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Improving efficiency and safety in aviation industry using big data analytics (phase II)

Aviation industry uses flight data recorders (FDR) to monitor a high number of parameters during each flight it operates. It is expected that analyzing this data will provide useful information to airlines for improving flight safety and efficiency. However, this analysis is a challenging task in itself because the amount of accumulated data is enormous and also because it is diverse. To overcome these difficulties, data is first preprocessed (or cleaned) and only significant parameters are kept. Then, neural networks are used to model the relation between these parameters and find optimal values. Finally, clustering is used to group similar flights together and the properties of each cluster are analysed to explain how they influence flight safety and efficiency.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Richard Labib

Student:

Partner:

CAE

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Aerospace

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

F508-del CFTR rescue by mutated toxoids and evaluation of its functional efficacy in vivo

Many genetic diseases caused by small genetic mutations do not result in complete loss of protein fnction, but rather are due to the degradation of mutant protein by a “quality control” mechanism (endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation-ERAD) soon after it is made. Prominent amongst such ERAD-dependent diseases is Cystic Fibrosis(CF), a chronic, progressive, life-threatening genetic disease that primarily affects the lung, gastrointestinal and reproductive systems. Certain bacterial and plant toxins “hijack” this “quality control” system in the ER. Our cell culture results show inactivated (detoxified) Cholera Toxoid rescues the mutant protein causing cystic fibrosis from degradation. This could be a new basis for the treatment of many of the genetic diseases caused by ERAD. Animal studies will allow the partner company to bring this novel therapy to the market faster. To remain competitive in the global economy, corporations need to accelerate pipeline development by outsourcing specific research projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christine Bear

Student:

Partner:

ERAD Therapeutics Inc.

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Orthosis modelling and fabrication

Orthoses are planar insoles for countering the constant and permanent deformations caused by muscular or nerve weaknesses. The orthosis fabrication process at VRAM currently involves five labor-intensive stages: the assessment of the gait, the determination of the corrective measures, the evaluation of the orthosis dimensions, the creation of hand-carved molds for forming the orthosis, and the forming and shaping of the orthosis using cork-based materials and resins. The purpose of the proposed research project is the automation of the last three stages to improve the speed, repeatability, material uniformity, and accuracy of the product.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric Lanteigne

Student:

Partner:

Les Ortheses V.R.A.M. Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Design, Manufacture and Testing of a Thermoplastic Composite Guardrail: Modeling Phase

Today’s modern industries aim at supplying premium quality products that can offer added performance value, lower weight, less environmental impact, decreased manufacturing and maintenance costs, increased durability and safety, and eventually higher customer satisfaction and market competitiveness. To achieve these milestones, new engineered materials such as fiber-reinforced polymers are rapidly replacing traditional single materials such as steel and aluminum. In particular, fabric-reinforced polymer composites have received a rapid attention in leading industries such as aerospace, marine, automotive and transportation. The aim of the present MITACS project is to arrive at a stat of the art simulation tool that can be employed for development of a new, fully composite guardrail that can replace the current steel/concrete guardrails in highways. The new guardrail by the supporting organization (AS Composite Inc) is expected to have a greater safety and durability with an estimated 75 years service life, less weight per surface area, superior corrosion resistance, and easier installation and maintenance.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Abbas Milani

Student:

Partner:

AS Composites;University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

DLVR Drug Delivery Characterization

Highly targeted therapies can be devised to treat a variety of cancers, specifically acting on the mutated genes causing tumor growth. One challenge with such techniques is delivering the therapy to the interior of the cancer cell, when enzymes in the blood can actively break down the therapeutic molecules or when delivery to healthy cells can cause toxicity. Nanoparticle carrier molecules can solve this problem by containing the payload and delivering it directly to the cancer cell. DLVR Therapeutics has developed a novel nanoparticle that targets a cell surface marker common on some types of cancer cells. This nanoparticle has been developed to mimic natural molecules in the bloodstream. Its small size allows it to exploit the altered perfusion in a tumor, offering great potential for improving specificity. The intern will work to better characterize this nanoparticle delivery system using advanced imaging techniques, and evaluate the efficacy and specificity of this treatment approach in a preclinical model of cancer.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gang Zheng

Student:

Partner:

DLVR Therapeutics;University Health Network

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

An Integrated GPS/INS/Visual Positioning System for Head-Mounted Devices

The Recon Jet is an eyewear that is targeted towards cyclists and runners. The Recon jet is attractive because it displays the athlete’s performance, such as maximum speed and acceleration in real-time using the Recon Jet heads-up display technology. The current Recon Jet has a GPS receiver and onboard sensors that track the athlete position, and velocity, and displays the athlete’s ride data on a map. The current Recon Jet GPS receiver and onboard sensors have poor positioning accuracy of the athlete at times when GPS receiver signal reception is lost. This work proposes using a camera that is already on board of Recon Jet to better estimate the athlete position. The camera captures images of landmarks in the environment during the athlete ride. The relative shift of these landmarks captured in different images can be used to better estimate the athlete’s position and velocity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Edward Park

