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13270 Completed Projects

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HeliCat Canada Indigenous Relations Strategic Engagement Plan

In today’s landscape, it is important for businesses to acknowledge the complex histories of the land on which they operate and engage with truth and reconciliation within their policies and practices. The goal of this project is to support Helicat Canada (HCC) with its reconciliation efforts with local Indigenous Peoples by developing a strategic engagement plan to support mutually beneficial relations between HCC and its members and Indigenous Peoples. Our project will develop specific metrics for monitoring sector involvement with Indigenous Peoples – HCC initiatives, such as training, employment, and procurement to establish baseline and drive progress. In addition, this will offer ways for HCC to integrate social risk and opportunity, human rights, and the rights of Indigenous Peoples into how they do business, as well as through their individual actions and behaviours.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andréanne Doyon;Clifford Atleo;Pascal Haegeli

Student:

Tyla Crowe;Maureen Nadeau

Partner:

HeliCat Canada

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Assessing the Validity and Reliability of a Client Risk Profile Assessment Method

Client risk is one of the major decisions in wealth management. Many of the client risk assessment methods that are used in wealth management are in-house developed on an ad-hoc basis. The objective of this research is to assess the validity and reliability of the risk assessments methods developed by RiskMetrics. This study will be performed by analyzing the validity of the questionnaire and the reliability of the risk assessment result. The questionnaire will be assessed based on expert opinion and published literature. Multiple research methods, the RiskMetric method, expert opinion, and alternative client risk assessment methods will be used in case studies to observe the result. The results of this study will provide recommendations to enhance the current client risk assessment methods used in the wealth management industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Rajeev Ruparathna;Minjie Zhang

Student:

Dilusha Kankanamge

Partner:

Risk Metrics Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

High-Precision Imitation Learning for Real-Time Robotic Control

In recent years, an increase in industrial robots in manufacturing has emerged. However, there are still possible safety issues and difficulty in specifying tasks for the robots to perform. The objective of this research project is to make a path planning system that uses demonstrations of how to perform a task to learn how to perform the task using techniques from the field of machine learning. These demonstrations will also show the robot how to move in the workspace safely and without entering collision with items in its surroundings. This system aims to be integrated into Mecademic’s Meca500, which will make the robot more user-friendly, safer and more accessible to people unfamiliar with industrial robotics.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hsiu-Chin Lin

Student:

Alexandre Coulombe

Partner:

Mecademic

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

The ParticipACTION App: Disability Content Development and Knowledge Translation

The objective of the proposed internship is to help support the launch of disability inclusive content for an app created by ParticipACTION, Canada’s leading non-profit physical activity organization. The goal of the content is to motivate inactive Canadians with a disability to sit less and move more, with the aim of achieving Canada’s Physical Activity Guidelines. This will entail performing literature reviews to build a knowledge base on best practices for app design and PA content that is disability inclusive, and identifying appropriate strategies to deliver PA information to disability end-users through surveys and interviews. The organization will benefit from the intern’s presence as he will develop evidence-informed content for the app that is disability inclusive and will enhance innovative solutions to support ParticipACTION’s goal to help all Canadians sit less and move more.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Amy Latimer-Cheung

Student:

Brock Reissner

Partner:

ParticipACTION

Discipline:

Kinesiology

Sector:

University:

Queen's University

Program:

Accelerate

AI Enabled Subnetwork Selection

Cancers are heterogeneous disease that hijack many of the body’s normal biological processes. Additionally, tens of thousands of genes are involved in each person’s normal biology, while only a fraction of those are repurposed by cancers to drive disease. At an individual level, utilizing entire transcriptomes is rare, as there is too much information for clinicians to process. However, not using this resource can mean important genes and processes are missed. Identifying the set of genes that drive a patient’s cancer would improve therapy design, patient quality of life and outcomes. This project utilizes AI-technologies to identify subnetworks of genes that characterize patient cancers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Linglong Kong;Jack Tuszynski

Student:

Mehrnoosh Bazrafkan

Partner:

CSTS Health Care

Discipline:

Statistics / Actuarial sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Co-developing a Bio-cultural Framework for Fish Habitat and Water Assessment with Lower Fraser First Nations

In partnership with the First Nations Fisheries Legacy Fund and their partner First Nations, Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh, and Tsawwassen, the proposed interns aim to develop a framework of aquatic health indicators that are identified and shaped by cultural values and priorities laid out by the involved First Nations in the Lower Fraser River Region. Through relationship building exercises including interviews, workshops, and field site visits to assess culturally important locations and indicators of aquatic health, the interns will build a ‘bio-cultural’ indicator framework, which will then be implemented at pilot sites in the Lower Fraser Region in conjunction with the above partner First Nations. In bringing First Nations priorities to the fore, the proposed project has important implications for Indigenous engagement in aquatic resource management and creation of increased agency of First Nations and their cultural traditions and practices in land and resource monitoring and management.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Andrea Reid

Student:

