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Public Transit Feasibility Study for the Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay

The Town of Happy Valley – Goose Bay is located in the central part of Labrador on the coast of Lake Melville and Churchill River and as such it plays a significant role in the area as a place of employment, education sectors, healthcare facilities, shopping, municipal services and healthcare facilities. With a population of 8,109 in 2016, it observed a huge surge in population between 1971 and 1991 in particular. The community is growing day by day but there is no existence of public transit here. The community people rely heavily on their own motor vehicle but those who does not have any access to a car, struggle a lot. The aim of this research project is to find out a feasible public transit route for the area. Proposed public transit infrastructure can bring a lot of benefits to individuals and local communities such as, it reduces air pollution, traffic congestion and increases mobility or ridership, travel safety as well.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Muhammad Ahsanul Habib

Student:

Fariba Hossain;Hasan Shahrier

Partner:

Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Other

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

Employment Transitions of Refugees: Refugees, Employer, and Sponsorship Group Perspectives in Pictou County

Since 1979, Canadians have used the Private Sponsorship of Refugee (PSR) program to sponsor and resettle refugees in their communities. One of the roles community-based refugee resettlement volunteers play is helping newcomers find work or set up a small business. Research indicates that community-sponsored refugees make a faster and more resilient economic transition, but we don’t know why. This study draws from the first-hand experiences of refugee newcomers and volunteers and employers who help refugee newcomers resettle to gain insight into why community-based resettlement facilitates their economic transitions. In addition to contributing to the academic knowledge on refugee economic integration, this study will provide tools for PSR groups to share with newcomers and the volunteers who support them including a “best-practices” manual for volunteers, an information booklet for employers, and an orientation to economic integration for refugee newcomers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Norine Verberg

Student:

Kenzie MacNeil

Partner:

Pictou County Safe Harbour Society

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

St. Francis Xavier University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Biodegradable Soft Bait Fishing Lures from Natural Materials

There is an increase in reporting of angling activities linked to environmental pollution and exploitation. Soft plastic lures (SPLs) are a major pollution source arising from recreational angling. A small portion of SPLs currently commercially available are designed to be more environmentally friendly alternatives to PVC as they are biodegradable and are manufactured using natural and/or food-grade ingredients. Moreover, these natural lures can successfully degrade in water and are thus more likely to be passed through the digestive tracts of aquatic organisms. However, these lures also have disadvantages that limit their general acceptance by recreational anglers, and typically, to be commercially successful and generally accepted by recreational anglers, these alternatives must also display cohesive material strength, high flexibility, prey-like movement through the water column, and surface topology that mimics live bait. These natural lures must also be resilient enough to withstand repeated stress from water impacts during drag from a line or line castings, trollings and reeling. Lastly, the lures must also be non-perishable, retain plasticity, contain fish attractant and able to be stored for long-term in order to be accepted as commercially viable.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ali Ahmadi

Student:

Elias Madadian;Tina Navaei

Partner:

Clean Catch Baits

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Prince Edward Island

Program:

Accelerate

An Assessment and Ranking of Sustainable Material Alternatives to the Soon to be Banned Single-Use Plastic Products

According to the government, Canadians throw away more than 3 million tons of plastic waste every year, and only 9% of that plastic is recycled. A lot of this plastic litter which has found its way into Canada’s freshwater environments, is comprised of single-use plastics. DYA – a sustainable consumables startup is striving to understand which mix of materials will give them the greatest competitive advantage within their market segment. The research used to develop and support this research project will consist solely of secondary sources.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tom Cooper

Student:

John Dyall

Partner:

DYA

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

A Review of Indigenous Early Learning and Child Care Centre Frameworks for the Nshwaasnangong Child Care and Family Centre in the City of London, Canada

The Nshwaasnangong Child Care and Family Centre in partnership with Western University and CityStudio London provide an internship opportunity for a Western University graduate student to research, what the tensions and debates are when establishing an early learning and child care framework from an Indigenous perspective. Specifically, the intern will complete: 1) a literature review with descriptive annotated bibliography focusing on research concerning early learning and child care frameworks and ,Indigenous perspectives and such frameworks, 2) an inventory of Indigenous early learning and child care centres across Canada and their framework reports, and 3) report recommendations for the development of Nshwaasnangong Child Care and Family Centre’s early learning and child care framework. The research will be completed by searching, screening, and reviewing academic articles, reports, policy documents, and Indigenous early learning and child care outcomes frameworks across Canada and more broadly the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rachel Heydon;Erica Neeganagwedgin

Student:

Bronwyn Johns

Partner:

CityStudio

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

A novel multi-echo MRI technique for prostate cancer detection and grading

We propose to develop a novel, clinically relevant MRI based technique for prostate cancer detection. We also propose to develop a novel reporting system that would be more accurate and easier to use by the radiologists. The new technique will be first developed on a research MRI scanner at UBC, and subsequently implemented on the clinical MRI scanner at VGH. The main benefit to the hospital will be a new, improved MRI technique for prostate cancer detection and grading. The novel MRI protocol will require shorter acquisition time, as compared to the current mp-MRI standard, which should allow to scan more patients. We also believe that the new reporting system, developed throughout this project will be more accurate and easier to use by the radiologist, which should speed up the image interpretation process, and result in higher accuracy of diagnosis.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Piotr Kozlowski

Student:

Maryam Mohtajeb

Partner:

Vancouver General Hospital

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Equity in Rural Transit: Investigating the Feasibility of Permanent Public Transit in Wellington County, Ontario

