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Optimization of Novel Coatings for Orthopedic Implants

This project seeks to improve the performance of polymer-based spinal implants through the development of a multi-layered coating technology to overcome identified problems. The coating must allow for: a) strong adhesion to the underlying polymer to ensure structural stability; b) radio-opaque properties to allow visualization of the implant during x-ray procedures; and c) a bone bonding interface to support biological integration.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Reginald Smith

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluating the Impact of Grassland Set Asides on Agricultural Productivity in Delta BC

The lower Fraser River delta is recognized as one or the most productive agricultural areas in all of Canada yet one-third of farms have soil quality problems associated with poor structure and low organic matter content, with other reported soil quality problems of soil salinity and low pH.The overarching goal of the proposed project is to provide farmers in Delta, British Columbia with detailed information about effects of integrating short (2 year) to medium (4 year) term recurrent grass land set asides (GLSA) into their crop rotations. The proposed project will evaluate the effectiveness of the GLSA in enhancing long-term soil quality (and crop productivity) upon Fraser River delta farmland.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sean Smukler;Maja Krzic;Maja Krzic;Sean Smukler

Student:

Partner:

Delta Farmland and Wildlife Trust

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Agriculture; Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Lab-on-a-chip device for blood filtration and separation

Blood is composed primarily of cells (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, etc.) and plasma (the fluid in which the cells are suspended). Health care providers commonly require the components of blood to be separated before performing tests; currently, this requires blood samples be taken to a medical laboratory for processing. Recent advances in “lab-on-a-chip” technology have produced devices with branched microchannels (channels approximately the width of a human hair) that are designed so that, as blood flows through them, the different components take different paths and can be isolated. This research project will seek to use a new, cheap “rapid prototyping” manufacturing method to produce similar devices, and then to modify the channel arrangement for more efficient and controllable separation. The project will study the way in which the fluid/particle mixture flows through such small channels, which will result in microchannel designs with applications in industry as well as in health care.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Prashant Waghmare

Student:

Partner:

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Identifying adverse effects on neuroanatomy of hatchling American kestrels exposed to three priority brominated flame retardants

Tens of thousands of chemicals are present in the Canadian environment. The impact of those chemicals on wildlife and other components of the environment is often poorly quantified. The intern will develop a method for assessing the potential damage of a class of emerging contaminants, flame retardants, to avian brains. Specifically, the intern will examine the effect of three types of brominated flame retardants on the volumes of the telencephalon, hippocampus, and optic lobe, and the symmetry between hemispheres. A reduction in these regions or asymmetry between the hemispheres could lead to abnormal behaviour and a decline in survival and reproduction of wild birds. The methods developed by the intern will be applicable to a wide variety of chemical pollutants and the partner organization will use those methods to assess the environmental damage from brominated flame retardants and other chemicals at their field sites across Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jessica Head

Student:

Partner:

Stantec Consulting (Winnipeg, MB)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

White pine endophytes: improving tolerance to white pine blister rust

White pine blister rust is a serious disease of pine, an ecologically and economically important forest species in Ontario and the Maritime Provinces. In western Canada, this pathogen has virtually eliminated pine as a commercial species and the disease now threatens eastern Canada. Endophytes are fungi that live in the leaves of various plants including conifers. In collaboration with the Miller lab, JD Irving, Limited has invested in the potential of spruce endophytes to increase tolerance to an insect pest, the spruce budworm. During production, seedlings can be inoculated with ‘good endophytes’ which persist in the tree and provide the desired tolerance. Pine endophytes can make potently antifungal compounds that inhibit the growth of needle pathogens. Identifying strains that can be used to inoculate pine seedlings is a potentially important tool to limit the destruction of white pine. The intern will be involved in isolating and characterizing antifungal compounds and will learn how endophytes can be used in operational forestry in the Maritime Innovation Limited facility (a J.D. Irving, Limited subsidiary) in New Brunswick.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Miller

Student:

Partner:

Maritime Innovation Limited

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Cannabis Access Regulations Study (CANARY)

The CANARY study is a patient-centered assessment of the impact of the regulatory changes regarding access to cannabis for medical purposes in Canada. The study is the first to offer patients’ perspectives regarding their experience of access to medical cannabis after the implementation of the new federal regulations that have created a decentralized competitive
national market for medical cannabis through the licensing of commercial producers. Through a nation-wide survey and interviews, the study will shed light on who is and who is not accessing the legal system of medical cannabis, and why. This valuable data will assist health professionals, policy-makers and medical cannabis providers to be responsive to the needs of Canadians who are using cannabis to manage their health conditions. As an industry association, the Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries will use the results of this study to inform dispensary best practices and the development of regulations for dispensaries.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lynda Balneaves

Student:

Partner:

Canadian Association of Medical Cannabis Dispensaries

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Getting to Groundbreaking (G2G) Year 3 Focus on Hi-Rise

