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Engineering - chemical / biological

Gut Microbiota Composition and Behaviour in Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris)

This study will investigate the links between dog behaviour and gut microbiome content in dogs living in St John’s and surrounding areas. The temperament of each dog will be assessed using an online behavioural questionnaire, and additional information will be collected about the dog’s lifestyle, diet and medical history. The intern will take fecal samples from dogs of a range of personality types (including anxious and aggressive) to assess the bacterial content of the gut through DNA analysis. This will provide crucial information about how gut health may be linked to behaviour, and has the potential to improve clinical treatment of behavioural disorders in companion dogs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carolyn Walsh;Dawn Bignell;Lourdes Peña-Castillo

Student:

Sarita Pellowe

Partner:

East Coast Canine Dog Training

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Other services (except public administration)

University:

Memorial University of Newfoundland

Program:

Quality control for printed electronics manufactures – Part 2

Printed electronics is a fabrication method that allows for the high-volume production of flexible electronic devices, but is limited because it is still too expensive due to the lack of an efficient and effective quality control solution. This project focuses on the transformation of a laboratory-proven quality control method into an industrial-scale prototype product. By replicating lab-scale results with systems that can be mounted directly on the production line of printed electronics devices, we will show printed electronics companies that there is a better way to monitor their processes, saving them time and money, and allowing them to improve their methods. These advancements will help next-generation electronics come to market sooner, and with higher quality, as well as demonstrating a strong application for next-generation THz laser technologies in the manufacturing sector.

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Faculty Supervisor:

David Cooke

Student:

Benjamin Dringoli

Partner:

TRAQC

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Micro Geothermal Power Generation in Depleted Wells

Engineers use the earth’s heat to create heat pumps, to store energy, and to generate power. As the world moves away from carbon fuels, geothermal resources are increasingly attractive, promising sustainable, reliable sources of energy. Fortunately, the oil industry has already provided infrastructure to access this resource—depleted horizontal oil and gas wells drilled to a minimal depth of 1500 m, where a supply a steady heat can be sourced at a minimum of about 60 °C. While much geothermal research has focused on conventional geothermal using convective heat transfer at temperatures above 150 °C, this project seeks to optimize heat extraction from the greater reaches of these abandoned wells, enabling partner GeoGen Technologies Inc. to create an operational and economic system to perform such extraction—thus developing a sustainable energy resource and mitigating the environmental costs of well closure or cleanup.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Abdulmajeed Mohamad

Student:

Rahul Agarwal;Saleh Baakeem

Partner:

GeoGen Technologies

Discipline:

Engineering - mechanical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Calgary

Program:

Accelerate

Circular Engineering Using Computational Tools for Building Adaptation Projects

An integrated methodology and platform are proposed to improve circular engineering of the built environment to reduce construction waste, carbon emissions, and costs associated with the adaptation of dated existing buildings. Novel design methodologies and technologies are explored for optimizing design option generation using various spatial, environmental and economic factors simultaneously. This investigation will allow the industry partners to expand expertise in building adaptation design option generation and optimization, develop and validate methodologies for benchmarking the embodied carbon of existing buildings, expand expertise in circular engineering and methods for optimizing the implementation of such strategies in building adaptation projects, and develop interactive decision-making tools and interfaces for accessibility of optimized design decision-making.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Carl Haas

Student:

Sheida Shahi

Partner:

Adaptis Studio Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering - civil

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Examining Equity, Accessibility and Inclusion Stakeholder Experiences in an Ontario Non-Profit Membership Association

The QCC is a membership association for those working in and retired from the public service sector in Ontario, and is eager to increase equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) within its organization and for its membership. To do that, QCC is partnering with a research intern who will gather and analyze information about QCC from documents, its staff, membership, and Board of Directors to determine what barriers and gaps QCC faces to increasing EDI within its organization. The research intern will use this information to create an action plan for the QCC that identifies and prioritizes the steps that QCC should follow to increase its commitment to EDI. To reduce bias in the EDI actions QCC takes, getting this input from an external party with expertise in the subject is extremely important. The QCC will benefit greatly from the insights of this research and the recommendations in the action plan to guide the direction of the organization’s future EDI efforts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Yvonne Coady

Student:

Nadia Mallay

Partner:

Quarter Century Club

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Other

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Stories for Stream2Sea: Mapping changing ocean relationships and ACTION in Canadian Communities

Stories are powerful. They weave us together and shape how we see the world. This project invites ALL Canadians to be storytellers for a common cause: the health and sustainable use of the global ocean, and all waterways leading to it.
In Canada, the ocean can be understood as an interconnected expanse encompassing coastal areas, freshwater, sea ice, and the open ocean. The ocean (expanse) is changing rapidly. This project encourages Canadians to share their observations, perceptions, and actions regarding their changing ocean relationships through a form of community science journalism. These stories will be integrated into a virtual storymap – an interactive collection of resources (e.g., video, images, audio) that are woven into a digital map. This map allows users (the public at large), to meaningfully explore and interact with the content serving as an educational tool to assess themes (e.g., regional) and community solutions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Kate Moran

Student:

Jennifer McRuer

Partner:

JASCO Applied Sciences

Discipline:

Geography / Geology / Earth science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Automated integrity control of industrial tools using X-ray Computed Tomography (CT)

