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Investigation of Driven FRP Reinforced Concrete Piles for Bridges, Tunnels, Marine, Lateral Support Applications

Reinforced concrete (RC) structures with steel reinforcement have a limited service life due to corrosion especially for these used in harsh marine and/or aggressive environments or which existed under water ground table. RC vertical structural members as columns and piles transmit axial compressive loads with or without moments are of critical importance for the safety of structures. These members usually exposed to shear and lateral forces. Using alternative noncorrosive reinforcing materials as fiber-reinforced-polymer (FRP) bars has been the focus of many studies in recent years to attack the problem from its root cause. This project intended to investigate the shear strength behavior of FRP RC piles under lateral loads with/without axial loading. The outcomes of this project will be important for examining the validity of the Canadian Highway Bridge Design Code (CAN/CSA S6-06) design provisions for bridge deep foundation and water front and marine driven piles with FRP reinforcements.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brahim Benmokrane

Student:

Partner:

Pultrall

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure; Manufacturing

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Utilization of Electronic Health Records for Drug Safety Signal Refinement

Electronic health records (EHRs) are repositories of patient health information that contain data on drug prescription and possible adverse drug reactions. Risk Sciences International (RSI) has an interest in development and application of advanced statistical techniques to address questions of drug safety through the analysis of a large hospital-based EHR dataset. We propose to create an analytical framework for the analyses of these data focusing on complexities in estimation that arise from possible correlations in the data as well as the potential for the presence of misclassification errors in these records. Collaboration with pharmacoepidemiologists at RSI will allow us to guide for the development around the application of active case studies involving drugs suspected of being associated with adverse health outcomes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Robert Platt

Student:

Partner:

Risk Science International

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services; Public administration

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Increasing Marketing Campaign Performance Using Influential Users in Social Networks

Social networks have become an important information hub with a huge customer base. Hence businesses try to leverage social networks in their advertising and marketing campaigns. One of the advantages of social networks is that the users can influence their community and friends. Detecting influential users provides multiple benefits for businesses such as more effective advertisement and better user involvement. Many techniques, focusing on network centrality metrics, have been developed to detect influential users. However, these techniques do not handle spammers and fake friends effectively and return inaccurate results. Moreover, they ignore the effect of user-generated content on influence. Knowing who can influence who and in what area is important in advertisement and sale prediction. We aim to provide a solution to accurately detect influential users by integrating sociometric techniques with topic-based influence models while solving the shortcomings of both techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Morad Benyoucef;TBD

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Projet de recherche sur l’incorporation et la valorisation du verre postconsommation dans les structures de chaussée

Dans un contexte de développement durable et de mise en valeur des matériaux de postconsommation, il est judicieux d’étudier toutes les applications possibles qui permettront le prolongement du cycle de vie des résidus de verre mixte. Leur utilisation dans les enrobés bitumineux et la structure des chaussées bitumineuses peut contribuer à atteindre cet objectif. L’ajout de verre dans les enrobés bitumineux peut contribuer significativement à diminuer les impacts environnementaux quant à la fabrication et la mise en oeuvre de ces matériaux. L’objectif du projet de recherche proposé est de contribuer au recyclage du verre mixte de postconsommation comme matériau granulaire dans les structures de chaussées bitumineuses. La recherche sera orientée sur le recyclage du verre mixte de postconsommation comme matériau granulaire aussi bien au sein même du corps de la structure de la chaussée que dans la confection des enrobés bitumineux.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Vaillancourt

Student:

Partner:

Société des alcools du Québec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Retail trade

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Efficient Prototyping of Linear Actuators Through Numerical Modeling

Within the gaming and aviation industries, there is a demand for simulators that imitate flight. Peripheral flight yokes are often used. The industry desires yokes that are both affordable and realistic. Recently, Iris Dynamics Ltd. has developed a new flight yoke that offers superior performance with respect to its competitors at a relatively low price. Their unique design is based on the use of a linear actuator, wherein the force on a magnetic shaft centered within current carrying coils is used to create the feeling of an actual flight yoke; their competitors simulate the feeling of flight through mechanical means. Using a single linear actuator is a novel approach to peripheral yoke design and scaling this technology is an active area of inquiry. The objective of the internships is to provide Iris Dynamics Ltd. with a numerical simulation tool that will allow for the optimal design of new flight yokes of various sizes, these designs being compatible with force, input power, and heat management specifications.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kenneth Chau

Student:

Partner:

Iris Dynamics Ltd

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of British Columbia - Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Re-architecture of Sidefx.com

This proposed research will create a corporate website as well as content management system, which will be developed at and for Side Effects Software. The main objectives of this applied research are (1) redesign the corporate website and services attached; (2) ensure the security, reliability, and scalability of the system; (3) test the application efficiently and automatically; (4) generate a useful report based on the performance of the resulting data. With the participation of the intern in the design and implementation of the system, the company will benefit by being able to manage their web content and communicate with their clients with greater efficiency and reliability.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Alan Rosselet

Student:

