashemi;loannis lambadaris

Student:

Partner:

Irdeto Canada (Kanata, ON);Carleton University

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Automatic Question-Answer Generation from Educational Texts

As online educational platforms and blogs such as Coursera, Edublog, Korbit Technologies Inc. etc. are becoming increasingly popular, a great way for students to learn is to solve QA problems on educational texts. Students also learn by getting answers to their questions. Since manual QA generation of huge content of educational texts seems impracticable, an important research goal is to create natural question-answer generation systems from reading comprehension materials. Neural sequential models (e.g. LSTMs, Transformers etc.) are able to generate natural questions by paying attention to important part of texts and have improved state-of-the-art on many QA datasets, and also helped develop new datasets. In this research project, we will investigate how we can leverage current state-of-the-art NLP neural models for question-answering generation. We are equally interested in identifying lesser worked areas such as conversational QA (which helps develop intelligent agents that can drive QA style conversations and test user understanding of passage), exploiting active learning by querying the student for questions in-case of insufficient labelled data), crowdsourcing educational blogs for use in building QA models.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Siva Reddy

Student:

Partner:

Korbit Technologies

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Détermination des substrats optimaux favorisant la germination de deux plantes à effet allélopathique : Kalmia angustifolia L., et Rhododendron groenlandicum

Au Québec, il arrive que les parcs à résidus miniers produiisent du drainage minier acide (de l’eau acide qui s’écoule dans l’environnement). Ce problème se doit d’être corrigé. Recouvrir les matériaux qui produisent ce drainage pourrait être une solution efficace. Le recouvrement, appelé couverture à effets de barriers capillaires (CEBC) se fait avec différents matériaux tels que le gravier, le sable et la roche. Cependant, au fil du temps, des arbres poussent sur la CEBC et risquent de l’altérer à cause de leurs racines profondes. Installer des plants à effet allélopathique sur les CEBC pourrait s’avérer être une solution prometteuse. L’allélopathie est un processus par lequel la germination et/ou la croissance d’une plante sont inhibées par des composés chimiques libérés dans l’environnement par une autre plante. Le kalmia à feuilles étroites et le thé du Labrador sont des plantes…tobecont’d…

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Faculty Supervisor:

Francine Tremblay

Student:

Partner:

Centre technologique des résidus industriels;Centre jardin lac Pelletier

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Program:

Accelerate

Terahertz Surface Plasmon Near-Field Sensor for Material SensingApplications

In this project, we plan to address the specific problem that TeTechS Inc is facing at this stage of
its product development project, which is collecting a complete set of measurement data for an
array of organic materials with different levels of purity and demonstrate the capability of its
proprietary terahertz sensing techniques to qualify and quantify purity and integrity of organic LED
(OLED) materials with the level of precision required in OLED deposition and material purification
processes. Materials used in organic electronics pose a significant opportunity for terahertz
measurement applications. TeTechS have performed research on a subset of materials used in
organic electronics can demonstrate the effectiveness of its measurement system in detection
and quantification of the materials signatures. We believe that TeTechS’ technology can serve in
many stages of organic electronics production and enhance the quality of end products in the
organic electronic industry. There is currently no terahertz system on the market to address this
problem in the…TOBECONT’D…

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bo Cui

Student:

Partner:

TeTechs Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Développer le leadership et améliorer le fonctionnement des équipes : Développer et évaluer des interventions basées sur les données probantes en entreprise

Dirigeants et chercheurs insistent sur l’importance du développement du leadership pour assurer un fonctionnement organisationnel optimal. Les études qui se sont attardées au développement du leadership stipulent que les programmes utilisés à cette fin doivent être développés en se reposant davantage sur la logique de l’utilisation des données probantes en gestion (evidence-based management) pour en assurer l’efficacité. Par ailleurs, au-delà des compétences développées par les participants à ces programmes, il apparaît important de tenter de mieux circonscrire l’impact de leur participation sur l’évolution de leur posture de leader. Il apparaît également essentiel de chercher à comprendre en quoi certaines caractéristiques individuelles facilitent le développement des gestionnaires qui prennent part à ce type de programmes. Il est proposé de mettre en place une recherche-action visant à utiliser les connaissances scientifiques actuelles pour contribuer à l’élaboration d’un programme de développement du leadership d’une entreprise et d’en valider les impacts sur les participants et les équipes. Ce projet propose d’adopter un devis de recherche mixte pour guider le design, l’implantation et la validation d’un tel programme. En mettant en place cette recherche-action, les parties prenantes espèrent que leurs efforts permettront de contribuer aux connaissances scientifiques tout en fournissant des pistes d’action concrètes TBCONTINUED

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simon Grenier

Student:

Partner:

Énergir

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Mining; Transportation and warehousing; Utilities; Wholesale trade

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Perennial grains for fall grazing of beef cattle

Perennial grains, especially domesticated intermediate wheatgrass (IWG), are approaching commercialization as food crops. Due to the perennial nature of this crop i.e. multiple seed harvest (years) off of a single planting, grazing of post-harvest regrowth in the late fall would provide added value to beef producers, helping to sustain Canada’s beef industry. This project aims to evaluate the agronomic benefits of producing perennial grains, both on its own and in conjunction with a perennial legume, and the added benefits of grazing the post-harvest regrowth to both beef producer and grain producers. This project aligns with the objective of Manitoba Beef Producers to improve the competitiveness of beef producers in an economically and environmentally sustainable way and will provide valuable information that will be disseminated through a variety of technology transfer activities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Doug Cattani

Student:

Partner:

Manitoba Cattle Producers Association

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a CSA Standard on Geotechnical Design for Buildings

The National Building Code of Canada (and hence Canada) currently lacks an enforceable minimum safety standard for the design of its foundations. It is becoming increasingly apparent to the geotechnical community that the lack of a minimum standard of practice for such a critical component of each building, its foundation, leads to either inefficient designs, and so a waste of limited funds, or to designs which fall below a societally acceptable level of safety. At the moment, building foundations in Canada are designed using either manuals or codes of practice from other jurisdictions (e.g., the Eurocode), so that there is no enforceable minimum safety standard for building foundations in Canada.
A task group of the National Building Code of Canada has developed a geotechnical design code which will eventually become a CSA Standard on Geotechnical Design for Buildings. The only remaining need now is the calibration of the code design factors required to achieve minimum safety levels for building foundations. The objective of this research project is to determine the required design factors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gordon Fenton

Student:

Partner:

CSA Group

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Redesign of a commercial across-breed genetic evaluation system and in-silico investigations of resulting system performance and flexibility.

Genetic improvement is core to the long-term productivity and viability of all livestock industries. A review of crossbred genetic evaluation methods and approaches for national and international genetic improvement programs will determine the necessary improvements to make to AgSights’ genetic evaluation system (GES). Research will be conducted on hardware, software packages and statistical methods best suited to achieve these improvements. Research results that will be used to redevelop AgSights’ GES. New types of information captured on-farm will be researched and simulated, including the use of DNA information, determining the preparedness and feasibility of the new AgSights GES at meeting emerging beef industry needs. Upon completion AgSights will provide a new GES with improved performance and flexibility, broadening their potential market. The Canadian beef industry will benefit through access to a GES capable of managing existing and novel beef cattle information from a variety of breed make-ups, resulting in increased animal genetic improvement and increased productivity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Angela Canovas

Student:

Partner:

AgSights

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

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