Innovative Projects Realized

Explore thousands of successful projects resulting from collaboration between organizations and post-secondary talent.

31132 Completed Projects

2940
AB
5159
BC
837
MB
685
NL
882
SK
9291
ON
9695
QC
97
PE
601
NB
1161
NS

Projects by Category

Predictive Content Marketing Analyses

Globally, companies now spend upwards of $200B per year on on-line content marketing (CM) materials and strategies, with this expending rapidly year-over-year at double-digit rates. These activities and efforts are changing how traditional corporate sales funnels function as now, in CM driven markets, clients and customers chose to arrive into a given company’s sales funnel after having already become well-acquainted with the markets available products and services, their expected price points, and their available reviews and social media commentary. For companies active in CM it is, therefore, becoming increasingly critical to produce the right and effective CM materials at the right time in order to attract clients and customers into the sales funnel. Poor, mediocre, missing, or indifferent CM materials can even act to drive clients and customers towards competitor offerings. TO BE CONT’D

View Full Project Description
Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Neville;Thomas Darcie

Student:

Partner:

Wesley Clover (Victoria, BC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Technical debt in software-intensive systems

Technical debt is a metaphor used in software development to describe the price to pay now for earlier design and coding decisions that were “not quite right”. It is different from defects or bugs: the software functions correctly. But any subsequent development is progressively more and more expensive, to the point where they cannot be reasonably extended or maintained anymore. The proposed research is to investigate a form of technical debt hard to detect by source code analyzers, called structural or architectural debt, and to investigate the use of artificial intelligence techniques to analyse internal software documentation (in English and Chinese) to flag potential technical debt.

View Full Project Description
Faculty Supervisor:

Philippe Kruchten

Student:

Partner:

Istuary Innovation Labs Inc (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Portable Web-based GIS to Improve Deployment of GPR Investigation in the Field

Prior doing any type of construction that causes soil disturbance (digging, trenching, etc.), it is imperative to acknowledge which infrastructures such as water ducts, sewerage, electricity cables are buried. The GPR approach is recognized as performing to obtain the location and depth of underground objects but it shows some drawbacks. The proposal is to improve field survey and spatial data integration of GPR investigations by providing interoperate web and GIS capabilities available on portable device as smartphone or tablet. The solution is to add GPR data handling options in an existing Web-GIS platform called GVX. GVX-GPR will facilitate engineering and land surveyors to execute GPR surveys, allowing them to visualize in the field all relevant data from past documentation of that area as well as helping them to geo-annotate the location of objects. TO BE CONTD

View Full Project Description
Faculty Supervisor:

Jacynthe Pouliot;Richard Fortier

Student:

Partner:

Géovoxel Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Design and fabrication of transmon qubits

Despite the monumental advances made in classical computing technology over the past decades, computationally expensive tasks are still presenting daunting challenges to researchers and industry. Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize many facets of information technologies by pushing the frontiers in various fields ranging from machine learning to cryptography. This research project aims at designing and fabricating the fundamental building block of a quantum computer, a qubit, using industry standard nano-fabrication techniques. Among the many architecture candidates, we have chosen one based on Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics, arguably one of the most promising technologies. This project focuses on a specific qubit design named transmon qubit. First, a computer assisted design (CAD) will be made using Anyon Systems Inc. in-house software tools. Second, a fabrication recipe will be elaborated and tested in the University facilities. Third, the proper functioning of the device will be validated using state-of-the-art experiments.

View Full Project Description
Faculty Supervisor:

Bertrand Reulet

Student:

Partner:

Anyon Systems Inc

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Achieving aspirations of Canadian aboriginal communities through participatory cultural mapping and dynamic decision modelling – Year two

The Aboriginal housing situation in Canada is in crisis with a lack of culturally and environmentally appropriate housing. To address this need, this Mitacs Elevate project involves a collaboration between the Heiltsuk Nation (in Bella Bella, BC), the University of British Columbia, and FPInnovations. Through this project, a Participatory Approach towards Holistic Solutions (PATHS) framework was created and applied to help assess pathways with which the Heiltsuk Nation may effectively develop and implement community-led housing solutions. The PATHS framework is comprised of five steps: 1) Identifying aspirations; 2) collaboratively creating housing designs; 3) developing opportunities for housing innovations; 4) implementation of housing designs and related innovations; and, 5) reflection on the work. This Mitacs Elevate project will enable the development, implementation, and impact-benefit assessment of a Heiltsuk community-led home design. TO BE CONT’D

View Full Project Description
Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Gaston

Student:

Partner:

FPInnovations (Vancouver, BC)

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Agriculture; Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Achieving aspirations of Canadian aboriginal communities through participatory cultural mapping and dynamic decision modelling

The aspirations of aboriginal communities are a critical part of decision making regarding land and resource use, policy and community development, and strategic planning. To help achieve aboriginal aspirations, this project aims to
develop, apply, and evaluate a novel approach to aid aboriginal community decision making and solution creation/implementation. This approach builds upon current research with the Heiltsuk Nation of Bella Bella, BC, who will be the project’s partner community.
This project will use participatory action research techniques to: 1) identify community aspirations and assets, 2) spatially represent community assets, 3) co-develop housing options towards achieving aspirations, and 4) implement
and assess the selected housing options.
Benefit to Partner Organization: The post-doctoral researcher, under the mentoring of the principal investigator, will develop strong academic skills in participatory research and hands-on experience helping Aboriginal communities
achieve their goals. TO BE CONT’D

View Full Project Description
Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Gaston

Student:

Partner:

FPInnovations (Vancouver, BC);University of British Columbia

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Agriculture; Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Elevate

Panorama environnemental 2017 – Une enquête d’EcoAnalytics

L’objectif principal de ce projet est de produire une grande enquête environnementale intitulée Panorama environnemental 2017. Cette enquête, qui deviendra annuelle, vise à dresser le portrait des croyances, des priorités et des préférences environnementales des Canadiens dans les différentes régions du pays. Cette enquête cherche également à comparer l’efficacité de messages visant à communiquer au public l’état des connaissances scientifiques à l’égard des enjeux environnementaux. Les résultats de l’enquête serviront entre autres à améliorer les campagnes d’information et de sensibilisation, et permettront de mieux comprendre l’état de l’opinion publique canadienne face à l’environnement grâce aux données scientifiques obtenues.

