Innovative Projects Realized

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13270 Completed Projects

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Projects by Category

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Computer science
9%
Engineering
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Engineering - biomedical
4%
Engineering - chemical / biological

Intelligent Lawn Mow Routing using Automatic Vehicle Locator Technology for Smart City

In Winnipeg, MB, grass and weed growth can be seen during the summer, up until the middle of October. Weeds such as dandelions are hazardous to human health as they can trigger allergic and asthmatic reactions to the public. Their roots can grow up to two feet long if not removed on time. During the grass growth period, the City of Winnipeg uses many mowers of different sizes and horse-powers to mow and remove the weeds in boulevards, athletic fields, parks and other city owned green spaces. Currently, mowing routes are decided manually by the foremen. This is inefficient and time consuming. In the past year, the City has initiated a pilot Smart City mowing tracking project using Automatic Vehicle Locator (AVL) technology. These devices have been installed on lawn mowers and the City has been gathering data such as the geographical locations and speeds of the vehicles. We propose to use the AVL data to automate routing in real-time. We will synthesize an efficient routing algorithm that minimizes the transportation cost of the different lawn mowers by finding the shortest path between mowing location.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Parimala Thulasiraman

Student:

Zhuoran Sun

Partner:

City of Winnipeg

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Building sustainable midwifery associations: Application of an evidence-informed framework for midwifery professional association strengthening

There is a severe shortage of midwives in Canada and globally. As a result, there is a large unmet need for sexual and reproductive healthcare in communities. Midwifery associations are an example of largely women led civil society organizations that play a critical role in improving the profession and supporting sexual and reproductive health and rights. From our first Mitacs project, we were able to generate theory and a conceptual framework on building strong midwifery associations, arguing that they are an essential component to create formal quality midwifery education systems and support midwifery regulation and accreditation. We seek to continue our research collaboration with Canadian Assocaition of Midwiaves (CAM) in order to: 1) expand the evidence for, and CAM’s knowledge of, best practices in midwifery association strengthening; 2) apply the evidence to CAM’s advocacy and decisionmaking; and 3) support internal and external knowledge translation of findings. Our overarching objective is to mobilize and apply our new knowledge on midwifery association strengthening to improve CAM national and international programming. Specifically we aim to explore the appropriateness and responsiveness of our framework in multiple country contexts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Liz Darling;Beth Murray-Davis;Karyn Kaufman

Student:

Cristina A Mattison;Kirsty Bourret

Partner:

Canadian Association of Midwives

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Sustainable development of solid waste management in the Municipality of Roblin

The current waste disposal cells at the Municipality of Roblin has been full. They have to design a new cell to receive more waste. This project is predicted to determine its feasibility through an environmental assessment in view of the proposed waste disposal cell. Moreover, the recycling program has been conducted in this region. However, the diversion rate is expected to improve. Optimizing the existing recycling program is one of the objectives of this project. Besides, consider whether there are other programs to enhance the waste diversion rate. In conclusion, this project proposed providing some suggestions to achieve sustainable waste management system development.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Shirley Thompson;Qiuyan Yuan

Student:

Rui Lin

Partner:

Municipality of Roblin

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Enriching firefighter training through the development of a novel virtual reality training simulation

Virtual reality simulation is increasingly becoming a valuable tool in the training of highly-skilled and dangerous professions. Firefighting requires individuals to work in extreme environments that can be difficult or impossible to adequately train for due to cost and safety considerations. This project, in collaboration with the Oshawa Fire Services and City of Oshawa, will develop a virtual reality simulation for firefighters to train within a building collapse scenario. The interns will take part in the development of the virtual reality simulation and advance the knowledge dissemination capacity through various media and social media platforms. Overall, the Oshawa Fire Services and City of Oshawa will receive a state-of-the-art simulation that will ensure safety and complement current real-life training.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Williams-Bell

Student:

David Brian Copithorne

Partner:

City of Oshawa

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

University:

Durham College

Program:

Accelerate

AI-powered Wearable Health Patch for Non-Invasive Respiratory Illness and Infection Symptom Detection

XCO is a local company that specializes in wearable devices designed to improve health and human performance. The influenza, COVID-19, and other respiratory illnesses such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease require a unique need for constant monitoring of patient symptoms temperature while reserving hospital space for critically ill patients. XCO will design and produce a wearable health patch capable of detecting changes in symptoms associated with respiratory illness and infection including oxygen saturation and temperature that can be monitored remotely by health care professionals. Dr. Philip Ainslie’s laboratory will test the wearable health patch against laboratory gold standard measurements (i.e. arterial blood gas samples and core temperature) to validate the device. XCO will benefit from this partnership as they will have access to testing performed by experts in the field and will have a market ready device by the end of the project. This will benefit the community and Canada as a wearable health patch would help to reduce the workload burdening our health care system during the current pandemic as well as annually during “flu season”.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Philip Ainslie

Student:

Courtney Brown

Partner:

XCO Inc

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia Okanagan

Program:

Accelerate

Endoscopic Laser Raman Spectroscopy for Colorectal Cancer Detection in IBD Patients

