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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

Prediction of Power Outage Locations Due to Weather and Tree Impacts on BC Transmission Corporation Transmission Lines

Trees uprooted or broken during severe wind events routinely cause power outages in BC. Some researchers believe that climate change will result in more storms in BC. We will investigate the weather conditions that lead to strong winds. Using BC Transmission Corporation’s power outage database, we will examine patterns of outages in space and time, identify the weather, terrain and vegetation conditions associated with these outages, and produce models that will predict the likelihood of an outage at a given location. We will suggest improvements to transmission line right-of-way design and management.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Stephen Mitchell

Student:

Wolf Read

Partner:

BC Transmission Corporation

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Energy

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Modeling the Scattering of THz radiation off of Wood

The intern will be doing research in the field of terahertz radiation, specifically, the potential applications it has as a commercially viable tool in the wood products industry. Jonathan will be focusing on the potential of THz radiation in the Oriented Strand Board (OSB) production process. The OSB process is currently in need of a technology system capable of determining the critical parameters (moisture content, density and fibre orientation) of OSB in order to improve their efficiency. Current X-Ray technology is expensive, hazardous and comparatively slow speeds. Terahertz technology provides a safer alternative that has the potential to ascertain the moisture and density of OSB at industrial speeds, as well as monitor the expected strength of the OSB.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Matt Reid

Student:

Jonathan Schneider

Partner:

Del-Tech Inc.

Discipline:

Physics / Astronomy

Sector:

Construction and infrastructure

University:

University of Northern British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

LED Driver Circuit with Temperature Compensation

In another project directed by Carmanah, the engineering intern devised a strategy that would maximize the operating efficiency of the LEDs over the life of the product they were integrated into. The net effect would be to maintain a brightness that complies to the end user's expectations while broadening the number of sites the product can be deployed into. With better operating efficiencies, it would be possible to install solar powered marine lanterns at higher and lower latitudes than was previously possible. Broadening the market that Carmanah has access to provides a benefit for both Carmanah and the end user that had no alternative to solar powered lighting.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Reuven Gordon

Student:

Mei Ting Cha

Partner:

Carmanah Technologies Corporation

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

Organization Evolution Strategy

Kintama Research has a successful history as a scientific and research company, during which it has developed a great deal of proprietary intellectual property, not just in its technologies, but also in the methodologies of its research and consulting practices. However, that intellectual property relies on the expertise of its senior staff. The company needs to be able to plan for product commercialization, management and engineering succession planning, and the creation of lasting shareholder value. A business strategy will be researched and planned that (a) defines the market(s) for the company, (b) incorporates science, technology, operations, management and marketing, and (c) recognizes both the needs of the market, and the resources available to a small privately owned, capital-intensive business.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. James Tansey

Student:

Erik Allen

Partner:

Kintama Research Corporation

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Increasing the Number of Targeted Unique Visitors on FitBrains.com by Using Contextual Advertising and Search Engine Optimization

Fit Brains is an online platform providing fun and entertaining games that exercise the five key cognitive areas of the brain. Since inception, the platform has attracted about 20,000 unique visitors per month. Although the number of visitors is reasonable, Fit Brains’ goal is to expand the platform to several millions interested in exercising their cognitive functions. Therefore, Fit Brains is exploring the use of contextual advertising and search engine optimization (SEO) to increase the number of targeted unique visitors. SEO is the process of improving the ranking of a website for particular keywords search. Each search engine has its unique search algorithm to rank websites and it usually takes into account the design of the website, the content on the website, and even the links to the website from other web pages.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ginger Grant

Student:

Hon Lam

Partner:

Fit Brains by Vivity Labs Inc.

Discipline:

Interactive arts and technology

Sector:

Digital media

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Effects of Alternative Forest Management on Culturally-valued Plants and Understory Plant Communities in Mountain Pine Beetle-affected Montane Spruce Forests, Kamloops region, BC

This project will examine the ecological response of understory vegetation communities to alternative forest management practices, in the Montane spruce forests of the Interior, which have been disturbed by mountain pine beetle, fire and salvage logging. The research is within the Secwepemc Nation traditional territory and will focus on culturally valued plants and include applied burning to bring cultural values into the analysis. Using an experimental approach, and by collecting vegetation, site, and forest structural data at each plot laid out within the study sites, research will examine how variation in disturbances influence regeneration, successional patterns and stand dynamics. A control, plus five management treatments will be sampled and compared, including: clear-cut; wildfire burned, salvage logged; wildfire burned and unlogged; and a partial retention cut, followed by a prescribed burn. The research will produce information on vegetation communities, culturally valued plants and forest management that will benefit First Nations, government and industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ken Lertzman

Student:

Naomi de Ville

Partner:

Tk'emlupsemc Forestry Development Corporation

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Forestry

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Development of an Intelligent Pain Detection Instrument for Medical Diagnostic Applications

