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Use of Recycled concrete Aggregate to Produce Concrete Masonry Blocks

Concrete—the most common construction material in the world—represents the main component of construction and demolition waste. The excessive extraction of virgin aggregate from Canadian lands and water bodies destroys the habitats of many species and affects the natural flow of streams in lakes and rivers. One solution to address the growing solid waste challenge and preserve natural aggregate resources from depletion is the adoption of large-scale recycling of concrete waste into aggregate. Concrete block is a very common building material that is used in almost every commercial and residential project. As such, it is critical to investigate the use of recycled concrete aggregate (RCA) in concrete blocks. This project focuses on developing techniques and design mixes for producing concrete blocks with RCA from masonry manufacturing waste. The Canadian Concrete Masonry Producers Association (CCMPA) is the representative voice of the Canadian concrete block manufacturing industry. The scientific data resulting from this study will allow the CCMPA’s members to produce concrete blocks made with RCA that have similar strength and durability as those made with natural aggregate.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Green

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Concrete Masonry Producers’ Association

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing and Construction; Construction; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Design and manufacture flexible strain gauge for high reliable application

The partner organization (Forcen Inc) wants to design and manufacture a strain gauge that is stretchable, flexible and sensitive to different types of strain (tension, compression, shear and torsion). Unfortunately, the current metal foil and semiconductor strain gauge is brittle. That is why Forcen Inc partnered with University of Toronto to develop new generation of strain gauge that is flexible enough to be inserted into surgical and manufacture robot and it can detect strains from mult-directions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Harry Ruda

Student:

Partner:

Forcen Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Childhood Healthy Weights Early Intervention Program: Scale-up

The Early Intervention Program (EIP) is a family-based intervention targeting families of children who are off the healthy weight trajectory. The EIP is a 10-week program offered at community centers across BC where children and their families meet once a week for 90 minutes as well as online. Parents will be provided with healthy lifestyle content and will engage in discussions on how to engage in health behaviours, and children will participate in physical activities aiming to enhance their motor skills. Families will also have access to a web portal with content and suggestions of activities to be completed. The Childhood Obesity Foundation will benefit by working with experienced graduate students (M.Sc and PhD) to evaluate the implementation and the effectiveness of EIP. The intern will contribute with previous experience and innovative perspectives on the use of technologies to promote behaviour change in low income and diverse populations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sam Liu

Student:

Partner:

Childhood Obesity Foundation

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Supersingular Isogeny-Based Cryptography

In the near future the way that we encrypt and authenticate information online may not be safe. For this reason, we need to create new tools that will enable secure communication for many coming years. The proposed research is to create such tools from a certain algebraic object called isogenies. These are functions that take one elliptic curve to another. Breaking isogeny-based encryption is thought to be difficult, and so we will be able to create other cryptographic tools from them besides encryption. In addition to constructing such tools, the proposed research includes making them have fast performance on computers and mobile devices without any loss of security.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Jao

Student:

Partner:

ISARA Corporation

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Système de vision de robots industriels pour manipuler des pièces sur une chaine d’assemblage industrielle

Face à la quatrième révolution industrielle et à une concurrence à l’échelle mondiale, l’industrie canadienne affronte des défis de taille pour augmenter sa productivité, améliorer la qualité de ses produits et réduire ses coûts. Imperial Manufacturing Group comme plusieurs entreprises du Nouveau-Brunswick, souhaite innover dans ses processus de fabrication pour être plus compétitif et productif tout en offrant des produits de grande qualité et d’excellentes conditions d’emploi. Le groupe Imperial souhaite développer deux systèmes de vision pour robots industriels. Le premier concerne la palettisation intelligente de lignes d’enroulement. Ce processus est actuellement manuel et l’entreprise souhaite utiliser des robots industriels avec des systèmes de vision qui peuvent détecter automatiquement l’arrivée de produits et effectuer une palettisation automatique. Le deuxième système concerne les machines d’injection de plastique qui fabriquent un grand nombre de produits qui nécessitent un assemblage. Le système de vision permettra à un robot industriel d’effectuer les opérations appropriées.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yassine Bouslimani

Student:

Partner:

Imperial Manufacturing Group

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Moncton

Program:

Accelerate

Development of passive sampling devices for natural and artificial radionuclides in the context of pre- and post-deployment of small nuclear reactors in remote areas

Small nuclear reactors (SMRs) are a major option for electricity production in remote areas. Environmental impact assessment and monitoring will be needed, however this might be difficult because of the remoteness and the anticipated low levels of radiocontaminants, especially that laboratories with modern instrumentation might not be available on-site. We are proposing (1) to adapt and replace our current classic methods with new and modern technology, for monitoring radioactivity at natural levels; (2) to develop and test small samplers that are easily deployable and rugged to withstand harsh cold conditions; and (3) to improve our detection limits and quality assurance, along with data security. At the outcome, this project will deliver a new rugged monitoring method to analyze for radiocontaminants, with modern instrumentation. The personnel will be trained with enhanced quality assurance credentials, who can be specialists for independent verification, at arm’s length from an SMR operator.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Graeme Spiers

