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13270 Completed Projects

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Computer science
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Engineering
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Engineering - chemical / biological

Diageo Fleet Utilization

Canadian Pacific Logistics Solutions, a company specializing in delivering performance solutions to supply chains, logistics or facility management problems, is partnering with an intern from the University of Lethbridge to analyze the delivery of whiskey by railroads. This project will analyze a bulk liquid whiskey rail car fleet and determine the number of cars needed on a quarterly basis for each origin and destination pair. The analysis will provide an overview of assumptions used to generate the analytics, key gaps or issues with data, analysis and information in graphical and detail format and summary conclusions.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Daya Gaur

Student:

Mohammad Tauhidul Islam

Partner:

Canadian Pacific Logistics Solutions

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

University of Lethbridge

Program:

Accelerate

Developing Optical Coherence Tomography Image Analysis Methods

At the NRC Institute for Biodiagnostics, a developer of non-invasive medical devices and techniques to increase prospects for prevention, earlier diagnosis, improved treatment and prognosis of diseases, a new optical imaging technology is being developed for detecting early dental decay. In collaboration with Dr. Reza Fazel’s group at the University of Manitoba, a suite of image processing and image analysis methods will be developed to extract out clinically relevant parameters from the images. These images will be subjected to various algorithms involving de-noising to reduce the background noise, segmentation and edge detection to non-subjectively determine regions of early decay from sound teeth and finally, registration in order to compare and follow these images in a longitudinal manner. At the end of the internship, a toolbox of algorithms will have been developed and built up into an interface that can readily present the clinically-relevant parameters to non-specialists such as dentists and their patients.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Reza Fazel-Rezai

Student:

Jialin Li

Partner:

NRC - Institute for Biodiagnostics

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

University of Manitoba

Program:

Accelerate

Decreasing Pitch-related Deposits in a Paper Mill

In an Eastern Canadian paper mill, there are often pitch and wood-related deposits on the processing equipment, in particular, the supercalender rolls. Such problems not only have negative impacts on the product qualities but also on the economical performance due to the increased downtime to clean-up the rolls. It is, therefore, important to minimize or even eliminate deposits in the production process in order to improve the efficiency of operation. During this internship, the intern will work with Irving Paper, a mill in New Brunswick, to undertake a systematic study to determine the key process parameters which affect the pitch related deposits. Based on these results, potential strategies to solve the problem will be proposed. It is also planned to carry out a number of mill trials with and without dispersant/pitch control chemicals from chemical suppliers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr.Yonghao Ni

Student:

Zhongguo Dai

Partner:

Irving Paper Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Pulp and paper

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

CFD Modelling of a Revolution Engine

The project with Revolution Engine Corporation, a development stage company striving to commercialize a novel internal combustion engine, will simulate the airflow into and out of the expansion and compression of cylinders of the revolution engine. As a secondary objective the research will model the stresses and temperatures in the engine header through which the air flows. These tasks will require dynamic modelling of the reciprocating pistons and tappet valves. As a result the project will require considerable human expertise and computing resources.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Chao Zhang

Student:

Ehab Abu-Ramadan

Partner:

Revolution Engine Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

But I Thought I had Asthma – Now What? Assessing the Feasibility of a Treatment Program for Patients with Functional Dyspnea

The medical team at the Asthma Centre at St. Joseph’s Hospital in London, Ontario is dedicated to providing the best care for its patients. Extensive investigations at the clinic have revealed that many patients present with functional dyspnea, the experience of breathlessness without an identifiable cause. Despite its undetectable organic pathology, those affected by functional dyspnea have a decreased quality of life. Unfortunately, the medical sphere is ill-equipped to provide treatment for patients whose symptoms do not have an identifiable origin. As such, physicians are left frustrated and disappointed with their inability to treat their patients. Both patient and physician frustrations, however, may be alleviated through a better understanding of the patients themselves and the barriers for effective treatment. As such, through a series of patient questionnaires, this study will examine the factors that motivate patients with functional dyspnea to seek treatment with the intention to use this information to guide further treatment and program planning for a tertiary care asthma centre.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Leora C. Swartzman

Student:

Naomi Gryfe

Partner:

St. Joseph’s Health Care London Asthma Centre

Discipline:

Psychology

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

Western University

Program:

Accelerate

Benefits to Poultry Value Chain Participants of Providing New Producer Incentives for Improved Quality

This project will provide information to Canadian chicken producers and processors that will help them to produce high-quality chicken more efficiently. This objective will be achieved by rewarding producers for their quality-contributing production efforts. The analytical emphasis will be on reviewing and assessing selected, successful quality-rewarding pricing schemes in the poultry industries outside of Canada, and on developing the key elements of a pricing scheme for Canadian chicken producers that explicitly integrates selected, novel quality traits. This analysis will also include an assessment of the changing price and production risks that are likely to result from changing the current way producers are being compensated for their production efforts.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Bodo Steiner

