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Development of High-Performance Energy-Efficient Hybrid Door Systems for the Canadian North

Reduction of energy consumption in every aspect of our daily life is considered to be the primary key to address the causes of global warming and resulting climate change. Buildings consume up to 40% of our total national energy requirement and thus increased energy efficiency of the built environment would certainly help mitigating the causes of climate change. Recent upgrades in National Energy Code for Buildings have recommended significantly higher energy efficiency and thus resulted in increasing the insulating values of walls, roofs, windows and attics. However, for many decades the energy efficiency or insulating value of the basic exterior door has been overlooked for various practical reasons such as thickness limitation, difficulties to resist airflow, etc. As a result a huge market demand has been created for high-performance energy-efficient doors. The proposed research project aims to integrate various state-of-the-art insulating materials and technologies in exterior door construction and develop high-performance energy-efficient door systems that are specifically suitable for northern Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Phalguni Mukhopadhyaya

Student:

Partner:

Rab Energy Group Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Simulation of a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) processusing HYSYS

Including an abundant supply of natural gas, British Columbia will become a leading contender for liquefied natural gas (LNG) growth and export, which can support economic activity in the province for over 150 years. Simulation of LNG plants is critical since the investigation and review of critical plant design elements will significantly improve plant performance and the safety and reliability of plant operations. Furthermore, design changes can be implemented at a low cost providing significant savings during a plant’s lifetime. In addition, process simulator is required to understand actual plant transients and dynamics, to examine and verify control schemes, and to review plant procedures, to examine process upsets, including process startups and shutdowns. In this research project, the intern is focused on simulation of the BC LNG plant executed by Amec Foster Wheeler Company to provide a sustainable solution during Front End Engineering Design (FEED) of a LNG project, which respects environmental limits while fulfilling social and economical needs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ezra Kwok

Student:

Partner:

Amec Foster Wheeler

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Administrative and support, waste management and remediation services

University:

The University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Design of a self-adapting project management application

To be more competitive in the market, many companies are trying to speed up the quotation process and quote more attractive prices and have identified a need for support in the quotation process in order to reduce the quotation lead-time and ensure a higher level of accuracy in the cost estimations. In the case of CIENA, a first investment has been made for an automated price quotation system with respect to the equipment/products that are sold by the company (currently under development). However, CIENA would be interested in including the price quotation for customer projects as well, and this is a far more challenging enterprise as it not only includes equipment/products, but services (e.g., circuit, node or ring updating or replacement) and highly specialized manpower. In addition, the execution of the services depends on the quality of the customer network and the experience or expertise of its technical support or type of equipment. The objective of the research project is to design and develop a web-based quote management application in order to automate the quoting process for CIENA internal and external sales or technical engineer personnel.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Brigitte Jaumard

Student:

Partner:

Ciena Corporation (St-Laurent, QC)

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and Communications Technology

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Accelerate

PACTA: Automated text mining and analysis of business contracts

PACTA is a cutting edge SaaS contract management and analysis product designed for SMBs that proactively manages and tracks business contracts and obligations, thereby minimizing business risk and saving up to 9% of the bottom line. The objective for the full-time 8-month internship, in partnership with Dr. Lingras at SMU and Mitacs is to identify and implement automated text mining technologies and processes as well as analysis and testing tools into a business critical environment. The intern will gain first-hand experience working in an entrepreneurial environment and play a key part in product development, analysis and commercial application of cutting edge research.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Pawan Lingras

Student:

Partner:

PACTA Inc

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Saint Mary's University

Program:

Accelerate

Nonlinear Frequency Response Analysis for Fuel Cell Diagnostics

In order to enhance the capabilities of fuel cell test stations, a new tool for fuel cell diagnostics based on nonlinear frequency response analysis (NFRA) will be developed. NFRA applies a perturbation of the operating current and measures the voltage response of the cell. By varying the frequency of the perturbation, processes with different dynamics (i.e. fast or slow processes) are excited and can be probed individually. From this frequency response, the state of the cell can be determined. Of foremost interest in this project is the reactant transport in the catalyst layer, which limits the performance of the cell at high currents. The reactant transport can be hindered by product water that accumulates in the catalyst and gas diffusion layer. Our aim is to find out whether NFRA can be used to distinguish and quantify the transport losses in those layers. This would enable a targeted development of these important fuel cell components.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Eikerling

