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Identification of chemical markers in tree sap for ‘Buddy’ maple syrup off-flavours

Near the end of every maple syrup harvest season, the syrup can acquire an unpalatable off-flavour called ‘buddy’. Buddy flavor cannot be tasted or detected in the tree sap prior to processing into syrup. This can loss of income, and unnecessary expenditure to produce the syrup that is unpalatable. This work seeks to identify chemical markers in maple sap which can inform producers on the likelihood that the syrup will buddy or not. This project will include comprehensive chemical analysis of maple sap samples from 11 regions of Ontario throughout the 2019 season. Identifying a strong chemical marker(s) of buddy syrup within tree sap is critical to allow future work on developing inexpensive on-site tests for buddy flavour to proceed.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Cheryl Ketola;Justin Renaud

Student:

Partner:

Ontario Maple Syrup Producers Association

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Fanshawe College

Program:

Accelerate

Imaging and liquid biomarkers in preclinical Osteoarthritis models

The research’s aim for the first project is to identify early structural characteristics of osteoarthritis in cartilage and the aim for the second project is to test if these characteristics can be used to detect joint-protection effects from injectable polymers. For both projects, I will be using microcomputed tomography, to collect high resolution 3D images of cartilage. I will conduct analysis of selective areas on topographic images for quantitative analysis. As a reference, I will quantify metabolic markers for bone and cartilage from serum with ELISA. For the second study I will do tissue processing and participate in disease evaluation of the tissues.
Most of the osteoarthritis therapies are targeted for restoring and maintaining cartilage function. We will test if recently developed injectable polymer has these properties. In addition we will evaluate if structural changes are similar between osteoarthritis models and will provide validity on osteoarthritis therapy development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frank Beier

Student:

Partner:

University of Oulu

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Western University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Rétroactions vidéo ou exercice cognitif : quel outil favorise des conditions d’apprentissage optimales?

Le Club de Soccer de Trois-Rivières (CSTR) est responsable de promouvoir et développer le soccer dans la région de Trois-Rivières. Un enjeu important de cette mission est de continuellement offrir les meilleures conditions d’apprentissage à ses joueurs. Dans les habiletés enseignées par les entraîneurs, la prise de décisions est l’habileté phare qui permet aux joueurs de se démarquer dans la province. En participant à ce projet, le CSTR a l’opportunité de se doter d’une technologie novatrice sous forme d’application mobile pour améliorer la prise de décisions des joueurs. Développée dans une collaboration entre le stagiaire et les entraîneurs, l’application sera parfaitement adaptée et aux besoins du Club.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Claude Dugas;François Trudeau

Student:

Partner:

Club de Soccer de Trois-Rivières

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

Program:

Accelerate

Effect of nanotube agglomeration on dynamics of carbon nanotube-reinforced piezocomposite shells

In this research project, firstly the effective material properties are estimated by an appropriate micromechanics model for a piezocomposite cylindrical shell reinforced with agglomerated CNTs, and then the corresponding constitutive equations and governing equations of motion are derived. Wave propagation characteristics are determined based on the first-order shear deformation shell theory in which the transverse shear effects and rotary inertia are included. Wave propagation behaviors for both partial and complete agglomerations of CNTs are obtained within various axial and circumferential wave numbers for different wave modes. Wave dispersion results of an agglomerated CNT-reinforced piezocomposite shell are compared with those of a piezocomposite shell reinforced with uniformly distributed CNTs. The methodology and modeling are verified with the available experimental data. The methodology and results of this project can be used for design of smart advanced composite structures required for structural health monitoring and energy harvesting applications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nan Wu

Student:

Partner:

Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Connecting Community Spaces with Mixed-Use Developments

When cities face development pressures and affordability concerns, community spaces—which contribute to the distinct knowledge, meaning, connection and identity of a community—are continuously lost. Community-minded spaces include churches, bike repair shops, makerspaces, coworking or studio spaces, community kitchens and venues. To ensure the preservation and enhancement of these types of spaces, developers can incorporate such spaces into new mixed-use developments. There are often financial or operational challenges to integrating these types of spaces into new developments. This research hopes to understand how developers, in the private and non-profit sector, can best incorporate community-minded spaces into new mixed-use developments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jordi Honey-Roses

Student:

Partner:

Catalyst Community Developments Society

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Convergence of Agile and DevOps in ENCQOR 5G Software Development

This project develops a new project management method for software development targeting next-generation network providing unprecedented quality of cellular service to Canadians and small and medium businesses, stimulating innovations and improving the quality of life of our people. Relying on the ENCQOR infrastructure, which is the first 5G network in Canada supported by three governments (Quebec, Ontario, and Canada), the outcomes of this research project will contribute substantially to the progress of the Canadian information and communication technologies industry. The proposed research project used as the building blocks for a new class of Ciena’s network solutions, which will be offered to many world-class operators.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mohamed Cheriet;Kim Khoa Nguyen

Student:

Partner:

Ciena Canada (Saint-Laurent, QC)

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Technology; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing Water Balance Criteria to Protect Wetlands from Urban Stormwater and Climate Change