The availability and reliability of public transit has been a long standing equity issue for residents living in rural communities. This issue significantly impacts those who have lower incomes, the elderly, children, and people with disabilities. Access to of consistent and secure funding has been the main factor challenging the sustainability of rural transit. This research focuses on understanding funding opportunities, challenges, and solutions for rural communities through a case-study of RIDE WELL in Wellington County, Ontario. With a better understanding of how public transit can be sustainably planned and funded, community leadership can equitably direct future strategic plans to accommodate for those who need transit most. The outcomes of this research will benefit local and regional stakeholders, including Dillon Consulting, to assist other rural municipalities in building equitable and sustainable rural transit service models – an area of evidence-based research that remains a significant focus for government, and rural development researchers across Canada and around the world.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Ryan Gibson

Student:

Kathryn McNamara

Partner:

Dillon Consulting Limited

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Optimal recharging scheduling for urban electric buses

Implementation of alternative fuel technologies for public transportation modes stems from increasing environmental concerns, technological improvements, and increasing demand for autonomous transportation, which is well exhibited by recent trends to replace diesel buses with battery electric buses (e-bus). Yet, scheduling and operational planning of electric vehicle (EV)-based transit modes is challenging due to additional considerations for energy consumption models and driving modes. In this project, a holistic scheduling and optimization modelling tool is developed for battery and fuel-cell operated e-bus transit. For a given timetable and charging constraints at the depot or on-route location, this study identifies the best charging strategy that minimizes the infrastructure investment and operating cost.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Babak Mehran

Student:

Sushreeta Mishra

Partner:

Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

bridgeVUE – leveraging emerging technologies for safer and more efficient marine navigation.

Navigation at sea is a complex and comprehensive task. Combined with the challenges of navigating in heavy traffic, and avoiding dangers in low light and low visibility, it becomes considerably more difficult. This project, bridgeVUE, leverages an emerging technology to enhance marine navigation by contextualizing radar data over an individual’s field of vision, in real time. By using an Augmented Reality (AR) headset, bridge crew can overlay critical information over their field of vision, even when visibility is near zero.
bridgeVUE is a functioning prototype with generic 3D models and a basic UX/UI. This project will focus on the user-experience (UX) and user-interface (UI) for the bridgeVUE system and ensuring all elements of the software come together in a coherent, easy-to-use, and an intuitive manner for the end-user(s). These elements include, but are not limited to, colours, 3D models, object life-cycle, image processing, target selection, hand gestures, and voice commands.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Nadja Bressan

Student:

Rachel Dunn

Partner:

Engage Creative Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Prince Edward Island

Program:

Accelerate

Machine Learning Methods for Behavioural Biometrics- ON-372

The objective of this research is to create a data architecture and a state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to build a robust user-profile system that (i) extracts, stores, builds, and analyses synchronously up to 1 million user profiles generating at least 50 behavioral data (alpha-numeric value of 64 bytes) per second, (ii) provides over 5 millions user-profile recognitions per day through predictive modeling and REST API call, (iii) authenticates continuously to detect suspicious activities and anomalies without using cookies, location, and hardware information, and (iv) tolerates effectively the behavioral data noises caused by the modification of input or device such as a mouse, keyboard, mobile or laptop. With the standard web browsers and I/O bandwidth, F8th IDaaS technology collects up to (50) behaviors data per second per client, and in the coming years, F8th IDaaS will support millions of users simultaneously.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Abdelkader Ouda

Student:

Sanket Salunke

Partner:

F8th AI

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Rare-earth element doping of dielectric thin films using ion implantation

The requirement for online communication continues to grow exponentially, primarily a result of the increased demand for information sharing bandwidth. This demand is driven by video-over-internet applications used for both entertainment, and conferencing (felt most recently in the need for remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic).
Integrated optical components fabricated in silicon are receiving particular attention as a means to provide this bandwidth in a cost-effective way. In this proposal we address the specific need for optical amplification (signal boosting) which benefits from the properties of rare-earth elements in contrast to the limitations of semiconductor optical amplifiers. These optical amplifiers will contribute to allow the stringent link budgets of communications systems to be met.
The industrial partner, Kinectrics, has a significant interest in the development of high current, ion implantation for exploitation is a number of areas such as optical amplification, modification of thin films and isotope separation for medical applications. This proposal will advance their development program.
The intern will spend up to 50% of the grant period on-site at Kinectrics, There, they will use the results from experimental work at McMaster to guide the design of a high current ion implanter for use by Kinectrics at their site.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrew Knights

Student:

Ross Anthony

Partner:

Kinectrics Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Advanced Plastic Recycling: New generation catalyst development for direct synthesis of lower olefins using waste derived syngas

Ethylene is an important building block for the chemical industry and is most widely produced at global production scale of 200 million metric tonnes. As a typical chemical feedstock, ethylene is used to produce plastics, consumer goods, solvents, paints, among many others. Ethylene is predominantly produced by steam cracking which is run at very high temperatures and releases up to 2.7 kg CO2 eq./ kg of polyethylene produced. In Alberta, the production of ethylene and derivatives results in more than 4.5 million tonnes CO2 eq. / year; this is equivalent to more than 33% of non-energy sector CO2 emissions in Alberta.
This project focuses on an advanced recycling process of waste plastic to ethylene (circular plastic). This will be achieved by using the Enerkem Gasification Technology Platform that allows all such waste (like waste plastic, municipal solid waste with significant amount of single-use-plastic as well as biomass that may include agricultural waste and forestry waste) to convert in to syngas. In in this project a catalyst will be developed for syngas to ethylene and propylene conversion.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Natalia Semagina

Student:

Samira Rostom

Partner:

Enerkem

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

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