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The Effect of In-situ Polymerization of Monomer Mixtures via Inductive Curing on Densification and Hardness of Yellow Birch

This project aims to cure plastics within wood to increase hardness and durability; because conventional curing methods (UV light or convection heating) are ineffective at penetrating wood new methods are being explored. Induction heating using magnetic nanoparticles is an experimental method that needs fine-tuning in order to potentially be scaled to industrial standards. The main parameters that need to be understood and controlled are nanoparticle size, magnetic field strength and frequency, nanoparticle loading within the wood substrate and overall heating capacity of said nanoparticles within wood. The proposed research project aims to evaluate the frequency dependency of this system as well as characterise the magnetic properties of the nanoparticles being used. It should be observed that when magnetic field frequency is higher heating efficiency also increase. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Véronic Landry

Student:

Partner:

Universidad Rey Juan Carlo

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Forestry; Nanotechnology; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Les stratégies visuelles utilisées dans le jugement d’expressions faciales de douleur chez une prosopagnosique.

La prosopagnosie acquise se caractérise par un déficit de reconnaissance des visages dû à diverses lésions cérébrales. Ceux souffrant de lésions postérieures utilisent davantage la région de la bouche au lieu de celle des yeux pour l’identification des visages, bien qu’elle soit la région la plus diagnostique dans cette tâche. Ces patients présentent également un déficit à reconnaitre les expressions faciales d’émotion. Jusqu’à présent toutefois, les études portant sur les stratégies visuelles incluaient uniquement les émotions de base. Ainsi, dès septembre prochain, j’aurai la chance d’étudier les stratégies visuelles qui sous-tendent la reconnaissance de l’expression faciale de douleur chez PS (le cas le plus pur de prosopagnosie acquise) au iBMLab sous la supervision de Dr Caldara. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Caroline Blais

Student:

Partner:

University of Fribourg

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université du Québec en Outaouais

Program:

Globalink Research Award

The Effect of Ultrasound on Faradaic Reactions Occurring at polycrystalline Pt

The depletion of fossil fuels and the pollution associated with their processing has put modern society in an energy crisis. With increasing global demand for energy, it is imperative that we find clean energy alternatives to the hydrocarbon economy. Fuel cells provide a promising electrochemical approach to clean energy production, but still face challenges such as their use of high-cost materials. Developing new process intensification methods for industrial processes is of great importance to improving environmental impact, efficiency and cost of fuel cell technologies. Using power ultrasound to promote industrial electrochemical processes, or sonoelectrochemistry, was discovered over 70 years ago, but recently there has been revived interest in this field. Sonoelectrochemistry is a technology that is safe, cost-effective, environmentally friendly and energy efficient compared to other conventional methods. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gregory Jerkiewicz

Student:

Partner:

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Community Building: The New Civic Engagement in Ireland

This project is meant to provide, and expand upon existing research, on social media and what role it plays in modern day society. The focus of this study will be on Social Media working as a vehicle for social change and social movements for the community; particularly, the abortion laws in Ireland. This is a very unique opportunity; with the new law legalizing abortion, it has creating a window of opportunity to see into the makings of social movements and the power of collective action. With this project, we hope to shed light on how change comes about in modern social, using various tools such as social media platforms. We will use emotive stories within the community to elaborate on and expand knowledge surrounding politics, womens rights, equality, social media platforms, collective action and implementing change on a larger scale.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Paloma Raggo

Student:

Partner:

Trinity College Dublin

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Vital Cities and Citizens

The applicant will be participate in the Vital cities project alongside Professor Jurian Edelenbos and his colleagues. The project will allow for better understanding of how youth engage with others, particularly with diverse groups of other youth, in social change and community betterment activities. This project seeks to understand how and why youth engage in civic and community initiatives in urban areas, and how the existing civic infrastructure of local associations might better enable them to do so. It will consist of an extensive literature review, interviews with community associations and gaining feedback from the community.
The project will provide practical advice to community organizations and public policy as to how they can more effectively support youth engagement. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Phillips

Student:

Partner:

Erasmus University Rotterdam

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Public Service, Policy, and Governance; Education; Technology

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Connecting ecological dots through striped bass diets by using DNA barcoding and stable isotopes

Striped bass invaded Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador in August 2017 and were identified to feed on Atlantic salmon and capelin; two important fishes to NunatuKavut Community Council (NCC). This project aims to sample striped bass in Labrador to identify what it is consuming. We will combine traditional stomach content morphological identification with a new approach for identifying stomach contents using DNA from the partially digested stomach “goo”. Species-specific DNA fragments (primers) will be used to identify prey through methods like the ‘barcode of life’ project. Additionally, we will use quantitative PCR (qPCR) to quantify how much DNA is present from each species when multiple species are in a stomach sample. By combining these methods, we anticipate identifying prey items within a wider window than using the traditional method alone. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Trevor Avery

Student:

Partner:

NunatuKavut Community Council

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

Acadia University

Program:

