Innovative Projects Realized

Business Strategy Internship – Art Gallery of Hamilton

The main objective of this project is to address Goal One of the AGH Strategy for Future Success; Improving information management and systems integration for greater collaboration, efficiency and effectiveness. The goal is broken down into three enabling strategies which include; develop and implement an enterprise content management strategy; look at ways to improve system efficiency and system integration; and develop a business intelligence strategy.

Engineered Code – Harrison Phillips – Edwards BSI

Engineered Code Consulting, Inc. (ECC) is a software consulting company that provides businesses with two major services: Website and web app creation and management, and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Microsoft Dynamics 365 is a data management platform mostly focused on customer relationship management; that is, databases of customers and how those customers relate to the corporation. ECC’s projects for clients usually focus on either website creation or Dynamics, though the two can be combined using the Microsoft Power Apps platform, which ECC specializes in. The intern will review EEC’s current business processes and suggest meaningful improvements to improve efficiency. Then the intern will create a marketing strategy for EEC’s new learning management system.

Acrolab Aerospace Product Expansion – Business Strategy

Acrolab is in need of research and strategic business planning support to enable their operations to proceed successfully with expanding their product offerings within the aerospace sector.

The objective scope of this project is to prepare research to support Acrolab’s business operations as it prepares to launch a new product within the aerospace industry. Within this scope, the major activities to be undertaken include determining market/customer potential in the space sector (new and existing product), identify resources (internal and external) required to produce the product(s) and define/create the funding model to launch the product(s). If time permits during this internship, a sustainable business launch plan for Acrolab’s new product will be developed and delivered.

BenchBoss Marketing Internship

BenchBoss is an amateur basketball platform that provides coaches with the ability to track live-game stats and effortlessly share the information with players immediately after a game. Due to Covid-19, sports competition has been severely impacted which has forced BenchBoss to pivot and develop new features that teams can use to stat practice, while giving individual players the ability to stat their skill development workouts. I will be responsible for researching the benefits of tracking both team practices and individual training sessions and the impact the tracking of statistics can have to both team and individual performance levels. How many teams are tracking practices? Are these teams more successful than teams who do not track practice? Do individuals that track their progress have more growth and long-term success than individuals who don’t? I will try and answer these questions and share my information with BenchBoss so that they can properly develop these features and use the results to execute their marketing and sales strategy.

Boundary Effects on Spatial Collision Data Aggregationto Areal Units

Traffic accident data aggregation relates with boundary issues is OTS’s first project with University of
Calgary. Several years of collision data, traffic network and neighborhood will be collected from OTS.
This project contains implicit knowledge to improve the data aggregation method which has significant
impact of data sharing on neighborhood boundaries. The first part of this study will focus on literature
review and practicing existing methods to identify key factors and issues influencing the collision data
aggregation on neighborhood boundaries. The second part is to find new efficient method of data
aggregation from historical traffic safety related data. Results from the proposed study will help OTS
to prepare more reasonable and justifiable spatial collision dataset for City of Edmonton. The propose
study result expects to assist analyzing traffic accidents to reduce collision frequency and make the
City of Edmonton safe from traffic accidents.

Real Property Management Professionals Inc

Real Property Management Professionals Inc. was impacted through the financial challenges that tenants saw through astronomical job loss rates. The pandemic conveyed so much uncertainty and left tenants hesitant on the implications of government funding.
The intern’s role is to assist in overcoming pandemic rental challenges by working with tenants to secure properties affordable for their specific incomes and vacate proactive marketing to find new tenants for properties. There is a need for higher levels of safety to ensure Real Property Management Professionals Inc. is creating a socially distanced and touchless process for new tenants. An intern will allow the organization to contribute to the overall vision of leading the industry in solutions that create wealth and redefine the way you think about property management. The project contribution will bring systems to Canada that are not currently being used in the Property Management Sector and involve making long-term changes that have a national reach. Challenges that will be researched include advertising, communication, showings, maintenance and health and safety.

Plan stratégique en technologies numériques – Petit Théâtre du Vieux Noranda

Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Noranda (PTVN) est un OBNL dont le siège social est situé à Rouyn-Noranda en Abitibi-Témiscamingue et qui se définit comme « un lieu de production et de diffusion artistiques qui encourage la rencontre, la créativité et la relève ». Ses activités commerciales comprennent l’organisation de spectacles, la location de salles et d’équipements, un service de bar et un volet de création artistique en arts vivants.

Avec la crise sanitaire de la COVID-19, le PTVN doit actualiser son offre de services pour répondre aux nombreux changements du marché. Depuis 2012, l’organisme a entamé un important virage numérique qui comporte des investissements en infrastructures et l’intégration technologiques aux pratiques de création. Ce virage lui a permis d’élargir son réseau de partenaires et de se positionner comme une référence en intégration technologique dans les arts vivants au Québec. Soucieux du développement de sa communauté de proximité et désireux de poursuivre son essor par les technologies numériques, le PTVN a initié en 2018 un ambitieux projet de hub technocréatif, qui a pris une ampleur accélérée depuis le début de la crise sanitaire.

