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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

Algorithme décisionnel intelligent pour systèmes énergétiques

La consommation énergétique des bâtiments représente à elle seule près de 40% de la consommation énergétique mondiale, et plus de 30% des émissions annuelles de gaz à effet de serre. Dans cet ordre d’idée, l’optimisation du contrôle des chauffages, de la ventilation et de la climatisation (CVC) représente un enjeu majeur pour le secteur énergétique actuel. Le présent projet met en place un système de contrôle automatisé à base d’intelligence artificielle, spécialement entraîné par renforcement positif sur des données en temps réel et par rapport à l’impact de ses décisions. Ceci permet d’une part d’optimiser le comportement de tout équipement de CVC, peu importe sa nature, sa technologie ou de ses spécificités; d’autre part de présenter une adaptation continue au changement dans son environnement à la suite de son instauration. Le projet bénéfique pour l’environnement et le développement durable présente un intérêt autant pour les distributeurs électriques, que pour les institutions publiques, les clients privés et les industriels.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fabian Bastin;François Bouffard

Student:

Partner:

BrainBox AI

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancement of Wearable Textiles by Living Biofilms

“Smart” clothing that responds to the wearer offers compelling advantages over today’s inert clothing. By integrating living cells into the textiles that make up our clothing, we can endow them with these “smart” properties. This includes a shirt that begins to smell like flowers when soaked in sweat, pants that “self-heal” after an accidental tear, or industrial uniforms that detect and actively break down toxins. Lululemon and McGill scientists, working together, are aiming to create some of these wearables by growing living films of engineered bacteria on textiles. These bacteria, while completely harmless to humans, can endow textiles with many advanced properties that would otherwise be impossible or highly impractical to implement. These innovations promise to position Canada’s leading universities and corporations at the cutting edge of this exciting technology and open the door to a completely new class of consumer products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Noemie-Manuelle Dorval Courchesne

Student:

Partner:

Lululemon

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Biotechnology; Life Sciences (not health); Nanotechnology

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Apprentissage et efficacité des équipes de travail

Les équipes de travail sont omniprésentes dans le milieu de la santé. Des acteurs souvent dotés d’expertises distinctes et complémentaires doivent collaborer afin d’innover, d’offrir des soins de qualité ou d’implanter des changements organisationnels. Toutefois, leur succès n’est pas garanti et les conséquences sur la santé des patients peuvent être néfastes. Étant donné la complexité de leurs tâches et le rythme effréné auquel se multiplient les connaissances scientifiques et techniques, ces équipes doivent être capables d’apprendre. Dans le cadre de ce projet de recherche de type quantitatif et multiniveau, nous souhaitons identifier les comportements d’apprentissage qui contribuent le plus fortement à différentes dimensions de l’efficacité des équipes de travail (ex. : innovation et performance) et à celle de leurs membres (ex. : performance et développement professionnel). Nous tentons également d’identifier plusieurs antécédents de ces comportements d’apprentissage et d’évaluer l’influence exercé par les dynamiques d’équipe, l’environnement de travail et les caractéristiques des membres d’équipes dans ces relations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vincent Rousseau;Jean-François Harvey

Student:

Partner:

Fondation CHU Sainte-Justine

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Micro-Histories of Transnational Humanitarian Aid: Co-Creation of Knowledge, Policy, and Education Materials

This project will involve the research and production of micro-histories of non-profit humanitarian organizations based in Canada. By examining small moments in the foundation and work of these organizations, our goal is to contribute to a better understanding of the role of Canadian civil society organizations in international humanitarian programs. Our partners work in a variety of sectors (from refugees to resource extraction-based violence) and in a variety of countries (from Lebanon to DR Congo). By partnering for MITACS Accelerate, we will be able to fund high level research that explores how work in these seemingly disparate contexts influences and informs one another while strengthening Canada’s role as a humanitarian nation. The ultimate goal is that these micro-histories will provide the foundation for policy development work at a national level as well as operational work at the organizational level.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dominique Marshall

Student:

Partner:

Latin American Working Group;World University Service of Canada;Multicultural Council of Saskatchewan;IMPACT;Oxfam Québec

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

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

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Feasibility of combining monolithically integrated silicon photonics with low cost, high performance, non-hermetic surface-mount technology (SMT) packaging

This project aims at experimentally validating the commercial viability of a new silicon photonics design which provides state of the art monolithic integration of various CMOS control electronics and BiCMOS high speed RF drive electronics which may be combined with high bandwidth non-hermetic SMT packages capable of withstanding standard high volume solder reflow processes. Combining these technologies and their commercialization will have a huge impact on the size and cost of optical communications equipment and serve as a stepping stone in developing technologies for use in future board-to-board and chip-to-chip optical communications in a wide array of industries such as communications, military, and super-computing. The aforementioned research activities will help support ADVA’s plan in new products development by exploring their commercialization feasibility.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Plant

Student:

Partner:

ADVA Optical Networking

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of the Global Matrix 4.0 Physical Activity Report Card Grades for Children and Youth

Physical inactivity is a growing global health crisis, with childhood physical inactivity being of particular concern. The Global Matrix 4.0 Physical Activity Report Cards for Children and Youth is an initiative aimed at promoting global childhood physical activity through international collaborations. The goal of this project is to further the global promotion of childhood physical activity by contributing to the development of the Global Matrix 4.0. To achieve this goal the intern will create documents detailing the development process methods of the Global Matrix 4.0, develop an evaluation protocol and related documents for the Global Matrix 4.0, support communication between leaders and Report Card teams, and create resource documents for countries registering for participation in the Global Matrix 4.0. The partner organization, the Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance, is the organizer of the Global Matrix 4.0 and will benefit directly from the productivity associated with the intern’s project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rachel Burns

Student:

Partner:

Active Healthy Kids Global Alliance

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

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