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Management of public greenspace to improve urban environmental and social services

The current aesthetic of urban greenspaces as uniform lawns creates a variety of environmental and social-medical issues. Highly managed lawns not only reduce urban biodiversity and contribute to greenhouse gas emission but are also susceptible to invasions from nuisance pests and highly allergenic weeds. This project builds on existing research in the City of Trois-Rivières to investigate the ecological, social, and economic benefits of low-impact greenspace management. Partnerships with the Innovation et Developpement Economique Trois-Rivières will permit large scale field trials of different management methods and integration of this approach into public greenspace management. The project will provide practical methods to reduce public and private costs associated with lawn maintenance to promote healthy, resilient urban greenspaces that enhance biodiversity, reduce pest and allergen abundance, and improve both public health and the usability of greenspaces.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Raphael Proulx

Student:

Partner:

Innovation et Développement Économique Trois-Rivières

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Development and Assessment of Cognitive Workload Toolkit for Atlas Copco Operators in Manufacturing

Understanding cognitive workload of the operator is paramount in Ergonomics. Despite the danger that human factors like distraction, inattention and mental stress have on operators’ performance, little is known on how to measure operators’ cognitive load and mental state in a reliable and valid fashion. Atlas Copco is at the forefront of designing adaptive tools that minimize the risk of injuries. This partnership with Dr. Biondi, a Cognitive Ergonomics expert, at the University of Windsor will allow Atlas Copco to develop a comprehensive toolkit for the assessment of mental state during manufacturing tasks. Dr. Biondi and the intern will also conduct lab testing to examine the extent to which reliable cognitive workload metrics borrowed from other fields of Human Factors can be adopted in dynamic, mobile manufacturing settings. The development of the Cognitive Workload Toolkit will inform on viable metrics of cognitive workload and help design next generation Atlas Copco tools.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Francesco Biondi;Joel Cort;Cheri McGowan

Student:

Partner:

Atlas Copco Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Lignin-based Polymers and Nanomaterials for High Performance Engineering Applications

Lignin, a substance in the cell walls of plants, is produced as a waste when wood is processed into pulps, papers, and similar products. In addition, this organic polymer exists in massive waste wood chips generated by various forestry and wood processing industry sectors. To advance the circular economy and diversify forestry products, there has been a recent surge of interest to isolate and reuse lignin, especially in manufacturing of novel bioplastics and lignin-based nanomaterials. Advanced BioCarbon 3D (ABC3D) is a startup company based in Trail BC which has developed a proprietary method to extract lignin from waste wood. This project aims to develop a wide range of innovative products from ABC3D lignins, including polymer/lignin blends for high performance 3D printing filaments, and lignin-based carbon fibers for energy storage and composite reinforcement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Parisa Mehrkhodavandi;Savvas G Hatzikiriakos;Frank Ko;Laurel L Schafer;Abbas Sadeghzadeh Milani;Frank Ko;Parisa Mehrkhodavandi;Abbas Sadeghzadeh Milani

Student:

Partner:

Advanced BioCarbon 3D Ltd

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia; The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Wise Practices in Indigenous Entrepreneurship Education

In partnership with Tribal Resource Investment Corporation (TRICORP), the University of Victoria (UVic) Gustavson School of Business co-created and designed the Aboriginal Canadian Entrepreneurs (ACE) program. The ACE program provides entrepreneurial training, mentorship and coaching for members of First Nations communities, governments and financial institutions in their home communities. While the ACE program has made tremendous effort to weave Indigenous ways of knowing with “mainstream” entrepreneurship, past and present ACE students have continuously asked for more culturally relevant approaches to business and entrepreneurial education in Indigenous communities. This proposed research will seek to improve the curriculum of the ACE program by further exploring entrepreneurial business education through a wise practice lens. “Wise practices” are locally and culturally appropriate practices and principles (Wesley-Esquimaux & Calliou, 2010). The proposed research project would use the ACE program to identify the “wise practices” for business and entrepreneurial education and measure how it affects student outcomes, success, and learning using participatory action research (PAR) and other culturally appropriate qualitative methods.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brent Mainprize

Student:

Partner:

Tribal Resources Investment Corporation

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Public administration

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

LiDAR-based object detection and tracking for real-time parking availability monitoring

This project will develop a smart parking solution, including both hardware sensors and the analytics platform, that provides real-time parking availability data, which can support decision makings, such as policy refinements, demand-responsive pricing, etc. Our project aims to optimize the rate of parking facilities’ utilization as well as improving drivers’ parking experience. In terms of urban planning, our solution will reduce traffic congestion, carbon emission, parking-related accidents and frustration, creating a more habitable community. This project will be a showcase of our expertise in LiDAR-related technology. The development of the project will help Akasha Technology Inc. to improve our reputation in the 3D mapping industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kin Fun Li

Student:

Partner:

Akasha Technology Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Tackling Food Insecurity through Innovations in Collaborative Food Systems Governance

