Innovative Projects Realized

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13270 Completed Projects

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Projects by Category

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Computer science
9%
Engineering
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Engineering - biomedical
4%
Engineering - chemical / biological

Plant-sourced high-performance fibres for the production of novel textiles

The multi-billion dollar fashion industry has a problem: many of the high-performance fabrics used in clothing are neither sustainably produced or environmentally friendly. However, there is a considerable market gap in sustainable textiles. Canadian corporations like Proteins Easy Corp are tackling the sustainability problem head on and actively seeking environmentally friendly solutions. This proactive approach has led them to the discovery of Textile Replacement iMolecules (TRiMs), a new class of computationally designed proteins that could rejuvenate the Canadian textile market. The use of TRiM protein in Proteins Easy Corp clothing could cement their place in the sought-after global market of durable eco-fabrics. Ultimately, this technology will create a new division of Canadian agriculture and textile manufacturing using the resources that are inherently available to the nation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Maxim Berezovski

Student:

Maryam Nourimand;Rebecca Spencer;Jordan Jonquil Demone

Partner:

Proteins Easy Corp

Discipline:

Biochemistry / Molecular biology

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Multifunctional Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the HubTrack helical transmission system for its application in transportation sector

With the latest measurements and experimental tests, we have strong evidence that the HubTrack is energy efficient and ecologically sound for a multifunctional transportation solution. Currently, the latest HubTrack operational system has reached the stage of pre-commercialization with an industrial standard compliant model based on monorail standards. To better position the HubTrack initiative as a top ecological and accessible solution, we want to measure how good HubTrack can contribute at meeting the greatest challenges and assumptions of the IPCC’s Climate Change Mitigation Report of 2014, which the following Report is due in 2021, and under the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. A multifunctional life cycle assessment for the HubTrack is necessary and complex to achieve because of the acuteness of the subject matter at all points, the technology is new, its potential operation is beyond the existing references, and the timing for new solutions in transportation is urgent for matters of emissions target and global reliability and reach of new transportation solutions. It can also enable the company to make better design and material choices, greener production and logistics operation towards faster and multi-unit configurable HubTrack systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yaoyao Fiona Zhao

Student:

Negin Moslemi Najarkolaee

Partner:

HubTrack

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Exploring the Determinants for Start-up Success

Start-ups face several challenges throughout in their attempts to position themselves as goods or services providers. In fact, they can fail at different growth stages. Particularly, they terminate operations before their value propositions advance to solidified business models. Common causes of this retirement include lack of adequate market research, founder/management mismatch, lackluster competitiveness and innovation, cash and resource constraints, and poor customer discovery that prevents startups from pinpointing a considerable customer needs to address.
The main objective of this research is twofold. First, it seeks to analyze the main determinants for start-up success at the different growth stages they face. More specifically: 1) Idea generation, engaging with startups and startup support organizations to learn what pains they’re observing at the startup ideation stage, 2) Technology solution to specific needs, which technology solutions they’re using to address the ideation pains, 3) Interaction with users and testing of hypothesis and experimentation. Second, this research seeks to test the response from start-ups to a technology solution that guides them through the aforementioned steps. In this research we will follow a qualitative methodology that borrows some strategies from design thinking for data collection and data analysis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Claudia Fuentes

Student:

Nikhil Punjabi;Robert Owusu Afari

Partner:

HeadStart

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Real estate and rental and leasing

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Investigation on a scalable platform for modular robotic systems development: Case study on AISCartPuller robot

AIS Inc. is at the forefront of developing practical mobile robots for various markets. Mobile robots are considered as very complex systems comprising of hundreds of interacting components in complex system architectures. Developing such complex robotic systems, particularly in large scale, requires a coherent collaboration and engagement on various specialized areas such as scientific research, robot production, hardware and software module production, service providing, sales and marketing, and regulation and compliance. AIS is seeking to create a comprehensive and scalable platform to enable systematic, coordinated, efficient, and productive engagement of all such knowledge areas for the purpose of creating standard practical robots. This engagement platform comprises of various roles, interactions, and processes and different components of such platform, as well as their interoperation, should be identified, designed/customized, implemented/adapted, and evaluated for utilization. Since, a good portion of the platform’s components may already exist, the first phase of engineering such a platform is to perform a comprehensive state of the art analysis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Homayoun Najjaran;Mehran Mehrandezh

Student:

Parinaz Balkhi;Marzieh Zamani Alavijeh;Hani Balkhair

Partner:

Advanced Intelligent Systems Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Understanding and designing the female pelvic anatomy, a measuring device and an intravaginal device using 3-dimensional modeling techniques and Artificial Intelligence

Pelvic Organ Prolapse (POP) is a condition 1 in every 10 women is diagnosed with. The current non-surgical treatment for POP is an intravaginal device called pessary which has a 40% failure rate as its shape is not fitted to the female anatomy. Poor pessary design and performance arises from the limited data that is studied on the pelvic anatomy. The current research project will study available imaging data using Machine Learning algorithms to facilitate and automate the process for assessing and treating POP. The obtained outcome will be used to design a pessary that can be customized for each patient. This information will be incorporated in the POP assessments that FemTherapeutics perform in a clinical setting for an improved prolapse treatment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Thomas Fevens

Student:

Prabhakara Subramanya Jois;Majid Roshanfar

Partner:

FemTherapeutics Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

Saltmarsh and dykelands in Atlantic Canada: implications of biological and socio-economic change for conservation

