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PlaceSpeak

The purpose of this internship is to assess the commercial viability of PlaceSpeak, which is creating a new online e-commerce model, and creating a new service category. This will involve extensive research into current methodologies and best practices for eliciting and collecting public policy input from community residents, as well as current pricing models and levels for profit-driven organizations that collect and provide such information. Market analysis will be conducted to indentfy and analysis potential markets and users for this new online service. Further research into current pricing levels and pricing structures for comparable online services, we can determine what is the most usable, appealing and competitive pricing model for the PlaceSpeak Issues Platform. The goal is to ensure the long-term financial viability of PlaceSpeak, which aims to implement online community participation tools that will aid in public policy decision-making.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ron Cenfetelli

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Species tree inference from multi-labeled gene trees

Reconstructing the tree of life, which depicts the evolutionary history of today’s existing species, has been a central goal of evolutionary biology ever since Darwin. Each species is composed of a set of genes, which can be grouped into families. The DNA sequences of genes can be used to infer a gene tree for each family, and the species tree can be seen as a “summary” of these gene histories. Therefore one way of inferring a species tree is to merge multiple gene trees into a “supertree”. Many programs and software are able to combine gene trees into one, but they assume that each gene tree has at most one gene per species. However, this is unrealistic since genes undergo duplication events during the course of evolution, leading to gene trees having multiple leaves labeled by the same species. The aim of this project is to devise efficient algorithms that can combine multi-labeled gene trees and thus infer better species trees.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nadia El-Mabrouk

Student:

Partner:

Université de Montpellier

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Education

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Développement de méthodes numériques pour l’analyse d’écoulements instationnaires en aérodynamique externe transsonique et application à l’étude du tremblement (buffet) transsonique

La mécanique des fluides numériques (CFD) occupe une place importante dans la conception des aéronefs modernes puisqu’elle permet d’explorer différents designs en environnement informatique avec un coût plus faible que les essais de soufflerie. Cependant, les phénomènes
instationnaires (variant dans le temps) requièrent un temps de calcul élevé limitant l’application de la CFD dans un cadre industriel. De ceux-ci figure le tremblement (buffet) transsonique, une interaction indésirable entre le choc sonique et la couche limite sur une aile d’avion qui entraîne
une fluctuation des forces aérodynamiques. De plus, la mécanique entourant ce phénomène demeure partiellement incomprise. Ainsi, ce projet vise à développer des méthodes d’analyse des phénomènes aérodynamiques instationnaires efficaces afin de réduire les temps de calcul
requis. Ensuite, ces méthodes seront appliquées au buffet afin de fournir une compréhension supplémentaire du phénomène.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Éric Laurendeau

Student:

Partner:

Université de Strasbourg

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Reconstructing DoDAF (Department of Defense Architecture Framework) compliant high level views from information systems

Information systems are critical assets for enterprises and contain important knowledge acquired over the years. Over time, as these software systems grow in scope and complexity, they introduce greater variability in design at the level of individual software components. As a result, these systems deviate from their initial architecture. The latter can no longer be used as a medium to support various activities such as the analysis and the certification of these systems. To address these shortcomings, it is mandatory to reconstruct these systems’ current architecture. For this purpose our research project aims at proposing techniques to reconstruct high-level views representing the architecture of information systems. The architectural views on which we focus are those prescribed by the DoDAF (Department of Defense Architecture Framework) specification. The outcomes of our research project will therefore provide to our partner’s architects and analysts a basis for information systems analysis and certification.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Timothy Lethbridge

Student:

Partner:

KDM Analytics Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Sport-for-resilience: 4-H participation and youth lifeskill development

The current wellbeing crisis in Canada is magnified in rural areas. Also, rural economies are negatively affected by lack of suitable youth lifeskill training. Rural communities lack financial capital to address these issues on their own. 4-H has been building rural youth skill for over 100 years, offering a variety of options, including physical activities which occur on farms such as horse activity. For rural youth, there is potential for 4-H physical activity programs to be sport-for-development- a field combining physical activity and lifeskill development. However, over the years there has been very little research on rural youth development, or 4-H in Canada. As a result, there is a lack of data which can be used in evaluation and program design. This project would help fill the gap by gathering information about resilience and the program elements that contribute to it the most, among 4-H Ontario horse club members.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Harry Cummings

Student:

Partner:

4-H Ontario

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Training in Virtual Environments on Mobile Devices

New emerging Virtual Reality (VR) technologies and mobile devices are changing the way that we are interacting with computing technology. The partner organization has a multimedia product that is used to train technicians to perform various maintenance tasks or introduce them to the interconnected components of a machine. The goal of this project is to research and develop software designs to port this multimedia training framework to mobile platforms. The specific challenges include conducting multimedia training on standalone mobile devices. For users to benefit from such training, a new interaction design is mandatory because of the shift from large screens, mouse and keyboard to small but high resolution touch screens on devices equipped, with on-board cameras and possibly other sensors. This project will help the partner organization to make strategic decisions on future product development and increase the research community’s understanding of the impact of mobile computing on distributed virtual training environments.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jochen Lang

Student:

Partner:

Lockheed Martin Canada

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Flotation of high-organics fine phosphate particles

