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Évaluation d’une méthode de traitement de l’azote ammoniacal d’eaux d’industries minières par voie de fixation sur un média zéolitique

Dans le but de traiter des eaux usées issues de l’activité minière, différentes techniques doivent être soumises à des essais-pilotes étant donné la nature de la contamination – à savoir, des hauts débits et très chargée en divers polluants. Le projet permettra d’évaluer la
faisabilité technique et économique de l’enlèvement de l’azote ammoniacal à l’aide d’une méthode d’échange ionique, déjà connue mais qui doit être optimisé pour le contexte des mines. Sanexen cherche à se familiariser avec des techniques de traitement pour les effluents miniers, un marché émergent au Canada. De plus, étant donné l’importance des quantités d’azote ammoniacal à traiter, une valorisation du produit récupéré sera à l’étude, l’ammoniac ayant de multiples applications industrielles. De ce fait, des retombées financières seraient envisageables pour l’entreprise par la revente du déchet.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Frédéric Monette

Student:

Partner:

Sanexen Services Environnementaux Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Designing a healthy lifestyle platform : Investigating theuse of gamification to promote enduring healthy lifestyle choices

Past research has examined whether game mechanics can be used to motivate people to change their behaviour in the short-term. However, it is currently unclear how game mechanics can be used to motivate behaviour that persists long after people have stopped playing a game. This research project will explore how game mechanics, such as narrative and avatar creation, can be hamessed by a game-based health intervention to create meaningful experiences and memories in order to promote long-tenn healthy lifestyle choices. This research will contribute to the scientific community by providing insights into how game mechanics can be used to promote positive long-tenn behaviour outside of game environments, and will also allow the industry partner to develop a more effective healthy lifestyle platform.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Neil Randall

Student:

Partner:

Ikkuma Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Examining how maternal stress and rearing environment enrichment influence offspring performance in commercially-farmed Chinook salmon

Handling practices commonly used in aquaculture can be stressful for spawning fish. When a fish is repeatedly exposed to stressors, circulating levels of the hormone cortisol are chronically elevated, which can cause elevations in egg cortisol. When egg cortisol levels are increased, offspring quality is reduced. Compounded with these intergenerational effects is the influence of rearing environment on
offspring survival traits. Performance of juveniles reared in barren tanks is inferior to juveniles reared in tanks enriched with physical structures and substrate. In collaboration with Yellow Island Aquaculture Ltd, the independent and cumulative impacts of maternally-induced stress and rearing environment on commercially-farmed Chinook salmon offspring survival, growth, flesh quality, behaviour and immune function will be examined. A diagnostic tool of maternal stress will be developed and will help aquaculturists design and implement handling and rearing strategies that produce the highest quality animal while minimizing costs and ensuring animal welfare.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christina Semeniuk

Student:

Partner:

Yellow Island Aquaculture Ltd

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

Developing Guidelines for Building Information Modelling in theContext of Adaptive Reuse.

The growing demand to establish comprehensive BIM standards is demonstrated by a proliferation of both national (BIM Task Group in the United Kingdom and BIMForum in the United States) and international (buildingSMART Alliance) organizations working to that end. Adding to the sense of urgency is pending legislation in the United Kingdom (2016) that will require a BIM for all government building contracts over £5 million. While these organizations are working to standardize BIM for new construction within the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) industry, their work to date has not addressed the particular challenges for BIM in the context architectural conservation, rehabilitation, or adaptive reuse. Through “Integrated Digital Technologies fro Adaptive Reuse”, we will compare BIM standards now being developed in Canada (AEC), the United Kingdom (BSI) and the United States (NBIMS) and test them within the context of the adaptive reuse of one Ottawa’s most significant heritage sites.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Stephen Fai

Student:

Partner:

Windmill Greenfund LPV

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

Carleton University

Program:

Accelerate

Quality Assurance of Biosand Filters: Production and Distribution

The Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) is a non-profit organization promoting appropriate technologies in water and sanitation for the developing world. An example is the biosand filter, currently manufactured by hundreds of organizations in 55 countries, and used by 650,000+ families. Ensuring filter quality will accelerate its dissemination worldwide. In this project, the quality assurance (QA) procedures are developed for (1) biosand filters (2) their construction processes, and (3) the distribution network, using Nepal as a case study. Besides verifying the quality requirements, the QA procedures will diagnose the causes and effects of poor quality, such as skills and knowledge of filter construction technicians, and determine ways for continual improvements. This project is expected to contribute towards developing a validation system that is locally owned, adaptive and sustainable, motivating continual improvements rather than pass/fail, and transferable to other countries, resulting in better health and livelihood worldwide.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Simon Li

Student:

Partner:

Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Education; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Research and test of the full waveform inversion method

Full waveform inversion (FWI) is an inversion technique that uses least squares theory to compute a velocity model of the Earth that minimizes the difference between an acquired shot and a synthetic shot. The technique proved to be of hard usage in industry and the goal of the project is to research for solutions that allow the application on real seismic data. The gradient (direction of the model update) will be computed with the PSPI migration and the scale factor (for proper update) will be computed by least squares. The final implement is to apply it on elastic waves (real data). The partner will have the opportunity to have a FWI experienced worker in the group and will be able to
research a new processing product to be part of a selected group of companies that offer such kind of seismic inversion.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Larry Lines

Student:

Partner:

Orthogonal Geophysics

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Mining

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Domestic dog population dynamics in Villa de Tezontepec, Hidalgo, Mexico:towards improved canine population and rabies control.

