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Le management stratégique des feuilles de route à Hydro-Québec: Accompagner la stratégie à développer une capacité d’action collective pour générer, travailler et prioriser les champs d’innovation dans une grande entreprise en mutation

Les feuilles de route d’innovation sont des outils de gestion stratégiques qui sont aujourd’hui largement utilisées par les organisations pour préparer des changements majeurs et améliorer leurs capacités à travailler des innovations majeures. Toutefois, si nous connaissons aujourd’hui bien les différentes méthodes qui peuvent mener à leur développement, les questions de leurs arrimages à la stratégie et à la gestion de projets en organisation restent mal connues, de même que leurs conditions de réactualisation au cours du temps.
Ce projet de recherche vise justement à travailler ces questions en s’appuyant sur les efforts qui sont faits par Hydro-Québec et son institut de recherche pour essayer de s’appuyer sur des feuilles de route pour entamer des changements majeurs qui lui permettront de faire face aux mutations à venir dans le domaine de l’énergie. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marine Agogué

Student:

Partner:

Institut de Recherche Hydro-Québec

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

HEC Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

The Acquisition of Music Reading Skills in Novice Students

Music reading is a very challenging and frustrating aspect of learning music that often leads to the cessation of lessons in the early stages of music learning. Despite this, there has been very little experimental research to understand the music reading process. To address this need, we will administer a group of cognitive and music reading tests to young novice piano students. The results of this project will form groundwork for a much-needed understanding of the music reading process, which in turn will enhance our understanding the most effective approaches in teaching this skill. This internship will be of great benefit to the intern (PhD student in the same research area), the partner (a music school which will gain valuable insight into their student reading skills and teaching effectiveness) and society at large (increasing the population of those who will succeed in their pursuit of musicianship).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gilles Comeau

Student:

Partner:

Merriam School of Music

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

ERGO4ALL: Conception d’un processus d’intervention en ergonomie virtuelle

Les logiciels actuels de DHM (Digital Human Modeling ou d’ergonomie virtuelle) destinés à la conception de situations de travail et de produits demeurent difficiles à utiliser ce qui en limite grandement l’utilisation par les concepteurs et les ergonomes. Pourtant, l’utilisation plus répandue de DHM permettrait d’en arriver à des environnements de travail plus sécuritaires et minimisant les risques pour la santé des travailleurs. Il apparaît donc utile de concevoir les logiciels de DHM en tenant compte des caractéristiques et exigences (i.e., conception centrée sur l’opérateur humain) de leurs utilisateurs, lesquels sont en grande majorité non ergonomes. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Marc Robert;Daniel Imbeau

Student:

Partner:

Dassault Systèmes

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Aerospace; Automotive; Technology

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of Mazzaella Japonica as a Food Additive for Ruminants – Year two

In collaboration between Thompson Rivers University (TRU) and Beaver Meadow Farms (BMF), we propose to investigate the invasive foreign red seaweed Mazzaella Japonica as a food additive for ruminant livestock, primarily cattle. BMF is a multi-faceted agricultural company based on northern Vancouver Island built around organic pasture-raised cattle but also the harvest of storm-cast Mazzaella Japonica. Recent work using a similar red seaweed species has shown that its inclusion in livestock diets is beneficial to: (1) increase omega fatty acid concentration in meat, (2) facilitate uptake of nutrients present in the animal feed, and (3) mitigate the formation of methane gas caused by the bacteria in the rumen. Particular nutrients within algae are attributed to their success as feed additives, and if similar chemicals are obtained from M. japonica it may prove a valuable resource. To BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Church

Student:

Partner:

Beaver Meadow Farms

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program:

Elevate

Evaluation of Mazzaella Japonica as a Food Additive for Ruminants

In collaboration between Thompson Rivers University (TRU) and Beaver Meadow Farms (BMF), we propose to investigate the invasive foreign red seaweed Mazzaella Japonica as a food additive for ruminant livestock, primarily cattle. BMF is a multi-faceted agricultural company based on northern Vancouver Island built around organic pasture-raised cattle but also the harvest of storm-cast Mazzaella Japonica. Recent work using a similar red seaweed species has shown that its inclusion in livestock diets is beneficial to: (1) increase omega fatty acid concentration in meat, (2) facilitate uptake of nutrients present in the animal feed, and (3) mitigate the formation of methane gas caused by the bacteria in the rumen. Particular nutrients within algae are attributed to their success as feed additives, and if similar chemicals are obtained from M. japonica it may prove a valuable resource. To BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Church

Student:

Partner:

Beaver Meadow Farms

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Thompson Rivers University

Program:

Elevate

Salivary insulin profiles throughout the day in humans with elevated waist circumference

The hormone insulin rises in the blood after consuming food. Too high of an insulin response may be a sign of dysfunctional metabolism and has also been shown to promote weight gain. Thus, if insulin levels rise too high after a meal it may indicate that someone is metabolically unhealthy or is prone to obesity. Currently insulin is only measured in research studies using blood samples and costly, time consuming measurement techniques. This project aims to determine if saliva can be used to measure insulin in order to allow for non-invasive insulin measurement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Little

Student:

Partner:

Light Heart

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Biotechnology

University:

The University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Mapping of contaminants of emerging interest in Quebec City water sources

