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CIO to CEO – Barriers and Opportunities

This study will attempt to determine whether a model or path can be derived for CIOs who are interested in transitioning to a CEO position. The analysis will support potential similarities and gaps in current CIO leadership profile as compared to CEOs. In addition, personal interviews and surveys will be conducted with CEOs who were previously CIOs. The combined study will help determine if a model/path can be determined from these case examples. The partner organisation provides professional development, sharing of ‘best practices’, advocacy, and networking opportunities for Chief Information Officers and senior Information Technology Managers. The research results will assist CIO practitions to develop their roles, align business and IT strategies, and encourage the advancement of technology within their firm. In addition, the research will offer insight on new career options and professional development opportunities for CIOs, and raise awareness on how the CIO position and CIO leader can function even more strategically in the organization.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Kenneth A. Grant

Student:

Michael Hutson

Partner:

CIO Association Ontario Chapter

Discipline:

Business

Sector:

University:

Ryerson University

Program:

Accelerate

Where the highway ends: a study of accessibility in the Pearl River Delta region, China

The project focuses on the relationship between economic development and transportation accessibility in extended metropolitan regions. A GIS-based analysis will examine this relationship for the Pearl River Delta (PRD), which is a large and expanding urban region in southern China. The intern will develop technique to measure how the location and geometry of highway systems affect urban and industrial growth and how accessibility to transportation systems informs the proximity and time/ distance measure of industrial firms. The analysis will build on previous work already carried out by the partner institution. Using earlier studies conducted at Chreod, comparisons will be made between PRD and the Yangtze River Delta Region. While the primary focus of the intern's work will be analysis of metropolitan regions in China, some of the techniques developed will also be adapted for study of accessibility trends and land use change in Canadian cities, specifically Toronto. The results from this research will be used by the partner organization, Chreod Group, in its work focusing on urbanization and economic development trends in China and Canada.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Alana Boland

Student:

Katri Mallory

Partner:

Chreod Group Inc.

Discipline:

Urban studies

Sector:

Automotive and transportation

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

The Space Between

This project explores the space between the users and Kodak’s products. It focuses on the application of user‐centered design research methodologies and techniques to define opportunities surrounding Kodak products’ usability, workflow and user experience. Specific and extensive research will be done on Kodak products. These products can be installed in a variety of combinations, and used by customers, who expect a high level of integration and efficiency across the multiple Kodak products installed in their plant. The intern will be focusing on 2 sets of users: the print companies and their print‐buying clients. Through the intern’s research initiative they will investigate the following questions: How are these products used and in what combinations? What is the task flow? What design principles can best guide to a better unified workflow experience? This research project will look at the information required by one or both sets of users and analyze how to create a more unified workflow and user experience.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Jim Budd

Student:

Sara Salevati

Partner:

Kodak Graphic Communications Canada Company

Discipline:

Architecture and design

Sector:

Finance, insurance and business

University:

Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Program:

Accelerate

Testing for thresholds and defining targets – using bird habitat relationships to improve forest management on traditional lands of the West Moberly First Nations

Tree species composition – in particular the ratio of coniferous to deciduous trees – is likely a major evolutionary force shaping biodiversity in the boreal ‘mixedwood’ forest. There are concerns that logging practices are resulting in declines in the amount of old mixedwood stands in Canada’s western boreal forest, which may be having a negative impact on species adapted to mixedwood stands. The West Moberly First Nations are concerned with ensuring that large‐scale logging practices in the mixedwood boreal forests of their traditional lands do not degrade the forest’s ecological integrity. In particular, they are concerned with ensuring access to healthy populations of preferred species such as grouse under Treaty 8. This internship proposes to quantify the relationships of forest birds – songbirds, woodpeckers, and grouse ‐ to tree species composition to identify appropriate mixes of coniferous and deciduous trees necessary to maintain healthy bird populations in logged landscapes. The internship also proposes to collect local knowledge of birds held by members of the West Moberly First nations as a beginning step in the process of developing an overall strategy for forest biodiversity conservation on West Moberly traditional lands.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Kenneth Lertzman