To prevent accidents and reduce risk checking the integrity of industrial tools is very vital in some industries such as oil and gas facilities, Nuclear powerplants, aerospace industries etc. These inspections are generally done manually by hand and visual inspection. Which is both time consuming and error prone. Inspection of some complex tools might require disassembling of the tool to get view if the inner components. But the mentioned industries require their systems to run maximum time possible and minimize the outage time. Manual inspection of tools increases the outage time of the industries. In order to reduce the time and cost required for tool inspection, we propose to develop a system that will detect the defects of the tools from CT images of the tool. This will make the operation faster and automated, hence reducing the cost of industries due to inspection breaks.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Hossam Gaber

Student:

Jamiul Alam Khan

Partner:

Incubate Innovate Network of Canada

Discipline:

Engineering - computer / electrical

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Ontario Tech University

Program:

Customer Development Interviews for the Interview and Interrogation Assessment Instrument

This research is being conducted by a team of forensic psychologists working on a project to advance the way expert witnesses evaluate interrogations for coercion and risk factors for false confession. There is a solid base of research on coercive interrogation practices and on factors that may result in individuals being more vulnerable to coercion and false confession (e.g., youth, individuals with mental illness), yet, unlike other areas of forensic psychological assessment there exists no standardized way of evaluating coercion in police interrogations. We aim to enhance current practices by providing an objective and reliable measure of coercion and voluntariness in interviews and interrogations, and advance that goal by interviewing 90 experts in interrogations and confession evidence. When completed, our Interview and Interrogation Assessment InstrumentTM to improve the way that the courts weigh confession evidence and make findings clearer to judges and jurors, making them better legal decision makers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Joseph Eastwood

Student:

Jeffrey Kaplan

Partner:

Incubate Innovate Network of Canada

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Ontario Tech University

Program:

In-Class Testing of VUCAVU.com in Postsecondary Settings

Our research will focus on ways VUCAVU.com can meet the increasing demand for online access to Canadian independent film and video for use in educational contexts. The purpose is twofold; first, in-class testing of our new private page online streaming functions and secondly, to gather feedback from the instructors on their online class processes and platform user experiences. This research will help guide our future development and give us insight into what educators and students need from a service like ours. It will also inform how we establish our educational pricing structure to make sure artists are fairly compensated for the use of their work for teaching and research purposes.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Michael Zryd

Student:

Marko Djurdjic

Partner:

VUCAVU

Discipline:

Medicine

Sector:

Information and cultural industries

University:

York University

Program:

Accelerate

Green logistics planning for hydrogen fuel network: a life cycle analysis approach

The energy sector accounts for 75% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. By adopting a low-carbon or clean fuel alternative, we can reduce GHG emissions to a great extent. Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have been identified as a major opportunity to reduce GHG emissions compared to fossil fuels, yet the distribution of hydrogen remains a challenge due to multiple processes involved in the distribution and production of green hydrogen from methanol, Azolla Hydrogen is an organization that accelerates the adoption of clean fuels and has technology that uses methanol as the hydrogen carrier which generates hydrogen, on-demand, at the local level, circumventing many of the logistical challenges. Thus, an optimal resource planning by analyzing the life-cycle inputs, outputs, and distribution models to provide recommendations for Azolla to support their hydrogen fueling stations in Alberta, and/or California can create a successful industrial example that strides towards a more sustainable, circular carbon economy.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Fredrik Odegaard

Student:

Sudipendra Nath Roy

Partner:

Azolla Hydrogen Ltd.

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Manufacturing

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

The role of automobility engagement in consumer response to fully automated vehicles

This project’s objective is to help improve knowledge regarding consumer perspectives of conventional car mobility and transport innovations in Canada, with particular focus on fully automated vehicles (FAVs), or vehicles that can drive themselves without requiring a driver to be paying attention. Innovations can alter the transport sector’s environmental sustainability – for example, electric vehicles are key in lowering greenhouse gas emissions, while FAV impacts are uncertain. The Sustainable Transportation Action Research Team (START) and Navius Research Incorporated are leaders in analyzing impacts from such innovations in Canada. The prevalence of car use as the main transport mode, also referred to as “automobility”, has led to several societal problems and may lower innovations’ sustainability benefits. This project aims to investigate consumer perspectives of FAVs and their expected impacts on how consumers engage with mobility by private cars by conducting semi-structured interviews with households in British Columbia.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Jonn Axsen

Student:

Viviane Hippmann Gauer

Partner:

Navius Research Inc

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Automation of multi-factorial neurodevelopmental toxicity and neurodegeneration analysis using Ananda Devices NeuroHTSTM plates

Ananda Devices has developed an innovative technology to produce high-throughput organ-on-chip technology for
commercialization in the pharma industry and cosmetic industry. For cost effective and fast commercializing the device, semi
automation/automation is required for the high throughput data analysis. Further validation of the automation algorithm is
required for data accuracy. So, our aim is to develop and validate the automation strategies to be used for analysis of high
through put imaging of the Neuro-HTS device, more specifically analysis of neuronal growth, cell counts, connectivity and
degeneration.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dan Nicolau

Student:

Monalisha Nayak

Partner:

Ananda Devices

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

McGill University

Program:

Accelerate

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