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Connections and Engagement Survey Analysis and Dissemination Project

The Connections and Engagement Survey Breakdown Project will provide a deeper understanding of relevant community health issues in the Metro Vancouver area by studying various elements associated with civic engagement and citizen participation. Using data collected by the Vancouver Foundation, this project will produce several reports on key issues of neighbourhood and community well-being and engagement and several reports pertaining to the engagement profiles of various cities in the region. This research will be publicly available and will inform future decisions made by the Vancouver Foundation and possibly other institutions in the region.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Meg Holden

Student:

Partner:

Vancouver Foundation

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Finance and Insurance; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Other services (except public administration)

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Design and Testing of Innovative Precast Concrete I-Beams using FRP Reinforcement and Fibre-Reinforced Concrete

This research addresses the feasibility of using FRP reinforcement in concrete beams taking into consideration the effect of fiber dosage and prestressing level in order to enhance the structural performance, time efficiency and optimised-cost. Full-scale precast concrete I-beams will be tested as simple beams to determine their flexural and shear capacity. The test parameters include the beam configuration, fiber dosage, prestressing level, longitudinal reinforcement ratio, type of reinforcement (Glass, Carbon and Basalt FRP with and without pre-stressing) and type of concrete (light-and normal-weight concrete; fiber-reinforced concrete; ultra high-performance concrete). The experimental results will be the concrete strain, bar strain, crack width, curvature, and mid-span deflection. The mode of failure will be monitored throughout the load history. These results will be assessed with the available recommendations on the North-America’s codes and guidelines (ACI 440.1R-15 and CSA S806-12). TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brahim Benmokrane

Student:

Partner:

Sym-Tech Béton Préfabriqué Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing and Construction; Advanced Manufacturing; Sustainability & the Environment

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

An ethical evaluation of HIV dried-blood spot testing in research and access to results for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men in Canada

Sex Now is a community-based health survey for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) in Canada. The next round of Sex Now will be conducted at LGBTQ Pride events in 8 Canadian cities and participants will be asked to provide small blood spot samples for HIV testing. This will majorly impact our understanding of HIV prevalence and prevention across the country, but, since this is the first time the Sex Now team is doing HIV testing as part of its survey, there are serious ethical concerns around how to give participants access to their test results and how best to follow-up with people who have a positive test result. Working with the Community-Based Research Centre for Gay Men’s Health, the intern will develop a way to give HIV test results to participants in Sex Now and evaluate its practicality in the research world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Gilbert

Student:

Partner:

Community Based Research Centre Society

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

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

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of Wood I-joists for Floor Applications in Mid-rise Wood Construction

PinkWood Ltd of Calgary is the largest wood I-joist producer in Western Canada. To-date it has been supplying primarily to the low-rise residential construction market. With the increased interest in mid-rise wood buildings up to 6 storeys, PinkWood is interested in expanding into this market segment. Penetrating into this non-traditional market segment will require the development of research information that addresses the concerns of build designers. In this project the three technical concerns are floor diaphragm action, vertical shrinkage of building and floor vibration performance. An expected outcome of the project is the publication of a technical report that provides guidance on the use of PinkWood wood I-joists in mid-rise construction, thereby help fulfilling the market penetration objective of the company.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ying-Hei Chui

Student:

Partner:

Pinkwood Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Milieux de vie en santé – À vos ruelles vertes

L’objectif général du projet est d’analyser la contribution des citoyens dans l’adaptation des milieux de vie en contexte de transformation de l’action publique et de l’action collective. Le projet s’intéresse particulièrement au contexte des ruelles privées de Québec et aux communautés de citoyens qui travaillent ensemble pour verdir et aménager leur milieu. Dans le cadre du projet À vos ruelles vertes de Nature Québec, le stage permettra à l’organisme de consolider les leviers d’une bonne mobilisation citoyenne. Les notions acquises seront transférables à plus grande échelle, dans le programme d’adaptation aux changements climatiques et de lutte aux îlots de chaleur Milieux de vie en santé.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Geneviève Cloutier

Student:

Partner:

Nature Quebec

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

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

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Hydrogen Storage and Fuel Cell for UAV Integration

The joint objective of the consortium is to undertake R&D necessary to produce a scalable, cost-effective combined hydrogen storage and fuel cell solution for UAV’s that addresses weight and volume and improves refueling logistics. The novel hydrogen storage system will be combined with a high-power density optimized fuel cell stack for UAV’s that integrates with the low pressure, volumetrically efficient, hydrogen storage solution.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Erik Kjeang;Michael Eikerling;Erik Kjeang

Student:

Partner:

Ballard Power Systems Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing cognitive load in cochlear implant users through short-term storage of speech

Cochlear implants are surgical implanted devices that allow deaf people to recover some form of hearing and understand speech, but current devices are limited, and the consequences of these limitations have not been fully explored. For example, there is a growing consensus that hearing loss interacts with cognitive systems. Yet, relatively little is known about the cognitive burden of CI users. The present project will develop a robust tool to measure the cognitive effort induced by the CI, and point towards the poor representation of voice pitch as one important cause for the increased listening effort and the reduced short-term memory. We eventually aim to develop a pitch-exaggeration algorithm in pseudo-real-time, which could be implemented by the partnering industry Oticon in the design of future CI processors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alexandre Lehmann;Mickael Deroche