Wetlands are important habitats for many plant and animal species, and also provide valuable ecosystem services to society such as improving water quality and releasing groundwater into streams. While wetlands are often protected from development through the land use planning process in Ontario, development and land use change near wetlands can still alter the amount and timing of water flowing into and out of a wetland. This in turn can have negative effects on the plants and animals in the wetland and on the wetland’s ability to provide ecosystem services, even where the wetland itself is theoretically protected. This project will help refine existing guidelines and tools used by staff at Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA) and Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) to ensure that the design of new urban areas allows protected wetlands to continue to provide habitat and ecosystem services by maintaining the amount and timing of water reaching the wetland. The knowledge generated through this project will also be used to explore how climate change may affect wetlands in the Toronto region.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carl Mitchell

Student:

Partner:

Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (Toronto, ON)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

University of Toronto Scarborough

Program:

Accelerate

Traitement in situ subaquatique par stabilisation/solidification des sédiments contaminés

La gestion des sédiments contaminés et des risques qu’ils peuvent poser pour l’environnement est un enjeu important au Canada. Les administrations portuaires doivent couramment draguer et transporter des sédiments contaminés. Ce transfert vers le milieu terrestre complexifie la gestion des sédiments contaminés. Ce projet vise à proposer une approche qui permettra, dans certains cas, d’éliminer le transfert des sédiments contaminés. Cette approche reposera sur le traitement subaquatique des sédiments par stabilisation/solidification (S/S). La S/S consiste à incorporer du ciment Portland dans les sédiments pour améliorer leurs propriétés physiques et stabiliser les contaminants. Le projet consistera 1) à réaliser une étude du lien entre les propriétés des sédiments, la formulation de la S/S et les propriétés des sédiments traités, et 2) à vérifier l’influence des paramètres environnementaux liés à la mise en oeuvre de la S/S in situ subaquatique, comme la température de l’eau, sur les propriétés des sédiments traités.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Sébastien Dubé;François Duhaime

Student:

Partner:

Pangeos

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Construction; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Mobilizing Ulukhaktok Traditional Knowledge of the Dolphin and Union Caribou Herd

The Dolphin and Union caribou herd is integral to Inuit culture, subsistence and identity. Preliminary local and scientific knowledge both indicate that this caribou herd is declining and in poorer health than before. We need to bring everyone together and use everything we know about Dolphin and Union caribou, the environment and the other animals to help protect and care for these animals. This project interweaves the experiential knowledge of many people, and is a collaborative effort between Thorpe Consulting Services, the University of Calgary, the Wildlife Management Advisory Council, Government of the Northwest Territories, and the Olokhaktomiut Hunters and Trappers Committee. Our goal is to analyze, summarize and report on a set of interviews conducted with the community of Ulukhaktok in 2011/12 to make this knowledge for management decisions and to facilitate its return to the community.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Susan Kutz

Student:

Partner:

Thorpe Consulting Services

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Intelligent hockey sticks for personalized and context-aware performance

Fitting hockey players with the proper stick remains a complex process. Even though clear benefits are expected from this process, its complexity limits its application to only a few times during the career of the very top athletes. Furthermore, unlike golf, hockey players mostly use the same stick during all game situations. Previous research clearly demonstrates that the right level of stick stiffnesses for each game situation could lead to faster shots. This project targets two main strategies to improve performance and increase gold medal counts. First, it aims at developing sticks that can continuously monitor the performance to easily customize the equipment throughout the season. Next, this project will develop sticks that can modify their stiffnesses according to each game situation. The intern will work with Bauer, Team Canada and Own the Podium to develop these technologies. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexis Lussier Desbiens

Student:

Partner:

Own the Podium;Bauer Hockey Corp;Hockey Canada

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

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

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Safe and Smooth Path Planning for Autonomous Robot Navigation

Clearpath Robotics has developed an accurate GPS navigation system that enables autonomous robots to move in outdoor environments. However, to move toward a target location and avoid obstacles along the path, a path planner is required. The objective of this project is to develop, tune and modify an efficient path planner for the robot in order to make it capable of moving in outdoor environments, then, the performance of the path planner and GPS navigation system will be checked by extensive real-world experiments. The outcome of this project is a well-tested autonomous robot which can move in an environment smoothly and safely. Therefore, it can replace humans in the dangerous working areas and can be used for remote sensing. Also, the partner organization will get a presentation proving the robot’s performance for marketing purposes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nasser Lashgarian Azad

Student:

Partner:

Clearpath Robotics

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Measuring the Effects of a Cycling Program on Older Adults Living in Long-Term Care

This research will measure the effects of the Cycling Without Age program on participants by observing a variety of indicators. An existing program in a long-term care home will be observed, and 50 residents will be recruited: a biking group (n=25) who will be biked twice a week for 12 weeks and a strolls group (n=25) who will go for walks/wheelchair rides outside. Data will be harvested from the Resident-Assessment Instrument – Minimum Data Set (RAI-MDS) regarding scores from the pain scale, cognitive performance scale, index of social engagement, activities of daily living hierarchy scale, and the aggressive behavior scale. Happiness will be measured using a visual analogue scale, and the LTC QoL assessment will be used to assess QOL. The partner organization will benefit by allowing residents the opportunity to participate in more outdoor programs than offered in the past.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Aleksandra Zecevic

Student:

Partner:

Dundas Manor

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

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