Saltmarshes and coastal wetlands in Atlantic Canada are some of the habitats that have experienced the greatest decline in area over the past 400 years. Various organizations have monitored habitat change and bird use of these sites for decades, but no one has undertaken a comprehensive examination of changes in habitats or avian abundance, potential factors that influence those (including government policies), and the perspectives of local stakeholders on the successes and failures of conservation efforts in these region. This project seeks to remedy that through a collaborative examination of 40+ years of scientific data, as well as interviews with stakeholders and local landowners. The results will help direct future, multi-stakeholder land use activities and long-term planning for coastal wetlands in Atlantic Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Mallory;Joe Nocera

Student:

Kiirsti Owen

Partner:

Ducks Unlimited Canada

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Applicant Anxiety in Structured Interviews

The main goal in talent acquisition is to find and hire the best applicant for each position which places heavy emphasis on an organizations ability to accurately assess candidates. However, an applicant’s anxiety can impede this process as it has been shown to lead to reduced interview scores while not being indicative of work performance. Furthermore, applicant’s anxiety may also impact the amount of faking behaviours that occur in the interview process further distorting the predictive validity of their scores. The proposed research will test one way in which to reduce applicant anxiety by way of a standardized rapport building intervention, while also assessing ways in which anxiety and job fit may impact faking behaviours. This research will capitalize on access to two independent student samples and one applied sample, as well as access to the partner company’s psychometric assessment tool. At the end of the two-year proposed research, this work will result in the creation of a structured interview guide for the partner company as well as two publications for the academic community and fellow on applicant anxiety in selection.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Deborah Powell

Student:

Amanda Deacon

Partner:

Plum

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Optimization of Bacteriophage Production for use in Treatment and Prevention of Bacterial Diseases in Swine

This project will involve research into the optimal production and purification methods for bacteriophages that are effective against bacterial infections in pigs. Cytophage’s bacteriophages will provide a highly effective, environmentally safe, and a cost competitive alternative to antibiotics in the pork industry. This project will benefit Cytophage by helping to advance our technology and product development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Deborah Court

Student:

Katie Wiebe

Partner:

Cytophage Technologies

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Measurement and Modeling of Pandemic Effects on Door-to-Door Bottle Recycling

SkipTheDepot is a door-to-door bottle collection service based in Calgary which allows users in Calgary and Edmonton areas to request bottle recycling pickups, and the COVID 19 pandemic has caused demand for these services to increase. In order to meet rising demand, it is important to develop a clear understanding of how the service is used currently, how the service may be used in the future, and how usage affects the overall performance of the collection system. The proposed research project will develop a simulation model of SkipTheDepot’s door-to-door bottle collection, based on historical pickup data. This simulation will be used to test the service at different levels of demand and identify specific areas where efficiency or performance may be improved.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carey Williamson;Lina Kattan

Student:

Rachel Mclean

Partner:

LessThan3

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Fin whales of the Gitga’at First Nation: Site fidelity, distribution, and abundance within a proposed shipping lane

A rare inland population of fin whale uses the remote Kitimat Fjord System (KFS) in northern British Columbia (in the marine territory of the Gitga’at First Nation). This is the only fjord system, both historically and currently, that this predominantly offshore species has used within Canadian waters. Fin whales returned to the KFS only recently, at the same time as industrial development planning accelerated for northern BC coast. Up-to-date information on the population size, habitat use, and site fidelity of this peculiar aggregation of fin whales is needed in order to effectively plan for and manage the potential impacts of increased marine shipping within the KFS. Here we propose to consolidate and analyze 15 years of unpublished archived observations and photo-identification records of fin whales within the KFS, with a particular focus upon the intersection of our findings with the successful management of shipping traffic within the marine territory of the Gitga’at First Nation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Natalie Ban

Student:

Eric Keen

Partner:

World Wildlife Fund

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Attacking Transaction Relay in Cryptocurrencies based on Dandelion++

Blockchains are a new technology that are finding applications across several domains. Participant privacy in a blockchain is a major concern for this technology, and this project focuses on studying privacy attacks and defenses in several kinds of publicly deployed blockchains. Specifically, the project will focus on how a participant’s location in the network can be determined and how a participant’s transaction can be uncovered in the context of blockchain networks that provide privacy guarantees.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ivan Beschastnikh;Chen Feng

Student:

Seyed (Ali) Tabatabaee

Partner:

AquaNow

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Development of microneedle array patch for COVID-19 vaccine delivery

COVID-19 is a global pandemic with no effective therapeutic and preventive agents. Given the high infectivity of the SARS-CoV-2 and severity of the disease, vaccines are urgently needed to tackle the infection of this novel coronavirus. Thus far, various types of vaccine candidates, in different stages of preclinical testing and clinical trials, are being explored, including RNA- and DNA-based, vectored and attenuated virus, and recombinant proteins. However, possible adverse effects and limitations exist. For example, RNA/DNA-based vaccines can trigger an immune response leading to detrimental consequences in key organs (e.g. brain and heart), low immunogenicity, short half-life of immunogen, and inefficient delivery of vectors. To overcome these problems, we will work with a Canadian biotechnology company to develop microneedle arrays for delivering multicomponent vaccine to boost the efficacy while increasing the safety of vaccination for COVID-19.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xiao Yu Shirley Wu

Student:

Zhenze Liu;Jackie Fule Liu;Sako Mirzaie

Partner:

CCOA Therapeutics Inc.

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

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