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Evaluating the impact of bicycle behaviour on safety

Bicycling count data (exposure) are difficult to collect but are vital to understanding the safety of different routes. Crowdsourced exposure data collected through fitness apps such as Strava Metro can provide bicycling exposure data with better spatial and temporal coverage than manual or automatic counts. Efforts are underway in cities throughout Canada and the US to use Strava data to estimate both the number of bicyclists at each segment in road network, as well as to characterize the type of exposure based on patterns in the data through time (e.g. commuting versus recreational bicycling). The student (Mr. Branion-Calles) will utilize data from Ottawa, Canada as a case study to develop a statistical model of bicycling crash risk at the network level. The integration of both overall exposure and the type of exposure, into crash risk models can provide insight into the drivers of differences in safety between physical route characteristics. Network level crash risk models for bicycling are rare, and none have included temporal characterizations of exposure, rather they assume all exposure is equal. The expected outcome is one manuscript for peer-review in a scientific journal.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Meghan Winters

Student:

Partner:

Arizona State University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Transportation (excluding aerospace); Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Shrinkage of polymer coatings on wood veneers in aircraft structures:understanding the causes of the problem and possible solution

A common problem in aircraft cabinetry is deterioration of high gloss finishes, giving an “orange-peel
look”, which is attributed to some kind of dimensional instability. This can be related to the veneer, the
varnish, their interactions and how they evolve over time and in different environmental conditions
(temperature and humidity) to which the aircraft cabinetry are exposed during their manufacturing and
usage. This problem is costly to Bombardier Aerospace, who must frequently rework the cabinetry
surfaces. 3M Canada is interested in providing solutions. Therefore, in this project, which involves
both polymer chemists and wood scientists, our goal is to understand the underlying reasons for the
problem, by doing systematic experiments using a large variety of appropriate and complementary
scientific techniques. With the information gained, rational solutions can be proposed and tested.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bernard Riedl;Roger Hernandez Pena;Robert Prud'homme;Christian Pellerin

Student:

Partner:

Bombardier Aerospace Inc (Montreal, QC);3M Canada (London, ON);Consortium de recherche et d'innovation en aérospatiale au Québec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Transportation and warehousing

University:

Université de Montréal; Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Advancing Community Energy Transitions in BC with Online Tools

The Community Energy Explorer (CEE) is a unique, interactive and visually compelling web-resource to build capacity of citizens, decision-makers, and local government staff on community energy and related land use issues. The current phase lays out a program to roll-out, host, and scale-up use of an enhanced CEE platform to better support community transitions and decision-making on sustainable energy, leveraging previous support from REFBC and much input from partners.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Sheppard

Student:

Partner:

Real Estate Foundation of BC

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Asset Information Modelling for Non-Urban Environments (AIM-NUE)

In 2016, in partnership with The Ontario East Economic Development Commission (OEED), we started exploring the potential of AIM to represent and manage multi-dimensional graphic and semantic assets related to a geospatially large (40,000+km2), non-urban environment in Eastern Ontario. The area under study is comprised primarily of what Statistics Canada identifies as “rural and small town” (RST) census subdivisions with varying degrees of metropolitan influence. The objective of the project is to develop a web-based, three-dimensional model that could be used to create, manage, and valorize digital assets related to economic activity in the regio

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Fai

Student:

Partner:

Ontario East Economic Development Commission

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises; Public administration

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Wearable and High-Frequency Bias-Switchable Row-Column 2D Ultrasound Array Development

Most ultrasound scans require time-consuming manual scanning of transducer arrays to obtain 2D images of the body. 3D images can be acquired by so-called matrix probes but these are large and bulky, and typically offer inferior image quality. Such probes do not exist in high-frequencies important for pre-clinical applications and to date no wearable 2D probe exists. Our vision is to create wearable flat-form-factor 2D arrays that could be used for longitudinal monitoring of the heart or other critical parameters in a hands-free way. These wearable probes could be connected to smart-phone-like ultrasound scanners. The objective of this program is to develop a new flat-panel ultrasound technology for high-frequency and wearable volumetric ultrasound scanning. The focus is on the transducer and electronics development to enable such next-generation ultrasound technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ivan Fair;Roger James Zemp

Student:

Partner:

CliniSonix Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Nanotechnology; Information and Communications Technology

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

A Clean Energy Plan for CleanBC: Informing the development of BC’s clean energy future

CleanBC is British Columbia’s recent climate strategy outlining how the province plans to transition from fossil fuels to a clean and renewable energy system. The plan contains targets that are meant to set a pathway towards a more sustainable future; however, Pembina Institute recently recommended that the government develop a clean energy plan to back up the CleanBC strategy by outlining more specifically how clean energy is going to be used to achieve the province’s clean energy targets (Riehl, Tam Wu & Kniewasser, 2019). Based on this recommendation, this project will look at ways to develop a provincial clean energy plan that works alongside CleanBC. The clean energy plan will include a creation of scenarios for transitioning the transportation system to lower carbon alternatives, such as hydrogen, in order to provide an example of how the provincial government can more clearly and transparently help reduce the use of fossil fuels. The project will help Pembina inform the provincial government on ways to achieve climate-related goals in a more efficient and rapid manner in a time when the damaging impacts of our consumption of energy on the climate are becoming increasingly unavoidable.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martino Tran

