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Application of Simulation Techniques in Excavation Development Design and Planning for Underground Block Caving Methods

The Block Caving method is emerging as a significant future underground mining method (e.g. New Afton Mine, BC; Oyu Tolgoi Mine, Mongolia), becoming more popular in massive underground ore bodies. The design and planning for developing such complex underground excavation systems is challenging both technically and managerially. This research study aims to apply emerging simulation concepts and techniques within the design and planning process for such large scale underground systems. The objectives are to identify the key systems design and planning parameters and their influence over the optimization of such underground project schedules. Significant potential benefits relate to advancing the simulation approach so as to minimize development time and cost, and to improving mining process reliability and safety.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Malcolm Scoble

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Accroitre la qualité des sondages web en identifiant et contrôlant les sources d’erreurs

Les sondages web ont pour objectifs de réduire l’incertitude entourant d’importantes décisions commerciales ou d’ordres publics. Quoique plusieurs acteurs interviennent dans le processus d’un sondage web, la firme de recherche demeure garante des actions de tous les intervenants et de la qualité des résultats. Le projet comporte deux objectifs. 1. Procurer une trace des procédés de gestion d’un sondage web et identifier les risques d’erreurs qui peuvent entacher la confiance envers les résultats 2. Une analyse du processus de réponse à u sondage selon la perspective d’un répondant. Ces deux perspectives ont pour objectifs de procurer au partenaire une meilleure compréhension des risques d’erreur et de proposer des mesures pour en contrôler les méfaits. En somme, le contrôle des risques d’erreurs permettra au partenaire de réduire les coûts associés au rejet de questionnaires pour des motifs de qualités et d’améliorer la qualité des résultats des sondages web

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jean-François Guertin

Student:

Partner:

Element 54

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

A Mixed Methods Cross-Cultural Investigation of Conversational Turn-Taking in Families of Children with Hearing Loss

Parent-child interaction significantly impacts child language learning and influences what is considered appropriate when communicating with others, which can vary from culture to culture. These caregiver-child interactions become extremely important when the child has a hearing loss. However, if the expectations of the family differ from those of the therapist serving the child, there could be a breakdown in communication at home. This study seeks to describe differences in the amount and patterns of vocal turn-taking between Canadian and Vietnamese families of children with and without hearing loss. The LENA System, a new technology designed to capture and automatically analyze a child’s natural language environment will be used to calculate how often parents and children interact. To better understand how culture affects these interactions, a qualitative interview with parents will also be conducted in a mixed methods approach. The findings will help to create more culturally appropriate therapy techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alice Eriks-Brophy

Student:

Partner:

Ho Chi Minh City University of Education

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Conceptual design of the calibration and data processing modules for the NASA WFIRST-AFTA space telescope

The NASA-WFIRST space-based infrared telescope proposed to be launched in the 2023, will aim to answer two extremely important and outstanding questions related to our understanding of the Universe, namely the nature of Dark Energy, and the presence of other Earth-like planetary systems capable of hosting extraterrestrial life. During my MITACS-Accelerate internship, I will tap into the expertise in space technology of our industrial partner COM DEV Canada Ltd, to research and present a conceptual design for the telescope calibration system, and for the computational system needed to process, distribute and archive the petabytes of ‘big data’ foreseen to be generated during the lifetime of the mission. The design reports generated during my internship will be reviewed by the Canadian Space Agency in July 2015 with the aim of granting further development and construction of these systems to COM DEV and other suitable Canadian experts. These will therefore form significant Canadian contributions to the NASA-WFIRST space mission, and will help maintain Canada’s leading role in space technology and astrophysical research globally.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Justin Albert

Student:

Partner:

COM DEV Canada Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of Tristetraprolin in a Lipopolysaccharide-induced mouse model of fetal loss

Maternal complications such as miscarriage or fetal loss are important reproductive issues that can affect up to 30% of pregnant women worldwide. While these complications are worldwide health problems, their mechanisms are not yet clear. Using a well-established mouse model of fetal loss, our goal is to detect localization patterns of important genes that may play a role in fetal loss. We also aim to detect and measure expression levels of these genes in the same samples as well. We anticipate to ascertain varying degrees of cellular localization of our genes of interest with a differing pattern between our control and treated (lipopolysaccharide) groups. From this project, we aim to elucidate how some important genes may interact with each other and potentially contribute to fetal loss.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Chandrakant Tayade

Student:

Partner:

FIOCRUZ - Aggeu Magalhaes Research Center

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

British Columbia Natural Gas Strategic Research Initiative

The British Columbia Natural Gas Strategic Research Initiative (BC NGSRI) is a strategically targeted collaborative research network designed to tackle some of the most pressing challenges in the natural gas sector. A three-way government-industry-academic partnership connected through student interns will provide applicable tools and knowledge to effectively optimize resource use and mitigate risk throughout natural gas operations. Student interns will conduct industry-relevant research in each of the partner organizations to understand and optimize proppant behaviour, evaluate and guide water use, and monitor and control infrastructure hazards. The BC NGSRI will provide short-term and long-term benefits to all involved parties and lay the foundation to address emerging challenges in the expanding unconventional gas industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dwayne Tannant;Solomon Tesfamariam;Rehan Sadiq;Homayoun Najjaran;Lukas Bichler

Student:

Partner:

BC Oil and Gas Commission;Trican Well Services;SECURE Energy Services;X1 Aeronautics;FortisBC