Student:

Kelly Squires

Partner:

West Moberly First Nations

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Forestry

University:

Simon Fraser University

Program:

Accelerate

Recovery of Base Metals from Coverter Slags

The project to be undertaken will aid in the replacement of a conventional practice of pyrometallurgical treatment of a semi-waste product (converter slag) Converter slags contain up to ~3% of No, Co and CU, and are generated in large quantities making it uneconomical to leave the metals unrecovered. The conventional technology for metal recovery results in technological and environmental complications, such as recycling of impurities as well as uncontrollable release of fugitive SO2 into the atmosphere. Pressure oxidative acid leaching, the alternative technology proposed, is superior to the conventional technology in terms of its environmental impact, and, perhaps, costs. Two cost-saving options for the proposed technology are to be tested during the internship period: 1. Addition of pyrrhotite tailings, a waste of ore processing, will reduce the amount of acid required for pressure oxidative leaching. 2. Slag granulation will aid in the reduction of slag grinding costs.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Vladimiros G. Papangelakis

Student:

Ilya Perederiy

Partner:

Vale Inco

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Mining and quarrying

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Recovery for Web Service Conversations

Increasingly, global business relies on the exchange of information between web services. It is crucial that these services correctly exchange messages. Currently, unexpected errors are fixed in an ad-hoc manner, like sanitizing the database and restarting the application. A computer science student from the University of Toronto will work with IBM are their Toronto Centre for Advanced Studies on a runtime monitoring framework that, once an error is detected, will suggest possible sequences of actions (recovery plans) that will return the system to a non-error state (or terminate the process if such a sequence is not available)

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Marsha Chechik

Student:

Jocelyn Simmonds

Partner:

IBM Toronto Lab

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Quantitative Investigation of Wood-Based Biomass in Support of a CHP Plant for the Ontario East Wood Centre & Eco-Industrial Park

This research will support the development of the Eco-Industrial Park and Ontario East Wood Centre (EOWC), which is under development in the Township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal. The EOWC is an innovative approach to revitalizing the regional economy by adding value to the under-utilized renewable forest resource in the area. A critical gap in information required by potential investors will be addressed. Sources and quantities of available forest-based biomass within a 120 kilometer radius around the EOWC will be assessed. These sources will include standing forest, forest operation residues (slash), construction & demolition waste material, and mill residues.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Sally Krigstin

Student:

Rachele Levin

Partner:

Eastern Ontario Model Forest

Discipline:

Forestry

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

University of Toronto

Program:

Accelerate

Population Estimation of the Western Conifer Seed Bug by Mark Release Recapture, and Calibration of a Visual Monitoring Technique

The western conifer seed bug is an important seed orchard pest in southern interior British Columbia, where it is responsible for significant seed loss, particularly in lodge pole pine and Douglas‐fir. In order to develop an economic damage threshold, i.e., when it would be economically justifiable to apply a pesticide treatment to protect the seed crop, it is critical that a monitoring technique is developed that will allow an accurate assessment of the numbers of seed bugs present, and hence an estimate of the damage this population can inflict. The intern will use mark, release and recapture techniques to estimate bug populations. These data will be used to develop a regression model by which the number of bugs observed during visual survey walks can be translated to actual numbers, and hence to damage. This will in turn allow the development of an economic threshold.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. B. Staffan Lindgren

Student:

Tamara Richardson

Partner:

BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development

Discipline:

Resources and environmental management

Sector:

Forestry

University:

University of Northern British Columbia

Program:

