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La coordination 3D dans le BIM

A l’heure actuelle, le domaine de la construction rencontre de nombreux problèmes tant sur l’augmentation des temps de projet mais aussi des coûts. Le projet vise donc à créer un rapport, une base d’information, mais surtout une aide permettant aux divers métiers et intervenants de la construction, de mieux appréhender la coordination 3D dans le BIM (Building Information Modeling). Dans la construction, chaque intervenant utilise l’outil informatique propre à leur travail, aux différentes tâches à réaliser… C’est pourquoi, pour regrouper toutes les informations propres à chaque métier de la construction, que des logiciels de coordination ont vues le jour. Cependant, il n’y a pas de méthode définie pour la coordination 3D, ce qui exige un effort d’adaptation important de la part des firmes participante avec des résultats souvent mitigés. Il y a donc un besoin pour la définition et la publication d’une méthodologie sous forme d’un guide.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Daniel Forgues

Student:

Partner:

Pageau Morel et Associés Inc;CERACQ

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Yogurt consumption in children: characterization and health-related impact

Childhood obesity has increased drastically since the late 1970s and unhealthy eating habits are just one of the causes. Some studies have shown that consuming dairy products such as yogurt helps control body weight in both adults and children. However, factors such as genetics and environment may play a role in this response as children who have an obese parent or live in low-income neighborhoods are more likely to become obese adults. The aim of this research is to look at the relationship between yogurt intake and metabolic health in children and adolescents at risk of obesity (i.e. at least one parent with obesity). This project will also benefit Alliance Santé Québec who will test and implement a new interactive technological platform (Data Lake concept), which allows for analysis of existing or new cohorts, making available new datasets about proximity ecosystems and eventually, access to other cohorts. This will allow better identification and characterization of environmental factors associated with dietary factors such as yogurt consumption and extension of existing cohorts to answer population health-related questions. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vicky Drapeau

Student:

Partner:

Alliance santé Québec

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

Coupling event sampling to ColiMinder® high-frequency monitoring of E. coli for improved microbial risk assessment in source waters (COLIRISK)

Safe drinking water supply is a daily need but it can be seriously threatened by microbial hazards originating from fecal contamination of source water, especially following periods of intense rainfall. In order to assess drinking water intakes (DWIs) vulnerability to fecal pollution and to take cost-effective decisions in case of hazardous events, it is urgent to implement early-warning systems. A recent enzyme-based technology, ColiMinder® enables to measure E. coli in water at high temporal resolution (every 15-30 minutes). In order to implement it for effective microbial risk assessment at DWIs, research first needs to clarify how E. coli signals are representative of the prevalent microbial risk (i.e. of pathogen loads). The present project thus aims at developing a simple and original system that integrates the ColiMinder® with an automated sampling device for event-based sampling and analysis of pathogens and fecal source tracers. This integrated system should prove useful in the implementation of the ColiMinder® at Canadian DWIs with the purpose to improve the assessment of their vulnerability to fecal pollution

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sarah Dorner;Michèle Prévost

Student:

Partner:

Le Groupe AquaCion Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Amélioration de la capture des visages pour l’industrie du Jeu Vidéo

Réaliser une animation réaliste d’un visage dans l’industrie du jeu vidéo est un défi technique. Il est extrêmement complexe, y compris pour les meilleurs animateurs 3D, de produire une animation faciale réaliste.
Une manière de résoudre ce problème est de le voir d’un autre angle : pourquoi simuler une chose que l’on peut capturer ? Ce genres de méthodes ont commencés à être utilisé dans l’industrie récemment et ont été acclamés par la fidélité des résultats qu’elles apportent. Mais malgré ces bons résultats, ces méthodes sont loin d’être parfaites et présentent de nombreux problèmes.
En partenariat avec Ubisoft Montréal, mon projet va être d’améliorer ces méthodes et d’en rechercher de nouvelles pour permettre d’obtenir de meilleures animations du visage dans les Jeux Vidéos.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Benoit Ozell

Student:

Partner:

Ubisoft Toronto

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Entertainment and Media; New and Digital Media; Information and Communications Technology

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

University-to-Work Transition Project

Research on university graduates’ University-to-Work transition (UWT) is sharply polarized between two discourses: the smooth transition narrative and the crisis narrative. Proponents of the smooth transition narrative such as universities are reporting high-rates of student satisfaction, skill transferability as well as early-career earnings consistent with those of 1970s and 1980s’s graduates. At the same, the crisis narrative is pointing at rampant underemployment, a loose School-to-Work transition structure and a blunt lack of high-skilled technical labour. While voices in the middle are calling for an overall more sustained engagement from all stakeholders, it is surprising how little we have actually learned about the transition itself, namely university graduates’ own early experience in a “dynamic and unsettled economic landscape” (BCBC 2016). C2Careers has staked out this middle position and it has issued a call for gaining a clearer picture of how university graduates experience and navigate the first critical months of their school-to-work transition in order to create an informed space where university trained grads can work closely with companies who hire and C2Careers can learn about what businesses find lacking in grads and train them accordingly. TO BE CONT’D

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Faculty Supervisor:

Timothy Cheek

Student:

Partner:

C2Careers

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Algorithmes de recommandations pour rencontres d’échanges de connaissances chez E-180

