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13270 Completed Projects

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Engineering
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Engineering - chemical / biological

Pan-disability COVID-19 data leadership and coordination initiative

The Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorder Alliance (CASDA) was created to develop and implement a comprehensive National Autism Strategy (NAS) to addresses critical gaps in funding and policies which are preventing autistic individuals and their families from exercising their equal rights as Canadians. COVID-19 has created additional challenges for families across Canada that must be taken into account as we set policies moving forward. CASDA will collect information, resources, and surveys specifically relevant for autistic people and their families in light of the COVID-19 crisis and make it available in one accessible location (the COVID-19 Navigation Guide web page). CASDA will also meet regularly with leaders from disability organizations and researchers to encourage collaboration and ensure that the most relevant and evidence-based information is being shared. The information curated will be utilized when writing federal government policy recommendations to suggest concrete ways to support families now and following the pandemic.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Stevenson

Student:

Fakhri Shafai

Partner:

Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorder Alliance

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Other

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Characterization and regulation of new proteins in COVID-19/SARS CoV-2 by cannabinoids

Presently, there are almost 100,000 people in Canada with COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS CoV-2 virus, and almost 7000 have died. Although an effective vaccine is the ultimate goal, it is a long way off. To slow the spread and reduce the medical, social, and economic burdens, new treatments are needed. To find those, we need to know how the SARS CoV-2 virus works. In the proposed research, we will study two new proteins that SARS CoV-2 makes, which haven’t been seen in viruses before, to find out how they harm cells. We will also study a group of possible new drugs, the cannabinoids, to see if they can counteract the damage done by these viral proteins. This work will help scientists understand how the virus works in cells, to spur the development of new treatments. It may also uncover a new treatment for the virus, helping to save lives.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robin Elaine Duncan

Student:

Maria Fernanda de Andrade Fernandes

Partner:

Akseera Pharma Corp

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Design and development of a miniature tool changer mechanism for adesktop PCB fabrication system

Addem Labs is developing an office-friendly machine to manufacture single- and double- layer printed circuit boards (PCBs) on a user’s desktop. A core part of the machine is a miniature tool-changer mechanism that can pick up and use the tools required for various mechanical operations – the intern will be designing and developing this automated tool changer mechanism. The intern’s work will radically accelerate Addem Labs’ product development efforts and enable the company to bring its product to market months earlier than expected.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Chignell

Student:

Kausthub Shinde

Partner:

Addem Labs Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Mental Wellness Application for Current and Post COVID 19 Self Help Training and Assessment

People who experience mental wellness challenges or mental illness often struggle to obtain or maintain a position in the workplace. Furthermore, lack of employment means individuals lose out on a myriad of mental, emotional, and physiological benefits that are generated through work. This is extremely relevant given the current COVID crisis where personal distancing and isolation are required for the greater societal good. In response to this problem, the Digital Integration Centre of Excellence (DICE) at Saskatchewan Polytechnic (Sask Polytech), Refresh Enterprises, Inc. (Refresh), and the Canadian Mental Health Association, Saskatchewan Division (CMHA-SK) are collaborating to finalize the development of the Mental Wellness App (RWA), a multifaceted lifestyle program that will promote healthy mentality and facilitate relational support through peers and professionals. RWA will leverage artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and automatic personality recognition (APR) technology in order to automatically respond to users’ mental and emotional states, offering helpful suggestions and resources. With the individual user’s permission, this information could be shared with involved health care workers, who will also be able to use the app to inform their services.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Terry Peckham;Susan Blum;Raymond Spiteri

Student:

Jessie Smith;Hugh Ullrich;Sheida Knight

Partner:

Refresh

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Robust Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Short T2 Tissues – Part 2

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an imagig modality which can visualize the internal structure of the human body and is free of radiation. In this project, we would like to write a multi-functional and robust MRI software package using ultrashort echo time (UTE) technique to realize the imaging of the tissues, such as tendons, ligaments and cotrical bone, which are difficult to view through conventional MRI techniques. This project will contribute a reliable imaging tool to our partner, Siemens Healthcare Canada, to further transform this tool into a medical solution which is able to aid the diagnosis of the associated diseases such as osteoarthritis (OA).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emily McWalter;Niranjan Venugopal

Student:

Lumeng Cui

Partner:

Siemens Healthcare Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

University:

Program:

Accelerate

R&D of Cannabis extraction and purification technologies

The intern will work with the company PBE Expert on the field; she will gain technical experience on the cannabis industry. Specifically, she will research and work on cannabis extraction and purification techniques. She will research problems and issues faced by cannabis producers in regards to the extraction and purification techniques. In the lab, she will focus on developing new or improved technologies.
The partner organisation will supervise the intern. The intern will work on projects with the partner organisation and be in charge of several aspects of these projects, like arranging meetings with clients, creating layouts on AutoCAD, providing cGMP compliance services…

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Faculty Supervisor:

Valérie Orsat

Student:

Coralie Khabbaz

Partner:

Pharma Bio Expert Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Extraction, chemical analysis, and formulation development of potential anti-viral plant isolates against SARS-CoV-2