Mitacs BSI x Sport For Life Society

At Sport for Life, they do not wait for change to happen. They make it happen. They are a nationally recognized not for profit organization that consists of sport and physical literacy experts with the long-term vision necessary to be catalysts for lasting change within the sport and physical activity ecosystem and beyond. By bridging gaps between sectors, creating new collaborations with Canadian institutions, and mobilizing knowledge to communities across the country, they aim to create a future in which absolutely everyone has access to quality sport and physical literacy experiences.The four business plans/marketing plan that I will be competing for the Sport For Life Society would be focused on the following areas of the not for profit organization:
1. Metl – a tool to measure athlete’s perseverance and passion. Angela Duckworth started a worldwide conversation about the importance of GRIT in the success of athletes. Metl provides a way to evaluate and determine one’s level of GRIT.
2. elearning – campus https://sportforlife-sportpourlavie.ca/
3. PLAYBuilder http://getplaybuilder.com/
4. In-person Workshops https://sportforlife-sportpourlavie.ca/
Once completing these 4 business plans for the Sport For Life Society, it will enable the not for profit to determine how they should best invest their funds moving forward.

Baseline inventory of key biophysical and geomorphological features along the Lulu Island foreshore and the potential effects of sea level rise on marsh vegetation communities and restoration efforts

This research focuses on creating and implementing a sampling methodology to collect information on vegetation communities and soils along the Lulu Island foreshore in Steveston, BC. This information will be used to examine how the plant communities of natural marsh areas in this area change based on certain environmental parameters (e.g. elevation, salinity, tidal inundation) and how foreshore marsh areas may be impacted by sea level rise. Researchers and organizations may replicate these methods to monitor changes in the Lulu Island marsh vegetation community over time or project managers and agencies may wish to replicate these methods at restoration and compensation sites to adaptively manage their projects. Baseline data collected may also help to inform organizations conducting restoration in this area (e.g. Raincoast) and may help to guide future restoration efforts.

Intelligent Analysis of Regulatory Documents using Deep Neural Networks

The Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) documents should be deconstructed by experts to create action items to track compliance performance, audits, or for compliance certification. Modifications in the regulations, changes in the site conditions, mergers and acquisitions occur frequently and should be processed by experts. The manual processing of the text documents to extract different components of a regulatory content including tables, cover pages, etc requires a lot of effort, and is time consuming and error prone. The automation of this process helps reducing these drawbacks. The automatic extraction of these components is challenging due to non-standardized text structure and heterogeneous documents. This research project will provide solutions for automatic extraction of different components from EHS documents using machine learning and natural language processing techniques. The results of this project are new algorithms and automation tools and will benefit the ehsAI and Canadian companies in the EHS fields directly. The developed techniques are expected to be applied in other areas such as Software companies.

Infra-Climate Hybrid Bridge Design System

Integral Abutment Bridges (IABs) are unique structures in the sense that they are rigid compared to typical bridges that have bearing connections. Bridges are designed to withstand forces sourcing from its own weight and ongoing traffic as well as temperature forces. As the temperature varies (cyclic in nature), the bridge experiences contraction and expansion forces that result in varying internal stresses within the structure that causes the bridge to wear. As the effects of global warming include an increase in the earth’s temperature, the extent that the bridge moves increases, thus increasing the pressure in the bridge. To visualize how much these bridges are affected, a software simulation is used to help predict their behavior. The developed system is of great importance to all departments of transportation in Canada and worldwide and to practicing engineers who are actively involved in the design and management of IABs.

Technologisation de l’entraînement de boxe et contrôle de l’anxiété: mise en relation des marqueurs biologiques et psychologiques avec l’anxiété et la charge d’entraînement

La boxe est un sport très exigeant sur les plans physique et psychologique de sorte que le boxeur doit posséder des traits de personnalité bien spécifique afin d’accéder au niveau supérieur. Bien que le caractère soit une dimension importante, le combattant aura plusieurs obstacles à confronter lors de sa carrière modifiant ainsi ces réactions à l’approche des combats. L’un des états importants pouvant nuire à la performance est celui de l’anxiété. En effet, une anxiété mal contrôlée peut nuire considérablement à la performance et à la santé de l’athlète. L’objectif de cette étude est de démontrer que l’intégration de nouvelles technologies, de points de contrôle physiologiques lors des camps d’entraînement et d’un entraînement polarisé améliora le contrôle de l’anxiété et la gestion de stress en situation de combats afin d’éviter une diminution des performances.