Pharmaceuticals are important to lead the healthy life in the current world. However, continuous and huge use of these pharmaceuticals led to constant release in the environment and in particular in water sources. And also, low absorption and metabolism of pharmaceuticals in humans and animals led to their continuous entry into the environment via feces and urine. These pharmaceuticals are classified as the main class of contaminants of emerging interest (CEI). Pharmaceuticals are excreted in urine and feces in different proportions depending on the properties of the drugs either unchanged or inactive forms. Hence, most of the residual pharmaceuticals end up in wastewater (sewers and septic installations). Inefficient capacity or aging of wastewater treatment plants and septic installations might be a major source for the release of these CEI into the surface water and groundwater. Wastewater effluent release into surface water (rivers or lakes) also contribute the contamination.TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Manuel J Rodriguez

Student:

Partner:

Agiro

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Water; Sustainability & the Environment; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Development of protein and carbohydrate complexation delivery systems for improving the transport, stability, and efficacy of plant immune aids

While modern pesticides have dramatically improved crop yields and food security, the challenges of emerging pest resistance, environmental run-off, and the need to help crops better cope with weather-related stresses like drought and extreme heat all demand new solutions. Our partner, Suncor, has recently developed a new class of plant immune aids that activate a plant’s native immune system to induce a range of beneficial responses to both pest and weather-related stresses while avoiding some of the downstream challenges associated with existing pesticide and fertilizer use. Intern Dr. Ali Akbari, working in Dr. Todd Hoare’s lab at McMaster, will collaborate with Suncor to encapsulate these immune response triggering chemicals using safe and inexpensive food-grade proteins that can actively transport the immune aid into the leaf for optimal activity and release the active agent over time to minimize the frequency of required re-application for the farmer. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Todd R Hoare

Student:

Partner:

Suncor Energy Inc (Mississauga, ON)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing; Mining

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Développement d’une nouvelle approche quantitative afin d’évaluer la vulnérabilité des services écosystémiques rendus par les lacs canadiens aux changements globaux

Une des conséquences importantes des changements climatiques et des changements dans l’utilisation du territoire sur les lacs canadiens est la mise en péril de la prestation de services écosystémiques cruciaux telles la production d’eau potable et la pêche récréative et commerciale. Dans un monde en constant changement, il est primordial d’être en mesure d’identifier les écosystèmes les plus vulnérables aux changements climatiques dans une optique d’adaptation, ce qui est une des missions de notre partenaire Ouranos, et de prioriser les actions pour les écosystèmes les plus à risque. L’objectif principal de ce projet est de développer une approche écosystémique et intégratrice permettant d’évaluer, à court et moyen terme, la vulnérabilité des services écosystémiques fournis par les lacs Canadiens aux effets cumulatifs des changements climatiques et de l’utilisation du territoire.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Roxane Maranger;Jean-François Lapierre

Student:

Partner:

Ouranos Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Accommodation and food services; Agriculture; Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Pertinence et perception sociale du nouveau concept d’aire protégée polyvalente dans le cadre de l’inscription de l’île d’Anticosti comme site du patrimoine mondial

En 2017, l’île d’Anticosti a été retenue sur la Liste indicative des sites du patrimoine mondial du Canada, première étape d’une reconnaissance par l’UNESCO. La Municipalité de l’île d’Anticosti et son partenaire Nature Québec ont interpellé l’Université Laval pour les appuyer dans l’élaboration du futur système de protection de l’île. L’objectif du projet sera d’évaluer la pertinence et la perception qu’auraient les groupes impliqués à l’idée d’octroyer un statut d’aire protégée polyvalente (APP) pour répondre aux exigences de l’UNESCO. Les APP permettent de répondre à la fois à des objectifs de conservation de la biodiversité et à des objectifs d’utilisation durable des ressources naturelles, tout en respectant la définition d’une aire protégée. L’APP est une formule de conservation encore peu utilisée au Canada. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Luc Bouthillier;Louis Bélanger

Student:

Partner:

Nature Quebec

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

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

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Embedding Project

The Embedding Project is a public-benefit research project that relies on strong social science research methods to bring together thoughtful sustainability intrapreneurs from across industries and around the world, and harnesses their collective knowledge to develop rigorous and practical guidance that benefits everyone. This internship will offer an MBA student the opportunity to gain experience in both practice and research, while learning from leaders in the field. The Intern will spend approximately 75% of their time implementing employment engagement initiatives at Quadreal, a global real estate management company, and 25% of their time documenting and translating their learned experiences in the form of a tool or resource that can then be made publically available to sustainability practitioners more generally.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephanie Bertels

Student:

Partner:

QuadReal Property Group

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Automating Analysis of Privacy Requirements

Against a backdrop of alarming privacy breaches at social media, banking, and government websites, the European Union will see the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) come into force as of May 25 2018. GDPR will drastically increase fines for data loss and breach, introduces new requirements to obtain individual consent for data use, and defines new responsibilities for data processors and controllers. Any company, including Canadian companies, that processes EU citizen data is within the purview of the GDPR.
Many Canadian ICT companies have realized that their activities are potentially covered by the regulation. However, fully understanding where and how the technical architecture of the company’s information processing and storage may be non-compliant with GDPR is challenging for two reasons. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Neil Ernst;Daniela Damian

Student:

Partner:

Tutela Technologies Ltd

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

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