Partner:

Side Effects Software

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Enhanced Storage Systems in IOS and Analytics platforms

The internship will be divided into two parts (4 months each). In the first half, I will be working with Freshbooks´ IOS product. They currently use apple’s data storage called Core Data. It’s an internal data storage system that is built-in to the phone, and allows the application to work without an internet connection. I will be evaluating other systems like Realm and Couchbase Lite to find out if they suit the product better than the existing system that is being used. One of the key deliverables will be a simple implementation of an alternate storage system. In the second half I will work with the Analytics team, which is in the inception stage. I will be evaluating big data stores that can be used to collect and store product and user data. As data accumulates, there will be a need to process it and derive intelligent metrics from it. Example: Which customer-facing feature is the least used? Using results of such analytical queries the invoicing product suite can be sharpened to suit users better.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anthony Bonner

Student:

Partner:

FreshBooks

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Effects of forest harvest on population dynamics, distribution, and stoichiometry in lynx-hare-plant food webs in Newfoundland

The research team will investigate how plants and animals are affected by forestry. We will measure nutrients in the plants (specifically carbon and nitrogen) in areas with forest harvest and nearby Terra Nova National Park. We will collect plant samples to analyse in the lab for carbon and nitrogen content. We will also live-trap and mark snowshoe hares (which feed on plants) and live-trap lynx (which feed on the hares) and fit them with radio-collars. By tracking where the animals travel, we can relate that to the available nutrients and the effect of forest activity on animal movement. We will use this information to build predictive models to project how animals might be affected by forest activity and changes in available food and nutrients in other parts of the boreal forest. This will help our partner (Corner Brook Pulp and Paper) more effectively manage their forests to minimize impacts on the ecosystem.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yolanda Wiersma;Shawn Leroux;Eric Vander Wal

Student:

Partner:

Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture; Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Accelerate

Culture and Nongovernmental Organizations in China

In a country which emphasizes authority and collectivism in their culture, how can an organization with strongly egalitarian and individualistic culture fit in and survive? The existing independent NGOs and government-organized NGOs (GONGOs) in China provide us a great platform to examine different cultures of these two types of organizations and their interaction with national culture. People talk about culture everyday, but as a researcher, I would unpack this whole concept into different dimensions to examine. So the first thing I want to do is to measure the cultural dimensions in different organizations – independent NGOs and GONGOs in this study. Second, I will compare different organizational cultures with the national culture and examine how they fit into the big context and legitimate themselves in an authoritarian country. This project aims at revealing a hidden and specific picture of China’s civil society and the living condition of nongovernmental organizations

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anton Oleinik

Student:

Partner:

Peking University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Globalink Research Award

3D object detection and pose estimation using RGBD cameras

3D object detection and pose estimation (ODPE) is an important area in computer vision, which has many real world applications such as robotics and augmented reality. Estimating an accurate pose from RGB cameras alone is challenging. Given the increased popularity of RGBD sensors, such as Microsoft Kinect, we propose a hybrid method for ODPE based on both RGB and depth (3D surface) information. The additional depth information is expected to provide significant improvements in both speed and
accuracy of the resulting system. The system will be evaluated on robotics and augmented reality applications, which are areas of strategic importance for Epson and as well as areas of active research in academia.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Sven Dickinson

Student:

Partner:

Epson Canada Ltd

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Quantitative Brain PET/MRI

Recently, positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been successfully combined into a single system that can collect clinical PET/MRI data simultaneously (Siemens Biograph mMR). With PET, a wide variety of tracers have been developed that can measure energy usage and concentrations of disease-specific features in the brain. In collaboration with Siemens Canada, we will develop and test an MRI method called chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) that is sensitive to the concentration of metabolites that supply energy and facilitate communication between cells in the brain. We believe CEST will complement the capabilities of PET and provide new insight into the living brain. In addition, we will develop MRI methods that can improve quantitative PET image reconstruction and analysis in the brain. The ability to acquire simultaneous PET and MRI information enables new research and improves our capability to diagnose and guide treatments for a wide variety of disorders, from Alzheimer’s disease to schizophrenia.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonathan Thiessen

Student:

Partner:

Siemens Healthcare Limited

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Health and Related Sciences & Technology

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Growth, characterization and performance evolution of nitridenanowire photocatalyst for energy conversion

The splitting of water into its constituents i.e. hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight is one of the key sustainable energy technologies to enable clean, storable and renewable source of energy. Additionally, the more efficient oxidation of such fuels in lower cost fuel cells enable the broader potential use of such solar fuels in many applications. Here we propose to develop high quality group III-nitride nanowire photocatalyst for efficient and stable solar water splitting using advanced growth, structural and optical characterization techniques. Additionally, we propose to use the same nanowire platform to develop highly active cocatalyst for efficient fuel oxidation. Because of the extremely high surface area, such nanowires will further be investigated to achieve highly sensitive detection of various physical, biological and chemical activities.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zetian Mi

Student:

Partner:

LUMENFAB Nanotechnologies Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

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