Student:

Partner:

Oticon Canada

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing; Wholesale trade

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Identification des caractéristiques du comportement dynamique des roues de turbine hydroélectrique par l’étude des régimes transitoires

Ce projet a pour but développer un outil pour améliorer nos capacités à prédire la nature et les amplitudes des sollicitations mécaniques sur une roue de turbine hydraulique type Francis pour les régimes stationnaire et transitoire. Plus spécifiquement, le projet a pour objectif le développement et la validation d’un modèle de calibration et d’interpolation spatiale entre les données issues des simulations numériques (EF) et les données issues des mesures in situ afin d’obtenir une estimation cohérente des niveaux de contraintes prenant en compte les deux types de données. Les résultats d’un tel modèle sont exploités dans un modèle probabiliste pour estimer la fiabilité résiduelle de la roue.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Souheil-Antoine Tahan;Jérôme Antoni

Student:

Partner:

Institut de Recherche Hydro-Québec;ANDRITZ Canada Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Utilities

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Mini manche haptique actif

Exonetik est une jeune entreprise en pleine croissance qui développe une nouvelle technologie d’actionneurs mécanique à l’aide d’un fluide magnétorhéologique permettant d’imiter les mouvements de l’être humain. L’objectif général du projet de recherche est d’étudier le potentiel technologique de ces actionneurs pour l’application d’un mini manche haptique. Le projet a pour objectif spécifique de réaliser la modélisation et l’asservissement du prototype de mini manche conçu et fabriqué au préalable. Le stagiaire assurera ces deux activités en développant et en testant l’asservissement dudit mini manche pour reproduire les effets de ressort/amortisseur, d’un mur virtuel et de vibrations au niveau du manche.
L’objectif final de ce projet pour l’entreprise est de faire essayer le mini-manche à de potentiels utilisateurs d’abord dans le secteur de l’aérospatiale, puis ensuite d’extrapoler les résultats vers d’autres applications dans divers secteurs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alain Berry

Student:

Partner:

Exonetik Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Méthode de prédiction des heures d’arrivée dans les réseaux de transport collectif par bus

Plusieurs sociétés de transport collectif par bus disposent maintenant de système de positionnement des véhicules en temps réel, ce qui permet d’améliorer le suivi de l’opération et de présenter des horaires en temps réel aux voyageurs. Cependant, il demeure difficile de bien prévoir les heures d’arrivées des bus aux arrêts, notamment en mode dégradé, en cas de retard important ou de panne. Les conditions météorologiques, l’application des normes de service, le comportement des conducteurs, la géométrie du réseau et l’achalandage sont autant de facteurs pouvant influencer l’heure d’arrivée. Dans ce projet, nous utiliserons des méthodes statistiques d’apprentissage qui se baseront sur les données historiques, couplées aux conditions en temps réel et autres facteurs, pour prédire les heures d’arrivée des bus sur les lignes d’autobus de la Société de transport de Sherbrooke, qui sera utilisée comme terrain d’expérimentation. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Martin Trépanier

Student:

Partner:

Civilia groupe-conseil

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Mid-InfraRed Integrated Optoelectronics on Silicon

The global acceleration of the information technology creates pressing needs for cost-effective broadband, high-density, and high-speed data interconnections for high-performance, energy-efficient signal processing and computing. This increasing demand will push the limits of the electrical interconnects by forcing the transmission distance to shrink, which limits architectures and exacerbates heat dissipation challenges as a result of forcing hot processors closer and closer together. Optical interconnections via silicon photonic platforms have recently been recognized as critical to overcome this technological bottleneck. One of the key components of silicon photonics is the integrated light source which serves as the electrical to optical converter. The on-chip light sources are crucial to achieve a higher integration density, higher scalability, and a better energy efficiency. However, the fact that Si is an indirect bandgap semiconductor and thus a poor light emitter has been a major hurdle facing the development of silicon photonics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Oussama Moutanabbir

Student:

Partner:

Two-Photon

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal; Polytechnique Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Improvement of Operation Efficiency in WRHA Hemodialysis Units Using Simulation Modeling

Hemodialysis (HD) Units are the ambulatory care clinic for patients with the chronic kidney disease. There are 136 beds/chairs for over 400 patients per day at 3 HD facilities in Winnipeg. Inefficient workflows were identified from the previous study. This research will search solutions using methods of the system modeling and simulation to identify areas of improvement for the renal program workflows. Simulation modeling will be used as a cost-effective tool to examine HD operations, identify barriers to workflows, and test alternative solutions. Due to the complexity of healthcare systems, decisions need to be much more evidence-based and made in near-real-time conditions. Simulation model will help analyzing and identifying these types of variability in care operations. The research solution can be applied to other Canadian HD centres.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Qingjin Peng;Trevor Strome

Student:

Partner:

Chronic Disease Innovation Centre (CDIC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Public Service, Policy, and Governance

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

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