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining; Public administration

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an Accurate Method for Predicting Heat Transfer in Screw Conveyors

The aim of this project is to develop an accurate numerical method of predicting the performance of screw conveyors in which there is heat transfer to or from the material being transported. A detailed review of past studies in this area will be undertaken and based on this and on an understanding of the characteristics of the software that will be used a solution procedure will be selected. This procedure will be implemented using the commercial software package FLUENT©. This solution procedure will be validated by comparing the results that it gives for the few situations that have previously been studied with the results obtained in these previous studies. Properties of materials that are likely to transported in screw conveyors in which heat transfer occurs will then be obtained and some sample calculations will be undertaken. This study will provide the partner organization with a method for more accurately designing screw conveyors in which heat transfer occurs and will given the intern experience in numerically predicting the performance of complex engineering systems.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Patrick Oosthuizen

Student:

Partner:

Continental Conveyor

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

Sensor Development for Intelligent Apiary

This project will design an Apiary Management System to control and study environmental conditions that affect beehive health and honey production. Several efforts will be undertaken in developing this intelligent hive concept. In-hive environmental sensors will be implemented and thermal backplane will be developed to regulate the temperature within the hive. Sensors will be installed for studying bee movement, activity, and population. In the environment surrounding the apiary, food type and availability will be studied. Data gathered by sensors will be correlated with observations of bee and hive health, food availability, and honey production to map trends. This system will provide apiarists the ability to remotely monitor hive health, providing significant cost benefits to the apiarist. With bees playing a significant role in the pollination of agricultural crops, the developed technology offers the potential of additional economic benefits to the Canadian agricultural industry due to the greater health of the bees and hive environment.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Cyrus Shafai

Student:

Partner:

Function Four Ltd;Durston Honey Farms Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Effective Simulation and Surface Reconstruction Approaches for Detailed Fluid Simulation Visual Effects

Creating computer generated animations and visual effects (VFX) of fluids is a challenging task. The goal of this project is to design novel approaches that ease the creation of fluid simulations for VFX. Four main challenges will be tackled: the simulation of viscous fluids, the gain in geometric details of free surface fluids, the texturing of free surface fluids, and the optimization of distributed computation for fluid simulation. A team of four graduate students and three professors will handle the academic research, and will collaborate with two industrial partners, specialized in VFX and computer animation for film and television. The prototype implementations for these novel approaches will allow the industrial partners to run tests on scenarios from past productions and other scenarios specifically crafted for this project. This will help the academic team in improving the approaches to maximize their usefulness for the Canadian computer graphics industry, and for the industrial partners.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Paquette;Pierre Poulin

Student:

Partner:

Digital District Canada;Syon Media Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

École de technologie supérieure; Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Process Evaluation of BCAAN/CDBC Internet Project Portal

The British Columbia Autism Assessment Network (BCAAN) and the Complex Developmental and Behavioural Conditions Program (CDBC) are responsible for the coordination and management of referrals and assessments in BC for children suspected of having Autism Spectrum Disorders and other related spectral disorders. As part of a larger project to perform a comprehensive review and revision to the system for managing referrals and cases (including the deployment of an electronic referral and tracking system), this internship will provide complete and thorough research into developing quality indicators and metrics that will ensure the new system being currently developed delivers safe, relevant and quality service to all that is serves. The project will also work in close collaboration with those developing the new system to integrate these quality indicators and metrics into the new system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tamon Stephen

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Impact of a cognitive intervention program on brain structure and function in adults with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI)

Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is one of the least understood neurological injuries. Increasing evidence shows that the effects of mTBI are not transient and may be associated with significant long-term consequences on brain function and may lead to long-term changes in the functioning of the brain with impacts on many areas related to information processing. Over a lifetime, repeated brain trauma is a significant risk factor for developing neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Currently, there is very limited research on the effectiveness cognitive rehabilitation in patients with mTBI. The purpose of this study is to gain insight into how a cognitive intervention program – specifically the Arrowsmith program, alters the structure and function of the brain in adults with mTBI. In this project the interns will be involved in analyzing brain scans of patients with mTBI before and after the Arrowsmith program to determine how this program may result in changes in the brain. This research is very important to the Eaton Arrowsmith group to understand how the program impacts brain function after brain injury.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Naznin Virji-Babul;Mirza Beg

Student:

Partner:

Eaton Educational Group

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

Simon Fraser University; The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Tribological Effect and Honing Studies of PEO Coated Engine Cylinder Bores

The automotive industry is striving towards greater fuel efficiency, and one of the ways in which it is trying to achieve this is through light weighting. The use of aluminum alloys in engine blocks to reduce weight is part of the solution for better fuel efficiency. However, the automotive sector is always striving for innovation and greater engine performance. Consequently, another possible solution for fuel-efficiency was proposed. Through the use of surface coatings for the purposes of reducing friction, applying a surface coating on the engine cylinder bores, reduces the friction coefficient between the cylinder walls and piston ring. This reduction in friction has the potential to increase engine output, due to the smaller energy losses, and therefore increase fuel-efficiency. The surface coating used in this case is referred to as plasma electrolytic oxidation coating. The Ford Motor Company has the potential to benefit greatly from this project, as it would provide them with the ability to produce more fuel-efficient and powerful engines for their vehicles, providing them with an edge over their competitors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Xueyuan Nie

Student:

Partner:

Ford Motor Company;University of Windsor

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

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