Kate Mussett;Kasey Stirling

Partner:

First Nations Fisheries Legacy Fund

Discipline:

Oceanography

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

On-board gaseous fuel compression for low greenhouse gas commercial vehicles

To reduce the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from goods transportation low-carbon fuels can be combined with high-efficiency engine systems. Gaseous fuels such renewable natural gas and hydrogen offer low net GHG emissions from efficient direct-injection engines. These engines use high fuel injection pressures that need to be supplied during operation by a compressor on the vehicle. This project will investigate the technical pathways that could provide the desired fuel pressures. The objectives of the work include identifying the best way to drive the compressor; preparation of models to guide the design of the compressor system; and development and evaluation of two prototype compressors that can operate on a range of gaseous fuels including NG and H2. A successful outcome from this project will allow high-efficient low-GHG engine technology to be applied to transport truck applications worldwide.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gordon McTaggart-Cowan

Student:

Mehdi Nikkhah

Partner:

Westport Power Inc

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Evaluation of geomorphic assessment methods and geomorphic performance of river restoration designs in mountain streams in British Columbia

River restoration in the steep mountain streams of British Columbia focuses on enhancing conditions for fish habitat, including salmon spawning habitat. These restoration projects are designed using 2D hydraulic models, but their performance during large flood events is relatively unknown. This project will use a set of laboratory experiments to assess the performance of common designs under large flood events. A scaled model of a restoration design will be built, and the sediment transport and topographic change of the channel during simulated floods will be measured. The project will provide the partner organization with an assessment of the current models and methodologies used to design and monitor river restoration projects.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Marwan Hassan

Student:

Elli Papangelakis

Partner:

Stantec Consulting

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Artificial generation of optimum whitewater waves in rivers for kayaking

Recreational river waves are gaining more and more popularity, but there is not enough academic research to support them and very few companies around the world can artificially create them using adjustable structures in rivers. Surf Anywhere, the Calgary-based partner organization in this research, is one of those few companies that has completed and is working on many wave projects in Canada, USA and Europe. Using computer simulation and laboratory physical modeling, our research team has investigated and informed design of an adjustable wave structure that can generate a surfable wave in every river condition. This research has thus far been applied to ideal surf waves for surfers on surfboards. In the proposed research, similar methodology will be applied to identify and optimize design of best waves for kayakers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Colin Rennie

Student:

Puria Asiaban

Partner:

Surf Anywhere

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

Establishment of an X-ray CT and FTIR mouse brain reference atlas

The intern will construct a 3D atlas of the mouse brain, constructed using multiple biomedical and chemical imaging techniques. The atlas will aid visualization of the 3D distribution of brain metabolites and biomolecules.. The atlas will be a powerful research and teaching resource with its multi disciplinary approach to processing and visualizing data collected at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron. Biochemical imaging of the brain’s regional composition and metabolic processes will reveal new structural and functional information. The atlas will also serve as a control reference for the Saskatchewan Cerebrovascular Centre’s ongoing stroke research. A greater understanding of the brain’s biochemical response to stroke will lead to new insights in medical imaging and clinical therapie

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael E Kelly

Student:

Miranda Messmer

Partner:

Canadian Light Source Inc.

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Risk aggregation beyond the normal limits

Risk aggregation is omnipresent in insurance applications. A recent example, borrowed from the modern regulatory accords, is the determination of the aggregate economic capital and its consequent allocation to risk drivers. A more traditional illustration of the importance of risk aggregation in insurance is the celebrated collective risk theory that dates back to the early years of the 20th century. This project will assist Sun Life Financial to build and implement an efficient quantitative framework to approximate the aggregate risk of its portfolio. Among the implications are a better quantitative and qualitative understanding of company’s risk, liability and capital profile, and, more generally, an improved risk management decision making process.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Edward Furman;Ricardas Zitikis

Student:

Pouya Sharifi

Partner:

Sun Life Financial

Discipline:

Statistics / Actuarial sciences

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Atlantic Canadian Beef Success and Opportunities

The purpose of this project to empower Atlantic Canadian Beef Producers to understand the unique success factors for beef production in the region and identify opportunities to improve their cost of production while mitigating environmental impacts based on the on-going work of the Beef Cattle Research Centre on the Canadian Cow-Calf Cost of Production (CDN COP Network). The project will implement by reviewing 12 Maritime focus group sessions, conducting interviews, synthesis of international competitors, and Atlantic Canada’s position. It will offer a unique opportunity to identify success factors for small beef farms, level of competitiveness of Atlantic Canadian beef, profit maximization model, and dairy-beef feasibility in Atlantic Canada. The findings will provide valuable information to producers and enhance public trust regarding the use of management strategies about the social and economic benefits to the beef industry and thereby contribute to the improvement of the financial viability of the sector.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Christopher Hartt

Student:

Chanuka Swarnathilake

Partner:

Canfax Research Services

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Dalhousie University

Program:

Accelerate

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