Student:

Andrea Willwerth

Partner:

Agricultural and Food Council Alberta Agriculture Funding Consortium

Discipline:

Other

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Alberta

Program:

Accelerate

Angle optimization of intensity modulated radiation therapy via learning algorithms

The internship describes a novel method for improvement of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for cancer treatment. The intern’s team will implement a learning algorithm approach to design the number and value of orientations of the gantry that will optimize the radiation dose to the planned target volume while at the same time minimizing dose and damage to organs at risk. This is very important for cases such as prostate cancer, and will significantly reduce the time in designing cancer treatment protocols. To achieve this, the intern will code the learning algorithm, design optimal cancer treatment protocols for phantoms, compare them with protocols designed by current state-of-the-art methods, and then design for true patient data. This method is expected to yield highly improved dose-volume histograms in a much shorter time as compared to current state-of-the-art inverse planning methods.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Chitra Rangan

Student:

Mark Sak

Partner:

Windsor Regional Cancer Centre

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Life sciences

University:

University of Windsor

Program:

Accelerate

A Study of Network Traffic for Attack Modelling and Simulation

The rapid propagation of Internet into nearly every aspect of our daily life, together with the increase in volume and sophistication of network attacks, puts a special emphasis on the security of network systems. Currently, security modeling and simulation is one of the widely acknowledged methods for network security evaluation. However, in spite of its fundamental role, the information and communication security domain still lacks the sound and comprehensive tools for assessment of network system state. This internship with Q1Labs, a network security management company, proposes to build a simulator – a tool which allows simulation of attacks and ’what-if’ scenarios to identify security loopholes and assess preparedness. The proposed simulator is of great interest to network administrators. Using this simulator the network administrator would be able to visualize attack scenarios and plan for response strategies before the attack occurs, substantially improving the survivability of the network.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ali A. Ghorbani

Student:

Iosef-Viorel Onut

Partner:

Q1 Labs

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Towards Efficient Splog Detection via Local Web Graph Analysis

The aim of the current project is to research ways of dynamically “crawling” the Internet to collect enough information to be able to make a confident conclusion of whether a particular wep-page or blog is spam. This is proposed to be done by continually maintaining a `backbone' subset of the set of all web pages containing the pinging blogs and trusted websites, and doing a minor crawl based on the web page that is to be analyzed. Obtaining the representative set of trusted nodes and developing the crawl that will result in a reasonable neighborhood of the set in question are the main goals of the project.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Andrei Bulatov

Student:

Evgeny Skvortsov

Partner:

Something Simpler Systems

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Stochastic Portfolio Theory Applications

Mainly developed by Robert Fernholz, the stochastic portfolio theory is a framework used to analyze market structure, evaluate and optimize portfolio performance and build portfolios with controlled behavior. The internship aims at implementing and testing various asset allocations developed within the framework of the stochastic portfolio theory in order to supply Desjardins Gestion internationale d’actifs with new tools in its search for efficient investment strategies.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Chantal Labbé and Dr. Bruno Rémillard

Student:

Louis-Philippe Joly

Partner:

Desjardins Gestion internationale d'actifs

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Program:

Accelerate

Post-secondary education pathways of New Brunswick youth

This internship will investigate the role which demographic, familial, individual and school level factors play in students’ pursuit of educational pathways in New Brunswick. Differing educational pathways can be defined as being either typical (e.g. a high academic achieving student pursuing post-secondary education), or atypical (e.g. a high academic achieving student dropping out of high school or completing high school but not pursuing further education). Previous research has shown that academic achievement is the greatest predictor of future educational pathways. It is also important to recognize that factors, such as the support of peers, parents and teachers, and student’s aspirations for the future, play critical roles in creating educational resiliency which may lead students to pursue atypical educational pathways. The influence of these factors on French and English students choices of educational pathways in New Brunswick, will serve as the focus of our investigation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. J Douglas Willms

Student:

Keith Owre

Partner:

Government of New Brunswick

Discipline:

Education

Sector:

Education

University:

University of New Brunswick

Program:

Accelerate

Portfolio Management based on the Stochastic Portfolio Theory

The stochastic portfolio theory developed by Robert Fernholz is a mathematical framework used to build portfolios and analyze their behavior as well as the securities market structure. This new theory is consistent with market behavior. Portfolio generating functions are the focus area for the internship as they constitute versatile tools to build portfolios with specific properties.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. François Watier

Student:

Miruna Minea-Burga

Partner:

Desjardins Gestion internationale d'actifs

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Université du Québec à Montréal

Program:

Accelerate

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