The project consists of research into a technology that overcomes the shortcomings and deficiencies of the existing pain detection device. This approach modifies and improves pain detecting instruments by adding more intelligence and advanced designing techniques to the existing instrument. The existing design has too much wear & tear of the probe sensor, so our aim of the project is to overcome it by providing a disposable and replaceable probe. For this various moldings techniques, flexible circuit technology would be experimented and researched. The approach would be to build a probe that can overcome the wear & tear of excessive rubbing by being disposable, but at the same time cost-efficient. Research would be done to develop the most appropriate probe design that can provide more reliable and efficient results. This would include electronic circuit designing, all hardware designing and software designing to provide the user a very easy, understandable and user-friendly environment to analyze system output, to detect the actual area of concern and decrease pain. This would use intelligent designing, filtering and software techniques.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Farid Golnaraghi

Student:

Parvind Kaur Grewal

Partner:

Assessx Technology Ltd.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Medical devices

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Covering Surfaces with Strips

The generalization of the paper maché-like technique of covering surfaces with strips to industrial applications like building shells and ship hulls has not been fully realized. In participate, the problem of covering any curved surface with strips of material has been addressed but not solved in the general case. Most of the applicable research focuses either on using parameterizations that inevitably introduce cutting and/or stretching or using developable surfaces rather than strips. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that an algorithm for optimally-covering any mesh surface with long, trimmed, straight strips of material without gaps or overlap will be attempted. This internship is partnership with Automated Systems Research, a leading provider of quality estimating software for the roofing industry.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Richard Zhang

Student:

Joe Kahlert

Partner:

Automated Systems Research

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Zeros 2 Heroes Data Model: User Experience

The aim of this research is to design and implement a model of social currency in a networked community which is based on the stock and flow concepts most commonly associated with investment forecasting and user choice in an environment of scarcity. In other words, creating a system which can assist in predicting those things users would most be willing to put their actual money behind. This research is intended to ultimately assist developers of film, television etc. in making informed choices about the genre properties they are looking to advance in other media, benefiting both creators and fans alike.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Chris Shaw

Student:

Nis Bojin

Partner:

Zeros 2 Heroes Media

Discipline:

Interactive arts and technology

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Mathematical Investigation of a Balance Metric using Hypergraphs: Finding a Paper, Rock, Scissor-like relation between Game Scoring and Gaming Strategies

Fit Brains technology uses five classes in skill development that are loosely associated to certain regions of the brain. Together, these skill sets help define the human experience. It is also believed that increased fitness across these five classes can better a sense of wellness. Sometimes, incidental effects in game strategies have demonstrated that the point metric contributing to the fitness levels can be tampered with and can mislead the player in various ways. Over the next four months, the intern will investigate these problems using two approaches: 1) First, she will analyze the available statistics on Fit Brains’ gamers using Visual Analytics tools. Visual Analytics takes advantage of our human perceptual system to help track patterns in the behavior of gamers; 2) She will define a hyper-graphical, semi-formal approach to develop a strategy that will not tolerate any imbalances between the five classes metrics or any gaming strategies that may interfere with the accurate assessment of the brain fitness level of Fit Brains’ gamers.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ginger Grant

Student:

Nathalie Prevost

Partner:

Fit Brains by Vivity Labs Inc.

Discipline:

Interactive arts and technology

Sector:

Digital media

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Development and Pharmacological Evaluation of Novel Oral Amphotericin B Formulations for the Treatment of Experimental Systemic Fungal Infections: Providing New Therapeutic Approach for an Unmet Medical Need in First and Third World Countries

Amphotericin B is the most effective, and frequently the only treatment available for a number of life-threatening diseases, including systemic fungal infections and visceral leishmaniasis. The drawbacks of today’s amphotericin B treatment are toxicity and the need to administer the drug intravenously in hospital settings. The need for intravenous administration is due to poor absorption of the drug following oral administration and greatly increases the costs of the therapy and complications associated with intravenous admnistration. In addition, due to the intravenous administration, the drug is failing to reach many patients, especially in developing countries. In this project, amphotericin B will be administered orally to rats in a number of lipid-based formulations with potential to improve the intestinal absorption of this drug. The concentrations of amphotericin B will be measured in plasma and tissues of animals in order to quantify the extent of absorption of amphotericin B following oral administration in lipid-based formulations.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Kishor Wasan

Student:

Pavel Gershkovich

Partner:

iCo Therapeutics Inc.

Discipline:

Pharmacy / Pharmacology

Sector:

Pharmaceuticals

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Comparison of Scalable Analytics Correlation and Classical Correlation in High-Frequency Finance

Measures of covariance and correlation between returns of different financial assets are of great interest in the finance industry. In the high-frequency domain, raw price data is filled with numerous bad data points to which traditional definitions of correlation by Pearson are very sensitive to these outliers, and thus should not be directly applied to raw high-frequency data. Robust measures of correlation less sensitive to outliers can be used to improve the performance of popular financial methods. The objective of this project, in partnership with Scalable Analytics, a cutting-edge startup company whose mandate is to provide real-time analytic tools for companies using high-frequency financial data in electronic trading, is to study properties and assess the usefulness of robust covariance/correlation calculations with intra-day data for financial applications. The project contains two phases. The first phase of the project is an in-depth study of high frequency correlation time series data to ascertain fundamental statistical properties of such data sets, called “stylized facts” in the finance literature. The second phase of the project is to draw on results from the first phase to design and test canonical pair trading strategies that use robust correlation.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Rachel Kuske

Student:

Jieren Wang

Partner:

Scalable Analytics Inc.

Discipline:

Mathematics

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

University of British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

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