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Evaluation of a small, gas powered, patient-responsive automated resuscitation/ventilation device adapted to pandemics of respiratory failure

The projects will involve the modifications of a small automated ventilator (breathing machine) suitable for use in pandemics and underresourced settings (outside hospital, in patient transport, small hospitals), especially suited to patients with severe lung disease. Partner organization will be able to improve the design of the current ventilator to make it better suited for these settings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paul Dorian

Student:

Partner:

CPR Medical Devices Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Thermally Extrudable Benzoxazine Phosphoniums for Coating and Fabrication of Common Touch Plastics and 3D-Printable Materials

Pathogenic infections are responsible for approximately 60% of all hospital acquired infections. In order to help stop the spread, high contact surfaces require chemical additives that sense and respond to the presence of pathogenic bacteria quickly, and neutralize their threat. We are proposing a new form of antimicrobial that can be used as safe, green spray thermally activated coating or alternatively a additive for plastics that make these materials fully antimicrobial.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Foucher

Student:

Partner:

Sci Resource Platform Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of advanced planning and estimating model for scaffolding manhour

Heavy industrial construction projects consist of oil refinaries which generally involve complex structures, large-scale sites, and large numbers of workers from different disciplines such as civil, mechanical, and chemical. These disciplines may require similar or completely different scaffolding systems in order for workers to not only access their working areas but also move material horizontally and vertically. The variability of scaffolding systems required by the different disciplines operating on these complex sites can be a primary cause of increased project costs and project time delay. Due to this variability, construction company is challenging to estimate and plan the scaffolding time and cost accurately and efficiently. In practice, scaffolding is estimated and planed by 60% of the total project cost or approximately 30–40% of the total man-hours of construction works in the project. This approximate planning and estimating method leads to be difficulty to complete the construction projects on-time within the budget. To eliminate current scaffolding estimating and planning practice, this research proposes to develop a scaffolding manhour predictive model using an artificial neural network (ANN) algorithm which is a deep-learning algorithm.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sang Han

Student:

Partner:

PCL Industrial Management Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Diminuer le chauffage électrique pour augmenter la productivité québécoise : Évaluationconséquentielle de l’utilisation du gaz naturel pour le chauffage résidentiel

L’efficacité comparative du chauffage et de la production d’électricité au gaz naturel fait en sorte que l’on devrait
privilégier le chauffage au gaz naturel plutôt que de produire de l’électricité avec celui-ci. C’est ainsi le choix fait
dans la quasi-totalité des sociétés où le gaz naturel est présent. Le reste de l’Amérique du Nord ainsi que
l’Europe font un usage beaucoup plus grand du gaz naturel pour le chauffage résidentiel. Dans un contexte où
le Québec peut exporter de l’hydroélectricité, importer du gaz naturel et où ses voisins produisent de l’électricité
avec du gaz naturel, la situation actuelle est sous-optimale autant économiquement que pour l’environnement.
Avec une plus grande application du gaz naturel pour le chauffage, il serait possible de dégager une marge de
manoeuvre dont le Québec a besoin pour se développer de manière durable. Malheureusement, aucune
quantification des gains environnementaux et économiques possibles n’est disponible jusqu’à présent
Les résultats escomptés de ce projet serviront d’éléments de réponse…

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pierre-Olivier Pineau

Student:

Partner:

Societe en commandite Gaz Metro

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Utilities

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

The COVID-19 pandemic and support for vulnerable people: A study of Centraide’s actions

During the Covid19 pandemic, the federal and Québec governments decided to implement total containment. This decision significantly affected people in situations of vulnerability and poverty, such as isolated seniors, the homeless, young families in precarious situations, people with mental health problems, people with disabilities, and newcomers. First of all, they often lost almost all their sources of income without the compensation provided by the federal government. Besides, the confinement and fear of the virus significantly reduced the density of social support they previously enjoyed. They were often completely disoriented. Centraide of Greater Montréal, a public foundation that was omnipresent in the fight against poverty and its effects, inevitably found itself amid this great social crisis. How did it manage this? What were the effects on vulnerable people? This is the purpose of the study that the Chair of Strategy and Society at HEC Montréal wishes to undertake, with the collaboration of officials and volunteers from Centraide and the community agencies concerned.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Taïeb Hafsi

Student:

Partner:

Centraide

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

L’univers numérique : une nouvelle scène pour le Palais Montcalm – Maison de la musique, diffuseur de musique spécialisée

Permettre à l’organisme diffuseur Palais Montcalm – Maison de la musique (PMMM) de trouver sa place dans l’univers numérique afin de se doter de nouvelles stratégies facilitant l’accès aux contenus de musique spécialisée tout en assurant la viabilité économique des initiatives et un engagement de son public (p. ex. via l’enregistrement sonore 3D immersif).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sebastien Tremblay

Student:

Partner:

Palais Montcalm - Maison de la musique

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Innover dans son modèle d’affaires pour survivre : les restaurateurs indépendants face à la COVID-19