Inflammatory Bowel disease (IBD) affects over 200,000 Canadians. Individuals with IBD have significantly greater risk of developing colorectal cancer. Unfortunately, the screening for colorectal cancer that is currently provided to the general population is inadequate for this group. White light colonoscopy is currently the gold standard but is challenging, as lesions are sometimes difficult to identify. Thus, random biopsies, in addition to targeted biopsies of abnormalities visualized by white light, are often performed. This leads to complications and patients suffering, as well as significant healthcare cost. Our objective is to develop a novel endoscopy approach to improve the clinical management of IBD. An endoscope probe based on a technology called Raman spectroscopy will be developed that analyzes the tissue biochemistry before biopsy. We expect that this new technology when successfully developed will greatly improve the accuracy of biopsy, saving health care cost and improve colorectal cancer detection in IBD patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Haishan Zeng

Student:

Yunxian Giselle Tian

Partner:

Vancouver General Hospital

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Label-free Multiphoton Microscopy Imaging for Guiding the Surgery of Skin Basal Cell Carcinomas

Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most common cancer type. Although it can be surgically removed, to confirm the clean removal by histology is time-consuming, which complicates the treatment and results in many incomplete removals. We propose to develop a special microscopy imaging platform that can image the skin tissue directly without sectioning and staining. This will enable detection of residual tumor cells by examining the excised fresh tissue samples on site during the surgery, providing immediate guidance for improving the treatment procedures. It will make the surgery fast, reduce patient pain and anxiety, and also help reduce cancer recurrence. These will enable the hospital to provide improved care for skin cancer patients. And it will also bring significant cost savings to the hospital and the Canadian healthcare system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Haishan Zeng

Student:

Zhenguo Wu

Partner:

Vancouver General Hospital

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Health care and social assistance

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Investigating therapeutic potentials of milk microbiota for controlling mastitis in dairy cows

Mastitis is the most frequent and costly disease of dairy cows, with costs estimated at $670M/year in Canada. Mastitis is also the main reason for antimicrobial use in dairy herds, raising great concerns regarding emergence of antimicrobial resistance in critical pathogens capable of infecting humans. Implementation of management and nutritional strategies that can improve mammary health and immune homeostasis, together with development of alternative therapeutics that can effectively control mastitis pathogens while reducing the use of antimicrobials is therefore a top research priority for the dairy industry worldwide. This project aims to comprehensively investigate the effect of a postbiotic dietary supplement (NutriTek™, Diamond V) on modulation of the microbial community, immune homeostasis, and susceptibility of mammary gland to mastitis pathogens. Furthermore, we will use state-of-the-art microbial culturing and genomics techniques to isolates and characterize beneficial bacteria and microbial metabolites from milk of healthy cows to develop novel bio-therapeutics against mastitis pathogens.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Surette

Student:

Hooman Derakhshani

Partner:

Cargill Limited

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

McMaster University

Program:

Accelerate

Applications of Fiber Bragg Gating (FBG) Sensing Technologies on Power Utility Systems

The primary objective of the lab demo system is to interface the FBGs sensors for monitoring of electrical parameters of a demo power grid network equipment prototyped in the lab and the second objective is to interface, multiple electrical parameters of a demo power system grid network over a single module of FBG sensor and send it remotely for the performance monitoring and control purpose.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hossam Gaber

Student:

Shuaib Farooq

Partner:

FIBOS

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Ontario Tech University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of durable hydrocarbon-based proton exchange membrane for fuel cell applications

This MITACS project aims to investigate the durability of IONOMR’s PEMIONTM membranes in Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM)-based fuel cells for automotive and other applications. Specific test conditions and protocols for use at IONOMR based on industry standards will be developed and the materials will be benchmarked against current state-of-the-art materials in order to prioritize development efforts and aid in customer adoption efforts. IONOMR will benefit from access to specialized equipment available at UBC in addition to expertise in regards to the testing and optimization of PEM fuel cell solutions provided through the Wilkinson lab and research group.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David P. Wilkinson

Student:

Lius Daniel

Partner:

Ionomr Innovations Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - chemical / biological

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Detargeting Protein-Protein Interactions For Cellular Design Applications, Using 3D Structure-Based Deep Learning Models

Rational protein design has had a tremendous impact on pharmaceutical, agriculture, and chemical industries over the past 30 years, by focusing exclusively on individual proteins and their intrinsic activities. The next generation of protein design tasks will seek to modify function inside living cells, competing and interacting directly with pre-existing cellular machinery. Modifying systems in living cells will open a new wave of biotechnology applications, such as living drug implants and diagnostic tools. However, effectively introducing new or engineered proteins into a living cell system requires attentive coordination to ensure that designed protein surfaces do not inadvertently interact with other host cell proteins and disrupt otherwise vital activities. Biological pathways are also very sensitive to perturbation, which can often result in cell death or functional failure. This partnership aims to build a predictive computational technology to ensure that designed protein surfaces do not display recognition features of proteins in the host cell that will minimize these unwanted interactions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Garton

Student:

Haleh Shahbazi

Partner:

Cyclica

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Investigation of Water-in-Oil Emulsion on CSI Solvent Dissolution and Ex-solution Performance for Heavy Oil

This research work will establish a systematic workflow for analyzing transient equilibrium foamy oil phase behavior by coupling the CCEC tests, depletion rate and presence of water-in-oil emulsion which are seldom performed for heavy oil. It will provide a strong connection and comparison with previously studies which was conducted in the absence of water-in-oil emulsion. It will create a strong connection between phase behavior with fluid properties, operating conditions and kinetics. A concrete database which contains large amount of laboratory transient equilibrium data for selected heavy oil reservoirs can be established. The effects of different content of water-in-oil emulsion on the heavy oil production performance will be evaluated.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Na Jenna Jia

Student:

Jingwei Jiang

Partner:

Petroleum Technology Research Centre

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

University of Regina

Program:

Accelerate

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