Developing countries are faced with finding novel and humane ways to permanently reduce and control their dog populations. This is especially important for the sustainability of canine disease control and public health programs. Understanding the demography of domestic dog populations is central to the design of effective dog population management and zoonotic disease control interventions, particularly for canine-mediated rabies. This research project will determine the size, density and structure of the owned and unowned dog populations in the city of Villa de Tezontepec, Hidalgo. Furthermore, this research project will aggregate 5 years of data regarding the prevalence of canine rabies, existing canine control and vaccination programs, and their associated costs. Together, these data will be used as a Mexican case
study for the development of a mathematical model that will help to inform evidence-based decision-making for dog population control and the prevention of canine rabies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amy Greer

Student:

Partner:

Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Education

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Globalink Research Award

Développement d’un module d’analyse multivariée pour un système d’acquisition de données

L’entreprise BioIntelligence Technologies inc. développe des sondes permettant le suivi en temps réel de procédés chimiques et biochimiques industriels de même que des serveurs-analystes réalisant la gestion de données de procédés. Cet appareil permet de gérer autant les données obtenues par des instruments de suivi en ligne que par des analyses d’échantillons. Cela permet d’accumuler une quantité considérable de données sur le procédé. Un des objectifs de l’entreprise est d’intégrer à ses systèmes un outil d’analyse multivariée permettant l’analyse en temps réel du procédé ainsi que l’estimation de variables non mesurées en se basant sur les données accumulées. Ce projet vise donc la réalisation et la validation de cet outil d’analyses statistiques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Bernard Marcos

Student:

Partner:

BioIntelligence Technologies inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

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

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 h ads-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

Réduction de la traînée aérodynamique d’un camion semi-remorque

Chaque année, des millions de dollars sont dépensés pour le transport des biens de base à travers le pays. De plus, la facture ne cesse de grimper étant donné que le prix de l’essence en fait de même. D’autre part, l’industrie du transport est responsable d’une grande partie des émissions de gaz à effet de serre au Canada et au Québec. L’entreprise Béton Ultramix cherche des solutions novatrices et pratiques pour réduire la trainée aérodynamique de sa flotte de camions semiremorques. Ce projet de collaboration, de 4 mois, entre l’Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS) et l’entreprise Béton Ultamix a pour objectif de quantifier, expérimentalement et numériquement, la réduction de la
traînée aérodynamique d’un camion semi-remorque par l’ajout d’un cône à l’arrière de la remorque. Pour atteindre l’objectif de ce stage, des simulations numériques avec le logiciel ANSYS-Fluent ainsi que les essais à la soufflerie de l’UdeS seront réalisés.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hachimi Fellouah

Student:

Partner:

Béton Ultramix Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Transportation and warehousing

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

Étude de l’algorithme de quantification de l’essai de montée en tension progressive de l’état du système d’isolation des enroulements du stator des alternateurs hydrauliques

Les alternateurs hydrauliques font partie des équipements de base de la production d’énergie électrique sur le réseau. La défaillance de ces équipements en service peut occasionner un arrêt indéterminé de la production, des pertes financières importantes et des pannes pour les usagers. La durée de vie des alternateurs hydrauliques, comme tous autres équipements électriques haute tension, est en grande partie déterminée par l’état de son système d’isolation. En fonctionnement normal, le système d’isolation de ces machines est soumis à différentes contraintes et se dégrade plus ou moins rapidement de telle sorte que le risque de défaillance augmente avec les années d’opération. Il est ainsi très important d’être en mesure de diagnostiquer efficacement l’état de ces équipements. Pour ce faire, Hydro-Québec a développé un coffre à outil incluant un essai de montée en tension continue progressive. Ce projet a pour but de revoir la méthodologie de diagnostic basée sur les résultats provenant de ces essais. Dans cet objectif, le stagiaire analysera des données provenant de mesures sur le terrain et effectuera des mesures de laboratoire sur des échantillons de bobinages soit des barres et des bobines.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Eric David

Student:

Partner:

Hydro-Quebec (Varennes, QC);Institut de Recherche Hydro-Québec

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Utilities

University:

École de technologie supérieure

Program:

Accelerate

Integration of INTERCONNECT and Cadence with an emphasison co-simulation of CMOS drivers and optical ring modulators

The idea of using light for transferring data has been developed rapidly since 1960s. Today, using light for short-distance communication, as an alternative for copper wires, is rapidly growing mostly because of its broadband communication characteristics. Optical communication systems consist of both electronic and photonic components. Designing such systems will benefit from an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to co-simulate electrooptical subsystem efficiently and accurately. In this project, an IDE will be developed to connect two cutting-edge software packages in these domains: Cadence tool in electronics with Lumerical tool in photonics. Software prototypes will be developed and efficient algorithms/methods will be investigated and implemented to make this integration efficient, accurate and easy to use for the electro-optical designers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shahriar Mirabbasi

Student:

Partner:

Lumerical Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Technology; Nanotechnology; Other

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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