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13270 Completed Projects

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Projects by Category

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Computer science
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Engineering
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Engineering - biomedical
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Engineering - chemical / biological

Development of Interactive, Online Quantum Computing Educational Material

In this project, the intern will work closely with the staff of Xanadu, a quantum computing company, to develop educational materials intended for an audience who are comfortable with classical computer programming, but have no prior knowledge or experience with quantum physics or quantum computers. By using interactive, web-based instructional materials, and animated graphics, it is planned to increase the students engagement and learning success. A small study will be carried out to measure the effectiveness of the new educational materials, and identify strengths and areas for improvement.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Mark Van Raamsdonk

Student:

David Wakeham

Partner:

Xanadu

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

NBMC Intercultural and Anti-Racism Skills Toolkit – Research and Development Project

The New Brunswick Multicultural Council is the developer and coordinator for the Creating Inclusive Workplaces and Communities training program, and this organization is in the process of developing an anti-racism training program. The main objective of this effort is to provide participating employers, government departments, community service organizations, and non-for-profit groups with the skills, attitudes, and perspectives necessary to cultivate racial and cultural equity and inclusion, and to do so in ways that are specific to their organizations and institutional structures.
In this project, in collaboration with STU, NBMC will supervise a Mitacs intern to create Intercultural Skills and Anti-Racism Skills toolkits. The toolkits will serve as hubs of resources for the assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of inclusivity programs. The resources provided in these toolkits will take the forms of references (PDFs, videos, books, websites), tools (surveys, checklists) and training events (e-learning sessions). These toolkits will enable training programs by giving the participants practical ways to
? identify existing barriers;
? develop and implement strategies to overcome those barriers;
? create paths for inclusion and racial equity;
? evaluate and revise programs for enabling inclusion and equity.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Gül Çali?kan

Student:

Bridget Collrin

Partner:

New Brunswick Multicultural Council

Discipline:

Political science

Sector:

Other

University:

St. Thomas University

Program:

Accelerate

Toward a more Accessible Canada: Benchmarking and Analyzing Accessibility in Canadian Municipalities

The project aims to collect accessibility data in rural municipalities in six town across Canada. These six municipalities include Salmon Arm and Golden, BC., Sylvan and Banff AB., and Rosetown and Maple Creek, SK. The accessibility data will look at a variety of different features that will deem a public business (hotels, restaurants, public services, etc.) either accessible, partially accessible, or not accessible. This will benefit the Canadian community by having open access (public) data that will allow people to see where accessible businesses are in their communities or when they are traveling in Canada. This will also benefit AccessNow by adding to their app and giving them reliable data that might be hard to collect being that they are located in Ontario and our data will be coming from BC, AB and SK.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Victoria Fast

Student:

Rhiannon Scott

Partner:

Access Now

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

PATH: Program to Accelerate Technologies for Homecare – Edmonton site

The intern will undertake research to develop and provide a testing and optimization platform that will accelerate the availability of smart systems for home healthcare for seniors’ and for people with disabilities. The research will contribute to more successful outcomes and useful products from early-stage innovation activities that lead to social, public and private good benefits. The partner organization will benefit through access to novel application programming interfaces and homecare devices that will be developed by leading Canadian scientists, fellows and highly qualified students. This will allow the partner organization to add home healthcare to its home automation system.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Adriana Maria Rios Rincon;Michael Lipsett;Geoffrey Gregson

Student:

Andrew Chan

Partner:

SmartONE Solutions Inc

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Business Model Innovation for Power Utilities

Research and Development for Modeling the Perceived Value of Energy Consumers is a novel area of study which should help to better understand the energy consumers and the perceived value they place on different services and products. By identifying, understanding potential new products and services the related business models can be developed. Various dependencies between product/service offerings and customer segment can be displayed, analyzed and measured through key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine the customer perceived values, such as customer satisfaction and customer retention. The increased understanding of the perceived value and the customer segments can result in new innovative and tailor-made products and service.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dhirendra Shukla;Christopher Diduch

Student:

Sushil Chaurasia;Muhammad Mazhar Ullah Rathore

Partner:

Gray Wolf

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Immunomodulatory fusion proteins to treat solid malignancies.

Immunotherapies are transforming conventional cancer treatments with significant improvement of patient survival rates. FDA-approved immunotherapies (immune checkpoint inhibitors, ICIs) have shown remarkable success in the treatment of hematologic malignancies but very low response rate in patients with solid tumors. Therefore, there is an urgent need for novel therapies against solid malignancies. Cura Therapeutics is developing innovative immunotherapies to cure solid malignancies and infectious diseases. Our immunotherapy platform simultaneously activates the immune response against cancer while disrupting the tumor blood supply. Our immunotherapies also induce an immunological memory that prevent cancer recurrence. Currently, there are no treatments on the market or in clinical trials that combine these properties in one single therapy. Our immunotherapy platform can be applied as a stand-alone treatments or in combination with ICIs, CAR T cells and chemotherapies (for cancer).