Le projet comporte deux phases. Une première phase consiste à mettre à niveau l’algorithme actuel et à implanter une approche développée par Spaeth et Desmarais (2013). Cette approche combine les techniques dites collaboratives et par contenu. Elle améliore la performance par rapport aux résultats individuels de chaque technique. Une seconde phase consiste à élaborer un nouvel algorithme basé sur les développements récents du côté de l’apprentissage profond avec les réseaux neuronaux. La première phase aura un impact immédiat sur la qualité des recommandations de e-180.com, tandis que la seconde est de nature plus exploratoire et ambitieuse, et vise une contribution scientifique et pratique et à améliorer l’état de l’art.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Desmarais

Student:

Partner:

E-180 Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Utilisation des outils de simulation énergétique des bâtiments par un bureau de génie conseil dans un processus de conception intégrée

Les pratiques courantes de simulation énergétique des bâtiments servant entre autres à obtenir les certifications vertes (LEED, BREEAM, etc.) ne facilitent pas la collaboration entre ingénieurs mécaniques et architectes ; ceci peut mener à des opportunités manquées de réduction de coût et d’efficacité énergétique. Le projet de recherche permettra de comparer de nouveaux outils ciblant les architectes et les ingénieurs aux outils utilisés par l’organisme partenaire afin de déterminer leur pertinence dans le cadre de projets de conception intégrée. Si ces nouveaux outils s’avèrent robustes et fiables, la compagnie hôte pourra les incorporer dans sa pratique et augmenter sa compétitivité en termes de qualité, de rapidité et de productivité et ainsi offrir un meilleur service-conseil à ses clients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Kummert

Student:

Partner:

Pageau Morel et Associés Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Évaluation et maîtrise des expositions professionnelles au chromate de strontium dans l’industrie aérospatiale

L’industrie aérospatiale est un domaine important au Québec qui emploie plusieurs milliers d’employés. Le chromate de strontium est un métal couramment utilisé dans cette industrie comme agent anticorrosion. Le chrome hexavalent contenu dans ces peintures est classé cancérigène pour l’homme par le Centre international de recherche sur le cancer (CIRC). Nous proposons d’évaluer et de caractériser les expositions professionnelles au chromate de strontium dans une usine de fabrication d’avions commerciaux. Ce projet permettra d’améliorer les pratiques d’évaluation et de gestion des risques dans ce milieu.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maximilien Debia;Michèle Bouchard

Student:

Partner:

Bombardier Avions Commerciaux (Mirabel, QC)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Magneto-Rheological Shimmy Damper

During taxiing, takeoff or landing, parts of the landing gear of a commercial plane can undesirably oscillate. This is often the cause of premature wear of certain components. To reduce the impact of this phenomenon, the landing gear designers integrate mechanical elements whose function is to dissipate the kinetic energy associated with these undesirable oscillations.
The objective of this project is to design an actuator using magneto-rheological fluid to replace these mechanical elements of the landing gear. The evaluation criteria for this design will be the complexity of the new architecture of the entire system, mass and performance of landing gear.

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Faculty Supervisor:

François Charron

Student:

Partner:

Héroux Devtek Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Fish bioacoustics: characterization of fish sounds and effect of noise on fish

Fish produce sounds underwater to communicate with each other. Underwater microphones (called hydrophones) can be deployed in the ocean to record these sounds and help scientists study where the fish are without disturbing them. Unfortunately, few studies have been done on fish sounds and a lot of sounds fish produce have not been identified yet. The proposed research project aims at describing what sounds various species of fish produce by deploying hydrophones and video cameras in the ocean. This study will also investigate if the noise in the ocean from vessels can change the vocal behavior of fish. This project will be carried out in partnership with the Canadian consulting company JASCO Applied Sciences. Outcomes for this research will be used by JASCO to monitor fish in their environmental studies and will allow them to strengthen their position as international leaders in this industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Francis Juanes

Student:

Partner:

JASCO Applied Sciences (Canada) Ltd (Victoria)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Environmental Science and Technology; Ocean Tech; Aquaculture and Fishing

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Limb sparing in dogs using patient-specific endoprostheses and cutting guides: design, manufacture and validation

Osteosarcoma at the wrist joint is the most common type of bone cancer in dogs. Each year over 10 000 dogs are affected. To date, several surgical techniques exist to treat patients suffering from this disease. Unfortunately, complication rates subsequent to surgery remain elevated.
We propose a workflow that allows the portion of the wrist affected by the tumor to be replaced with a 3D printed personalized limb. We anticipate that this treatment could (i) reduce the complications that are often observed with existing techniques and (ii) shorten the time span between the diagnosis and surgery.
To commercialize the proposed technology we anticipate the creation of a start-up company that would receive medical images of the limbs, design and 3D print the patient specific implant and ship it to the veterinary hospital. This project will be realized in close collaboration with our partner organization, Aligo innovation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Vladimir Brailovski;Yvan Petit

Student:

Partner:

Aligo Innovation LP

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Optimization and validation of carbon nanofiber catalyst supports in fuel cell stack

Motivated by the urgent need for clean and sustainable source of energy we propose to develop structurally and chemically controllable fuel cell catalyst layers based on ultrafine nanocomposite carbon fibre catalyst support. Manufacturing parameters will be controlled and optimized to investigate the effect of microstructure on key performance factors. Ultimately, the knowledge gained from this study will pave the way to building more efficient fuel cells. Current phase of the project involves validating our design by in-situ testing. This will allow us to draw conclusions about the current design and evaluate the challenges for future scale-up production.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frank Ko

Student:

Partner:

Automotive Fuel Cell Cooperation Corp

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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