Accelerate

Large Inbox Voice Interaction Design

A traditional linear speech interface presents significant usability challenges when applied to large databases, like an inbox full of email. This presents an Interaction Design problem to overcome the inherent shortcomings of traditional voice interfaces for this application. The study will examine how users process their email using iLane (an in-vehicle voice interactive platform that seamlessly interfaces with existing smartphones), then design alternatives, refine, and test the selected alternative. This will create an understanding about the best procedures to use when creating voice interfaces for large databases in general. More specifically, this research will create a competitive advantage for iLane by improving the users' experience. Situations like operating a vehicle offer private time which is well-suited to processing email but those situations may be unsuitable to do tasks that require visual attention, like reading. The ability to remain informed and efficiently process email during those moments when there are few interpersonal distractions is a valuable benefit of iLane.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Randy Allen Harris

Student:

Ricardo Olenewa

Partner:

Intelligent Mechatronic Systems

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Information and communications technologies

University:

University of Waterloo

Program:

Accelerate

Development of Control Strategies for Western Flower Thrips Associated with Vegetation Propagation Material used in Floricultural Greenhouses

The use of propagative material represents one of the major methods used for crop establishment in the Ontario floricultural greenhouse industry. A portion of this propagative material is important but there also is substantial inter- and intra-provincial movement. It is important to remain vigilant to potential introductions of insect pests through transfer of this plant material which may result in problems with insecticide resistant insect strains, contamination of otherwise insect free greenhouse facilities with cosmopolitan insect pests, and/or alien invasive species. The focus of this study is to investigate ways of mitigating problems associated with the introduction of insect pests on propagative material. The technology will be transferred to FCO grower members to help them establish pest-free plant materials from the outset. The introduction of pest-free uncontaminated cuttings into greenhouses would ensure that biological control programs could be firmly established or maintained from the outset with minimal impact on production and potentially reduce the necessity to use corrective pesticides in the long©term.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Cynthia Scott-Dupree

Student:

Wendy Romero

Partner:

Flowers Canada Ontario

Discipline:

Biology

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Developing an Analytical Tool to Classify Wheat Gluten Protein Quality for Breeding Programs

This project is in partnership with AFMNet. There are a number of common techniques used to evaluate wheat quality for food use in breeding programs, however they require large samples sizes (100 – 500 grams). Therefore, samples can only be evaluated at later stages of crossing (4th or 5th generation) when enough sample is available for testing. The proposed research will develop a technique to classify gluten protein quality at earlier stages of breeding with sample sizes as small as 20 grams. The tool that will be used for the study is known as a Gluten Peak Tester (GPT). Although there is evidence for the potential of this machine to evaluate gluten protein quality parameters, more work must be completed to determine optimal parameters for testing gluten protein quality in wheat. The objectives of the study are to: 1. Define the measurement parameters and settings in the GPT to measure gluten properties; variables to be tested include water to flour ratio, temperature of measurement, and the rpm of the spindle 2. Validate the optimal settings using different control wheat varieties with known properties and functionality 3. Evaluate gluten protein quality on early generation breeding lines The partner company, Hyland Seeds, will benefit from the internship because they will be able to screen for protein quality in earlier stages of breeding using smaller sample sizes. This will allow them to retain seeds that possess unique protein quality attributes for future development work.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Koushik Seetharaman

Student:

John Melnyk

Partner:

Hyland Seeds a division of Thompsons Ltd.

Discipline:

Food science

Sector:

Agriculture

University:

University of Guelph

Program:

Accelerate

Design of a wave energy converter for marine buoys

This project is focused on developing a wave energy converter (WEC) and using it to power a buoy system. The buoys continuously float in the ocean and undergo a large amount of dynamic motion which could feasibly be harnessed. The goal is to develop a device that can be commercialized and installed into any buoy hull. It would convert the displacement and rotational motion of the buoy into electrical energy. This technology could be adapted for use on any floating body, such as other buoys or vessels, which could benefit from this constant and sustainable source of power.

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Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Peter Wild

Student:

David Flander

Partner:

AXYS Technologies Inc.

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Alternative energy

University:

University of Victoria

Program:

Accelerate

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