This research project seeks to improve the process which is used to recover fine phosphorous particles from mine tailings. Phosphorus based fertilizers are important for plant growth and essential to large-scale, high-efficiency farming methods. However, the processing method used to obtain phosphate from phosphate-bearing ore is not very efficient. Upward of 13 % of the available phosphate is lost to the waste stream during processing, which represents a major inefficiency and creates a large environmental problem. This research will consider the reaction conditions, such as mixing time and temperature that contribute to the improved recovery of phosphate during the reprocessing of mine tailings. As a result of this project, the industrial partner, a firm specialized in environmental consulting, will have an improved understanding of the behaviour of fine phosphate particles during reprocessing. This knowledge will contribute to the development environmental remediation strategies for phosphorous-bearing mine tailings.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marek Pawlik

Student:

Partner:

Albatross Environmental and Process Consulting Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Manganese Salen Systems for C-H Functionalization

Selective incorporation of valuable building blocks into feedstock chemicals is a very important, albeit often times difficult challenge. We plan to develop catalysts; materials to efficiently convert feedstock chemicals into ones with valuable functionality. The catalysts developed by the
current project will incorporate two traditional reactive sites as a means to enhance activity and selectivity of our selected transformations. Through various techniques we plan to interrogate the properties of our developed systems in order to inform decisions about second generation
materials with enhanced activity over their predecessors. This project will result in a selection of new materials for the efficient conversion of feedstock chemicals into value added products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tim Storr

Student:

Partner:

Université Grenoble Alpes

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Computed Tomography Images Enhancement and Denoising

In Computed Tomography (CT) Imaging, X-ray radiation is used to penetrate through the internal structure of the patient body in order to produce digital images. Therefore patient could be exposed to certain level of X-ray radiation dose. Accumulation of these exposures beyond certain threshold could increase risk of fatal cancer. Thus it is of paramount importance to lower the amount of radiation exposure during CT images acquisition. However, a low radiation dose in CT images would result to lower image quality. To maintain lower dose usage and still produce images with a high quality therefore one needs to develop advanced image processing tools in order to reduce noise and enhance CT images. This internship therefore will attempt to bring advanced methods of image processing tools that are specifically tailored to reduce noise and enhance CT images to the partner organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

M. Stella Atkins

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Modélisation numérique du comportement de la connexion à la base des pylônes tubulaires

Face à la demande grandissante en électricité, les gestionnaires de réseaux électriques doivent implanter de nouvelles lignes de transport d’énergie dans les grands centres de distribution. Ces endroits très peuplés imposent de nombreuses contraintes au niveau de la conception de ces lignes. Parce qu’ils sont esthétiques et compacts, les pylônes tubulaires sont souvent sélectionnés dans ces zones urbaines. Actuellement, les méthodes de dimensionnement de la connexion à la base d’un pylône tubulaire sont fondées sur des hypothèses simplificatrices ou sur des formules empiriques. L’objectif principal de ce projet est donc d’élaborer une approche numérique permettant d’étudier l’influence des propriétés géométriques des plaques d’ancrage sur le comportement de la connexion à la base des pylônes tubulaires. Ce projet mènera à des prédictions plus réalistes de la répartition des contraintes mécaniques dans ces connexions et pourrait permettre de développer des méthodes de dimensionnement pour concevoir des pylônes plus fiables et plus économiques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sébastien Langlois

Student:

Partner:

Hydro-Québec Équipement et services partagés

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Utilities

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Analysis of bike route choice behaviour using the link-based recursive logit model

Concerned by the nuisances of motorized travel on urban life, policy makers are faced with the challenge of making cycling a more attractive alternative for everyday transportation. Despite the clear advantage of being healthy, cheap and sustainable, cycling yet fails to grow into more than a marginal mode of transport. One of the barriers lies in the design of road networks, which are often unsafe and unpractical for bike use. Route choice models can help achieve this objective by gaining insight into the trade-offs cyclists make when choosing their routes, hence providing helpful guidance for improving network infrastructure. The issue associated with such models is choice set generation, a time-consuming and theoretically problematic imperative. The contribution of this study consists in estimating a link-based bike route choice model which does not require to sample any choice set of paths. Moreover, we will provide validation results as well as comparing predicted bike traffic flows with traffic counts in a real network. These results are important to the partner organization in order to assess the possible impact of integrating the model in their traffic simulation software.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Emma Frejinger

Student:

Partner:

INRO Consultants Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Amélioration de l’interactivité en réalité augmentée pour applications en jeux vidéo

La réalité augmentée, soit la superposition en temps réel d’éléments virtuels à la réalité, est une technologie ayant vu le jour il y a déjà presque vingt ans. Avec l’arrivée des plateformes mobiles et des capteurs RGBD à faible cout, cette technologie reprend en popularité et devient un sujet de recherche prisé de plusieurs institutions. L’applicabilité de la réalité augmentée dans le domaine du divertissement numérique est évidente : utiliser l’environnement réel de l’utilisateur et de le faire interagir avec des objets ou personnages virtuels amène une panoplie d’innovations dans l’industrie. Les recherches effectuées dans le cadre de ce projet vont faciliter l’accessibilité des différentes technologies de réalités augmentées aux non-initiés de la vision artificielle. En effet, nous proposons de traiter les informations brutes des caméras 3D, et de construire, en temps réel, une représentation simplifiée du monde. Par exemple, un algorithme permettant d’extraire les surfaces planaires au fil du temps sera développé. Cette information permettra la conception rapide et intuitive de nouvelles applications mobiles de réalité augmentée.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-Francois Lalonde

Student:

Partner:

Frima Studio

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université Laval

Program:

Accelerate

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