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Modelling of inspection cycles for power distribution transformers

EPCOR Distribution and Transmission Inc., an electric utility based in Edmonton is carrying out inspections on a fixed time interval for all of its distribution assets. In the case of pad-mounted distribution transformers, many of the time-based inspections resulted in the decision of “no action required”. This project aims to investigate the inspection data and develop a simple mathematical model to define the optimal inspection schedule for pad-mounted distribution transformers. This project will reduce the inspection costs of EPCOR Distribution and Transmission Inc. and help to better plan their future inspections for the pad-mounted transformers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ming Zuo

Student:

Partner:

EPCOR Distribution and Transmission Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Utilities

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Perception, Mapping and Planning for Autonomous Indoor Cart Pullers in Plant Nurseries and Greenhouses

The project revolves around automation in nursery farms and greenhouses. The goal is to deliver planted pots using autonomous unmanned systems. Planted pots will be loaded/unloaded to/from plant carts using a small robot called BigTop, designed and developed at the supporting organization, AIS. Motion planning, control, and navigation algorithms will be developed through this project for a mother vehicle, equipped with a myriad of on board sensors, to move plant carts to their goal position in the nursery farms/greenhouse without any human intervention. Neither loading/unloading planted pots to/from plant carts, nor docking of the mother vehicle to the plan carts would be studied in this project.
On board sensors will be used to generate a digital incremental map of the environment, as new information about the environment become available, to localize the cart-puller vehicle inside this map, and to plan efficient, and safe motion plans within this environment fully autonomously.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mehran Mehrandezh;Kamal Gupta;Homayoun Najjaran;Homayoun Najjaran;Mehran Mehrandezh

Student:

Partner:

Advanced Intelligent Systems

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture; Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University; The University of British Columbia - Okanagan; University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Silicon-Modified British Columbia Natural Graphite for Use as High Energy Density Anodes for Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Batteries

Eagle Graphite owns and operates one of only two flake graphite production facilities in Canada, and the only graphite quarry in Western North America. The quarry is located in Passmore, B.C., near the City of Castlegar. This collaboration between Dr. Jian Liu’s group at The University of British Columbia and Eagle Graphite will produce graphite-silicon battery anodes using the Eagle Graphite quarry resource. The objective is to produce a commercialized anode with a capacity that would surpass the benchmark graphite anodes currently produced. The benefits of this project include the potential to establish B.C. as a global leader in anode production, and the production of batteries that are lighter and offer greater range.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jian Liu

Student:

Partner:

Eagle Graphite

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Waste-to-Energy Technologies and Opportunities

This project aims to promote the use of energy from solid waste by modeling data obtained from a Canadian landfill facility and by studying non-conventional waste-to-energy technologies and their applicability in Brazil. The collected data at the St. Sophie Landfill will be used to model thermal parameters and to simulate the influence of low temperatures on waste stabilization and gas generation. Monitoring and possibly controlling these effects are important to increase gas production and the airspace utilization factor of the landfill, which will drive revenue growth for the holding company. In addition, the study of different solid waste sources and non-conventional waste-to-energy technologies will provide valuable insight to guide public policies, the private sector and the research focused on this topic in Brazil.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Karen Schwartz;Paul Van Geel

Student:

Partner:

Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Green/Alternative Energy; Agriculture and Food

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Visualization Analysis of eBus Routes and Facilities

The adoption and integration of electric buses (eBus) will have positive impacts on the efficiency of transportation services, on energy consumption and related environmental benefits as well as costs, In partnership with CUTRIC OCAD U will engage dynamic Visual Analytics and Design Science to support electric bus (eBus) implementation in Canada, allowing the careful tracking of multiple data sources with which to measure the process of adoption, and then providing tools for monitoring of services, and prediction of impacts. We will further research on visualization technologies. New methods that help with public consultation as well as implementation include the use of maps and simple graphics. The research team will work closely with all stakeholders to create a meaningful system that can improve transportation in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sara Louise Diamond;Jeremy Bowes

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (ON)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Transportation and warehousing

University:

OCAD University; Ontario College of Art & Design University

Program:

Accelerate

Digital Marketing and Sales Decision Optimization

Like many of their global compatriots, Canadian banks have embraced digital transformation, which enables their account holders to access and manage their accounts and investments online, allowing personalized service. This reality includes the needs of internal stakeholders as well as clients. Planning and implementation of Customer Relations Management and digital sales systems require new ways of working that in turn implicate policies and procedures. Internal culture is impacted as banks strengthen their talent acquisition in AI, Machine learning and data analytics. Collaborations between the marketing and sales department, the operations department (for customer service), the IT and data analytics teams, the customer information manager and senior management are critical for successful service and profitability. The Mitacs Accelerate will support The Digital Marketing and Sales Decision Optimization project. This project will use Artificial Intelligence, organizational behavior, design ethnography, and data visualization research to identify and integrate the data assets, analytics and communications needs of all contributors, designing a user-centric system to support strategy, implementation and evaluation of marketing campaigns.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sara Louise Diamond

Student:

Partner:

RBC Royal Bank (Toronto, ON)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Management of companies and enterprises

University:

OCAD University

Program:

Accelerate

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

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