The Gettmg to Groundbreaking project 2015-16 seeks to engage two masters student interns for Sept 2015- June 2016 in order to complete original research tnto the home building poficy and process applicable to high-rise developments in municipalities in the Metro Vancouver region and Abbotsford The interns will conduct survey, interview, secondary and case studyba. sed research, consultation across the spectrum of interests in housing policy and development issues, and will construct and maintain a unrque database, for a third annual iteration of this study. The Greater Vancouver Home Bwlders AssoCiation and member companies engaged in this project expect to benefit from this· project through greater predictability and accountability of the municipal residential approvals process that the research supports

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Faculty Supervisor:

Meg Holden

Student:

Partner:

Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Other services (except public administration)

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Distributed Optical Sensing Technique for Ground Monitoring and Support

This research will focus on the physical testing (with a view to mine and tunnel site implementation) of ground support elements that are associated with mining and tunnelling works. The support elements will be monitored using fibre optics. In addition to providing insight into the behaviour of such support elements, this type of instrumentation also has significant potential to be used as a ground probe that can ‘sense’ the ground and provide insight into the potential fracture zones, stress patterns, discontinuities and conditions beyond the excavation face. This research line intends to improve ground support design, optimize operations, increase safety during construction, and reduce costs for industry. It will also provide the industry partner (YieldPoint Inc.) and the intern the opportunity to showcase such technologies internationally.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nicholas Vlachopoulos

Student:

Partner:

YieldPoint Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Enhancing Corrosion Resistance of Superheater Alloys

The efficiencies of biomass-fueled power plants are much lower than those of natural gas and coal-fueled plants because exit steam temperatures are restricted to inhibit corrosion of superheater tubes. Nexterra needs to raise steam conditions from 403°C to 460°C in future systems in order to satisfy customer demands. The raise in the probability of corrosion issues due to contaminants in the fuel. In order to achieve the more aggressive steam conditions it is necessary to modify boiler design to include selection of the boiler tube materials that are resistant to corrosion. The intern, Danielle Salvatore, under the supervision of Curtis Berlinguette, has recently introduced a facile fabrication method in Science Advances of metal alloy and/or metal oxide layers. The near-infrared-driven decomposition process will be used to coat inexpensive tube materials with corrosion resistant layers. These materials will be used in targeted testing program under model tube and flue gas temperature conditions. A large savings in capital and maintenance costs could be achieved by applying a protective corrosion layer instead of utilizing more expensive tube materials. superheater conditions increases

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Faculty Supervisor:

Curtis Berlinguette

Student:

Partner:

Nexterra Energy Corp

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Utilities

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Fundamental study of lignin –urea formaldehyde interactions

The project focuses on using biobased materials (lignin) as a component in adhesives to make wood panel composites. The focus of the project is to reveal how the biobased material interacts with the resin as a function of lignin type. The research will lead to an understanding on how to replace expensive and synthetic components with biobased products, making it more cost competitive to produce panels, enhancing panel performance, and lowering emissions from the panel product.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Scott Renneckar

Student:

Partner:

Fibria Innovation

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Treaties and Boundaries Project

The role of this internship is to assist in reaching the SSHRC goal for the Dreamcatcher system of capturing cultural data, traditional ecological knowledge, and traditional land use, creating as full a historical, cultural, and economic record as possible, as well as strong land use management/consultation, water and asset management, and public health systems. This information will inform cultural research, treaty negotiations, and community development. This goal will be reached by the intern: 1) developing resolute mapping in shape file format to aid in the research and display of Aboriginal cultural heritage and landscapes, 2) translating land claims, treaty and traditional territory mapping documentation into resolute Shapefiles using GIS, uploading resulting files to Dreamcatcher to help document and preserve materials and information of cultural and historic value for the MNCFN, and 3) adding attribute information to the resulting spatial features, such as boundary assumptions, sources and disputes, and significant related cultural information

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Faculty Supervisor:

Donald Cowan

Student:

Partner:

8392692 Canada Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Management of companies and enterprises

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Automatic Civil Infrastructure Assessment Data Mining from Google Street View Images

The objective of the project is to demonstrate the automatic mining of Google Streetview data to assess the infrastructure of municipal assets, in particular the conditions of roadways. This is the short-term vision of the project. The long-term vision is that other assets such as bridges, tunnels, sidewalks, trees, etc. will be similarly be mined. In addition, the short-term vision is to demonstrate the ability to automatically provide an assessment that is keeping with standards provided by existing systems such as PASER (Pavement Assessment Surface Rating) or PCI (Pavement Condition Index). We have decided that the initial focus will be on providing such an output that we refer to as a qualitative assessment. Subsequently in the long term vision, the focus will be on delivering an additional quantitative assessment, for example, identifying cracks and potholes, characterizing them and localizing them, etc.

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Faculty Supervisor:

John Zelek

Student:

Partner:

The Public Sector Digest Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

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