The COVID-19 pandemic has had broad global ramifications and preventative strategies and treatments for the virus are crucial. PBG BioPharma has developed two plant-based isolates, PBG-005 & PBG-007, that have shown innate immunological properties, potentially usable in the treatment or prevention of multi-viral infections. This research proposes leveraging PBG-005 & PGB-007, as well as PBG’s newly-completed GMP-compliant manufacturing facility and laboratories, to develop, formulate, and product anti-viral products which may be effective in treating SARS-CoV-2. This project will not only assist PBG BioPharma in creating anti-viral formulation and products, which will in turn bring great economic benefits, but will also provide a potential method and treatment of SARS-CoV-2 directly or as an adjunct therapy under the current rapidly evolving epidemiological situatio

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jie Chen

Student:

Dan Jin

Partner:

PBG BioPharma

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Climate Risk Valuation – Mapping climatology to macro-economic indicators

Climate change is one of the greatest challenge society has ever faced, with increasingly severe consequences for humanity. Climate change also creates risks to both the safety and soundness of the individual firms and to the stability of the financial system. This will be felt both in the cost of direct losses to climate events, as well as the expense of adapting businesses to the new climate policies that will have to be met.
The aims of this project are to:
• Research climate modelling techniques, with a particular focus on mapping climatology to macro-economic indicators
• Develop models and estimate the impact of climate changes on financial institutions
• Measure and evaluate the short and long term risks through scenario analysis and stress testing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Matheus Grasselli

Student:

Yifan Wang

Partner:

Ernest & Young s.r.l.

Discipline:

Statistics / Actuarial sciences

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Smart and Low-Cost Face-Shields Capable of Protection, Prevention and Detection for Essential Workers Fighting COVID-19 Pandemic

This project is in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and aims at developing a self-disinfecting personal protective equipment (PPE), such as goggles, and face shields, that are crucial to the safety of frontline workers. The low-cost, easy-to-implement fabricated end-product can be applied in both production and retrofit contexts. The approach embeds a thin layer of transparent conducting polymer in/on the PPE’s visor, integrated with a simple electronic circuit. Upon application of certain voltage, virus will be first detected and then inactivated by the generated heat of 60-65°C through the polymeric film electrode.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mohammad Hossein Zarifi

Student:

Ehsan Hosseini

Partner:

Tangent Design Engineering

Discipline:

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Challenge and Virtual Environment Research to support Social and Economic Recovery from the Coronavirus Crisis

The coronavirus crisis has disrupted the social and economic fabric of communities around the world. This has profound implications for the sustainability and innovation challenges those communities are facing, and for the higher education institutions and professional educational businesses who have missions to prepare and support those communities to tackle those challenges.
This research will identify, document and generate recommendations for addressing several aspects of the social and economic disruption caused by the coronavirus crisis. The knowledge generated by this research will be invaluable for How to Change the World Canada and its partner network of Canadian universities and colleges, business and governments as they develop and implement their strategic adaptions to the coronavirus crisis.
This underpinning aspiration of this research is to inform and stimulate a social and economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis in Canada that is as sustainable, inclusive and empowering as possible for every Canadian.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Medhat Shehata;Usman Khan;Cao Thang Dinh;Jim Nicell

Student:

Aine Nuraizza Nuruddin;Anum Khan;Cynthia Okafor;Leilah Yadia Kelly Sory;Mackenzie Briand;Maria Butt;Mark Castillo;Murad Gohar;Stephanie Tran

Partner:

How to Change the World Canada Incorporated

Discipline:

Sector:

Education

University:

Program:

Accelerate

An analysis of the impact of FRTB SA Market Risk Capital rules on various Capital Market trade types

As part of reforms to the regulations governing Canadian banks, new rules governing the capital to be set aside for market risk have been proposed, termed the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). With the new rules, some Canadian banks will move to calculating capital requirements using a regulatory Standardized Approach. The goal of the research is to analyze the drivers of the FRTB capital charges and contrast these against the drivers of current regulatory capital, and both against theoretical ideals for economic capital requirements. Specifically, the research will focus on identifying trades and strategies that are adversely affected by the new FRTB capital rules, methods and strategies that would mitigate adverse effects, and how the resulting intended and unintended incentives produced by the FRTB charges may potentially impact market products, positions, and pricing.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Lozinski

Student:

Jianyu Pan

Partner:

Bank of Montreal

Discipline:

Statistics / Actuarial sciences

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of tools for high performance biospecimen collection to serve COVID-19 pandemic

The aim of this research and development project is to design and develop new tools using 3D printing and injection molding technologies for reliable collection of biospecimen for the use with diagnostic kits and point-of-care devices capable of diagnosis of COVID-19. The developed sample collection tools will be eventually delivered to Shapetry Labs Inc. to evaluate their clinical and safety performance and to help managing COVID-19. Once integrated with digital monitoring system, these tools can be used for self-collection of biospecimen at home or remote settings, helping to contain the spread of the disease.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Seyed Hossein Hejazi

Student:

Milad Azarmanesh;Mohsen Janmaleki;Pouria Goldasteh;Hossein Khorshidian

Partner:

Shapetry

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

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