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michel Tremblay

Student:

Chuhan Feng

Partner:

District 3 Innovation Center

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

Developing an unbiased robust algorithm for objective diagnostic classification of most common types of dementia

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and Alzheimer’s with cerebrovascular disease (AD-CVD) are the two most common types of dementia in elderly population. Differential diagnosis of dementia type in early stage is challenging due to overlapping symptoms and mixed etiologies. Current diagnostic techniques are invasive, expensive, or lack independent validation. An early detection of dementia type helps enabling better personalized treatments. Electrovestibulography (EVestG) showed promising preliminary results in early detection of dementia types. This proposal presents three research projects to apply advanced signal processing and machine learning techniques on EVestG data to design diagnostic classification models. This proposal will investigate supervised and unsupervised classifiers, each sensitive to AD and AD-CVD, as well as to healthy controls, then, compares them to provide a robust classifier with high predictive performance. The outcome of this work would be development of a quick, inexpensive, and objective tool with high classification power for diagnosis of dementia types using EVestG technology.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Zahra Kazem-Moussavi;Brian Lithgow

Student:

Zeinab Alsadat Dastgheib

Partner:

SAM

Discipline:

Engineering - biomedical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

The Role of Cattle-based Nitrogenous Waste as a Nutrient Source for Aquatic Food-webs

This research will explore how nutrients from cattle manure moves through aquatic ecosystems in a Saskatchewan agricultural landscape. Cattle with access to the banks of water ways have the ability to alter the health of water ways and the plants, bugs, and fish that inhabit them. Indicators of ecosystem health such as water quality, algae growth, benthic macro invertebrate community structure will be analyzed in areas with and without grazing cattle. The project will use natural fingerprints called stable isotope ratios that differ between nutrient inputs to quantify the extent nitrogen from cattle excretion is moving through the foodweb. The results of this study will help us better understand how to manage grazing cattle around water ways while improving and conserving aquatic ecosystems

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Faculty Supervisor:

Iain Phillips

Student:

Scout Butler-Siemens

Partner:

Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

University of Saskatchewan

Program:

Accelerate

Field evaluation of Humic Land, a biological promoter of corn growth and the soil microbiome

Humic Land is a 100% organic fertilizer that was produced from black peat using innovative technology that protects live soil microorganisms. It contains complex organic compounds known as humic substances and a microbial consortia that can biologically promote the growth of field crops. Since corn plants that obtain a balanced nutrient supply from the soil microbiome are expected to grow larger and have faster phenological development, compared to their counterparts that have a suboptimal nutritional balance, we evaluated the agronomic performance of Humic Land on field-grown corn. Humic Land is being tested for its effectiveness as a seed priming treatment and as a soil-applied inoculant to boost corn growth in a replicated field research trial. The project will demonstrate the commercial potential of Humic Land for corn production in realistic field environments in Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joann Whalen

Student:

Yutong Jiang

Partner:

Rogitex International Inc

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Other

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

HUB Cycling Bike Friendly Building (BFB) Consulting Services –Marketing Research Plan

By having an intern do market research for this project on active transportation cycling in British Columbia, there are several objectives to be met. program to research this quickly evolving market niche, confirm HUB Cycling’s service offering, and develop a targeted marketing plan to draw in more and more diverse clients. This in-depth study will provide new business developmental strategies for the bike friendly building component of the construction industry. Further, this research will be beneficial for the government and private sector with particular focus on providing unique analyses and advice to support building developers and managers to create exceptional experiences for people travelling by bicycle.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Kuch

Student:

Grace Hardman

Partner:

HUB Cycling

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

University:

Capilano University

Program:

Accelerate

NANOSTRUCTURE COATED PBO (ZYLON) FIBERS FOR LIGHTWEIGHT AND HIGH-STRENGTH STRATOSPHERIC APPLICATIONS

The idea of airships to have blimps carry heavy loads into remote areas, has been discussed for years in Canada. Such a futuristic concept has recently been brought into reality by Sceye Inc. which created a new class of airship capable of flying the unchartered stratosphere. However, Zylon (PBO) fibers, the main component of airship envelope, typically suffer from environmental degradation when exposed to high humidity, ultraviolet (UV), and ozone in the harsh operation environment. The proposed project aims to leverage graphene oxide as the coating material to create a protective layer on PBO fibers. Environmentally-controlled micro-tensile testing will be combined with chemical and structural characterization to reveal PBO environmental degradation mechanisms. The expected findings will guide the design of lightweight GO coated PBO fibers with high strength, stiffness, and resistance to environmental degradation, eventually improving the long endurance flight performance of airships.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Tobin Filleter

Student:

Guorui Wang

Partner:

Sceye Inc

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Satellite Monitoring and Surveillance of Habitat for Right Whales

The critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale resides in waters with busy shipping lanes in the Bay of Fundy and the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where incidents of ship strikes have proven to be a primary cause of whale death, resulting in their numbers dwindling to less than 400. Though the implementation of speed limits for ships has been somewhat successful in reducing mortality should a collision occur, a lack of knowledge as to the whereabouts of the whales has prevented ships from being able to avoid collisions entirely. This project aims to use high-resolution satellite imagery to monitor right whale habitats, and create an automated alert system which will detect their presence, and quickly send location information to ships in the area. Ships can then use this information to avoid the area when a whale is nearby, preventing collision deaths, and helping to restore a healthy whale population.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Anders Knudby

Student:

Matus Hodul

Partner:

Fluvial Systems Research Inc.

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Ottawa

Program:

Accelerate

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