Student:

Partner:

Greenlight Innovation

Discipline:

Physics

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Strategic asset allocation from a Canadian investment perspective

The project – Strategic Asset Allocation from a Canadian Investment Perspective – will focus on the efficient allocation design for a Canadian investor. This will be achieved throughforecasting of long-term (5-10 years) expected returns of Canadian fixed income and equities, as well as US and global equities. The forecasts mostly rely on economic/fundamental analysis such as the projections of inflation, GDP growth, dividend yield, etc. There is extensive literature discussing whether the method of simple long term historical average can beat more sophisticated methods such as regression, building block and sum of parts. Empirical evidence will be collected and compared by the intern to study which method is more effective in terms of efficient asset allocation from the perspective of a Canadian investor. The research will enhance the asset allocation process at Highstreet Asset Management, the partner, and benefit their clients. Furthermore, this research can contribute to the overall understanding of Canadian capital markets and how differently they may behave in the future from the past, especially with regard to the potential impacts of global economic factors.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Lars Stentoft

Student:

Partner:

Highstreet Asset Management

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Finance and Insurance

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Étude De La Composition De La Personnalité Des Équipes Et Des Processus Favorisant L’efficacité Des Équipes De Direction

Cette recherche contribue à l’avancement des connaissances théoriques et pratiques sur les profils de personnalités, les processus des équipes de direction ainsi que sur l’efficacité et la performance des équipes de direction. Pour ce faire, le Système d’évaluation Pathfinder sera utilisé dans le but d’extraire les profils comportementaux des membres d’une équipe de direction. Le recours au Système d’évaluation Pathfinder permet ainsi à Optimum Talent inc., de se démarquer de ses compétiteurs en adoptant une approche centrée sur les données intelligentes lors des interventions auprès des équipes de direction. Également, ce projet de recherche bonifie l’offre de service d’Optimum Talent inc. auprès des organisations clientes en préconisant une démarche empirique basée sur les plus récentes données théoriques recueillies auprès des équipes de direction.

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Faculty Supervisor:

André Savoie

Student:

Partner:

Optimum Talent Inc

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

The characterization of therapeutic cells from umbilical cordtissue to determine patient-to-patient variation and correlationof phenotype with therapeutic ability

Mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) treatment in model systems for wound healing, spinal cord injury and heart disease have demonstrated a greater versus the ‘vehicle’ treated group due to the cells ability to engraft and contribute to new tissue as well as decrease apoptosis and inflammation. All of these properties are associated with superior tissue healing. In this current study are investigating if there are differences in wound healing properties of MSCs from umbilical cord tissue from different donors. This will be important data as more people bank the cells from umbilical cord tissue. Cells banks will need to know if all donor cells have equal healing properties in order to better advise patients banking cells. Our partner, Insception Life Bank, a large cell bank, will use the data from this study to advise people whether the sample they are banking is suitable for use in future treatments regimens.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ian Rogers

Student:

Partner:

Insception LifeBank

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Community dynamics in restored salt marshes

Salt marshes are important coastal ecosystems because they provide many services to surrounding areas. However, due to their highly productive nature, they have a long history of being converted into farmland in Maritime Canada. In recent years, there has been strong interest in restoring salt marshes to protect against coastal erosion, mitigate sea level rise, and provide increased habitat for birds, fish, etc. Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC) and partners initiated a large salt marsh restoration project in 2010 near Fort Beauséjour, NB, with the goals of reverting farmland back to salt marsh habitat and assessing the effectiveness of restoration methods. The intern will continue to document/quantify patterns and rates of restoration of the biological community, at a critical point in the restoration process when the foundational plant species (Spartina alterniflora) is about the spread throughout the restoration sites. This process needs to be fully understood for our region, because dike removal and associated shoreline management are becoming increasingly common in the Maritimes. The project’s information will help develop best management strategies and be useful to various industries (environmental consulting, agricultural, transport, etc.) and to agencies interested in salt marsh restoration.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Myriam Barbeau