Accelerate

Interrogation of Passive Wireless RF Cavity Sensors

Wireless sensors have attributes such as distributed sensing and wireless connections that make them attractive for civil infrastructure monitoring. A wired physical connection dramatically increases the cost of monitoring systems. For example, the St. Anthony Falls bridge in Minneapolis was reported to cost $3000 per sensor. Wireless sensors are an attractive solution to this problem. Passive wireless sensors are an emerging alternative, where the sensor is a passive device and hence there is no requirement for local power. In this project the intern will explore wireless passive sensors for monitoring rails. The HQP in this proposal will participate in solving challenging problems related to improving the accuracy of the sensor interrogation system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Douglas Thomson

Student:

Partner:

Iders

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Curating Anti-Colonialism: Re-imagining the Institution through a Decolonial Lens

Understanding that art galleries must position themselves as open learning communities, the MacKenzie Art Gallery (MAG) proposes internships in Indigenous and new curatorial practices. Canadian cultural institutions have long considered themselves above the political. However, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Calls to Action have posed challenges to art institutions and their leaders are now confronted with an urgent question: How do galleries shift to align with the more diverse populations they now serve?
Through this application, the MAG is taking steps to address the decolonizing of art in its institutional structure. How cultures are represented in art, media, entertainment, must be foremost in our minds as we strive to achieve a more equitable, diverse and inclusive society. This project will provide best practice in how to decolonize institutions through curatorial practices that educate us to better understand and practice fair and accurate representation, share knowledge and, eventually, frame just economies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sherry Farrell-Racette

Student:

Partner:

MacKenzie Art Gallery

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

Predicting the Behavior of Loyalty Programs Customers Using Interpretable Patterns Based on Logical Analysis of Data

Aeroplan Inc. (“Aeroplan”) , aims to redesign and optimize its loyalty program Aeroplan via a collaboration with Polytechnique Montréal. Customers affiliated with Aeroplan’s program earn miles through their purchases and can exchange these miles for various gifts. It is essential for Aeroplan to predict customers behavior, to define the causes of certain behaviors and to predict the consequences of applying different policies, e.g. offers or gifts value. In this project, we propose to exploit the historical customers database of Aeroplan to predict customer behavior using Logical Analysis of Data (LAD) as an interpretable machine learning technique. We intend to use the LAD generated patterns to design customized marketing plans. This approach should allow the marketing department at Aeroplan to identify the future behavior of customers along with its cause and to target customers with suitable personalized marketing policies. This should help Aeroplan to avoid problems such as churn or drop in usage rate. The prediction accuracy of our model will be compared to traditional machine learning techniques that are known to perform well in predicting customers behaviors. The proposed marketing policies will be tested on a sample of Aeroplan’s customers using an A/B testing approach.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Antoine Saucier

Student:

Partner:

Aeroplan

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Simulation of consolidation-driven defects in woven fabric pre-pregs

Woven fabric-reinforced polymers (WFRP) are composite materials consisting of interwoven fibers dispersed in a continuous polymeric matrix phase. Lightweight and yet very strong mechanical characteristics of WFRPs are, however, often disadvantaged by poor quality due to manufacturing defects. The proposed project aims to exploit the simulation tools developed at University of Bristol to simulate the consolidation-driven defects in fabric prepregs (pre-impregnated with resin). This objective is planned to be fulfilled by conducting a series of step-wise advanced numerical simulations as well as experimental studies, namely, the friction model developed at UBC will be combined with the Bristol consolidation model to simulate the generation of defects in the consolidation process. The manufacture modeling framework resulting from this research will provide a straightforward wrinkling control/design tool to improve product quality of fabric-reinforced composites. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Abbas Milani

Student:

Partner:

University of Bristol

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Advanced Manufacturing; Aerospace; Automotive

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Uncertainty Quantification for Deep Neural Networks

Deep neural networks are effective at image classification and other types of predictive tasks, achieving higher accuracy than conventional machine learning methods. However, unlike these other methods, the predictions are less interpretable. While accuracy may be enough for applications where errors are not costly, for real world applications, we want to also know when the predictions are more likely to be correct. Estimating the likelihood that a prediction is correct is called confidence, or uncertainty. In order to deploy these methods in a public sphere, we need to better understand why they make the predictions. This project will focus on one aspect of understanding: developing methods to estimate the uncertainty associated with a given prediction. This research will allow us to be more confident when using the predictions of the models.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adam Oberman

Student:

Partner:

Mouvement des caisses Desjardins

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Technology

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

The Canadian Association for Graduate Studies Task Force on Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and Graduate Education

The Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS) has created aTask Force on Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action and Graduate Education (Reconciliation Task Force). This Reconciliation Task Force will examine the implications for graduate education in relation to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRC) Calls to Action, to reflect on the role of graduate education in promoting reconciliation between non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples in Canada, and to conduct a systematic review of reconciliation graduate educational practices from across the country. This work will enable graduate schools across Canada to make better decisions around the provision of supports and programming of reconciliation graduate educational practices. The Mitacs intern will have a major role in accomplishing this work.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Warren Cariou

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Association of Graduate Studies

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

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