Student:

Partner:

Recon Instruments Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

In situ mobility characterization of solar grade materials during thin film growth

The intern will collaborate with Plasmonique Inc. to design and construct a novel solar material characterization apparatus. Specifically, the experimental apparatus will monitor the quality of solar materials during thin film growth. This will allow thin film growth to be optimized in a ways never before possible as growth conditions can be adapted in real time to optimize the film growth.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Giovanni Fanchini

Student:

Partner:

Plasmionique Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Epigenetic Control of Human T Helper Cell Differentiation Across Development

Each year, about 4 millions of newborn babies die from infectious causes worldwide. Birth represents a major immunological transition from a safer environment to a microbiologically hostile outside world. T cells are key players of the immune system and newborn babies do not display a strong immunological response as most of their T cells are naïve and not differentiated into T helper (Th) cells compared to adult individuals. Thus, characterization of mechanisms regulating differentiation of naïve T cells in newborn babies represents an approach to enhance their immunological responses. Our research goal is to improve survival of newborn babies by investigation of the genetic modifications associated with these mechanisms. These characterizations also enable us to understand why there are variations in immunological responses to the same pathogen between individuals and could act as a starting point for identification of a therapeutic agent/vaccination to improve immunological responses in newborn babies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pascal Lavoie

Student:

Partner:

BC Children's Hospital Foundation;STEMCELL Technologies Canada Inc

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Création d’un parc d’eau-vive à Montréal

L’idée est de penser un projet de construction utilisant les technologies appliquées afin de reproduire artificiellement les propriétés naturelles d’une rivière. Aussi exceptionnel que cela peut paraître, garantir un lieu de pratique viable pour des sports comme le canoë-kayak de slalom, de freestyle et de descente, le canoë-polo, le rafting, le surf, ou bien la nage en eau-vive, le sauvetage maritime, etc. porte en soi cette difficulté liée à la nouveauté de la chose. L’initiative de ce genre de développement nécessite de ce fait une investigation exhaustive de la structure et du fonctionnement de l’environnement commercial afin de confirmer les ententes avec les partenaires, surtout financiers. Ce prochain stage permettra dans une première mesure de chiffrer le portrait de l’eau vive au Québec. Dans une autre, d’en savoir davantage sur les circonstances de marché et sur l’assemblage dans la réalité d’un tel équipement en pleine ville.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sylvain Lefebvre

Student:

Partner:

Fédération québécoise de canoë-kayak d’eau-vive;Cubix

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Arts, entertainment and recreation

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

Quantum Annealing Techniques for Efficient Graph Analysis

This research investigation aims to assess a set of well known NP-Hard problems that are currently only solvable with an approximation, and prototype implementations of a general solution to their class of problem previously developed by 1QBit. This requires a series literature and prior art reviews, prior to the development of new algorithms and code which will deploy an analog optimization process as part of their solution. Identifying ideal problems and refining recently developed solution is part of the larger research goals of 1QBit of finding methods to translate a range of problems into the ideal form for currently available adiabatic annealing hardware. This project is part of 1QBit’s research program for how to best utilize an annealing oracle for intractable or poorly solved optimization problems

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Giesbrecht

Student:

Partner:

1QB Information Technologies Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Technology; Other; Finance and Insurance

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Recovery of high purity scandium oxide from titanium processing residues

Scandium (Sc) is a rare, but strategic element for many high-tech applications such as next generation fuel cell technologies. Typically, it is required as highly pure (99.99%) Sc2O3. Currently, the global supply of Sc2O3 is very small and concentrated in a few countries. There is currently no production know-how available in Canada. The principal source of Sc extraction is as a by-product of metallurgical processes, e.g., titanium ore processing. The project investigates the extraction of high purity scandium from titanium pigment industry residues. This involves the selective leaching of a residue and determining the appropriate acid, pH, temperature, redox potential und time conditions. At the same time the dissolution of impurity elements needs to be minimized at maximum the Sc extraction. In a second step an appropriate chemical for solvent extraction is determined and the optimal extraction and stripping conditions will be investigated. The ultimate goal of the project is to develop a production process for of highly pure Sc2O3.

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Faculty Supervisor:

George Demopoulos

Student:

Partner:

5N Plus Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Mining

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

An emerging power: Brazilian South-South Cooperation in Mozambique and Haiti

This project considers how the rise of Brazil to global power status has changed its foreign policy direction, especially with regards to how it engages with other developing nations. In particular, this study considers how emerging powers like Brazil have dramatically increased the development assistance – what they call South-South Cooperation – they have provided to other developing countries over the previous decade. Why has assistance become such a valued foreign policy tool? Does cooperation support Brazil’s rise, such as by helping it to increase economic and political relations with Southern partners? Through the study of Brazilian-funded projects in Mozambique and Haiti, this project will provide an understanding of how a country’s emerging power status impacts its foreign policy priorities and behaviour. Moreover, the project will contribute to ongoing research on how South-South cooperation may differ from traditional aid practices in order to distill from both the innovative and effective policies that help to foster development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Laura MacDonald

Student:

Partner:

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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