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Evaluating the Risk of Climate Change and Hydraulic Processes to Linear Infrastructure

Networks of linear Infrastructure, such as our roads and pipelines, allow us to move people, natural resources, and manufactured goods. Common practice has been to utilise historic climatic data to establish deterministic design guidelines for water course crossings. With climate change uncertainly, asset managers are in a position where they are questioning the guidelines and their current infrastructure robustness. This project proposes to produce an integrated approach that provides the framework, analytical methods, and supporting science for assessing linear infrastructure robustness in the face of climate change uncertainty This approach will provide equity to communities through design criteria that integrate environmental, social and economic values directly linked to geomorphic process. From this project, SNC Lavalin will gain additional modelling tools and an improved understanding of geomorphological processes to provide the stakeholders of linear infrastructure construction and rehabilitation projects with more information while making risk analysis decisions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bruce MacVicar

Student:

Partner:

SNC-Lavalin Group Inc (Burnaby, BC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Determination for the cause of increased chlorination disinfection by-products in two Manitoba water treatment plants

Surface waters, such as lakes and rivers, often have high amounts of natural organic matter formed from decaying plants and animals. Drinking water treatment plants that use these water supplies are often faced with removing these compounds due to the unfavorable formation of carcinogenic disinfection by-products during disinfection with chlorine. However, removal of organics can be difficult due to the unique composition of the water resulting from local environmental conditions. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the local organic composition the better understand which treatment processes can be applied to remove natural organic matter and control the formation of disinfection by-products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Beata Gorczyca

Student:

Partner:

Aboriginal and Northern Affairs (MB);Genivar (Winnipeg, MB)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Effectiveness of Behavioural Science for Financial Decision-Making

Understanding the factors that influence the financial decisions that individuals make is particularly important in difficult economic times. The proposed research seeks to understand the factors that influence financial decision-making under economic stress, with a particular interest in the efficacy of interventions to influence decision-making and the role of financial literacy and related constructs. The project will include a literature review, the development of a new questionnaire-based research tools, and a psychological experiment focusing on decision-making under high and low stress conditions. In addition to contributing to the academic literature on decision-making, it is expected that the research will have practical applications in helping to increase the efficiency of interactions with financial consumers and aid them in completing their tasks, in part by contributing to the development of tools to optimally inform consumers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Esther Greenglass

Student:

Partner:

Toronto-Dominion Bank

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Heterogeneous Compilation for P4 and Caching for high-performance networking

Today’s data-center network services cover a broad spectrum that evolve rapidly which means that regularly new services need to be deployed in production networks in a timely manner. Using network programmability, a network programmer can write a precise specification of what the network behaviour should be, and this specification is translated by a compiler and executed on the hardware. The goal of the project is to allow this programmability to include automatically leveraging hardware to improve performance. The results of the project will help improve the partner’s competitiveness in this market.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yvon Savaria;Pierre Langlois

Student:

Partner:

Kaloom Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Health Information Interoperability with Bidirectional Transformation and Assurance (HealthBX)

The objective of the HealthBX project is to research and develop advanced software engineering methods for the purpose of increasing the interoperability of different clinical health information systems used in the province of British Columbia (BC). BC clinics use a variety of different health information systems to maintain electronic patient data. However, the abilities for these systems to exchange health data electronically is severely limited. The software that governs electronic health data exchange must be engineered to comply to important quality requirements, such as safety, correctness and reliability. The HealthBX project will use new engineering methods (assured, bidirectional transformations) to achieve these objectives. Our project partners will benefit from exposure to these new methods and the Canadian public will benefit from increased, reliable health record exchange capabilities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jens Weber;Morgan Price

Student:

Partner:

Northwest Electronics, Records & Design;OSCARprn;OSCARwest EMR Services Inc;WELL Health Technologies Corp.

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding the effect of the oral microbiome on the performance of dental implant crown materials

We are at the era of precision medicine and dentistry; however, currently there have been no attempts for personalized dental implant design and material selection that take into account variations in individuals’ anatomy, oral microbiome, saliva properties, and mechanical requirements. The overall objective of this MITACS project is to utilize a multidisciplinary approach to explore intra- and inter-variability of oral microbiome and saliva properties of individuals and their effects on a set of new implant crown material candidates, manufactured by the partner organization. Our hypothesis is that early oral characterization of saliva properties and oral microbial communities can assist dental practitioners to select the optimum (most biocompatible) dental implant material candidate(s) for each individual separately. The desired long-term result of this research program is to improve dental therapeutics and move towards customized and personalized dental treatments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Abbas Sadeghzadeh Milani;Sepideh Pakpour

Student:

Partner:

Perfit Dental Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing Well-Being in Later Life Through Innovations in Narrative Care: A Train-The-Trainer Program