Student:

Partner:

Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Laurentian University

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating and optimizing rural and urban lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and Two-Spirit (LGBTQI2S) engagement with hospice and palliative care in the Island Health Region – Year two

Existing research focused on the experiences of gay and lesbian older adults with the health care system report that there is a general distrust and reluctance to access healthcare based upon the cumulative effect of discrimination over the life course. At present, while 75% of Canadians have indicated they would like to die at home, 45% of Vancouver Island residents die of in acute care. Clearly there exists a service gap and it appears possible that such a gap may be larger in the LGBTQI2S community. It is therefore vital to explore the level of LGBTQI2S engagement with hospice and palliative care, in order to ensure this population is not further marginalized in end-of-life. Victoria Hospice and Island Health will facilitate access to healthcare service providers, and I will recruit rural and urban LGBTQI2S participants and their families throughout the Island Health region via the relationships I have built with community gatekeepers. A Participatory Action Research strategy will be used and a Community Steering Committee of older LGBTQI2S people representing various geographies as well as sexual orientations and gender identities will be established.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathan Lachowsky

Student:

Partner:

Victoria Hospice Society

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Elevate

Evaluating and optimizing rural and urban lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and Two-Spirit (LGBTQI2S) engagement with hospice and palliative care in the Island Health Region

Existing research focused on the experiences of gay and lesbian older adults with the health care system report that there is a general distrust and reluctance to access healthcare based upon the cumulative effect of discrimination over the life course. At present, while 75% of Canadians have indicated they would like to die at home, 45% of Vancouver Island residents die of in acute care. Clearly there exists a service gap and it appears possible that such a gap may be larger in the LGBTQI2S community. It is therefore vital to explore the level of LGBTQI2S engagement with hospice and palliative care, in order to ensure this population is not further marginalized in end-of-life. Victoria Hospice and Island Health will facilitate access to healthcare service providers, and I will recruit rural and urban LGBTQI2S participants and their families throughout the Island Health region via the relationships I have built with community gatekeepers. A Participatory Action Research strategy will be used and a Community Steering Committee of older LGBTQI2S people representing various geographies as well as sexual orientations and gender identities will be established.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nathan Lachowsky

Student:

Partner:

Victoria Hospice Society

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Elevate

Conveyor throughput optimization at a distribution centre

FedEx Supply Chain, the 3PL provider for the Canadian Tire distribution centre located at Coteau-du-Lac, Quebec intends to improve its delivery performance to its customers’ retail stores, especially during the high-volume periods of the year. The focus is on improving the throughput of the conveyor system, as it is considered to be a critical part of the outbound process. This applied research project targets to develop a simulation model to identify bottlenecks and to predict the effects of different control levers that may be used to optimize the conveyor throughput. Managerial insights and recommendations based on the results will be provided to the Company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Satyaveer Chauhan

Student:

Partner:

FedEx Supply Chain

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Pressure drop reduction in the removal of Kiln-Feed powder from a large-scale pneumatic transport line

The proposed project will provide characterization of the pneumatic transport system used at the St Marys Cement plant using an approach based on Computational Fluid Dynamics combined with selected experiments. The commercial softwares ICEM and FLUENT will be used to develop the computational model and run the simulations of the flow. The model will be verified by onsite measurements correlated to various operating conditions to verify the accuracy of the model, and it’s variance from the actual system. When the model is confirmed, it will be used to identify regions where improvements to the system can be made. Any changes that result in reduced pressure drop in the transport and separation portions of the plant will result in substantial energy savings and productivity enhancement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anthony Straatman

Student:

Partner:

St. Mary’s Cement

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Formation of Supermassive Black Holes via merger of Protostars

The origin of Supermassive Black Holes that are observed to exist in the early Universe is one of the key questions in astronomy. There are different models that try to explain how these black holes formed and grew in a short period of time. One such model is the collision of protostars resulting in massive stars that can eventually grow into supermassive black holes. Such collisions of protostars could take place within young star clusters in the early Universe. My goal will be to explore the merger of two protostars though computational simulations, to better understand how much of the mass actually remains in the new object after a collision. My host Dr. Dominik Schleicher has extensive experience in utilizing parallel computer codes for complex fluid dynamical calculations, and I will work closely with him on this project. The expertise gained will be brought back to Canada and can be used to train others as well as applied to new projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shantanu Basu

Student:

Partner:

Universidad de Concepción

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Education; Technology

University:

Western University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Public Policies and Subjectivity of Black Women

This research analyzes the manner in which black women from the periphery of São Paulo (Brazil) deal with state-funded social policies in their daily lives. In particular, it looks at the challenges of navigating complicated bureaucratic procedures for marginalized and often undereducated urban populations, and the impact these challenges have on their everyday life. This study proposes to add an original, qualitative perspective to the literature on public policies’ effects, which in Brazil is currently dominated by quantitative studies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean François Mayer

Student:

Partner:

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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