La pandémie de la COVID-19 qui secoue la planète est soudaine et sans précédent. L’industrie touristique est pleinement touchée par cette pandémie partout sur le globe et le Canada n’y échappe pas. Cette étude vise à étudier l’innovation dans les modèles d’affaires de restaurants indépendants québécois pendant la crise sanitaire de la COVID-19 afin de soutenir la survie de la restauration et la relance progressive au Québec et ailleurs. Cette étude qualitative nous permettra d’identifier les actions à entreprendre pour adapter les concepts du restaurant, et ce, basées sur des données empiriques provenant de restaurateurs situés partout au Québec. Les thèmes abordés avec les acteurs de l’industrie concernent la vision du gestionnaire, les stratégies émergentes et les impacts de cette crise sur leur modèle d’affaires. L’étude examinera les établissements de restauration indépendants pour identifier de nouvelles pratiques, tout en considérant les risques potentiels et les occasions d’affaires pérennes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sophie Veilleux

Student:

Partner:

Société des Casinos du Québec

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Abolitionist Dream-Mapping

We live in a world where prisons are seen as a necessary condition for public safety and accountability. But there were no prisons on Turtle Island prior to colonization! The abolitionist dr eam of a world without prisons is grounded in a concrete historical context. This project both recovers and invents decolonial abolitionist methods for dismantling colonial institutions like prisons and jails, and for building freer, healthier, and more just communities. We repurpose t he colonial instrument of the map as a creative tool for navigating oppressive struct ures and sketching concrete alternatives to the world that slavery and colonialism has built. We also activate our collective power to dream, not as an escapist fantasy bu t as a critical research method that moves beyond a n account of what is wrong with th e world to experiment with ways of making it better.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lisa Guenther

Student:

Partner:

Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Numerical Performance Assessment of Modular Two-Way Precast Slab Systems

The overarching goal of this partnership is to develop a modular accelerated building construction system that is suitable for implementation into the Canadian marketplace. The use of the post-tensioned, and friction-based, connections for modular system connections is atypical of North American design procedures and the reliance on these connections for resisting sustained gravity loads is generally not supported in existing Canadian building design standards. This research will critically examine the structural performance of such friction-based post-tensioned modular connections and will develop alternative post-tensioned RC connection details that incorporate desired redundancies. These findings will be used to develop system level models to assess the performances of buildings constructed using modular construction technologies. Research outcomes in the form of demonstrable and response-adequate structural performance characteristics for alternative modular building system connection details will enable Envision Integrated Building Technologies to introduce new cost-effective building construction technologies in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Trevor Hrynyk;Scott Walbridge

Student:

Partner:

PACE Building Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction; Manufacturing and Construction; Other

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Analyzing the impacts if implementing an RFID uniform distribution system for managing medical personnel scrubs in operating rooms

The project is about developing a decision support tool to provide a personalized handling and treatment for Autistic Syndrome Disorder patients. This decision support tool will integrate machine learning modeling that will be used to suggest optimal and personalized guidelines for a very large spectrum of ASD patients, not available so far. Theses guidelines will be used by concerned parents, teachers and therapist that are in charge of these patients. The partner is a company that offer accompanying and training services to ASD patients’ parents and therapists. Consequently, the expected outcome of this research work will allow the partner to provide services to ASD community not offered so far in any country, letting this company becoming a pioneer in this field.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maïzi Yasmina;Ygal Bendavid

Student:

Partner:

Delfab

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Wholesale trade

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Utilisation du traitement automatique du langage dans un contexte législatif et réglementaire

Ce projet vise à utiliser des techniques de traitement automatique des langues naturelles et d’exploitation de données textuelles afin d’aider à prédire le contexte législatif dans lequel les entreprises oeuvrent. Nous espérons ainsi réduire le risque relié à l’incertitude entourant la législation en la prédisant le mieux possible.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gilles Caporossi

Student:

Partner:

MERCURE Conseil

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Enjeux et décisions stratégiques dans unprocessus d’innovation ouverte : étudelongitudinale d’un cas réel selon une approchede recherche-intervention

Ce stage de recherche vise le développement et le transfert de connaissances dans les domaines de
la stratégie d’entreprise, la gestion de projets d’innovation et la collaboration inter-organisationnelle.
Plus spécifiquement, le stage permettra d’appuyer une entreprise de l’industrie aérospatiale dans son
processus de décision visant à évaluer et sélectionner des partenaires dans le cadre d’un projet de
co-innovation. Le contexte particulier de l’entreprise représente une opportunité unique pour le
stagiaire d’observer et d’agir sur une situation caractérisée par des concepts théoriques qu’il maîtrise
(innovation, stratégie d’entreprise, collaboration interorganisationnelle et gestion de projet). Pour les
gestionnaires de l’entreprise, le stage constitue une façon de s’approprier des connaissances
pertinentes et de les mettre en action dans un cadre qui facilite les interactions entre les partenaires.
En somme, ce stage permet d’établir un pont théorie-pratique pour le bénéfice des deux parties

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mario Bourgault

Student:

Partner:

CMC Electronics (Kanata, ON)

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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