View Full Project Description
Faculty Supervisor:

Erick Lachapelle

Student:

Partner:

Équiterre

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating how user interfaces impact scalable network displays

IOT technology is a brand new, and rapidly growing field. Currently, there are no best practices published in the design of real-time, dynamic network displays. Our project focuses on developing and testing new business processes, user personas, and design-guidelines associated with these types of displays in a real-world environment. The findings from this work will not only inform future software development at Distrix, but also aims to offer meaningful contributions to the methodology literature in information visualization and human computer interaction.

View Full Project Description
Faculty Supervisor:

Ronald A Rensink

Student:

Partner:

Distrix Networks Ltd

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Balancement des lignes de production chez un prestataire de services logistique

L’entreprise partenaire est un prestataire de services logistiques qui réalise des activités d’entreposage et des activités à valeur ajoutée pour ses clients comme la mise en conformité, l’étiquetage et le ré-étiquetage ou l’assemblage et l’emballage de certains produits finis. Ainsi, le partenaire doit réaliser et planifier des activités de production. L’entreprise croit qu’elle pourrait gagner en productivité si les gestionnaires avaient un outil pour les aider à optimiser l’assignation des employés aux différents postes de production. L’objectif principal de ce projet de recherche est de concevoir un outil informatique pour résoudre ce problème et ainsi améliorer la productivité des employés sur les lignes de production de l’entreprise partenaire.

View Full Project Description
Faculty Supervisor:

Julie Paquette;Raf Jans

Student:

Partner:

3174891 Canada Inc

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Les barrières rencontrées lors de l’implantation d’un entrepôt de données dans le secteur de la fabrication d’équipements industriels

Lorsqu’une organisation implante un projet en technologies de l’information, il y a généralement plusieurs contraintes à respecter ; le temps, la technologie, les ressources, le coût et les besoins des utilisateurs par exemple. Le grand nombre de contraintes fait en sorte que les projets sont souvent prêts en retard, avec moins de fonctionnalités que prévues et avec des dépassements de coûts importants. L’objectif de cette recherche est de comparer les situations problématiques attendues lors de l’implantation d’un projet avec les situations problématiques réelles rencontrées. Le chercheur aura un rôle participant dans l’implantation ce qui lui permettra de vivre les situations problématiques avec les intervenants ; il sera alors en mesure de récolter des informations de qualité par ses observations, ses expériences et des entrevues. Ces informations seront ensuite traduites sous forme d’étude de cas afin de contribuer à l’avancement des connaissances scientifiques. TO BE CONT’D

View Full Project Description
Faculty Supervisor:

Gregory Vial

Student:

Partner:

Premier Tech Systèmes Automatisés

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Strategic hedging and portfolio allocation with decision trees

In this project, we address the problem of designing artificial learning-based methodology adapted to currency exchange risk valuation and classification. The goal is then twofold: 1) design and implement client risk classification methodology based on currency risk exposure and, 2) study the problem of dynamical optimal allocation within currency-risk hedging portfolios using non-parametric forecasting methods. In terms of risk valuation we seek to implement state-of-the-art risk classification techniques that would allow our partner to improve the robustness of their strategies overall performance. In terms of optimal allocation in their hedging portfolios, the firm looks for alternative models that would allow them to forecast a set of currency and currency related indices and derivatives within their hedging allocation scenario-based methodology.

View Full Project Description
Faculty Supervisor:

Mathieu Boudreault;Manuel Morales

Student:

Partner:

FinMetrix Inc

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Analyse des pratiques des utilisateurs de Classcraft

Classcraft s’inscrit dans la dynamique des jeux sérieux dans un contexte éducatif en utilisant certaines mécaniques propres aux jeux de rôle, mais où les quêtes, adaptées aux objectifs pédagogiques, peuvent être définies en amont par l’enseignant tout comme le système de gratification et de sanction pour motiver l’élève. Le facteur motivationnel semble être au coeur du succès des stratégies ludiques utilisées en classe et l’utilisation du jeu de rôle dans le milieu éducatif démontre des effets positifs sur la participation, l’apprentissage et la cohésion de groupe (Gaydos, 2015 ; Greco, 2009; Silva, 2014). La spécificité qu’ajoute Classcraft repose sur la plateforme Web à laquelle les enseignants, les élèves et leurs parents peuvent accéder pour utiliser les différentes fonctionnalités et les adapter à leur milieu scolaire. Par ailleurs, cette application web génère de nombreuses données relatives aux usagers de la plateforme et à leurs activités. TO BE CONT’D

View Full Project Description
Faculty Supervisor:

Maude Bonenfant

Student:

Partner:

Classcraft Studios inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Education

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Previous
1…197198199200201202203…2,595
Next

Join a thriving innovation ecosystem.

Subscribe to our newsletter now!

Subscribe

Mitacs — Return on Innovation

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.