Food security is a growing concern in communities across Canada, along with a host of other challenges impacting the health and equity outcomes of our food system. Municipalities, whether big or small, find themselves at the front lines of these issues and there is growing recognition of the potential for municipalities to play a leading role in addressing food security and promoting healthy sustainable food systems. At the same time, there is growing interest in developing collaborative and inclusive approaches to food policy and food governance – the relationships, rules, practices and structures through which power and control are exercised and decisions are made over how food is produced/harvested, processed, distributed and consumed. This project brings these two elements together, to explore, model and evaluate innovative approaches to municipal food governance that enable governments and civil society actors to be active partners in fighting hunger in their communities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amanda Wilson;Julie Châteauvert

Student:

Partner:

Makeway Charitable Society

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Saint Paul University

Program:

Accelerate

Explaining security compliance failures in Network Function Virtualization environment through root cause analysis

The objective of this project is to elaborate an automated and scalable approach to assist security analyst in investigating and identifying underlying key cause (or causes) behind security or compliance failures of network services in NFV-based environment. Finding the root cause allows appropriate and achievable actions to be taken to recover or/and prevent the recurrence of the same situation leading to the failure. More precisely, we propose to design an approach that, based on a reported incident or compliance failure, can assist a security analyst to investigate and report the principal possible root causes. As a proof of concept, we plan to implement the approach in a tool that can be deployed in NFV-enabled environment and eventually integrated in an opensource tools/framework. To evaluate the proposed approach, we plan to perform experiments on runtime performance and storage consumption of such a solution and to implement use cases to show the applicability of our approach.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lingyu Wang

Student:

Partner:

Ericsson Canada Inc (Quebec)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Construction d’une approche d’analyse de la liberté d’exploitation adaptéeaux produits biologiques

La presente recherche traite de l’evaluation des risques faisant obstacle a la liberte d’exploitation (FTO) d’un produit biologique, tel que levaccin XX d’influenza developpe par Medicago®. Elle correspond a la derniere etape du systeme de controle P.I. et a, notamment, pour objet d’identifier de nouveaux risques, mais egalement de mettre a jour taus les risques prealablement identifies. Elle vise egalement a evaluer et caracteriser les couvertures P.I. entourant le vaccin (marques de commerce, brevets, secrets commerciaux, licences, etc.) sur les juridictions pertinentes. De plus, la presente recherche permettra de fournir des strategies et recommandations concernant les obstacles identifies afin de mitiger les risques de miner les investissements deployes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Grégoire Leclair

Student:

Partner:

Medicago R&D Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Biotechnology; Pharmaceuticals; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Development of models to monitor vitamin D activity

Vitamin D compounds are being developed for the treatment of chronic kidney disease. The purpose of this proposal is to develop a cell-based screening platform that will allow the rapid assessment of relative efficacy of a library of compounds. The intern will use recombinant DNA methodology to generate a cell-based assay in which the green fluorescence protein will be inserted into a vitamin D responsive gene; thus, permitting the visualization of vitamin D signaling in real-time. This same recombinant DNA construct will be designed in such a way that it can be further used to establish a line of mice in which tissues responding to vitamin D compounds will “glow”. This may permit the visualization of pharmacodynamic properties of compounds in live animals.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Glenville Jones

Student:

Partner:

Cytochroma Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Classifying Innovation Management Forms Using Ontology Reasoning

In this project, the goal is first to design a domain ontology that models the innovation management forms semantically. At this step, the ontology contains domain-specific background knowledge, which is expressed using terminological statements. Then every completed form and the value of its fields are asserted as instances of different concepts of the ontology. Afterwards, an ontology reasoning algorithm is deployed to classify every completed form into various categories defined in the ontology. This method enables us to determine a form’s category based on its fields, even if it is not associated with a form name or number. The company will use the designed ontology and the devolved system as part of its intelligent innovation management.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Volker Haarslev

Student:

Partner:

Group Uni3T

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Gas-Diversion Detection Techniques using Guided Wave Ultrasonic Testing

Detection of natural gas diversion in residential pipelines is important for public safety. To maintain utilities companies’ reputation and customer satisfaction, such diversion must be detected in a nonintrusive manner, without digging or using endoscope cameras. Thus, it is important to develop techniques for residential gas pipeline diagnosis using an external small device that can detect a diversion if it exists, and determine its location. The goal of this project is to develop non-intrusive diversion detection and localization techniques using ultrasound signals and signal processing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anas Chaaban

Student:

Partner:

FortisBC Energy Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Utilities

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Developing a Compact, Medium Range 3D Imaging LiDAR System

The main technical objective for the intern is to contribute in developing a breadboard that utilizes the laser, receiver and scanner technologies and create a potentially very small lidar.
The intern other objectives might also include:
• Investigate the transmitter choices and down?select the best one
• Examine the available detector arrays
• Evaluate whether MEMS mirrors can be used for low?power, high?frame rate applications
Adoption of compact lidar technologies is critical for Optech to remain competitive in the expanding market for lidar solutions. Optech’s traditional single?detector lidar design remains the preferred approach for the traditional civilian survey and mapping market– however, Optech has identified several growth opportunities which will require the integration of miniaturized and robust lidar technology. The application of active imaging systems for terrestrial topographic survey/mapping, rover navigation, proximity operations and rendezvous/docking will greatly benefit from this new architecture’s ability to minimize the SWaP and simultaneously maximize range and resolution for mapping applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ahmed Shaker Abdelrahman

Student:

Partner:

Teledyne Optech

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

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