The aim of this project is to develop a training program in Narrative Care for health/social care workers who will in turn use their training to organize and facilitate Narrative Care programs for others in their workplace or organization in a cascading manner. The proposed program represents an extension of the hypothesis that the stronger (thicker, broader, deeper) people’s stories of their lives, the greater their inner resources before the challenges of later life in terms of enhanced self-esteem, purpose, and meaning. A train-the-trainer approach is an effective model for increasing knowledge, improving clinical behavior, and producing better patient outcomes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Clive Baldwin

Student:

Partner:

Person Centred Universe Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education; Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

St. Thomas University

Program:

Accelerate

The Power of Archival Records in Independent Schools

This research will look to explore the ingest, management, preservation, use, and re-use of archives within primary and secondary independent schools with more academic rigour than has been attempted in the past. Independent schools have unique challenges that differ from those faced by public schools. The purpose of this study is to inductively create a very detailed analysis of the relationships between the records that are created at an independent school and their uses (and re-uses). Key concepts will emerge from the rich qualitative data, identifying problem areas. This will inform the design of one or two practical solutions created in collaboration with relevant staff, faculty or student groups to improve the quality of school administrative or curricular activities, strengthen relations with their community, and/or enrich the archive itself through outreach activities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eun G Park

Student:

Partner:

Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Climate risk assessment and adaptation practices in mining operations: the use of smart water monitoring systems in surrounding watersheds

This research focuses on identify practical strategies for proactively managing the climate-related risks and design remote water monitoring networks that can support the ecosystem-based adaptation planning, related to hydrologic systems. Aquatic Life Ltd. has developed equipment for remote water monitoring system: Aquahive. This equipment provides the ability to remotely collect, analyze and report data from various environmental sensors in real-time. The system detects critical events, trigger commands, notify the end user, generate data visualization, alerts, and reporting. The study will investigate the properties of Aquahive, to support a monitoring and evaluation framework to support climate change adaptation planning using remote water monitoring networks, and therefore reduce the risks associated with climate change impacts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bern Klein;Nadja Kunz

Student:

Partner:

Aquatic Life Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Small-molecule screen revealing apoptosis inhibitors of BAX and BAK

The focus of this project is to screen for small-molecules that may interact with the machinery that controls the decision of life and death in the cell. Diseases can arise from aberrant control of cell life and death like cancer and neurodegeneration. By shutting off the cell death pathway when cells are injured, or stressed to the point that they would ordinarily die, we hope to use small molecule inhibition to allow cells the time they need to recover. The small molecules that we previously published that interact with the apoptosis machinery and successfully inhibit cell death are inappropriate for pre-clinical studies due to off-target activities. A goal of this project is to find additional compounds by adapting our current biochemical assay to a screening format in order to test a large library of compounds. This work will lead to the identification of molecules optimized for interaction with the cellular apoptosis machinery, leading us closer to custom synthesis of therapeutically active compounds.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David W Andrews

Student:

Partner:

Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Life Sciences (not health); Biotechnology; Pharmaceuticals

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Novel algorithms for SWATH-MS quantification to study type 2 diabetes progression on a molecular level

The number of patients suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) reached 392 million worldwide in 2015 and its prevalence is expected to increase by more than 50% during the next two decades. Currently, the best way to treat diabetes is to diagnose and prevent at the early stages. There is an urgent need for a better understanding of the disease on a molecular level. Here, we will use a novel high-throughput proteomics method to longitudinally profile an existing cohort of pre-diabetic patients at risk of becoming frank diabetics, thus gaining deeper insight into disease progression at the molecular level.
Blood plasma is a non-invasive source for protein measurement as infected tissue normally secrete proteins in the blood. Snyder lab at Stanford University has collected over 1000 samples from 105 subjects over 4 years in a longitudinal, personalized medicine setup. We will use SWATH-MS, a targeted proteomics method capable of accurate identification and quantification. I will develop novel algorithmic methods including direct chromatogram alignment approach to quantify proteins. Subsequently, software will be developed to scale the measurement across 1000s of samples and use mutual information to get robust quantification […]

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hannes Rost

Student:

Partner:

Stanford University

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Slurry Pumps Efficiency, Productivity and Quality Enhancement

Pump industry is a very completive manufacturing sector which is dominated by few manufacturers. Attaining higher market share and the overall demand increase were the two motivations for the industrial partner of this project, Toyo North America, to initiate collaboration with the Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. To achieve this goal Toyo has identified the three areas that require further development as: (1) pump quality improvement, (2) high performance pumps design, and (3) flexible manufacturing. The main purpose of this project is to identify practical and scientific solutions to address the requirements in each of the tasks. This collaboration will provide the company with the expertise and facilities available at both universities. Moreover, the research team will have the opportunity to begin a long term partnership with the company for future joint projects. Finally, the project will help the interns to work on an industrial …

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Faculty Supervisor:

Siamak Arzanpour

Student:

Partner:

Toyo Pumps North America Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Mining

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

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