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Work Improvement and Data Analytics for Industrial Steel Fabrication

Work improvement is critical for performance increase in business environments. It is used to identify bottlenecks and inefficiencies in the manufacturing and other production processes, and to improve work performance by removing non-value-added activities. To conduct work improvement, the Lean Manufacturing concept is often used along with the Value Stream Mapping (VSM), a tool for visualizing the production processes and productivity metrics. In this research project, Ocean Steel & Construction Ltd., out of Saint John, New Brunswick has partnered with the research team at the University of New Brunswick’s Off-site Construction Research Centre to study their production facility and improve their productivity. In this proposed study, four sub-objectives are defined: (1) use process mapping to document the steel fabrication processes and collect productivity data at each process (e.g. workstation); (2) conduct Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) to summarize the productivity metrics for each process; (3) use regression modeling to develop predictive models for processing time, and correlation analysis to identify the impact factors of productivity; and (4) develop Value Stream Mapping (VSM) to improve the production processes and incorporate predictive models into the VSM approach. The intern will have a chance to interact with professionals and gain exposure to the construction industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zhen Lei

Student:

Partner:

Ocean Steel & Construction Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Influences of Metal-Organic Polyhedron (MOP) Geometry on the Morphology of Porous Supramolecular Polymers

For our research project, we propose to explore how the geometry of the porous cage molecule, the metal-organic polyhedron (MOP), can affect its self-assembly into large gels, and how it can affect their resulting shapes and properties. We anticipate that the potential to use these porous molecules with differing geometries and pore sizes can offer an extra degree of control in the materials properties of these structures, including their mechanical behaviour and gas sorption properties. This can intern open doors to the diversity of the applications of these porous, solid materials in areas such as mass transport, separation and storage, and catalysis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Leo Chou

Student:

Partner:

Kyoto University

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Enabling maximum penetration of distributed generations withoutviolating protection system coordination

Driven by economic, technical and environmental reasons, the energy sector is moving into an era
where Distributed Generation (DG) will meet a large segment of increasing electrical energy demand.
Local distribution companies are required to accept a given percentage of customer-owned renewable
DG units in their system. Generally, DG introduces new possibilities such as shaving of peak loads
and reliability enhancement. On the other hand, DG causes a number of protection problems in the
distribution networks, such as loss of coordination, de-sensitization, nuisance fuse blowing, relay
bidirectional operation, and overvoltage. In this work, general guidelines about maximum allowable
DG penetration that will not ignite these adverse effects will be identified for typical feeders in Ontario.
Moreover, a recommendation about suitable connection of the interfacing transformer to avoid
overvoltage during ground faults will be given. Furthermore, general recommendations will be given at
the end of this internship about possible methods that can be used to overcome any protection
coordination problem if it…..TOBECONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Magdy Salama

Student:

Partner:

Hydro One

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Energy and Utilities

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Développement de modèles de détection d’anomalies pour les parcs éoliens et solaires

Power Factors offre une plateforme de suivi de performance de parcs éoliens et solaire. Cette plateforme collecte les données opérationnelles des parcs, les archive, puis les traite (calcul d’indicateurs de performance) pour ensuite les transmettre aux exploitants et propriétaires de ces parcs. Power Factors utilise déjà quelques modèles de détection d’anomalies à travers sa plateforme d’analytiques avancées. Ces modèles ont pour but d’identifier des anomalies et des tendances alarmantes telles que la détection précoce d’un bris ou d’une sous-performance et par la suite, aider les exploitants de ces parcs dans leurs opérations de planification de la maintenance.L’objectif du projet est de développer de nouveaux modèles de détection d’anomalie pour les parcs éoliens et solaires, ce qui permettrait à Power Factors de garder un avantage concurrentiel considérable.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Souheil-Antoine Tahan;Christian Masson

Student:

Partner:

Power Factors

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Work, Family, Life of Police Offices and Their Families During and After a Pandemic – Examination of an Extreme Case

The COVID-19 pandemic is an on-going health crisis which is having a dramatic impact on how people in Canada and around the world live their lives. In response to the rapid spread of the virus, provincial and federal governments have enacted a number of ‘physical distancing’ measures, including closures of publicly-funded schools and all non-essential businesses. This has resulted in unprecedent work/life situations for thousands of Canadians. Police, as an essential frontline service, face particular challenges during this pandemic. They must continue their work on the frontline and risk exposure for themselves and their family to the novel coronavirus. They must balance the requirements of a stressful job (demands which have themselves changed because of the pandemic) with the needs of their children (who are now at home), their partner (who may now be unemployed or working from home) and worries about their elderly family members. We propose to undertake a longitudinal multimethod research study that will examine how police, and their spouses/partners are coping with work, family, and life during the pandemic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Linda Duxbury;Anita Grace

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Police Association

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public administration

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Temperature dependent performance of high load multirotational bridge bearings

Bridge bearings are used to support the weight of the bridge superstructure on the bridge piers. These bearings allow for the bridge to expand and contract during thermal cycles and accommodate the varying forces on the bridge throughout its life. Elastomers within the bearing are flexible enough to allow for these rotation and translation demands while still effectively transferring forces. This study investigates the effects of combined axial forces and rotation demands on two types of bridge bearings for use within Canada. The bearings will also be subjected to extreme cold temperatures that reflect the design demands for Canadian bridges. The experimental and computer modeling results of this study will allow Canam Bridges, the partner organization, to specify safe and efficient bearing designs for Canadian bridges.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alan Lloyd

Student:

Partner:

Canam Ponts (division Goodco Z-Tech)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Exploring the Impacts of a Community-Based Post-Secondary Education Award

Canadian community foundations significantly support post-secondary institutions and students in their provision of merit and needs based awards and bursaries. Yet little is known about the impacts of these investments for students. The Edmonton Community Foundation has partnered with UAlberta (Community Service-Learning) and the Edmonton Social Planning Council (ESPC) to explore the impacts of a specific ECF Awards program for low-income and civically engaged students. Beginning with the 2018 group of award winners, the study will track these students as they enter higher education, take their courses and engage in other socially minded and career oriented activities, and transition into various forms of employment. Researchers will connect with the participants using interviews, surveys and focus groups, at four points of time across 2019-2025: during their studies, upon graduation or withdrawal, at six months after graduation and at two years after graduation. The study will compare the characteristics of those students who won awards to those who did not, and also visually map the journeys of participant students from home to school to post-secondary institution to employment sites.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Peacock

Student:

Partner:

Edmonton Community Foundation;Edmonton Social Planning Council

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Predicting the Fair Market Value of a Real Estate Asset

Finding the right real estate property that grows in value over the next few years is of paramount importance. For doing so, one of the most important factors is to estimate the current value of the property as well as its future value. The goal of this project is to build a data and domain-driven model using machine learning that uses previous real estate data to estimate the value of property and suggest the right property in the right neighborhood for investment. We will build an end-to-end framework to collect and preprocess the data and then predict the value of a property.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Morteza Zihayat;Mehdi Kargar

Student:

Partner:

BuyProperly Limited

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

Toronto Metropolitan University

Program:

Accelerate

Two-Stage Anaerobic Digestion of Source-Separated Organics and Municipal Sludges to Produce Renewable Bioenergy

A significant fraction of wet organic waste streams within typical municipalities include food wastes (collected by many as source separated organics), and sludges or biosolids. In Canada, such wastes are mostly going to landfill or being land applied to recover some nutrient value. Anaerobic digestion (AD) for disposal of organic waste is an attractive option to recover renewable bioenergy (as methane or hydrogen), with additional environmental benefits from preventing such wastes from going to the landfill. However, time needed to recover bioenergy conventional AD technology is large, which increases capital costs, making it uneconomical for most municipalities to recover this bioenergy. Greenfield has developed a high-rate AD (GHRAD) technology expected to reduce the time needed, and thus improve the economics of bioenergy recovery. This project will help improve and optimize the recovery of bioenergy from municipal source separated organics and municipal sludges using GHRAD technology, established at pilot-scale by Greenfield.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rajesh Seth;Nihar Biswas

Student:

Partner:

Greenfield Global

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Two case studies in the public history of international development policies in Canada: the Lebanese Special Measures Program (1975-1990) and The Life of Lewis Perinbam (1925-2008)

This project will involve the research of international development assistance policy in Canada. It will focus on two case studies: Lebanese Special Measures Program and the life of distinguished Canadian humanitarian Lewis Perinbam. This research would contribute to a better understanding of the history of international development assistance in Canada. The partners in this project are not-for-profit organizations focused on promoting education and community development. By partnering with MITACS Accelerate, we will be able to fund high level research that explores how Canada’s international development assistance operates in practice. The ultimate goal is to promote a better understanding of this history to the public.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dominique Marshall

Student:

Partner:

World University Service of Canada;The Canadian Immigration Historical Society

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

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

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’un personnage universel acrobatique en partenariatavec le Cirque du Soleil

Le Cirque du soleil utilise depuis plusieurs annees des logiciels de previsualisation lors de la phase de conception d’un nouveau spectacle. Ces outils sont puissants pour simuler les decors, les agres et les eclairages prevus. Quand vient le temps de simuler la performance des acrobates, ces logiciels utilisent une representation tres stylisee, sous forme, par exemple, de diagrammes filaires animes de mouvements rudimentaires peu realistes. Le but de ce projet est le developpement d’un outil de previsualisation, de composition et d’integration de l’ensemble des elements d’une nouvelle performance de scene incluant des performances d’athletes. Pour ce faire une premiere etape est de proposer une methode pour estimer a plausabilite biomecanique d’enchainements de mouvements qui seront visualises par l’intermediare d’un avatar. Il s’agira de develop[per un premier personnage universel acrobatique (avatar) qui sera capable d’effectuer quelques acrobaties determinees. Une fois un premier personnage universel developpe, il s’agira d’explorer comment realiser une…..

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicola Hagemeister

Student:

Partner:

Cirque du Soleil;Dassault Systèmes

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Programme de promotion de la bienveillance et de lutte contre l’intolérance entre résidents : Améliorer la vie collective en résidence privée pour aînés

L’intolérance, ou la maltraitance, entre résidents en résidence privée pour aînés (RPA) est un sujet émergent de préoccupations pour les secteurs privé, public et communautaire. Peu de pratiques et d’outils validés existent pour contrer l’intolérance entre résidents en RPA et pour promouvoir le « bien vivre ensemble ». Le présent projet a pour but de développer et d’implanter un programme visant la promotion de la bienveillance et la lutte contre les situations d’intolérance entre résidents au sein de RPA situées en Estrie et en Montérégie, au Québec. En s’alliant à la Fondation Jasmin Roy Sophie Desmarais, qui a à coeur de construire une communauté bienveillante, ce projet vise à favoriser un climat de bienveillance en RPA et à cibler des interventions pour lutter contre l’intolérance entre résidents.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marie Beaulieu

Student:

Partner:

Fondation Jasmin Roy Sophie Desmarais

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Other services (except public administration)

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

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