Student:

Partner:

Pembina Institute (BC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Other services (except public administration); Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Development of a softab nutraceutical formulation

Softab Technologies is a fast-growing company in Windsor, Ontario that is developing new formulations and methods to provide nutraceuticals: vitamins, natural extracts, and minerals in a revolutionary new form of chewable and dissolvable gel. They are working with a research team in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Windsor to refine the formulation and make it flexible for utilizing a number of different ingredients so that it can be customized and tailored to specific ingredients. The partnership involves a combination of analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, chemical engineering, and toxicology and will provide unmatched training opportunities as the MITACS interns will be working directly with both the company leadership and a team of dynamic young faculty. Softab Technologies is positioned to be a leading exporter of these products in the future and their growth will economically benefit Windsor-Essex by creating new technology-intensive jobs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Trant;Simon Rondeau-Gagné

Student:

Partner:

Softab Technologies

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Software architecture and electro-mechanical development of wireless connected products for pets

Beonebreed is a young and innovative company in Beloeil, QC, Canada, active in the field of pet-related products. Their team of over 20 passionate pet lovers which continuously keeps growing aims to create innovative products with high-quality for pets, focusing on modern design and technical innovation implementation. Their overall objective is to generate a community for passionate pet owners to support them taking good care of their pets.
To meet these objectives, BeOneBreed wants to bring a range of connectivity products for pets to the market. Through its interactivity functions, this range of products aims to improve the owner’s interaction and understanding of his pet(s). Although such systems start to appear on the market, they are often not robust, energy consuming and stand-alone (e.g. cannot be integrated with existing systems such as smart home applications as Google Home, Nest, Amazon Alexa, Philips systems,…).
The proposed project aims to support the company by development and technology implementation of connectivity (monitoring / interactive) products for pets, which are lightweight, robust.and can be integrated in existing mainstream smart home systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lucas Hof

Student:

Partner:

BeOneBreed

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Wholesale trade

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Finances of the Nation: Data-driven policy analysis for Canada

The project will foster high-quality analysis of taxation and other public policies in Canada. We will assemble data on public finances of governments in Canada and, to make them more useful for policy analysis, we will transform the data to make them consistent over time and across geographic units of Canada. We will make the data readily available to researchers, policymakers, journalists, and others through an online open data portal. Then, using the data, we will prepare short, focused, and accessible research papers analyzing the data to provide insights into and assessments of public policies in Canada. These research reports will be primarily non-technical in nature and will be published in a variety of outlets and available to all readers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Smart

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Tax Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Development of novel catalytic systems for green-house gas abatement

The use of fossil fuels for energy has led to the significant emission of greenhouse gases from the stationary and automobile sources. Methane (CH4) is an abundant source of fuel found in large quantities in natural gas reserves or produced synthetically is an alternative fuel for motor vehicles, large track transportation, marine application because of its low carbon emission per energy produced. However, methane is a potent green house gas and needs to be fully converted to CO2 to prevent its release into the atmosphere. The present project aims at the development of novel, efficient and cost-effective catalytic systems for elimination of exhaust methane in catalytic converter.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Elena Baranova

Student:

Partner:

Besantek

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Ultrafast laser nano-structuring in transparent glass: enabling 3D fibre-photonics packaging and assembly for high temperature sensing

This MITACS project addresses a significant barrier the partner company (Fibos Inc.) is facing with their current customers in manufacturing of fibre optical sensors that can be robust and cost effective for the high temperature and pressure environments. The market is aimed at sensing of rotor assemblies in turbines where electrical and other means of measurement are not directly possible. The proposed solution is an “all-glass” optical fibre transducer that eliminates low-temperature adhesives to improve mechanical strength, sensor response, amd product lifetime, while promising higher temperature application. This approach aims for a simple, all-in-one manufacturing procedure by applying a femtosecond laser to both fabricate the optical fibre sensor and to weld the optical fibre to glass substrate to form a robust optical fibre sensing transducer. Successful completion of this project will enable Fibos to establish ultrafast laser production of fibre transducer sensors for the first time in Canada that can work at extreme environment conditions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Peter R Herman;Peter Herman

Student:

Partner:

FIBOS

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Anticancer activities and drug-drug interaction of extracts from long pepper, rosemary, lemongrass and white tea with chemotherapeutics

Natural extracts have potential as anti-cancer therapeutics. These botanical materials are well tolerated and are safe to be given as supplements over long periods of time. This project aims to provide scientific and clinical validation of these extracts for their anticancer effects and sensitization of cancer cells to standard chemo regiments. Synthite Industries Inc., a well-established corporation in India, will partner with the academic collaborator to develop anticancer natural extracts, fractions enriched with anticancer bioactive ingredients, as supplemental therapeutics for cancer patients. This project will determine if these extracts could decrease the toxicity of chemotherapies on vital tissues through in-vitro and in-vivo experimental models. These results will help Synthite develop non-toxic natural extracts as supplemental therapy for cancer patients to improve quality of life and overall survival.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Siyaram Pandey

Student:

Partner:

Synthite Industries Inc;St. John's National Academy of Health Sciences

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

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