Student:

Partner:

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Life Sciences (not health); Education

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Establishing Quality Assurance, Process Improvements and Pilot Plant Development for a Novel Nanotechnology Platform in Water Remediation

NB-BioMatrix Inc. (NBBM or the company) has developed a nanoparticle product, Naqua-PureTM, for industrial heavy metal water remediation. Unlike current heavy metal removal technologies, Naqua PureTM is cheap, environmentally friendly, requires low energy input, and is highly efficient. However, in order to commercialize this nanotechnology it is necessary to (1) develop and implement quality assurance standards for NBBM internal expectations and consumer driven external driven expectations; and (2) design a manufacturing practice and pilot-plant design for the scale-up production of Naqua PureTM. It is proposed that an engineering MITACS post-doctoral fellow develop the necessary quality assurance measures and provide input on the large scale production processes based on evidence provided by research data. The Mitacs-Fellow will study the Naqua-PureTM removal efficiencies via atomic adsorption spectroscopy and inductive coupled plasma spectroscopy, to determine the thresholds and limitations of the product with laboratory and industrial wastewater samples.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jong Sung Kim

Student:

Partner:

NB Biomatrix Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Pharmacological and phytochemical characterization of immunomodulatory polysaccharides from American ginseng

Ginseng is a medicinal plant with a long history of traditional use. The medicinal properties of ginseng root have been attributed to two main classes of chemical compounds: ginsenosides and polysaccharides. While much is known about ginsenoside pharmacology, less is known about polysaccharide pharmacology. One of the most important properties of ginseng root polysaccharides is their ability to stimulate the immune system. Much of this work has been carried out in laboratory experiments where the effects of the gut on these polysaccharides are ignored, even though the gut plays an important role in determining which polysaccharides make their way in to the blood. This study proposes to investigate the way the gut breaks down and then absorbs ginseng polysaccharides, and how these absorbed polysaccharides affect immune cells found in the blood. By identifying the polysaccharides that make their way in to the blood and how they can affect our immune system, we can have a much better understanding of the most medicinally relevant constituents of ginseng root. This information can be used to develop better ginseng root products.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Edmund Lui

Student:

Partner:

Western Phytoceutica Inc (BC);Western Phytoceutica Inc (ON)

Discipline:

Life Sciences

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals; Health and Related Sciences & Technology; Agriculture and Food

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Étude et mise en oeuvre de différents éléments de stockage d’énergie pour applications stationnaires

Le comportement et l’autonomie d’une nouvelle génération de batteries au lithium sont cruciaux pour le dimensionnement de système de stockage pour des applications stationnaires. Pour cela, des modèles précis et efficaces de ce type de batterie sont nécessaires pour que les concepteurs de systèmes d’énergie puissent prédire et optimiser l’utilisation des batteries avec une augmentation de performance de tout le système. Dans ce projet, un modèle électrique précis, intuitif et complet pour ce type de batterie sera développé et mis en oeuvre dans un environnement contrôlé. Ce modèle tiendra en compte toutes les caractéristiques dynamiques, comme la variation non-linéaire de la tension en circuit-ouvert et du courant de décharge, évolution de la température et du numéro de cycle charge/décharge, et la capacité de stockage en fonction du temps de réponse transitoire. La méthodologie de modélisation et les modèles obtenus seront validés avec les données expérimentales pour permettre à l’entreprise partenaire de développer des méthodes de dimensionnement et de gestion plus fiables sur différents blocs de batteries, en fonction de différentes applications et différents contextes d’utilisation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joao Pedro Fernandes Trovao

Student:

Partner:

Centre de technologies avancées BRP

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing; Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Université de Sherbrooke

Program:

Accelerate

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